This season brings together a World Premiere comedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, electrifying musicals, biting satire, and unforgettable stories about survival, identity, love, rage, and h…
Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama utilized several grandMA3 consoles for lighting control and DisplayStations for designer stations on its latest production, St…
| Van Reigersberg most recently appeared off-Broadway in Oratorio for Living Things. ||Off-Broadway|Dito van Reigersberg [...]
Read More... from Dito van Reigersberg, Co-Founder of Philadel…
David Gordon| The new horror drama is based on the film series. ||Broadway|Andrea Syglowski,Caroline Hendricks,Caron Buinis,Cher Álvarez,Michael Holding,Paranormal Activity,Shannon Cochran,…
The plot of “Once,” the 2012 Tony Award-winning musical now playing at Reston’s NextStop Theatre, is as thin as a Czech pilsner next to a Guinness from the tap. This guy-meets-girl sto…
SHOPPING FOR MEANING Thornton Wilder’s long-lost play arrives decades late, still reaching for something just beyond its grasp Seventy-five years is a long time to wait for a world premier…
American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of a single commodity: an American Girl doll. Just whisper the name Samantha Parkington to an e…
IAGO’S GAME A terrifyingly gripping production driven by a mesmerizing villain and a devastating descent into jealousy Who can resist a good villain? Shakespeare Theatre Company’s curren…
One of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays has now become what is sure to be one of STC’s biggest hits. The combination of Tony- and Laurence Olivier-nominated actor Wendell Pierce (The Wire…
Oedipus El Rey, playwright Luis Alfaro’s reimagining of the Greek myth, transforms the familiar tale of fate and tragedy into an urban contemporary story about incarceration, identity, and…
Martha Graham Dance Company and PHILADANCO! put Graham’s work in conversation with Philadelphia choreographer Tommie-Waheed Evans. Melissa Strong previews.
In 2019, former Washington Post chief theater critic Peter Marks wrote about the theater of politics while following the presidential campaign trail. “44 The Musical,” written, compo…
Emma Rice Company has announced the return of its acclaimed production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales to the Ustinov Studio at Theatre Royal Bath this Christmas
The post Emma Rice Company…
THE GOLDEN BOYS A sitcom-worthy comedy finds surprising heart beneath the laughs The Palm Springs stage has long been fertile ground for stories about reinvention, friendship, and chosen fam…
PULLED OUT OF MYTH AND INTO THE HEADLINES Kenneth Cavander relocates Thebes to a near-future America, and something is lost in the move I first read Antigone in a basement college classroom …
For a long time, relatively few people knew the name Aphra Behn. That a 17th-century woman ever made her living as a playwright was a fact lost to literary obscurity. In the centuries that f…
LORCA IN DRAG, WITH HIS CLAWS INTACT Rodrigo García and Ugho Badú reimagine a Spanish classic without dulling its edge Lorca wrote for women’s voices and then watched the world go silent…
LOST IN TRANSLATION? NOT TONIGHT The Arabic Theater Company blends improv chaos, bilingual comedy, and cultural specificity into a fun night of laughs First, take eight appealing actors, all…
