Some of the performing arts world’s brightest stars graced the stage of the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater this past Monday evening with a program featuring American composers Samuel B…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:06PMCelebration and remembrance marked the Washington National Opera’s return to live performance, officially ending the company’s extended absence with a concert honoring the late Supreme C…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:41AMYou might think you know Dr. Ruth, but do you? Having escaped the Nazis by Kindertransport, serving as a sniper in Palestine, and finally, finding fame as America’s best-known sex thera…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:30PMTwo of Broadway’s brightest stars were joined Friday evening by a collection of Washington, DC theatre luminaries for “Broadway in the Park,” an evening of song that spanned the his…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:00PMWritten by Madeleine George and directed by Nicole Mullins, the Strand Theater Company’s production of “The Most Massive Woman Wins” is a powerful meditation on women’s deep hunger f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:48PMFrances Burney’s satirical comedy, “The Woman Hater,” pokes fun at the misogyny of her era. Presented by Red Bull Theater, it is a little-known gem, brimming with eccentric characters …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 05:54PMTwo extraordinary pianists have joined forces to provide COVID-weary audiences with a program of rarely performed pieces for two pianos, including works by Ferruccio Busoni, Sergei Rachmanin…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:51PMIn yet another example of the power of the arts to transcend divisions, “Will on the Hill…Or Won’t They?” features a light-hearted storyline with cameo appearances from policymakers …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:53PMWith great warmth and enthusiasm, Artistic Director Scott Tucker and Executive Director Tad Czyzewski host “Journey to Awe,” a passionate tribute to the power of choral arts to build com…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:37PMWritten by Tucson, Arizona-born composer Douglas J. Cuomo, set in a Bronx, New York Catholic school in 1964, and sung entirely in English, ‘Doubt’—a dark and riveting tale—will delig…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:01PMLincoln Center Theatre’s spectacular Tony award-winning production of “The King and I” features Broadway’s brightest stars singing some of Rogers and Hammerstein’s most beloved cla…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:42PMThe Pandemic Players of Baltimore have leaped into the fray, filling the void being experienced by arts-starved audiences with a virtual production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:45AMTwo young black men, Moses (Christopher Lovell) and Kitch (Jalen Jamar Gilbert) stand on a street corner, shooting the breeze and sharing their dreams about one day “passing over” into a…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:46PMAnna Ziegler’s beautiful and riveting new play peels away the window dressing of two seemingly disparate Jewish marriages—one secular, the other Hasidic—to reveal the unseen commonalit…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:23PMA prolific composer and master of the opera buffa genre, Gioachino Rossini’s “Cinderella” (La Cenerentola) was brought to life this weekend in a production by the Virginia Opera that f…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:42PMWhether the Rocky Horror Show is on your bucket list, or you lost your Rocky Horror virginity years ago, Iron Crow’s production of the much-loved cult classic will whisk you into a world o…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:08PM‘The Simon and Garfunkel Story’ features the duo’s best-loved songs, performed before a backdrop of film and still images that capture the turbulence of the era—the cultural icons, s…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:58PMDon Dillingham and the North Metro Jazz Collective made musical magic in a Nat King Cole tribute that transported listeners to a time and place long past but not forgotten. With songs stil…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:39PMCult leader, Jim Jones. Photo courtesy of Factory 449: a theatre collective. “Thank you, Dad” doesn’t tell us what was going on in the mind of cult leader Jim Jones, but it does allo…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:28AMThe cast of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at The Fairfax Theatre Company. Photo by Khuyen Dinh. Marking the end of its 10th anniversary season, The Fairfax City Theatre Company has gifted the c…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:26PMPhillip Reid (Maneki Neko), Rae Venna (Paper Crane), Toni Rae Salmi (Natsuko) and Kramer Kwalick (George) in ‘American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables’ at The Hub Theatre (Photo by Ryan…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:31PM‘Love is love,’ is a turn of phrase we hear often during pride month. The Tony-nominated musical “Falsettos,” a theatrical milestone in the movement for LGBTQ liberation, has arri…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54PMSince the early 1980s, the story of “Fame” has been told and retold in multiple forms: as a feature film, a six-season television series, and a Broadway musical. The decades-old belove…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:16PMA lavish production of “Tosca,” one of Giacomo Puccini’s most popular works, is currently gracing the stage of the Kennedy Center opera house. Set in 18th century Rome, “Tosca” ope…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:55PMWhen the mysterious Marvell Thunder appears on the Dupree family’s doorstep, he brings with him supernatural powers and a high-stakes challenge that alters the Dupree’s lives and relatio…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 06:07PMA musical in two acts, ‘Working” is a humorous and touching meditation on how and why we do what we do, what our work means to us and the people we care about, and how we feel when our w…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:46PMNelwat Ishkamewe Two-Spirit Theater brings indigenous mythology to life with “The Cosmic Twins,” a play for young audiences that tells the story of how the sun and moon were created, bas…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:39AMInspired by the work of outsider artist, Nukain Mabuza, South African Playwright, Athol Fugard offers the audience an intimate look into the stories of three South Africans whose lives, by v…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:06PMThe Tony Award-winning revival of “A Color Purple” has arrived in the nation’s capital at a pivotal moment in the fight against injustice and oppression, with a tear-stained, y…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:16PMMatthew Barber’s “Enchanted April” is a play for anyone who ever considered making a break for it and leaving it all behind, at least temporarily, in the hopes of transforming …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:50PMAn enthusiastic crowd greeted Richard Marx, who opened the acoustic concert with his 1987 hit “Endless Summer Nights,” followed by audience favorites that spanned his decades-lon…
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