You may find yourself vibrating with joy and admiration for the protagonist Olga Ivanovna. This flamboyant production is theater at its most epic. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:23PMThe dramatic story of enslaved Africans' efforts to be freed by the courts of PG County, told in oral histories, choreography, and dazzling design. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:16PMThe playwright-director has a talent for bringing to our attention skilled storytellers we might not otherwise discover. This cast is full of them. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:04PMPlaywright Lynn Nottage shows in intimate detail what happens in a community when the jobs are gone.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:18AMStudents share the exuberance of their 'musical theater boot camp' experience. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:28PMA tribute to refugees from Central America during the 1980s and to people in the DMV who rose to address their needs.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:27AMCalled a 'congregational opera' by its creators, Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the performance offers up a benediction of hope and faith.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:30PMThe author and solo performer of 'Rock Paper Scissors' — a Welders production — shares the personal and artistic history of the show.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:35AMA mother's plan to bust her son out of prison plays like an explosive video game.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:43PMYou shoulda been there. The newest production by IN Series was successful in so many ways. In his program notes, artistic director Tim Nelson highlights the fact that IN Series seeks to prod…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:19AMA conversation with Ryan Jamaal Swain, Justin Weaks, and Michael Kevin Darnall about a play whose title is a statistic about gay Black men and HIV.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:50PMWho will believe my verse in time to come?… The age to come would say ‘This poet lies’… But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme. �…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:01PMThe performances by Lezlie Hatcher and Patricia Williams-Dugueye evinced the tenacity and desperation of Jacob wrestling his angel.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:32PMThis rarely performed work, with music by John Adams and text by June Jordan, is an experience not to be missed.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:40PMThe exquisitely crafted performance, consisting of both scripted theater and unscripted communal storytelling, is clever, playful, tender, and poetic.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:55PMTony Kushner's classic directed by János Szász is by turns disorienting, devastating, and exhilarating.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:14PMThe Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art stages the 1738 opera by George Frideric Handel in Las Vegas — and Elvis makes an appearance.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:55PM“What I’ve really not seen and not experienced is African American family life when it’s OK. When there’s prosperity, when there’s abundance.” — Jeanine Tesori, composer of Blu…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:50AMThe production shows what is unique about Synetic Theater that makes it worth visiting again and again.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:23PMR. Nathaniel Dett’s 1932 oratorio about the Israelites' liberation from the Egyptians is by turns startling, soul-stirring, and highly satisfying.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:37PMHow the accomplished DC theater artist — a gay Venezuelan immigrant — shifted from scripted theater to devised, then from live performance to film.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:12PMNew play with music sings of the musician who trained and mentored young artists and formed the first African American opera company in the United States.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:00PMIn a performance on December 30, members of a multi-generational audience will share stories from their lives and see those stories enacted on the spot.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:58PMThis show is all about the yuks. Oh, and the blood.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:27PMThe Spanish-language Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini’s beloved classic opera will screen for free on December 11 at Atlas and stream for free on demand.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00AMThe singing fills the space with a sound that penetrates the audience’s very being.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:31PMThe haunting events surrounding the trial of Emmett Till's killers seen through the eyes of Black reporters trying to get the facts of the story.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:12PMPlaywright Ifa Bayeza transforms this terrifying and traumatizing story for Black Americans into a catalyst for change.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:43AMThis play in Ifa Bayeza's 'The Till Trilogy' shows how the Emmett Till murder distorted the most intimate human relationships among the people involved.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:47AMAt their best, William Finn's songs are candid snapshots of something that makes life worth living.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:28PMPlaywright Ifa Bayeza and director Talvin Wilks have given us a jewel of a production.
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