In a special Kennedy Center Millennium Stage performance commemorating World Refugee Day on June 20, 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and The Kennedy Center wi…
Round House is the current Promised Land for anyone wanting to get happy. With its divine, illusion rich production of The Legend of Georgia McBride helmed by Tom Story, Round House is a div…
The summer season of DC's very own Chamber Dance Project will be in residence this month at the acoustically rich, 450-seat Lansburgh Theater in downtown DC. The contemporary ballet troupe w…
How does a nimble theater company retool an often produced Shakespeare classic such as The Tempest? Well, Avant Bard found a way under Tom Prewitt's inviting direction, with gender-swapping …
Having been a reader and judge for the past several years for the national Jewish Plays Project, I looked forward to taking in the premiere stage production of Lindsay Joelle's Trayf at Thea…
Spend a one-of-a-kind musical evening with Helen Hayes recipient Tom Teasley at the Workhouse Arts Center, Teasley will add fresh musical life to silent comedy films in a mini-film festival …
"Strip me naked. Take my name. Make me an animal. So you can kill me. Then forget all about me. Like I never happened. Like I don't matter." No, those unsettling words are not reactions to a…
It has been a muscular classic read for centuries. It has withstood the test of time, at least up to now. But in these contemporary days, does Homer's Iliad resonate, or has it lost its t…
Looking for something well-crafted, suspenseful, and with plenty of lingering moments of anxiety? Then head on to Spooky Action Theater's production of The Small Room at the Top of the Stair…
Bedlam's take on George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan will resonate with many Blue State denizens with its updated, coolness factors and fine acting. Under Eric Tucker's direction, Bedlam has ta…
When we think of non-profit arts and cultural institutions, do we only think of the creative side of the organization, the parts we see and interact with or immerse ourselves in? What about …
Synetic Theater's marvels of silent Shakespeare begin with a superstructure; the adaptation of one of The Bard's works and his words into audacious silences of the human voice. Over the year…
Seven years ago, Better Said Than Done stepped out onto the theatrical stage as a storytelling organization. The idea behind the establishment of Better Said Than Done was to bring sto…
The 2018 Kennedy Center Spring Gala was a dandy one, celebrating the recipients of the third annual Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit. The award recipients, Gary Sinise and Eli and E…
It started with a conversation with Laveen Naidu, artistic director for Northern Virginia's BalletNova. Naidu said he wanted to change this observation: "ballet is often perceived as being f…
For over three decades, Helen Hayes nominations and awards have represented the pinnacle of professional excellence in Washington, DC area theater. What began as public recognition of a smal…
How important can a wig be to a theater production and an actor's performance? What better way to answer that question then with a section from the recent book, The Ascent of Angels in Ameri…
How does anyone cope with the unthinkable: Whether the unthinkable is The Holocaust, The Killing Fields, chemical bombs dropped on children, slavery or lynchings. How does one survive even s…
Girlfriend is a sensitively constructed and gracefully performed coming of age musical about two late teen boys having an unexpected first crush that turns into love between them. Girlfriend…
Bleak? Nope, not at all. Galway, Ireland-based theater company Druid's touring production of Samuel Beckett's warhorse of postwar failure and ennui, Waiting for Godot, at Shakespeare T…
With an astute, quality production of Witch, its latest Bold New Works for Intimate Stages creation, the Creative Cauldron continues to show what a nimble, un-fossilized theater company can …
The time is most certainly right for the arts to be disruptive; to assert and insert itself in national discussions about social justice and inclusion. Turbulent times call out for the arts&…
Using interviews of real community members wanting to live a full life here in America as her source of inspiration, Jane Franklin and her eponymous dance company have developed an engaging …
Taking in Annie Baker's John at Signature Theatre gives me the rare opportunity to use a word I have always wanted to, but haven't before–the word “anhedonia.” Yes, Baker's…
Pipeline Playwrights, the Northern Virginia-based collective of accomplished women playwrights who support productions that explore the variety of women's experiences, continues its new seri…