Celebrating the lushness of love without shying away from the moody darkness that might befall lovers, Theater J opens its new season with the East Coast premiere of the musical Love Sick. L…
Leaping Lizards! Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to be presenting Annie, starring Sally Struthers as Miss Hannigan, opening Wednesday, September 25 and running until …
More than 50 seniors crowded into a storytelling circle inside one of the Kennedy Center's new REACH buildings on Monday, and I, as a card-carrying member of the reduced-fare generation, squ…
1 Henry IV at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Rosa Joshi, is perfectly cast and beautifully executed. Edward Gero is a superb Falstaff, and he is surrounded by gifted actors and …
The Opening Festival of the new REACH complex at The Kennedy Center featured a plethora of live performances and films, including the laugh-until-you-break-your-funnybone The Second City and…
Rep Stage presents a strong introduction to their 2019/2020 season with a charming production of Stephen Temperley's Souvenir, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch. This play details the meteoric ri…
DCMTA joined the teeming crowd at the Kennedy Center's "unprecedented new expansion," the REACH, on the second day of a 16-day multi-genre festival to check out the spotlight on jazz. From t…
In 2003, John Patrick Shanley started writing a play about an America full of opinionated people, people who were certain they were right, people who shunned intellectual debate. From Shanle…
OORAH and HOOYAH! Integrity and a code of honor is at the heart of the play A Few Good Men, showing now at The Little Theatre of Alexandria. Many Marines and a few Naval officers share the f…
No gift comes without a cost. And that lesson courses through every moment of Proof, David Auburn's very fine Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which is being given a thrilling revival at Everyma…
While considered one of the classics in opera's storied canon, Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini is simultaneously acknowledged to be one of the most problematic for its depictions of race…
Alliance for New Music-Theatre (ANMT) is delighted to announce it has been named Dupont Underground's first Theatre-in-Residence. The residency coincides with the launch of its 2019-20…
Bringing Little Shop of Horrors to life is no small feat for any theatre company, and it's even more difficult when performing in a very limited space, but the Potomac Playmakers and Directo…
Responding to the mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH on August 3 and 4, songwriter Amanda Palmer dropped a single last month called "Everybody Knows Somebody." The song's premise i…
Eternal questions are being hotly debated in the back room of the Italian Café in Falls Church, where the Providence Players of Fairfax have once again set up shop for a "pop-up production"…
Gracious, engaging, and a powerhouse of a voice, Jennifer Hudson brought the house down and left the audience standing and cheering while in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra at W…
If you're a theater-lover expecting a traditional performance of a classic work by Shakespeare, with just one chosen actor struggling to remember the lines after downing multiple shots of wh…
Peter's Alley Theatre has moved its base of performances to The Writer's Center in Bethesda. Founded in 2012 by Aly B. Ettman, Peter's Alley is a non-profit professional theatre company dedi…
London's acclaimed revival of Betrayal " Harold Pinter's 1978 drama about the devastating effects of infidelity, inspired by the playwright's own seven-year extra-marital affair in the 1960s…
First, the bad news. Enron, the farcical, scary and all-but-unbelievable romp through the biggest fraud in corporate history, has closed. The good news is that there's still time"four more p…
Perhaps it is his distinctive voice or the fact that he has been called the "best storyteller of his generation" that makes Ruben Santiago-Hudson the apparent inheritor of the body of work p…
Director Stephawn Stephens has deep family roots at the Dew Drop Inn, having started as a performer in A Nite at the Dew Drop Inn. When asked how he pulled off the latest edition he said he …
New York's longest-running political comedy stand-up act brings its brand of incisive topical humor Off-Broadway to The Theatre at St. Clement's for a fifteen-show engagement (in associat…
Sensuous and just a bit sly, the smooth white pavilions of the Kennedy Center's new REACH complex wink at us amidst undulating grassy berms. One rises up from the green lawn, curling like an…
Kennedy Center's annual Page to Stage Festival is always chock full of tempting offerings, and the challenge of deciding what to see is daunting. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet…except…