There's a new theater in town. Encore Theater Company, a new nonprofit theater based in the Takoma Park community, has announced its inaugural season. The 2020/21 season will feature two int…
Let us never forget that Tennessee Williams, for all his genius with poetic language, was one the most fearless, gut-wrenchingly honest playwrights of the twentieth century. We have Blanche …
When J'Nai Bridges made her triumphant debut in Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah Sunday night, it was the fulfillment of a dream. The young mezzo-soprano's star has been rapidly…
Norm Lewis is an icon. This is an indisputable fact. There are few others who have made such an impact on the way we view certain roles. His impressive bio includes such credits as the first…
Tales of wars, slaughters, betrayals, competing tribes and religions, and a few dominant women make the Book of Judges one of the more colorful segments of the Hebrew Bible. Camille Saint-Sa…
A reverently curated evening by the Artistic Director of Washington Performing Arts' Men and Women of the Gospel Choir, Theodore Thorpe III, I am a Man: Reclaiming Brilliance in the Midst of…
Boys Don't Cry made this boy cry. It happened near the end. I had been watching a performance by the French dance company Cie Hervé Koubi. Seven shirtless male dancers, all from different c…
There are some pieces of theater that elicit such raw emotion that describing the experience properly is next to impossible. Reston Community Players' production of The Diary of Anne Frank, …
Hollywood, 1939. The production of Gone with the Wind " arguably the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade " is in chaos. Producer David O. Selznick (Griffin Voltmann) has just fired …
A poetic and politically charged same-gender-loving love story, This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers"now playing in a powerfully moving production at Theater Alliance"strips bare the h…
The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's continuing Masterworks Series, as part of this season's celebration of Beethoven's two hundred fiftieth birthday, takes the theme, "Beethoven Discovers Ame…
Atlantic Theater Company's American premiere of Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch paints a painful and disturbing portrait of life-threatening depression across three generations of women …
It's 1939 and film studio chief David O. Selznick has staked his career on adapting Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone with the Wind for the screen. Still, Selznick shuts down produc…
In 1865, Lewis Carroll created the classic children's tale, Alice in Wonderland, a journey into a fantasy world of kooky creatures that exhibit traits of both good and bad in their examples …
Marian's cheery Florida home " an over-decorated retirement nest she shares with second hubby Richard " has become a tropical haven for two adolescents in crisis. Richard's pregnant niece Ki…
Thanks in part to the bold addition of a missing tenor aria, Opera Lafayette's elegant production of Ludwig van Beethoven's Leonore (1805), last night at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Thea…
Highly recommended. An unsettling dance play. The phrase "sorry you're here" takes on new meaning. It is not typical for me to write "highly recommended" at the top of an article. However, T…
"I've never laughed so hard in rehearsal," said Nick Olcott, describing some of the antics performed by a tiny but talented cast " four actors in 48 roles " in the wickedly funny send-up of …
Imagination Stage brings back its Helen Hayes nominated show, Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, written by Psalmayene 24. With the title character, Zomo, inspired by a Nigerian folkt…
Among Shakespeare's plays are a special few whose relevance waxes and wanes with the times. They disappear from the stage for years, only to re-emerge when they are ready to speak to our iss…
"Isn't it OK to sometimes be selfish?" asks a character in Anna Ziegler's cunningly devised The Wanderers. With Amber McGinnis' discerning, sympathetic direction, Theater J's production prov…
Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath takes a provocative and personal approach to an acutely disturbing crime story and its aftermath in his latest work Dana H., making its New York debut at…
Following its premiere run of Ethan Lipton's Tumacho in 2016, Clubbed Thumb (a resident company of Playwrights Horizons) is back with the Obie Award-winning writer's commissioned Wild West p…
The easiest thing for many highly qualified, especially classically trained, musicians to try to do is to cross genres in an effort to be relevant to the cultural world of 2020. Demonstrably…
In an effort to illuminate the historic and ongoing impacts of racial discrimination in land and property use laws in Hyattsville, MD, Mapping Racism Project, an initiative led by the Hyatts…