Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth), the production launching the inaugural season of Mosaic Theater Company of DC, met Founding Artistic Director Ari Ro…
There are many ways to commemorate Veteran’s Day and the over 21 million veterans of military service. Attending a live theater performance about Medal of Honor recipients is certainly…
A terrific opportunity awaits those of us who enjoy delving deeper to examine the lives of actors that enthralled us over their careers. The upcoming occasion features author William Madi…
Ha! Ready to visit a Coney Island fun-house with plenty of resounding rock show ambiance? Ready to open up to plenty of utterly blazing showbiz; "tricks and treats"? Well, step right u…
How fortunate we are to have The In Series. Over the decades it has taken artistic risks for audiences to extend their knowledge and experiences with a creative artist's more rarely produced…
“I want to get to the point where people say of my work that man feels deeply,” wrote Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. For only a few performances, a DC area, favorite pa…
Turn aside all you think you know about the fabled Salomé and her brief mythic encounter with John the Baptist. Acclaimed Director Yael Farber has boldly and confidently reconstruc…
Signature Theatre's Cake Off, is an appetizingly savory musical petite-four disguised as a mere head-turning sugary iced cutie. It is a whiz-bang production full of high-flying, screwball co…
BalletNova Center for Dance will present a Global Dance Showcase, featuring ethnic dance companies from around the DC metro region. The performances will be held in the Fredgren Studi…
Beautiful–The Carole King Musical takes the audience on a ride through songs that in three minutes or so, framed and reflected many a life; especially of the Baby Boomer generation.Â�…
Yes, a high time to be had. All you need to do is follow the simple directions; "eat me"; then "drink me." And whoosh, with music building into powerful, echoing crescendos, I found my…
Playwright Helen Pafumi and the JCCNV/Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia have partnered to develop a staged reading of the world premiere play Redder Blood. The play was wri…
"The past cannot be cured" is a phrase attributed to Queen Elizabeth I (ElizabethR). But it certainly can be revisited. And that revisit comes some 400 years after her death. It is texts&…
Find my place in the world is a major question at the center of Queens Girl in the World now playing at Theater J. It is a beautifully engaging, semi-autobiographical personal and political …
Ah, what a night! It was 1963 again, or there abouts. It was a carefree concert to recall a certain period in the '60's full of happy days. A time of AM radio hits, high school and perhaps c…
With the ongoing Women's Voices Theater Festival, I wondered if other performing arts in the DC area were highlighting the work of women artists. I didn't have to search far to find that the…
Taking the Helm at Workhouse "The selection of Ava Spece to lead the Workhouse was due to her vast, deep appreciation and passion for the Arts as well as her strength, poise and character to…
There are grand political themes and exceptionally intimate granular-level personal matters splendidly illustrated in the Round House Theatre's stunningly dark, world-premiere production of …
There is lots of ground to cover for gender and demographic parity for playwrights and directors in the multi-cultural world that is the ever-changing DC metropolitan area. Beyond the curren…
Perhaps out of the limelight to those beyond close-in Northern Virginia, the McLean Community Center is not only a "hub" of community activities but includes the wonderfully intimate, well-s…
"Public office is a minefield" so you better just "Grit your teeth, sell the lies" though "maybe I'm just too blunt to survive" are lyrics that provide some of the central posits in The Fix …
Ah, the end of August. The August month-long Congressional recess will be ending soon. DC area schools at all levels are opening momentarily. We can only hope that the recent mid-summer-t…
Having recently returned from some time away in Wyoming from the hustling of DC, my eyes widened when I saw an email from Spooky Action Theatre for several staged readings for a play that ta…
In his own singular musical fashion, Tom Teasley skillfully hooked his Constellation Theatre Company audience to take a venture to the long ago and far away but in a most modern manner. Teas…
"So little to say, so little to do, and the fear so great," says the character Winnie. Yet she finds a way to go on looking ever forward to other Happy Days.