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All That Jazz! at Annapolis Shakespeare Company is an original musical revue of classic songs from old Broadway shows, in collaboration with Unified Jazz Ensemble. Conceived and directed by …
Snow White is bossy. Cinderella is a ditzy dim bulb. Sleeping Beauty not only sleeps a lot but snores. Belle is going nuts from talking to inanimate objects. Mulan likes girls. Â Just wha…
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British playwright Caryl Churchill is a revolutionary playwright. In her career, she has upset theatrical expectations many times over. She plays with gender and fools with time. She invents…
Providence Players of Fairfax present Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, based on her book of the same name. By one of the world's most decorated crime writers, And Then There Were …
Love is a game"or deadly serious"or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company's production of Pride and Prejudice. The game motif is evident early on, as…
Suddenly and immovably convinced his wife has been unfaithful, a jealous king's actions result in the death of his queen and son, the abandonment of his infant daughter, and a cheery start t…
Midway through this taut, fraught drama about sexual trauma, a woman named Ana, a wife and young mother, is suddenly triggered. We are not told exactly why. It might be the Kavanaugh hearing…
Black early 20th-century celebrity heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson has had as irresistible a pull on subsequent playwrights and filmmakers as he did on the public of his day. Alr…
What a pleasure to celebrate the centenary of modern dance master Merce Cunningham with a pair of works that demonstrates his formidable vision for dance, imbued with clarity of form and gen…
Murder on the Nile is Agatha Christie's staging of her popular novel, Death on the Nile, published in 1937. Castaways Repertory Theatre has chosen this definitive whodunit for their Fall pro…
The economic and social plight of America's white rural working class has been the subject of recent blockbuster books from J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy to Educated, by Tara Westover. No…
As seen through the simple symbolism of a wooden fence, Ford's Theatre's season opener of August Wilson's Fences is a brilliant and searing exploration of the tragi-conflicts and heroic triu…
On Friday, September 26, 2019, Washington City Paper reported on serious allegations facing the former executive director and founder of the Highwood Theatre, a children's theater company ba…
Following a completely sold-out run at Allegory/Eaton DC, Solas Nua's immersive cocktail theatre production will move to the dramatically renovated bar at award-winning Round House Theatre i…
Singer/dancer/actress Bebe Neuwirth is not only a triple threat, she's a multiple award-winning one. Among the honors she's received are two Emmys for her role as Dr. Lilith Crane in the pop…
Building on its mission to produce "exciting yet profound theatre in greater Washington, DC" The Edge of the Universe Players 2 is presenting My Barking Dog, a play about "A woman. A man. A …
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet is a wonderful way to kick off their new season. Directed by Sally Boyett, the show sets Shakespeare's classic play in modern dress, comb…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Annie, the beloved Broadway darling that has enchanted audiences through generations! With its Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strou…
The all-female production of Othello at Taffety Punk, directed by Kelsey Mesa, is a breath of fresh air. Because all the characters are played by women, you forget that they are female after…
What an inspired creative jewel. What a brave new world. What a daring technical and artistic production. That is Synetic's The Tempest; Shakespeare's tale of shipwreck and magic, power grab…
George Bernard Shaw published Candida in 1898. Though it was not performed in London until it was a hit in New York in 1903, where it inspired what Shaw called "Candidamania," the play's Ame…
Audra McDonald's concert Saturday night, September 28, was the culmination of a wonderful evening at George Mason University's 14th annual ARTS by George! benefit. The concert hall at the Ce…
Can one laugh heartily at a satirical comedy"be thoroughly engaged by the entertaining characters, story, and performances"and then after it's over mourn what it was about? That was for …
The Eighth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival is taking place in the Bromo Arts District from October 10 through 20, 2019. Here's a listing of all the shows. Ready, Set, Fringe! Fringe Shows …
