Creative Cauldron's Learning Theater presents its own adaptation of the popular tale, The Jungle Book. Based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, the show centers around the man-cub, …
The Welders, a self-described artists' collective, burst upon the DMV theatrical landscape in the summer of 2013 with a mission to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play develo…
Improvisational theater is comprised of different aspects of live performance genres, like stand-up comedy or fully scripted plays. But what defines improv, is how the actors use comments fr…
In the competitive national and international air guitar scene, contestants vie for championships and prizes by pretending to play (or "shred") imaginary guitars to 60-second tracks from cla…
What a great lively yarn about a musical disruptor as a stand-in for the volcanic eruptions of out-and-out revolution in the air throughout Europe and America. Amadeus at Folger Theatre is a…
With campaigning for the 2020 US election in full swing and impeachment inquiries dominating the news, the theme of presidential politics is a timely one. The Great Society " the second of p…
Think back to when you were in high school. You went to classes all day and came home and did homework, right? And maybe you took piano lessons once a week or played a sport. Seventeen-year-…
The winter holidays are a great time to see a show with someone you love, so here is our list of best bets in holiday entertainment in and around DC. Whether you are looking for a show to en…
The 20th Anniversary Tour of RENT touched down at the National Theatre this week, much to the delight of area RENTheads. This modern take on Puccini's La Boheme, with music, lyrics and book …
Elizabeth Inchbald's Lovers' Vows, first produced in 1798, is every bit as amusing as the unfortunately named Schitt's Creek, The Good Place, or any other contemporary comedy. Inchbald, an a…
"True if interesting" is Louise Nevelson's byword in Occupant, Edward Albee's witty and wise bioplay about the famous sculptor. She was quite the character. For Nevelson, in the hagiography …
Celebrate the season in New York City this year with a wide array of Christmas-themed shows that offers something to delight everyone. From time-honored traditions and classic works to eye-p…
Taj Express: The Bollywood Musical Revue is a treat for the eyes and an ocean-tide of extravagance for the senses. This is a musical with dance moves that make you feel as if you are burning…
"I realized the thing I missed most in my process was people," American composer Libby Larsen told me recently. She was speaking about her commissioned work "YOU," which the vocal ensemble C…
If you attend Studio Theatre's current production of the brilliantly acerbic White Pearl and feel in the first ten minutes that you're not sure you know what's happening, don't worry. Playwr…
The plays of George Bernard Shaw are, to be honest, an acquired taste. Erudite in the extreme, filled with Shaw's unique sense of his own intellectual superiority"which is expressed with pap…
"A Chorus Line is still one of those musicals you will sing about to your grandchildren," wrote theater and dance critic Clive Barnes in his 1975 New York Times review for A Chorus Line. Bar…
Life has never been easy for women who love other women. Last Summer at Bluefish Cove"written by Jane Chambers and widely regarded as the first production to portray lesbians in a positive l…
Following on Factory 449's electrifying production two years ago of Lela & Co."which earned Helen Hayes Awards for both its director (Rick Hammerly) and star (Felicia Curry)"the company …
You promise me this. You promise me that. You promise me anything under the sun… belts out a swell Elizabeth Hester as Miss Adelaide, the cherry on top of a high-energy revival of Frank Lo…
"It feels unknown. This is nowhere somehow," says a character in this intriguingly cryptic poetic play by the acclaimed Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Indeed, where are we? And what is g…
Being a stage manager of a theater production brings challenging, yet too often unheralded responsibilities that begin long before an audience steps into a theater to take a seat. As the pro…
Four African American women address the audience as if speaking to a department store clerk. Each is shopping for a dress"a dress, they stress, that must be "special." As they turn to the fa…
Now into his second year leading IN Series, the itinerant company based at the Source Theater, artistic director Timothy Nelson has not been shy about challenging opera's status quo. "I …
Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel The Enchanted April, set during the devastating aftermath of World War I and a severe epidemic of the influenza that ravaged England at the time, has been th…