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Our 33rd Season! We are thrilled to announce our 2023/2024 season, featuring a dynamic collection of adaptations of modern classics, landmarks of contemporary theatre, and new voices in Amer…
Dancer/choreographer Vincent Thomas touches us with his powerful dance message. Â Off stage, the dancer/choreographer stands a stunning 5 foot 11 inches tall, with incredibly generous arm…
On April 23, 2023, the Candlelight Concert Society presented "Music Under Tyranny" performed by the Jerusalem Quartet. The program featured three composers"Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakov…
If you want to understand how a play is born, how playwrights begin their careers, and how theatres nurture new projects, then you need only check out Anacostia Playhouse's "New Voices, New …
In 1977, Frances Motyca Dawson had a vision of bringing choral music to Columbia, Maryland. Since then, as Columbia has grown to the second largest city in Maryland, CPC has become an integr…
Rep Stage was founded in 1993 by Valerie Lash at Howard Community College. It has been the only theatre in residence at a community college in the country. Its professional casts and creativ…
 An earthquake can"either literally or figuratively"rock the foundations of a person's life. In this two act, "song-play," with music by John Adams and libretto by June Jordan, it's 1994…
"The World Goes 'Round " The Music of Kander & Ebb" is a revue of the music of the prolific team of Kander & Ebb ("Cabaret" and "Chicago" being the most successful) that was first pr…
"Mary Stuart," written by Fredrich Schiller and translated by Peter Oswald from its original German, illustrates the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots as she is held in England under suspic…
The academic year is winding down at area universities, but before the summer break begins, Catholic University of America presented their production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy,…
In October, 1972, a new play made its world premiere in Cape Town, South Africa. Published under the title "Sizwe Bansi [sic] is Dead," the piece was devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and …
ROCKVILLE, MD " Rockville Little Theatre (RLT) is proud to announce that their production of "Pride@Prejudice" by Daniel Elihu Kramer was selected Outstanding Production at ESTA (Eastern Sta…
As Dorothy famously repeats, "There's no place like home." Annapolis' Compass Rose Theatre certainly understands that sentiment, having long journeyed from space to space across the city in …
The Barbara Ingram School for the Arts (BISFA) is an arts high school in Hagerstown (Western Maryland) supported by a foundation that works to enhance arts education at BISFA and in the comm…
As literary characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have had quite a life. They first appeared in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as the Danish prince's ill-fated friends-turn-spies. English…
"Henry VIII" is one of Shakespeare's less frequently produced plays. It actually isn't Shakespeare's alone, rather, it was a collaboration with John Fletcher. Here is a fun fact (thanks, Wik…
In the 1980s and '90s, Christopher Durang was at the peak of his popularity. He'd arrived at precisely the right time, when the world of American stage comedy desperately needed an heir to t…
Taking a serious and frightening issue such as climate change and turning it into a thought-provoking, heartwarming, and overall entertaining show is no small feat. Graziella Jackson's new p…
Crickets, the sound of nighttime with frogs, running water, and night air set the stage for a romantic interlude (sound design by Adam Ressa, Jaclyn Robertson, Ward Kay, and Sarah Baczewski)…
"Inbox Zero," a monodrama presented by UrbanArias, will be performed as a live stage reading at the Keegan Theatre in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2023. UrbanArias was founded in 2010 by Gener…
"Les Mis" is back! A spectacular production of the Tony-Award winning musical is currently playing in the Kennedy Center Opera House, featuring some of musical theatre's finest actors, singe…
 "Putting it Together," a musical review of Stephen Sondheim's songs, is a fast-paced, intimate portrayal of the bright and dark aspects friendship, marriage, and relationships. Loosely c…
 The musical "Grease" (music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar) has remarkably survived over 50 years of Broadway and West End produc…
 Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, VA is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. It is including some very special shows this year, including the current prod…
