Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The musical as a whole — a lavishly produced antiauthoritarian fantasia — is a phenomenal sound machine with music by Michael Pemberton, lyrics by Michael and Andrea Pemberton, music dir…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:27PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
John Wilkes Booth, the B-list actor and Confederacy fanboy who shot President Lincoln, is merely one of nine hit people featured in Sondheim’s musical Assassins. The limelight-hog would be…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:15PMSunday, October 1, 2023
Playwright Kelsey Mesa shrewdly makes hysteria the centerpiece of her satiric dark comedy, and the show's originality and substance make it a must-see. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:30PMMonday, September 25, 2023
The storytelling is complex and gripping — a tragedy wrapped in a fable and a memory play set in a war zone. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:45PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Join Theatre Washington, over 40 DC-area theaters, and dozens of theater-makers as they kick off Theatre Week 2023.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:54PMSunday, September 17, 2023
The performance is stunning sonically, scenically, and choreographically — haunting in its grace, alarming in its force and power. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:50PMSunday, September 10, 2023
The virtuoso circus acts are as breathtaking as ever, but here they remind us that trust, cooperation, and support are crucial to coexistence. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:38AMThursday, September 7, 2023
In a rip-roaring co-production with Olney Theatre Center, James Graham's astute play is the origin story of sensationalism and sleaze as news. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:50AMThursday, August 31, 2023
The physicality of these dancers’ freedom in the midst of myriad data offers a tech-surfeited viewer vicarious liberation. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:03AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
As a 'proof of concept' production of a solidly laugh-out-loud script, this promising comedy is very worth catching. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:09PMSunday, July 16, 2023
A gender-and-ethnicity affirmation ceremony in the form of a music-poetry-and-sketch revue with elements of a religious service. Which is a lot.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:09PMSaturday, July 15, 2023
Audition anxiety and performance insecurity take centerstage as two friends seek through the art of acting a sense of worth.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:58AMFriday, June 9, 2023
The image of a brainy don interrogating the universe to the music of the spheres was unmistakable.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:17PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
The show is so moving it suspends us in belief she is still with us.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:14PMFriday, May 19, 2023
The comedy's sendup of celebrity culture and this post-truth world is well-timed.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:00AMSunday, April 23, 2023
March 12, 2020, was the day the COVID theater shutdown began, including the show I was booked to see that night: Hexagon’s 65th annual satire revue. This intrepid all-volunteer organizatio…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:44PMMonday, April 17, 2023
Two bickering nail salon workers decide to grant a client his dying wish.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:22PMFriday, April 14, 2023
It's one of the world’s greatest musicals and essential to see.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:42PMThursday, April 13, 2023
Women’s exasperation with men has never been mined for the stage more hilariously and achingly.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:15AMTuesday, April 11, 2023
Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
A fabulist hodgepodge of fresh fairytales with diverse new characters, the show is a riff on one-way romances.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:17PMWednesday, March 8, 2023
At the heart of this beautiful play is a tenderly tentative connection that becomes an improbable love story.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:14PMMonday, March 6, 2023
The socially conscious company surprises with a sweet intergenerational fairytale, 'This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:55PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
With talented playwright Doug Robinson, the company pooled their recollections of young love and collaboratively created a confetti-colored comic confection.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:30PMFriday, February 17, 2023
The designer and the director of Prologue Theatre's resplendent production share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:14PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Jasmine Lee-Jones' provocatively titled 'seven methods of killing kylie jenner' comes to Woolly Mammoth Theatre from sold-out runs in London.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:04PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
An almost hypnotic humanizing of the melancholic and existentially bleak masterpiece.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:16PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
The Logos Theatre's spectacular family-friendly stage adaption of the fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis is now playing through March 4 at the Museum of the Bible.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:23AMThursday, January 19, 2023
Now playing: 'The Horse and His Boy,' the Logos Theatre's stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis' classic allegory, with music and life-size animal puppets.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:36AMSunday, January 1, 2023
Three women gather to seek self-loving in a tsunami of truths.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:05PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
In 'Just for Us," the comedian sends up antisemitic white supremacists. And he is so sly about it, you will double over in laughter before it hits you.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:36PM 
