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This Halloween season, Free Range Humans treats audiences to a one-of-a-kind production of Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde in Jekyll & Hyde: An Immersive Musical Experience at Frederi…
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of The Snow Queen at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts is a colorful feast of dance, lighting, and costumes. Based on the story of the same name by …
A panoply of performers graced the stage last night to honor the extraordinary musician, composer, and civil rights activist Nat King Cole, who would have been 100 years old this past March …
SEVEN is a powerful documentary piece of theatre that brings the writing talents of seven award-winning playwrights to bear on the personal interviews of seven world-changing women from arou…
A cult favorite TV show created in the '80s, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3) has left your screens and found its way to the DC stage for one weekend and one weekend only. The weird (I me…
Everyman Theatre of Baltimore is proud to have Christopher and Justin Swader in house to design the set for their new production of August Wilson's "Radio Golf." The New York-based team has …
Rage is scary. We don't know what to do with rage. Â It's uncomfortable and untouchable. We fear what's inside when rage is lurking around. But in What To Send Up When It Goes Down, create…
Thoughts of a Colored Man is a poetic journey through the lives of seven Black men over the course of a day in Brooklyn, New York. Playwright Keenan Scott II has written, and Steve H. Broadn…
Although Tennessee Williams' rare romantic comedy won the Tony Award for Best Play when it made its Broadway debut in 1951, followed by a fiery 1955 film adaptation starring Anna Magnani (wh…
Something's coming: an exclusive opportunity to take in an award-winning creative team's new adaptation of Rags, a hidden away musical gem. If you are not familiar with it, "Rags is a sp…
ARTSFAIRFAX presented its 2019 Emerging Arts Award at its eighth Arts Awards event on October 18, 2019. The award was given to the professional, black box NextStop Theatre Company. The A…
Just in time for the spooky Halloween season, Little Shop of Horrors, the cult-classic sci-fi horror rom-com rock musical by Howard Ashman (book and lyrics) and Alan Menken (music), is back …
Prince William Little Theatre has chosen some heavy material for their recent show. Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Harry Kantrovich, focuses on the international military tribunals that …
Gerald C. Wood is an author and expert on the brilliant Irish playwright and filmmaker Conor McPherson. Wood is Professor and Chair of English at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Ten…
A much-needed rabbit hole to explore is opening in the DMV. Let us rejoice. It is the return of She Kills Monsters some five years after making its first appearance, thanks to Rorschach Thea…
To realize how much white America loved minstrelsy is a reckoning painful or shameful, depending on one's ancestry. Minstrel shows were never meant for people of African descent to see; they…
A male mid-life crisis, a deadbeat dad, sexual harassment in the workplace, the objectification of women, callous philandering, and every other conceivable manifestation of toxic masculinity…
The dawn of the 1800s saw a Rome in turmoil. Napoleon Bonaparte spun a soured campaign in Egypt into a public relations success story, securing his legacy as a folk hero and launching a coup…
Tickets for Sting's acclaimed musical THE LAST SHIP, starring and featuring original music and lyrics by 17-time Grammy Award®-winner Sting, will go on sale Friday, October 18 at 10am for…
Imagine someone wanted Sondheim, but with a happy ending and genuinely lovable characters. Ta-da! She Loves Me was written in the '60s by Joe Masteroff (book), Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) and J…
Editor's note: Woolly Mammoth Theatre, in conjunction with its staging of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview, has brought to DC a show produced by the Harlem-based Movement Theatre Company tha…
Encore Stage & Studio has been working with local youth "to build lifelong appreciation for live theatre by involving young people in all aspects of theatre arts " onstage, backstage, in…
For decades, the Sunday afternoon concert series at the Phillips Collection has maintained primacy of place in Washington's classical musical firmament. But like leaders in all fields who wa…
First things first for those expecting an honest adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 spy thriller of the same name. This latest production by the St. Mark's Players might benefit from a cl…
Plaza Suite, this is not. In fact, it is about as different as a play can be that shares the same premise: short vignettes about the different people who occupy the same room in, as one char…
