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The creative, resourceful folk from Synetic Theater have made another date with an old friend and literary powerhouse, well beyond the "silent" Shakespeare for which it is justly known. The …
There's lots to like about Theresa Rebeck's The Way of the World just as my DC Metro Theater Arts colleague Sophia Howes points out in her review. The show is the Folger Theater's Women's Vo…
This is the first part of a multi-part series of interviews with Women's Voices Theater Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same series of questions to a number of Women's Voic…
The DC performing arts scene will be losing one of its visionary artistic directors this summer. Hub Theatre's artistic director Helen Murray will be moving on to become the Executive Dir…
Under the masterful, musical code-switching curation of National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Artistic Advisor Ben Folds, the future for new audiences finding their way to the usually buttoned-u…
In the midst of its ninth year producing and presenting live theater and music at its ArtSpace Fall Church venue, the Creative Cauldron has just opened its annual, mid-winter Passport to the…
With its teasing, click-bait provocative subtitling, "an opera without music," John Shand's Guilt, having its world premiere by DC's Scena Theatre, is a meaty, passionately provoking tale…
As we well know, funding for the arts from all levels of government sources are under assault. Government funding is either static, or in worse cases has been reduced. As government revenue …
Ready to un-compartmentalize your music tastes? Open to thinking differently about what some may call stodgy “High Art” for the well-fixed? Ready to have some new musical experie…
One of the questions I often receive from theater-goers surrounds the mystery of what a stage manager does for a live theater production. The stage manager is rarely seen, and doesn't seem t…
Brimming with heart, musical numbers to elicit smiles, a unique wit, some audience sing-alongs, and moments that disrupt theatrical norms, MetroStage's Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush is …
Engaging, sophisticated entertainment and education that didn't talk down to the intended audience; children who may not have been familiar with the grand musical and cultural figure, DC's v…
How might one react to finding and reading their mother's diary after her death? Did she purposely leave the diary so it would be found and read, rather than destroy it? And, how in Heaven's…
Tinsel and garlands are festooned about a beautiful 10 foot tall Christmas tree. Easy to be captivated with such an exquisite Christmas touch. But, wait, the tree is standing tall on the…
Want to wish yourself a Merry Little Christmas and a Happy New Year in a new way? Then for those with a bent for the uncommon, consider taking in a contemporary retelling of the Biblical Nat…
What a giddy, joyful afterimage of mouthwatering kinetic alchemy. Under the confident direction and chemistry-setter Mathew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has produced an irresistible The Gersh…
It is a season of thanksgiving and spending time with family and friends. But, untold numbers of D.C. and Baltimore area military families spend the Thanksgiving holiday away from loved o…
Often, images of a theatrical production help establish the initial interest and expectations for a potential audience. Photographs can draw an audience into a production even before reviews…
We in the theater community lost a great friend with the passing of Joel Markowitz. Â As many know, Joel was diagnosed with ALS in March of this year. Since then, he dedicated himself to …
Daniel Kitson is an acquired taste. In the premiere of his newest one-actor creation, A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological Order at Studio's Metheny Theatre…
Shedding new light on Hamlet by William Shakespeare is what Aquila Theatre aims to do with its upcoming production of at Fairfax's Center for the Arts. Hamlet has been recognized for centuri…
Time has not dimmed the impact or abundant love for the musical works of Jacques Brel; even now, nearly 40 years since his untimely death. That is apparent from the audience response and my …
Avant Bard's Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight with Sara Barker in the role of the whip-smart 18th century very real Emilie  is a clear knock-out for critics and…
It was a festive, most satisfying evening of high-end arts entertainment and education. And it was totally free. What was it? It was a recent Monday evening at The Landsburgh with the Shakes…
Challenging theatrical conventions, Hello, My Name Is… by Deb Sivigny, directed by Randy Baker, and produced by The Welders is like no other theater production I have taken in, in re…
