The inspiration for Migratory Tales comes from multiple sources, according to the play's creator and director, Leslie Jacobson. Our current and painfully divisive debate on immigration was f…
Lyndon Johnson's 1964 margin of victory " nearly 16 million popular votes and a lopsided total of 486 electoral votes " is almost unimaginable today. Armed as well with a 68-32 majority in t…
Yoga Play, a new work by Dipika Guha, was presented as part of Mosaic Theater Company's 2018 Workshop Series at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on Monday, January 29th. The play was commiss…
Now in its seventh year, the Keegan Theatre's annual production of Matthew J. Keenan's An Irish Carol has become a favorite Washington DC holiday tradition. It's easy to see why. A quintesse…
If you're yearning to kick off your holiday season with goodnatured hilarity, get thee to the Kennedy Center and grab a seat at the Theater Lab, where The Second City's Twist Your Dickens is…
André Watts brought an ecstatic audience to its feet after his magnificent performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Playing with the Baltimore Symphony …
André Watts brought an ecstatic audience to its feet after his magnificent performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Playing with the Baltimore Symphony …
Louisa May Alcott's evergreen tale of female fortitude and family virtues beams its inspiring message once again at American University's lovely new production of Little Women, the musical. …
Five fabulous divas joined the innovative new American Pops Orchestra to celebrate the music of Aretha Franklin at the Arena Stage's Fichandler Stage on September 16. An energized audience s…
The Words She Gave Me, Solia Bickersteth's ambitious multimedia project, is a bighearted and moving exploration of how African-American women have shaped one another's concept of womanhood. …
A disheveled bedroom in Port of Spain, Trinidad — home to the nearly incapacitated Dinah " is playwright Tony Hall's incubator for an important and wide-ranging drama about the destruc…
In the art of magic, Andrew Hinderaker has found a vivid metaphor for the dynamics of honesty, trust and control that underpin our most important relationships. His immensely entertaining an…
Amy Kotkin recently had a chance to interview Michael Bloom about his upcoming production of Lisa Kron’s Well at 1st Stage. Amy: What initially attracted you to this play? Have y…
In the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland's newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era of the Celtic Tiger was over; a mass exo…
Jez Butterworth's The River does not yield itself to easy interpretations. Uncertainty flows through the story, jostling us repeatedly. Its questions about truth and morality are specific…
On a train rumbling eastward from Los Angeles in 1940, a young man in uniform invites himself to sit down next to a pretty young woman absorbed in her book. As it turns out, they are both fr…
No shrinking violet when it comes to exploring humanity's most complex questions, playwright Tom Stoppard takes a deep dive into the frontiers of neuroscience, human nature, and the existenc…
John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation was widely admired as an ingenious, penetrating look at contemporary society when it premiered in New York back in 1990. Based on a true story, it c…
If your empathy for straight white men was strained by last week's elections, go see Young Jean Lee's 2014 play at The Studio Theatre. You'll be privy to a rare, funny and poignant look unde…
Conor McPherson spins an intricate web of interdependence, horror, and hope among the five damaged, yet intensely human characters in his masterful play, The Night Alive. It takes a hugely t…
Kathleen Turner is back at Arena Stage, and that is always good news for Washington theater-goers. Having starred in Mother Courage and her Children, and Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of…
When the cast of St. Mark's Players' new production, Peter and the Starcatcher, charges out from behind deep red curtains for their opening scene, that is your cue. Stop right here and suspe…
The enduring popularity of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes offers proof positive that themes of greed, racism, and misogyny continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Though set in…
The raves never stop pouring in for Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, and humanitarian Angelique Kidjo " nor should they. Called by NPR "Africa's greatest living diva," Kidjo's ample…
Theater folks and fans alike reveled in last night's Summer Hummer V: Champions "Â the Washington Theater Community's annual one-night-only benefit for theatreWashington’s 'Taking C…