Erin Cronican seems to be unstoppable. The actor, producer, and director is currently starring in a new production of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning WIT at The Seeing Place Theat…
Becomes first local theater to tighten COVID safety protocols light of omicron.
Former Minnesota senator and "Saturday Night Live" cast member returns to his roots with stand-up comedy tour.
The cast of The Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady includes (from left, center) Sam Simahk as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle, Kevi…
Bombastic karaoke adaption of Jane Austen classic gives the spotlight to the servants "We haven't started yet!" Hannah-Jarrett Scott, dressed in Doc Martens under a 19th-century shift, reas…
Lyric, BelfastEx-lovers attempt to rebuild a fence in Michael Patrick and OisÃn Kearney's play marking the centenary of the partition of Ireland An invisible line bisecting a boggy field …
In his new comedy, which he directs at Greenwich House Theatre, the playwright borrows from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as well as bits of "Cinderella" and "Pinocchio."
Shortly before eight o'clock on the last evening in September, an announcement rang out through the lobby of Fells Point Corner Theatre: "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in 570 days…
Lively and brilliant letters between George Bernard Shaw and the original Eliza Doolittle from before there was Zoom.
The playwright pays tribute to the director's complex mind, sophistication and clairvoyant sense of what would work Michael Billington: 'Michell brought the unexpected out of actors' The col…
Playwright Anne Washburn succinctly crafted a show that demonstrated the cyclical nature of human storytelling, theater and life itself all in the span of three hours.
Theater Wit's decision to return (sooner than most) to live off-Loop performance with a reprise of its 2015 production of Anne Washburn's hit is clearly designed to get its audience thinking…
At the DC War Memorial, genders are bent, love is lost and found, and a good time is had by all.
As passionate an advocate as she was a cutting critic of mediocrity, she wrote richly theatrical plays but is best known for deep-dive biographies.
This summer, Lakeview's Theater Wit will resume live performances with a revival of "Mr. Burns, a post electric play," popular in 2015.
Actor Kathleen Chalfant discusses her award-winning performance in Margaret Edson's WIT on "Theater Talk" in 1999. (includes clips from Broadway's "Wit" and "Footloose.") #S-530
Actor's Theatre of Louisville brings to life one of our great female satirists, Erma Bombeck, in an innovative one-woman show. The post Don't Miss: Actors Theatre of Louisville's 'Erma Bomb…
In mid-March DC-area theaters went dark and theatergoers' calendars emptied of live shows to take in"but light and sound and performances are coming into view by way of Zoom and YouTube. Whe…
Review: Cursed! by Kodie Bedford, directed by Jason Klarwein Tucked away at the back of the program for Kodie Bedford's first play Cursed! is a blurb on Belvoir, mentioning how the company h…
A Marvellous Party, commissioned by the Noël Coward Foundation, ostensibly marks the centenary of Coward's first appearance on stage and has been produced to raise funds for actors on bot…
Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville are peerless in this Alan Bennett double bill Monologues and duets rule the stage right now. We can only dream of the day when theatre steps up to the classi…
"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny." Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) Continue reading Almanac: Edward Abbey on wit at About Last Ni…
Mary Rachel Brown Portrays Family Captured by Addiction by Patricia L. Morin At the intimate Griffin Theatre, Mary Rachel Brown explores the overlooked, slimy world of greyhound racing and g…
DICK EXTENDS Chicago's Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew's devastatingly funny new…
In this time of isolation, wouldn't it be nice to take a virtual visit to the park? Fear not. PBS is streaming this past summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing…