Acclaimed Irish playwright Brian Friel is a master wordsmith, captivating storyteller, and consummate observer of the human condition, and that is nowhere more evident than in the Keen Co…
Next week, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage will present a performance keyed to Veteran's Day"The American Soldier, conceived, written and performed by Douglas Taurel. The November 13 p…
Congratulations DC-area theatergoers! A new version of a major musical is being performed at George Mason University this weekend. It has legs and there are still tickets available. Rags is …
Monumental Theatre Company will be hosting a Bottomless Broadway Brunch on November 30, 2019. This event will feature performers from Monumental Theatre Company's upcoming 2020 season, as we…
If you are into corsets, fishnets, glitter, high heels, bold makeup, sexual innuendo and cussing as art, Wolf Pack Theatre Company's (WPTC) rendition of Richard O'Brien's cult classic Rocky …
Storytelling is a gift. And Conor McPherson"the Irish playwright, screenwriter and long-time 'bad boy' of the British stage"is one of the most gifted tale-tellers ever known. His Port Author…
The crowd cheered. We were on the Kennedy Center jitney to the Foggy Bottom Metro stop. I had just read aloud a text from my husband that said Howie Kendrick had hit a two-run homer to p…
Part biography, part history lesson, and part turn-out-the-vote rally, Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Awards favorite Harvey Fierstein,…
Adapted from the best-selling young adult novel by Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, now in its Broadway debut at the Longacre Theatre (following a blockbuster Of…
Spektral Quartet's Looking Skyward offers audiences opportunity to trust their instincts when approaching new music There was a time when I needed the cash, so I substitute taught high schoo…
Academia has inspired several thematically penetrating plays featuring female protagonists"the two teachers falsely accused of being lesbian lovers, for instance, in Lillian Hellman's 1934 T…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the full cast and creative team for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical!), a Kennedy Center-commissioned world pr…
Canadian playwright Norman Yeung's Theory, in its American premiere at Mosaic Theater, seeks to be, in the words of Mosaic's press release, "a hot button play for our digital moment." Yeung …
Electrifying. Awakening. These are words to describe the heart-rending workshop presentation of Stirring the Waters Across America performed at Studio K at The REACH. To call it anything les…
On Sunday night Dave Chappelle experienced the most epic of homecomings as the DC native received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art…
Offenbach and Rossini are not names that roll easily off most children's tongues. Luckily for parents who are looking for a fun way to introduce their children to classical music, the work o…
Promoted as "a singer's best friend," Harmony Helper is a brand new app designed to provide musical theater performers and vocalists of all genres with the convenience and control of a digit…
On the day after opening night of Everybody, the first show in Simon Godwin's much heralded first season as artistic director of Shakespeare Theatre Company, I visited him in his office to a…
Writing duo Jesse Sanchez (book, music, and lyrics) and Jeff Chambers (additional music and orchestrations) brought down the house and lifted our spirits at The Green Room 42 on Saturday eve…
Imagine how excited I was. For the first time in my life, the baseball World Series was being played in Washington DC. On top of that, it is Rookie left fielder Juan Soto's 21st Birthday. Bu…
Tiramisù"the caffeinated confection from Italy"translates as "pick me up" or "cheer me up," which makes it the perfect name for the hilarious new solo show Michael Burgo brought to DC Art…
Getting killed multiple times in a single production can be great fun (my personal best is three). In Reston Community Players' (RCP) A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Patrick Graham "…
In The Sheen Center's world-premiere Off-Broadway production of When It Happens to You, best-selling author Tawni O'Dell shares her personal story of the ongoing effects that the brutal rape…
The peer pressure of in-groups, man. Is there anything more toxic? Turns out, there is. This is the central theme of Afflicted: Daughters Of Salem, which is set before the infamous Salem Wit…
Aerialists and acrobats, big tops and bicycles, cotton candy, cats, and clowns " the ABC's of 21st-century circus-arts entertainment can be enjoyed by one and all with the return of New York…