There are moments when art and life are so wittily and intimately entwined, you can feel the vibe without a word being said. Given the joyful display of color and power at this weekend's Wom…
Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World"the award-winning play now enjoying its DC debut at Mosaic Theater"is as delicious a romp as any that's come along in a while. Billed as a romantic c…
This thoroughly delightful offering from Mosaic has all the makings of a lighthearted rom-com. Boy meets girl. He invites her to his place. She initiates sex. It's hot. Though they come from…
Spring Awakening has never been a shy musical. Based on German playwright Frank Wedekind's 1891 tale of teenagers awakening to their sexuality amongst adults who failed to provide any sexual…
Reston Community Players' production of The Game's Afoot is a lighthearted, murder-mystery comedy. The comedy was written by American playwright and Tony Award winner Ken Ludwig, of Lend Me …
In a ceremony at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, the WATCH Award committee announced the 2019 WATCH Award nominees. 101 productions (40 musicals, 61 plays) were adjudicated in 2019. T…
The pipeline in the title of Dominique Morisseau's play is the "school-to-prison pipeline" affecting young African-American men. Fueled, as Studio Theatre's dramaturgical notes explain, by a…
The set for Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline at Studio Theatre could not be any whiter. Its white walls of freshly painted concrete blocks span the breadth of the stage and extend around the a…
Is it ever truly possible to escape the pain and turmoil of the past or will the disturbing memories always be there to haunt you and to impact your present life? That's the issue at hand in…
I Hate Hamlet invites the audience to spend an evening with a young man plagued by indecision in a marvelous modern re-telling of Hamlet's own quandary. With ghosts that appear upon the cloc…
After a lifetime of believing he was a humble nobody, Montague "Monty" Navarro learns he is a long-lost member of the D'Ysquith family and the 9th in line for the family earldom. Determined …
The weather outside was surely cold and cranky. But the outside world could be quickly forgotten as the American Pops Orchestra (APO), led by Maestro Luke Frazier, gently took children and a…
Imagine you've got tickets to the theater and the star attraction gets stage fright and sends a note that she's not coming. But the house is full and the show must go on, so if you're creato…
Jazz vocalist, Jazzmeia Horn, returned to her home at the Kennedy Center on Saturday evening to deliver the first performance in the REACH's jazz club, Studio K. Perhaps there is no better a…
The casual cruelty that constructs men's certainty they're real men"and the cost of that violence to others and to themselves"comes under scathing scrutiny in Joe Calarco's shattering one-ac…
From her meager beginnings in Memphis through her rise to international fame and triumphant comeback after 20 years of service as a nurse, the life and times of renowned blues and jazz singe…
Leading Ladies is a charming little farce written by Ken Ludwig. Directed by Eleanore Tapscott, this production at Vienna Theatre Company is sure to be a popular, audience-pleasing productio…
If your parents taught you that opera is the ultimate blend of words and music, where both elements are dependent on the other and that the end result is far more than the sum of its parts, …
Nature, nuance, or its lack thereof, were central themes when the National Symphony Orchestra welcomed fledgling conductor Gemma New, pianist Yefim Bronfman, and the young composer Salina Fi…
In his five years on DC stages, actor Justin Weaks has played an impressive array of characters written by contemporary African-American playwrights. It is a dream he feared would never beco…
A gathering stormcloud looms over this exquisitely wrought play by Alix Sobler. "How bad is it going to get?" a character wonders aloud. No one can answer. "It can't go on like this much lon…
Alix Sobler's play Sheltered, based on real-life characters, is a rarity. It is a history play that doesn't fall into the trap of portraying a period in history in such detail that it forget…
Sean Grennan's Now and Then, receiving its East Coast premiere courtesy of Upcounty Theatre in Germantown, Maryland, deals in regret anticipated and recollected, and inquires about the possi…
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S…
In a veddy, veddy proper tale about class differences, gender roles, secret lovers and the pitfalls of an arranged marriage, playwright Melynda Kiring is quite right that "the fun in this pl…