CulturalDC disputes how WIT lost its lease at Source Theatre
Washington Improv Theater and the owner of Source give different accounts of who understood what when.
Washington Improv Theater and the owner of Source give different accounts of who understood what when.
Washington Improv Theater will lose its space at Source Theatre at the end of August. WIT has been a resident company at Source since 2008.
In its twist on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' Washington Improv Theater not only cracks jokes but cracks open the emotion in the moment.
Vivian Bearing, PhD, a college professor of 17th-Century poetry, specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, is undergoing chemotherapy for stage-four metastatic ovarian cancer. Fifty ye…
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, an exquisitely literate and dramatically poignant piece, would certainly suffer in the hands of less than able artists. Fortunately, the pro…
3 years ago Erin Cronican was given 3-5 years to live, and now she's starring in a production of Margaret Edson's play about a scholar with cancer.
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…