Folger's production of Antony and Cleopatra directed by Robert Richmond has garnered its rightful share of critical acclaim. Its lighting design is a critical component of the production's s…
Hardy, inspiring community engagement is vital for the continuing health of the performing arts. That is a given. With challenging times for arts funding; the changes in the acceptance of th…
I was healed. Aches and pains of the day disappeared. Headaches from paying too close attention to Presidential tweets vanished. I might have been saved. Not sure of that just yet. Will have…
As I took in, with a notably racially diverse audience, MetroStage's top-notch, tense, musically revealing production, Are you now or have you ever been…, so many questions challenged m…
Illuminating what has been in the shadows, or usually whispered about, Creative Cauldron has provided a delicately rendered musical about the harsh realities women have faced over the centur…
"There's just no spot for you" is the terse way that Willy Loman's "snotnose" boss man Howard tells Loman he is fired. Just go and don't look back, "cause you gotta admit, business is busine…
Engaging with warm-hearted humor and disarming in the depth of scenes about lost boys and bitter men with their dreams crushed, the Keegan Theatre production of the Marie Jones' Stones in hi…
It was a glorious evening for Leonard Bernstein and musical theater fans at The Kennedy Center. It was the exceptional, one-night-only opening to the worldwide celebration of Leonard Bernste…
In these days of the end of the brick-and-mortar retail shops, and in these times when new audiences are less likely to purchase subscriptions to the performing arts as Baby Boomers once did…
In these days of constant bombast and weaponized words, when sounding reasonable and wanting to be open to another person's point of view sounds almost quaint, Peter's Alley Theatre has t…
What a combustible evening at NextStop's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Under Thembi Duncan's adroit direction and with fascinating casting, this in-your-…
So here we are in late 2017. And in the past several months, nooses have appeared in the Washington DC area, on the campus of American University, at the University of Maryland, inside the N…
Opening in 1973, A Little Night Music was part of the muscular turbulence of those well-remembered primal days of rage. Rage that bred inhaled cynicism like a needed eye-opening drug into th…
Yesterday may be far away for some; but a high-spirited comic primer of one male's vainglorious attempts to be "hip" and his bewilderment at all things relating to women awaits from the exub…
What a rush. DC area playwright Kathleen Akerley has aced her way through the hottest of "au courant" identity politics in her newest work, the penetrating Whipping, Or the Football Hamlet. …
Sunny and cheerful is how I felt after an hour or so with Happenstance Theatre's Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade. The original production, currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, m…
Proust may have had his mother's madeleine, but Juan Francisco Villa has his mother's empanada to stir up memories of his gritty, hard scrabble childhood in New York's City's Lower East Side…
What was hidden away as a purposefully invisible sidebar of decades-old history, is brought to well-deserved notice by 1st Stage's inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performances. With Hick…
Set in a fictionalized American magical kingdom, The Happiest Place on Earth, now playing at Hub Theatre, is a wonderfully bittersweet family saga that actor Tia Shearer crushes in her solo …
A hearty bro-hug to The Kennedy Center and to the National Symphony Orchestra's (NSO) new Artistic Adviser, Ben Folds, for having the joint jumping at the recent late night Declassified even…
Continuing the conversation we started in Part I of this interview with costume and scenic designer Deb Sivigny, we delve a bit more into Deb's work as a designer. Maybe even with some revea…
Under the leadership of Alex Levy, 1st Stage aims to be a cultural hub for the Northern Virginia community and beyond. Over the past year, 1st Stage has reached outside of theatrical product…
A new generation of theater-makers are beginning to assert themselves in the DC area. They are the Millennial generation who have made DC their home over the past decade. Many are natives of…
Deb Sivigny is one busy scenic and costumer designer in the DC theater community. Just recently, she developed design elements for the Rorschach Theatre production of Forgotten Kingdom…
Shards of unseen, but sharply-felt shattered glass, both of a collapsing marriage and the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), are fused together in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, no…