John Leguizamo is a famously Latino, American, Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, known for numerous roles that defy pigeonholing on the character-genre spectrum. Yet despite the vast ran…
Drawing its inspiration from E.M. Forster's 1910 masterpiece Howards End, playwright Matthew Lopez re-envisions the story of social conventions and heritage in turn-of-the-century England th…
A Christmas Story: The Musical at Toby's celebrates the classic charm, innocence and nostalgia of a child's Christmas in the 1940s with plenty of high energy production numbers from the adul…
President Jimmy Carter's farsighted and cautionary "malaise speech" on the disastrous effects of unchecked climate change on the future of our planet, and the concurrent movement to ratify t…
Now that this summer's drama surrounding the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's financial woes has quieted, at least for now, we can focus on the significant contributions our home state orchest…
When Susan Rome bats her eyelashes"as she often does in Edward Albee's Occupant, now at Theater J"she becomes Louise Nevelson, the iconic sculptor whose life and work were inseparable. The l…
Called by critics "incisive," "timely," and "brave," Priyanka Shetty's one-woman show The Elephant in the Room performs Saturday, November 23, 2019, at 6 pm on the Millennium Stage at The…
Anchuli Felicia King's White Pearl is a hilarious, fast-paced satire set in the Singapore office of a cosmetics startup called Clearday that sells skin-whitening cream to Asian women. As the…
We all want to feel loved, right? And there are times we feel forgotten. Unseen. Disposable. The classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit is a sentimental reminder that a child's love c…
Like many of Charles Dickens's sprawling novels, Hard Times chronicles the lives and times of multiple characters dwelling in England's mid-19th-century industrial chaos. But unlike the e…
Virginia Opera's artistic director Adam Turner, in his program note for contemporary composer Daniel Catán's Il Postino, hastens to assure audiences that the company is working to dispel …
New York-based actor and comedian Remy Germinario is gearing up for his fourth appearance with drag sensation Paige Turner (host and co-creator/producer of NYC's live drag reality show So Yo…
The Silver Spring Black Box Theatre, situated in the same block as the Fillmore and AFI, has a lot to offer us. Live entertainment, yes, but more importantly entertainment that is personal, …
First presented at The Public Theater in 1976, the Obie Award-winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, by playwright/poet Ntozake Shange " a pioneering…
As the Gospel stage play The Home opens, it is clear that the Thompson family must soon face a challenge shared by 43.5 million Americans"caring for a family member over 50. Nubia Filmworks'…
The set and staging steal the show at 2nd Star Productions' A Christmas Carol: The Musical. That is almost a shame because the acting, singing, and dancing are also first-rate; however, the …
Mark Morris dances are emphatically watchable, easily digestible, eccentric, and smartly witty. He so proficiently pairs music and dance, costume and set " with a cadre of collaborators " th…
Following in the footsteps of SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, The Cher Show, and the rash of jukebox bios that have permeated Broadway over the past several years, Tina: The Tina Turner Mu…
The sensuality and passion of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, Pablo Neruda has become the bones for a contemporary opera, Il Postino by Daniel Catán. Il Postin…
Once again, Olney Theatre Center (OTC) has put on a tap-happy show. This time it's Singin' in the Rain, where the audience hums the familiar tunes as they ratta-ta-tap back to their cars. Th…
From the moment you enter Arena Stage's Fichandler Stage, an intimate theater-in-the-round where everyone has a seat close to the action, you'll be transported to turn-of-the-19th-century Ne…
On stage, Aladdin starts out as the perfect musical for nine-year-olds. But by the time its two swooning lovers have hopped aboard a flying carpet for a trip to the moon, all moms and dads i…
Attending Cantus's Alone Together at the Kennedy Center made me realize that meaningful interaction relies as much upon solitude and mystery as it does connection and revelation. The vocal o…
What does it mean to re-vision a popular musical with theatre artists of color? Students at Bowie State University have set out to do just that with their latest production of Little Shop of…
Just in time for the winter weather, the international touring production of Slava's Snowshow, created and staged by world-renowned Russian clown and mime Slava Polunin, has arrived at the S…