Often the hallmarks of the most provocative theatre experiences are irreverence, a willingness to push the envelope, and the approach that no subject is off the table and no topic is too tab…
It was a night of fine dining, Broadway-caliber entertainment, and one truly touched honoree. On April 29, 2024, Signature Theatre presented the Sondheim Award Gala to the iconic Nathan Lane…
Imagining an apocalyptic world in which food, water, and essentially all of the basic necessities are in short supply has become popular fodder for television, movies and, yes, theatre as we…
Creative Cauldron's "Bold New Voices" initiative was designed to support the development of plays or plays with music written by women. As Artistic Director Laura Connors Hull emphasizes, in…
The End of Days is some 100 years past and the world is now populated by robots. All humans have tragically died despite their best efforts not to become extinct. Or have they? This is the b…
Set in the 1930s, "The Nance" harkens back to the heyday of the burlesque era with clubs and cabarets, featuring bawdy stripteases interspersed with comedic acts, dotting Greenwich Village. …
Part deconstruction of a fraught father-daughter relationship, part dysfunctional love story, and part homage to Nina Simone, Dominique Morisseau's 2012 play "Sunset Baby" is now playing at …
Mosaic Theater's latest offering is, in large part, a searing and satirical look at the prevailing politics of the 80s. It invites audiences into a comic book world of then First Lady Nancy …
Workhouse Arts Center's production of Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's "Every Brilliant Thing" was not at all what I was expecting"it was so much more. Developed as part solo piece and p…
"Murder on the Orient Express" is one of Agatha Christie's most well-known novels. As adapted by Ken Ludwig, the play of the same name takes audiences on a train ride they will not soon forg…
"Migraaaaants, or there's too damn many of us on this boat" is a play that seriously defies any sort of theatrical genre. Is it a comedy? Drama? Farce? Political satire? Lower budget musical…
Weddings (as the reception wears on and the alcohol flows) tend to be drama-filled, emotionally-charged events that can, with the mere flip of a switch, devolve into overly confessional hotb…
Eleanor Burgess' "The Niceties" is a deeply intense two-hander that deftly blurs the line between hero and villain, as it is nearly impossible to completely ascribe any one category to the c…
Pulitzer Prize finalist "Rapture, Blister Burn" gives playwright Gina Gionfriddo a theatrical platform from which to explore the topic of feminism from just about every conceivable angle"as …
The sheer staying power of three actors playing countless characters over the course of three and a half hours is perhaps the most astounding part of Shakespeare Theatre Company's production…
Anna Julia Cooper became principal of M Street High School in DC in 1902. Deemed by many the "mother of Black feminism," Cooper was a staunch proponent of young students of color pursuing de…
 Jane Martin is the pseudonym for a playwright who, among other honors, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. That very same anonymous "Jane Martin" is the author of "Anton in Show…
Jonathan Spector's "This Much I Know" is currently having its East Coast premiere at Theater J. It was the winner of the 2023 Theatre Bay Area Will Glickman Award for best new play premiere.…
Plays centering exclusively on people "of a certain age" are admittedly few and far between. "Morning After Grace" heavily mines the lives of those who fall into the 60+ category and comes u…
Audra McDonald's star just keeps rising. With a record six Tony Awards along with two Grammys and an Emmy adorning her mantle, the soprano powerhouse absolutely brought down the house in her…
The final day of the Folger Theatre's Reading Room Festival proved as plucky and spirited as ever. At the center of this Shakespeare-filled Sunday was a staged reading of "Everything That Ne…
This is the second year the Folger has produced The Reading Room Festival, "with new work and conversations inspired by or in response to the plays of William Shakespeare." The four-day fest…
Jordan Harrison's play "Marjorie Prime," a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is one that teasingly flirts with the boundaries between past and future, between artificial intelligence and the far "mes…
Questions of parentage, heritage, and of one's past are hauntingly mined throughout Sun Mee Chomet's one-woman show "How to Be A Korean Woman." Sun Mee brings audiences 85 minutes of raw emo…
Shows that attempt to capture a slice of history are most intriguing when they manage to sincerely transport audiences and are able to not only recreate the milieu, but hit upon that essenti…