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 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…
It is a chaotic time for several of Baltimore's small theater companies. Stillpointe Theatre, Rapid Lemon Productions, and Baltimore Shakespeare Factory all lost their performance spaces at …
Washington's theatre community gathered at the elegant Perry Belmont House on Tuesday evening to celebrate this year's Helen Hayes Award nominees and raise a toast to yet another bountiful y…
The Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting the Jerusalem Quartet at the Horowitz Center at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD on Sunday, April 23, 2023. The concert is called "…
There has been a real shift in the panoply of the American musical, where shows eschew the usual formulas and displays and cater to a darker, meaner, leaner version. It can be argued that ev…
"Following an acclaimed off-Broadway run, sold-out world tour, and recently being awarded 'The New York Times,' Critic's Pick, Scott Silven's 'Wonders' is a show for these extraordinary time…
"Jennifer Who is Leaving," a dramedy written and directed by Morgan Gould, hits all the right notes, deftly blending slice-of-life comedy with some deeply sobering realities about what goes …
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the legal displacement of 60,000 natives from their homelands to the Oklahoma Territory. During the removal, thousands of lives were lost along the journey…
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" meets a revamping of that fairytale, starring a Rain Cloud who becomes obsessed with a rain-loving human, meets the sexual confusion/closeting …
Columbians will acutely miss the presence of Maestro Jason Love after he steps down at the end of this season's performances in his role as Music Director of the Columbia Orchestra. Of cours…
 Thornton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" was written in hard times. The country was in the grips of the Depression; farmland was disintegrating into the dust bowl; …
 The Joffrey Ballet visits the Kennedy Center this week and dancing for all its worth. As it turned out, it was worth a lot on opening night"as dance, as terrific theater, as a living le…
"All the world's a stage/and all the men and women merely players." The players this time are literal as The British Players take on one of the Bard's most endearing comedies, "As You Like I…
For those of us who were enthralled by HBO's recent adaptation of "The Last of Us," the thought of fungi has induced new horrors of apocalyptic pandemic forecasting. Although the seedling id…
In Mona Mansour's new play "Unseen," the focus (with all due respect to the title) seems to be on that which is left unsaid"that which people keep hidden from one another so as to smooth ove…
Classic Theatre of Maryland is Anne Arundel County's only year-round professional regional theatre company. CTM's creative team and resident and guest artists bring Broadway, Broadway Nation…
There was a sense of excitement among the crowd at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for the opening night of "The Nosebleed," written and directed by Aya Ogawa. I seldom think of D.C. has havi…
Washington, D.C. (Tuesday, April 4, 2023)Â " Broadway at The National has announced its 2023/2024 season, featuring highly anticipated D.C. premieres and beloved Broadway favorites. The se…
Celebrating Exemplary Commitment to the Arts and Community Washington D.C. " GALA Hispanic Theatre will host its annual Noche de Estrellas benefit event honoring three extraordinary leaders …
Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…
"Great is the hope that makes men cross borders." In 2015 and 2016, thousands arrived in the Calais "Jungle," a refugee encampment on the coast of France, 22 miles from England. Fleeing war …
Maryland Theatre Collective's production of "Disney's Freaky Friday The Musical" is a delightful and spirited iteration of the franchise, which includes three movies and most recently a musi…
It's late at night. There's a thunderstorm. A man unlocks the door to a moldy motel room and steps inside. He hopes to get a little rest after a long day of travel and giving speeches. Tomor…
 Last weekend, Catholic University of America's Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art produced a Baroque opera, Handel's "Serse," in a way which made it highly accessible to a modern audi…
