Villainy takes many forms. And Ian Merrill Peakes " now plotting revenge against a gifted rival in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre's production of Amadeus " has played more than a few. His mo…
Making its Off-Broadway debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre, following a developmental presentation by Goodspeed Musicals in August 2018, is The New Group's production of Cyrano " Erica Schmidt'…
Dispatch from the front. "Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States."Â Â For those in the audience of the Boomer generation, Rainbow Theat…
Another unique cabaret evening is arriving at 1st Stage in Tysons. It is a musical performance by the quartet All 4 Bass. The event is entitled Play it LOW…Play it COOL. The All 4…
At its annual Gala, Shakespeare Theatre Company announced to a surprised audience that the Lansburgh Theatre at 450 7th St. NW would be rechristened as the Michael R. Klein Theatre. In addit…
In the theater world, a performer who is a true triple threat " one with the ability to perform at the highest levels as an actor, singer, and dancer all at the same time " is rare. Luckily,…
In honor of the Czech dissident, political prisoner, and playwright Václav Havel, Alliance for New Music-Theatre has served up a two-course theatrical repast in DC's most outré new arts …
By Norman Yeung That Theory has gained urgency and relevance since I wrote the first draft in 2009 is uncanny and alarming. Over ten years of innumerable workshops, readings, and productions…
The most successful singing group in the history of R&B proudly lives on in the Tony-award winning jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. Now onstage at …
An antebellum plantation is a hotbed of erotica in the raw, ribald and at times ridiculously funny examination of race in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play. Three interracial couples run wild, i…
By Kyle Starling The School of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies (TDPS) and The Clarice at the University of Maryland, College Park will be premiering their main stage production of …
Mexican composer/arranger/orchestrator/director Jaime Lozano " a native of Monterrey and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of Arts, with a Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre Writing " has…
First, dear reader, a confession"for which I fully expect to be pilloried, drawn and quartered, then maybe burned at the stake:Â I'm not a huge fan of musicals these days. Yeah, I know, t…
On November 29, 2015, Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M Butterfly) survived a potentially fatal knife attack to his neck on the street near his home in Brooklyn. That unprov…
Of all of Shakespeare's history plays, Antony and Cleopatra is the most complicated and thankless to stage. You've got shifting alliances, battles won then lost, and then you've got the biza…
You know you're in for a new take on Julius Caesar when the famous Soothsayer ("Beware the Ides of March!") doesn't enter upstage right or left, as usual, to make his warning. In Ethan McSwe…
Arts on the Green, the City of Gaithersburg's home for the performing and visual arts which includes the Kentland's Mansion and Arts Barn, is now soliciting production proposals for the thea…
I've never been to Reading, PA, the location of Lynn Nottage's searing 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, now playing at Silver Spring Stage, but my life has been bracketed by living i…
National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays, announces its 91st Rolling …
This world premiere comic drama about gays in the military takes us back to July and August of 1964 when LBJ was ordering American ground troops into Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonki…
The opening night performance of Washington National Opera's production of Wolfgang A. Mozart's The Magic Flute was perfectly pleasing, even if the show as written is just too long. Traditio…
Annapolis Opera's production of Tosca, performed at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, is a thrilling work of theater, combining beautiful music, singing, and acting with creative set and …
At Rep Stage in Howard County, Bob Bartlett's new play E2 certainly proves it can make a head-turning entrance. This bold and sensuous take on the oft-told tale of King Edward II unfolds aga…
The email popped into my box from my editor. To paraphrase: "Is it too far for you to go cover Ally Theatre's new theatre piece in Mt. Rainer about Syrian refugees?" The irony was not lost o…
Signature Theatre announced today that it will produce Mamma Mia! this summer at The Wharf, Washington, DC's newest concert venue. Mamma Mia! will run for two weeks from June 25 to July 5, 2…