Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is currently presenting "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Director and producer Patrick A'Hearn correctly describes this as a "fun show…
Bookcases filled with seemingly innocuous tchotchkes (worth 24 points in Scrabble, +50 if you manage to use your seven letters for a "bingo" on either side of the word "hot") ensconce a puzz…
With the promise of presenting of all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 97 minutes, it's hard to imagine what to expect. Funny and irreverent certainly, but "The Complete Works of William Shakesp…
Disney Theatrical Productions faced a challenge when it decided to produce a musical stage version of their successful film. "Frozen" is based on the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy ta…
With book, lyrics, and music by Anais Mitchell, the 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, "Hadestown" is a rollicking and witty take on Greek mythological characters Orpheus and Eurydice,…
Perhaps it is an unfair criticism of a performance that is meant to showcase the foundations and history of one of the oldest dance companies in America, but when you're putting together a p…
No one ever said the New York City Ballet (NYCB) was like any other dance company in the world. Everything is bigger with this world class troupe. This week's performance at the Kennedy Oper…
Week of May 21, 2023 1. "Hurricane Diane" by Avant Bard Theatre "With its production…Avant Barde Theatre proves that having the right chemistry, some might say the perfect chemistry, can c…
ROCKVILLE, MD " The RLT/RMT Consortium Series, presented by Rockville Little Theatre (RLT) and Rockville Musical Theatre (RMT), is pleased to announce their 2023-2024 season. All productions…
Iron Crow Theatre is a bastion for the queer community in the Baltimore area. Their performances "explore and celebrate that which is queer" rather than define the term for others. It also e…
Having strong chemistry on stage suggests that the actors are not only invested in playing their own parts to the utmost of their ability but, also, they are mindful of helping their cast ma…
Historically, HIV has been a hugely misunderstood and stigmatized virus and the media has been none too kind to folks who've contracted it. Only relatively recently, with plays like "The Nor…
The 'Premier Theater for Premiers' Plans a Season of Bold and Diverse New Work WASHINGTON, DC (June 6, 2023)" Theater J is excited to announce its 2023-2024 season, the first season planned …
Washington Performing Arts's upcoming season features exhilarating artistic collaborations, new and expansive community and creative partnerships, and immersive performance experiences Highl…
Originally premiering at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in 2010, Pearl Cleage's "The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years"…
Can I get a "Gay-Men!" as part of their season of celebrating phenomenal women which included Whitney, Judy, and Cher, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC (GMCW), rounded out their homage …
In his interview in Woolly Mammoth's playbill, playwright Dave Harris says, "How do you separate what you're doing because of your own free will and your own choice, or what you are doing be…
ANNAPOLIS, MD"The CTA Miriam Wolfe Scholarship was established in 1989 in memory of alumna Miriam Wolfe (September 26, 1968-December 21, 1988) who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 1…
Enter the Woollyverse and explore the universes of: a larger-than-life mother from Kyiv, a gay Bengali-American documentarian, a kick-a*s HBCU dance troupe, a queer academic and his Muslim m…
Get ready to do the Time Warp, again! Iron Crow Theatre is continuing their annual production of the cult classic to rule all cult classics: "The Rocky Horror Show." This time it's all bedec…
Week of May 14, 2023 1. "In the Heights" at NextStop Theatre Company "…vibrant…a production on a scale with the best of the region…Every member of the cast is magnificent." " Peter Orv…
DC area theatre is alive and well! That was my initial reaction after watching a performance of The Essential Theatre's Washington DC's premiere of "Dissonance," presented by their Women's W…
 On Sunday, June 4, the Howard Community College Smith Theater will witness a truly remarkable event that celebrates the indomitable spirit and resilience of one extraordinary woman: Mar…
 "Elvis: A Musical Revolution" takes its audience on a nostalgic road trip (we like to imagine in a pink Cadillac) back to the 1950s. Staged at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, P…
"Sondheim on Sondheim," which is currently at Silhouette Stages, is full of surprises. For one, Stephen Sondheim, regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th century musical theate…