In 2020, isn't all of DC just trying to get by with something "next" to normal? We're going about our daily lives while there's an impeachment trial going on. A foreign leader was recently a…
Now playing a limited engagement at Theatre Row, Fellowship for Performing Arts' production of Paradise Lost " Tom Dulack's stage adaptation of John Milton's epic poem of the 17th century…
By Kelly Hanson William Shakespeare's Richard III is a masterpiece rife with intrigue, violence, and dark humor. Undertaking such a complicated and beloved production is a bold choice, and B…
Two generations before the African American space scientists immortalized in the film Hidden Figures propped up America's nascent space program, another group of pioneering female "computers…
"Read the book. But see the play first!" That's what Hend Ayoub"the actor who plays Mariam, the empowered first wife of A Thousand Splendid Suns"told me about the show, now in its first DC r…
With her green roots and sneakers that spout "fuck you," Billie Eilish, who swept Sunday night's pop Grammys, sings a new song for a new generation. Her 2020 teen angst recalls hardcore punk…
After 50 years of marriage and their move to a retirement community, Nancy and Bill want a divorce and their adult sons want to do anything they can to prevent it. Amidst the shock, all are …
Multidisciplinary artist Paige Hernandez is not a fan of boundaries. Whether performing, directing or teaching, the Baltimore native has made a career out of blending artistic forms and reac…
Compass Rose Theater's production of Red is a wonderfully powerful production. Set in New York during the 1950s, John Logan's 2010 play is about the artist Mark Rothko, and it offers profoun…
Washington Stage Guild's Bloomsday is a flower of a production. One to gaze at, listen to, and revel in, enjoying the power of words, terrific acting, connections, and confessions. Written b…
On September 12, 2001, after a stunning halt to nearly all normal activity, life resumed for most Americans. And yet, we knew that everything had changed. Our sense of security was shattered…
Summoning a galaxy of African American recording stars, this poignant one-act sometimes seems like a sublime dream with vintage music. There are ethereal visions, vivid Afrofuturist visitati…
There was revolution in the air. Decolonization of Africa was taking shape. The world was on fire. And The Kennedy Center's World Stages will be providing audiences a taste of those times. "…
To coincide with the celebration of the Lunar New Year this weekend, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, now in its 43rd season, has presented a remount of The Emperor's Nightingale (which made its…
You will not this season see a more beautiful, emotionally wrenching portrayal of profound love than in Arena Stage's production of Ursula Rani Sarma's A Thousand Splendid Suns. Based on Kha…
Roundabout Theatre Company's profoundly affecting Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller's 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Soldier's Play, now playing a limited engagement at American Airli…
As you enter The Kennedy Center Opera House, a muted image of a swan, wings spread, neck extended, warms the curtains. The theater darkens, the performance begins, and the movement of flight…
The following news was released today by theatreWashington: The Washington theater community remains in mourning over the loss of Victor Shargai, long-time theatreWashington board chair, the…
Next Thursday, January 30, please join Theater and Policy Salon for a discussion on Attainment, Fulfillment, and Resilience at Studio Theatre following the 8 pm show of Pipeline. The panel d…
Pasadena native Max Crumm was catapulted to fame when he won the 2007 reality TV show Grease: You're The One That I Want, which landed him the lead role of Danny Zuko in that year's Broadway…
Social commentary in a dance performance is not unusual, especially in the modern dance community. But in a week-long residency by The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at George Mason Univer…
When their date at a lamentable community theater performance of Romeo and Juliet leaves a Brooklyn Girl in tears and a Brooklyn Guy bored to tears, he needs to prove to her that he really i…
I'd say Deborah Zoe Laufer is having a bit of a moment right now, but it's been going on so long I think it's fairer to say she's having a bit of an amazing career. Laufer's plays have been …
Conceived, written, and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, the latest installment in his outrageous parodies of the shows and stars of the Great White …
Sizzle sells, or as Kinky Boots proved on Broadway in 2013, "The Sex Is In the Heel." Â Why was the musical named Kinky Boots? Maybe Fetish Footwear didn't have quite the same kick. … S…