Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally, playing at Baltimore's Center Stage through March 1, feels oddly familiar in several ways, and in others, 100 percent fresh. Playwright Noah Diaz d…
If your ideal Valentine's date is cheerful, charming, and looks fantastic in formal wear, then get thee to the Kennedy Center to spend an evening with Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson. The B…
William Joad is a proud Oklahoma farmer with roots to the land as old and deep as the fields his family has tended for generations. But after decades of dedication, dust and sweat poured int…
"I'm good at finding out the truth," says Billy Argo (Spencer Coben), the boy-prodigy detective, near the beginning of this clever, quirky, and quite touching musical. So observant of clues …
Given that so many plays and films these days are based on, drawn from or inspired by each other, it is worth examining the differences between these media and the treatments they require. T…
Following his smash hit run with Bright Colors and Bold Patterns in 2017-18, writer/performer Drew Droege returns to SoHo Playhouse for a limited engagement of his latest comedy Happy Birthd…
While much of the city is abuzz with romantic romping this Valentine's Day weekend, the New Orchestra of Washington will concern itself with the transformative power of love and loss when it…
When an elite chamber music trio has Beethoven in its bones, the ensemble apparently doesn't need to spend most of their time together or even come up with a coherent name for the group. All…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
After almost two centuries of gracing the ballet world, American Ballet Theatre's Giselle, sometimes called the Hamlet of ballet, still has the redemptive power to transform a story of decep…
Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical comedy featuring music by The Go-Go's, will launch its first D.C. metro area production opening Monumental Theater Company's 2020 season. With a book by Ja…
In a particularly poignant scene in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz's Exquisite Agony, a heart transplant recipient named Amer has an intimate conversation with Romy, the pregnan…
For an evening of dry wit and sophisticated, subtle humor, make your way…Oh forget it. Just come to Constellation Theatre's The 39 Steps for a couple hours of cheesy lines, old situations,…
Football and musicals rarely overlap, but it was eight years ago this month " in the coveted slot right after the 2012 Super Bowl " that Smash, the NBC series about developing a Broadway mus…
For the first time on stage, Mint Theater Company brings together two short stories by two of Russia's foremost authors in Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories, playing a limited engagement at Thea…
Chain Theatre's world-premiere production of Chasing the River by Jean Dobie Giebel offers an intense, gripping, and momentous examination of the devastating trauma and ongoing repercussions…
As Synetic Theater races through its rowdy teenage years (not quite 20, yet), they have earned a reputation for finely-honed narrative dance, brilliant original music, and spectacular visual…
Director Kathryn Chase Bryer's bold staging of A Doll House"beginning with the alternative translation of the traditional title of this classic by Henrik Ibsen"transforms a 19th-century fire…
Playwright Nilo Cruz labels his latest work, Exquisita AgonÃa, a "family drama." Actually, the show that is currently playing at GALA Theatre is two family dramas that converge. The first…
Nothing speaks louder about a musician's accomplishments than receiving a standing ovation and cheers from the audience before he plays a single note. NEA Jazz Master and recipient of the Of…
When Laura C. Harris bursts onto the stage in Silent Sky at Ford's Theatre, she is Henrietta Leavitt"hoop skirt and all"fresh out of college, brimming with confidence, and determined to find…
What would it have felt like, I've sometimes wondered, to listen, in sublime surroundings, to sounds conveying the deepest devotions of Christian belief, long before the "melancholy, long, w…
It may surprise you (as it did me) that the title of this melodic world-premiere musical does not refer to gunpowder. The word gun means there's a pistol (which gets dramatically deployed). …
Providence Players of Fairfax presents David Ives' Venus in Fur, a provocative two-person play-within-a-play. Â In partnership with Falls Church's Italian Café, this intimate pop-up capti…
At the start of this brave performance, we see on a dark stage a young man who is making a suicide attempt. He is wearing cargo pants, a tee, and sneaks and has a food-storage bag over his h…