Raw one moment, richly comic the next. Subtle in one scene, directly challenging the audience the next. The world premiere musical Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre is strikingly effecti…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's Artistic Director Simon Godwin announced the Company's 2020/21 Season to a gathering of dedicated theatergoers at the Michael R. Klein Theatre at the Lansburgh …
James Bunzli, the director of Red, was recently named a Producing Director at Compass Rose Theater. He has been involved in several shows at Compass Rose, from acting and directing to moveme…
Looking for a respite from the political chaos that surrounds us? Care to leave your troubles behind? How about an escape to the world of energizing, uplifting dance? Catch America's favorit…
Poor Melvin Ferd the Third just can't catch a break. The ladies shun him, the jocks harass him, and the pretty blind librarian he has a crush on? Well, she thinks he's a scrawny dweeb. But d…
In May 1955, when Howard University staged James Baldwin's play, The Amen Corner, Washington Post reviewer Richard L. Coe deemed it a "fine play that merits not only your attention but also …
You don't have to read Ulysses"or, for that matter, know anything about James Joyce, its author, or Leopold Bloom, its hapless hero"to love Bloomsday. The play, a gentle romance now blossomi…
The creative team of Jonathan Marc Sherman (book), Duncan Sheik (music and lyrics), and Amanda Green (lyrics) takes a look back at the sexual revolution of the 'Swinging Sixties' through the…
This play about a boxer packs so many emotional punches into its compact six rounds, you might not know what hit you. As fists fly, bells clang, terse words burst, and the cast claps out eac…
If you like your Shakespeare characters to behave and react like flesh and blood people, and not esoteric abstractions, Brave Spirits Theatre's Henry the Fourth, Part 1 is a play you'll love…
"We're all friends here, right?" And she didn't just ask; that's exactly how the radiant Patina Miller, award-winning star of stage and screen, made everyone feel with her open and gracious …
At a February 3, 2020 celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Thea…
Known internationally as a visionary man of the theater, Bill T. Jones has built a reputation over the past 38 years for his ability to visualize the human condition through choreography and…
A high energy musical premiere blasts onto the stage in the FrederickTowne Players production of Loserville. Excellently directed by Matt J. Bannister, with rocking musical direction from Ma…
Agatha Christie's A Daughter's a Daughter at The Arlington Players features the character of Sarah Prentice: the most hateful, self-centered, pampered, jealous, possessive, resentful, rotten…
Dominion Stage has given this rowdy, irreverent, and rollicking rock musical a remarkably woke production that is as rousing as it is reflective and as satiric as it is unsettling. Set in 18…
At Friendship Park, on the US-Mexico border just south of San Diego, from 10 am to 2 pm Saturdays and Sundays, 10 people at a time on the US side can see, and talk through a fence, with frie…
With personality galore and voices full of pizzazz and warmth, The Mason Cabaret in Concert delivered a wonderful evening of Celebrating the Great American Songbook! Under the direction of J…
John Morogiello's new "based-on-a true-story" play Comedy of Venice, having its debut performance at Gaithersburg's Best Medicine Rep, centers on a feud between two 18th-century Venetian pla…
C.S. Lewis is not for the fainthearted. While his Narnia series may have been the most successful in capturing the public imagination, his fascination with"and ability to articulate"advanced…
Bright and jaunty as a hippie's tie-dyed shirt, the opening musical number for Folger's The Merry Wives of Windsor lets the audience know what's in store. It's a farce set long ago"well, 197…
In this small Missouri town, everyone knows everyone and everything. The church where people notice when you're not in your pew, the factory where your high school classmates put in their sh…
Success strikes like a cobra. It mesmerizes, then it strikes. It paralyzes its target, freezes it in the moment. Simon and Garfunkel found that cobra, that success, in 1966 as "Sounds of Sil…
The latest leg on Paddington Bear's journey from his native Peru to his adoptive home in London to TV and movie screens everywhere is his stage debut in New York City at the DR2 Theatre in P…
In Grey Rock, Playwright-Director Amir Nizar Zuabi invites us into the home of an ordinary Palestinian family in a small West Bank village. We soon recognize the extraordinary in the ordinar…