Christina Ham’s fantasy, opening at Arena Stage, depicts the activist “trying to tell a truth.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:48AMThe living-installation “Hello, My Name Is . . .” is staged in a house in the D.C. neighborhood of Takoma Park.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PMRobert Richmond, the director, went to Rome to brainstorm and prepare for staging the complex play.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PMAt Rorschach Theatre, the audience shares the space and the experience.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PM“The Devil’s Music,” taking nearly a decade to make, opens Aug. 24 at Atlas Performing Arts Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:18PMThe composer loved the film and teamed up with the writer for a show premiering at Keegan.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMThe story set in the colonial era was mostly only updated in its cast and design for the run at Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PM“A one-person play allowed me to be more romantic and physical,” says writer Terry Baum.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMEugene Lee stars in the one-man show about the revered playwright coming of age in Pittsburgh.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMA 1666 classic by Molière gets a freshening up but keeps the delightful rhyming verse.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMDirector Luis Salgado sees parallels in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s immigrant-centered musicals.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PMThe play, at Atlas, explores an interview for South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMThe world premiere at Signature explores dark corners of life in isolated Middle America.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PMIn ‘The How and the Why,” two female evolutionary biologists grapple with life choices.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMHow an unlikely manners class evolved into “Charm” at Mosaic Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMTom Story describes directing multiple characters, and playing multiple characters himself.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMProduction will use a scaled-back orchestra and multiethnic cast for the innovative musical.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PMA young black man dies, yes, but the playwright has a deeper truth in mind.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:44PM“You dial up the bizarreness, you magnify the emotions,” says playwright Kate Hamill.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:25PMShow’s costume designer had to come up with sturdy — but sexy! — stilettos.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:16PMPlaywright Aaron Posner grapples with the Shylock problem.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMMusic, plays, poetry — and a very modern, very big version of the Celtic harp.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PMAt Pointless Theatre, drama meets slapstick meets puppets in “Hugo Ball.”
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:27PMGala Hispanic Theatre sets ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ in a cockfighting ring.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:45PMWILD WITH HAPPY By Colman Domingo through June 29 At Center Stage There’s a scene early in Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy at Center Stage where the protagonist, a 40-…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 10:31PMVanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang Directed by Eric Rosen Through May 25 At Center Stage Anton Chekhov thought of his plays as comedies, while Konstantin Stani…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMPete Ross says that a survey of printed material in the United States between the 1730s and the 1830s turns up 58 different references to the banjo—and 57 of those citations describe the i…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMTwelfth Night William Shakespeare Through April 13 At Center Stage I’ve seen Shakespeare updated in a lot of different ways, but Center Stage’s current production of Twelfth Night…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWritten by R.M. O’Brien Directed by Mason Ross Through March 2 At the Annex Theater Buried within the meandering exposition, parodic nostalgia, undigested history, and superfluo…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMTales of Ordinary Madness By Petr Zelenka Through March 2 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre Before the opening night performance of Petr Zelenka’s Tales of Ordinary Madness at t…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWhere The Whangdoodle Sings Written by K. Frithjof Peterson Directed by J.D. Sivert Through Jan. 19 At the Theatre Project
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