There's something way-cool seeing a full classical orchestra accompany a cornrowed, ponytailed R&B crooner in a bow-tied tux on the stage of the hallowed Concert Hall of the Kennedy Cent…
I saw Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview opening night at Woolly, and I cannot stop thinking about its originality"not only in form but in intent. I'm not writing about the production"my colle…
Henry IV Part I, which opened at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre last week, is superb. (Click here for DCMTA's review.) This production, starring Ed Gero, is equal to any I've seen. In fact, …
Should you see Colonial Players' production of Arsenic and Old Lace in old town Annapolis before it closes? That depends. Are you opposed to comedy, physical, situational and verbal? Don't g…
Imagine a world where pop culture and high culture intersect. A world in which wrestling, comics, and gaming meld seamlessly with the performing arts, allowing people of all backgrounds to e…
In our world-class DC area, the GALA Hispanic Theatre continues to be a beacon with a mission to produce playwrights and plays often unknown to English-speaking audiences. GALA is a National…
Silences speak loudly in the first Maryland production of The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly at the Writer's Center in Bethesda. This professional production by Peter's Alley Theatre group, features …
It's true. The DC area has moved into the forefront of the nation's theater communities. A recent report from Actors' Equity Association named DC the "fastest-growing theater city." It w…
"Sing your song… be someone big on earth" is one of the centering lyrics that Tom Sweitzer sang in his one-actor, cabaret-like performance of Meatballs and Music on September 13 & 14, …
When Heidi Shreck steps out onto the Eisenhower stage and has what seems an informal, ad-libbed, introductory chat with us, the first thing you notice is her joy. She seems genuinely happy t…
When I was a kid, enthusiastically attending every show on Broadway, I never would have predicted that, in the new millennium, theaters on The Great White Way would be home not just to great…
The Woolly Mammoth Theater Company has rocket-launched its 40th anniversary season with a searing production of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.…
After a highly successful animated film, a long-running Broadway show, a live-action movie version, various spin-offs, and innumerable theme park, cruise ship, and school productions, the Di…
It isn't every day you see a play that merges Becket and Martha Graham. That's my takeaway from watching the hybrid form of Surfacing play out at the Atlas: Three actors are strictly circums…
The Girls of the Garden Club, written by John Patrick, directed by Larry Simmons and produced by Maureen Rogers, is presently playing at Laurel Mill Playhouse located on historic Main Street…
The central character in Best Medicine Rep's (BMR) DC-area premiere of Cricket Daniel's Helen on Wheels, Helen Wheeler (Liz Weber), is a 74-year old Oklahoma widow full of vim, vigor, and st…
Two of the world's biggest voices blended beautifully Thursday night on the Main Stage at the Kennedy Center's REACH Opening Festival, demonstrating the power of song to unify and inspire di…
For the past six decades, world-renowned mentalist The Amazing Kreskin has been an icon of pop culture, whose fame was spread through his recurrent TV appearances with Johnny Carson, Regis P…
Signature Theatre continues its commitment to new work and developing local talent by presenting the fifth season of SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Reading Series. This season Signature is …
The August Wilson Society (AWS) is thrilled to announce the September 19, 2019 launch of the August Wilson's Ground Annual Lecture Series, a forum whose mission is to advance August Wilson S…
"How does a black boy become an American?" asks spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. "How does he learn his role to play?" For Joseph the question is personal and visceral. In The Just an…
In honor of the tenth anniversary of its release, Stage Door Johnny: John Miller " Takes on Broadway has been reissued on CD and for download and streaming on digital platforms. The acclaime…
Boys will be boys, until a shocking event thrusts them into the harsh realities of life and continues to traumatize them throughout adulthood. The US premiere of Decky Does a Bronco by Scott…
Looking for an uplifting original musical? Check out Mids and Johnnies, a new musical about life in Annapolis. The plot revolves around Roman, a Ruritanian foreign-exchange student at St.…
The bar is open and there's 100-proof theater on tap. It's a stirring play about an Irish immigrant bartender, and it's shaking up a classy new cocktail bar where only 30 patrons at a time c…