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There has been oodles of well-deserved praise for Round House Theatre's homegrown Homebound, an original ten-installment web series exploring life under stay-at-home orders. Penned by som…
We will open again. The COVID-19 virus will neither darken nor silence us even with the many scary unknowns before us. We know reopening for DMV theater will happen. The date may be uncertai…
Better days may be coming. Some restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic may be easing. But there is not yet a definitive date when DMV performing arts venues might reopen across three …
With so much still unknown about the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the performing arts, the singular Washington Performing Arts (WPA) has delayed announcing its 2020"21 season until June 15…
With university campuses closed because of COVID-19, how is student education continuing forward? This is a critical question, especially for higher education theater and dance departments"w…
"Right now we are all desperately seeking contact and connections," said Luke Frazier, Founder and Maestro, American Pops Orchestra, in a recent phone conversation on a chilly, rainy morning…
With college and university campuses in the DMV area closed because of COVID-19, distance learning is now the norm. But how do students in the performing and visual arts continue their educa…
Part of Arena Stage's ongoing Power Plays, the world premiere of Celia and Fidel transports the audience back to a time when Fidel Castro was not just a name in the history books, but a fear…
Ready for a dandy production about the complicated life with a child-like diva who happens to be a genius? Then consider Einstein's Wife from ExPats Theatre. Written by Serbian playwright Sn…
Monumental Theatre is providing DC-area audiences with a first look at the jukebox musical comedy Head Over Heels. The production features nearly two dozen musical numbers from The Go-Go's p…
Highly recommended. An unsettling dance play. The phrase "sorry you're here" takes on new meaning. It is not typical for me to write "highly recommended" at the top of an article. However, T…
"Isn't it OK to sometimes be selfish?" asks a character in Anna Ziegler's cunningly devised The Wanderers. With Amber McGinnis' discerning, sympathetic direction, Theater J's production prov…
Trigger warning. Nu Sass's world premiere of Weep is an arresting, unflinching peek into complicated lives with emotionally charged scenes and character collisions. It is a slowly building p…
Who Tells Our Story is the theme of Better Said Than Done's upcoming, first-of-its-kind, two-day Women's Storytelling Festival. Audiences can expect stories that have been crafted for a s…
The world is so full of intractable political and cultural issues, with deep chasms making understanding, let alone peace, seem so far away. But the venerable Washington Performing Arts (WPA…
Raw one moment, richly comic the next. Subtle in one scene, directly challenging the audience the next. The world premiere musical Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre is strikingly effecti…
With personality galore and voices full of pizzazz and warmth, The Mason Cabaret in Concert delivered a wonderful evening of Celebrating the Great American Songbook! Under the direction of J…
Bright and jaunty as a hippie's tie-dyed shirt, the opening musical number for Folger's The Merry Wives of Windsor lets the audience know what's in store. It's a farce set long ago"well, 197…
Washington Stage Guild's Bloomsday is a flower of a production. One to gaze at, listen to, and revel in, enjoying the power of words, terrific acting, connections, and confessions. Written b…
There was revolution in the air. Decolonization of Africa was taking shape. The world was on fire. And The Kennedy Center's World Stages will be providing audiences a taste of those times. "…
Social commentary in a dance performance is not unusual, especially in the modern dance community. But in a week-long residency by The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at George Mason Univer…
The weather outside was surely cold and cranky. But the outside world could be quickly forgotten as the American Pops Orchestra (APO), led by Maestro Luke Frazier, gently took children and a…
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S…
Professional theaters in the DMV have been at the forefront of making diversity a critical watchword and action step. During the past several years, the DMV has hosted two women's theater fe…
This month, UrbanArias presents composer Tom Cipullo's chamber opera Glory Denied; the contemporary musical drama based upon the true story of America's longest-held prisoner of war (POW), F…
