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Valerie Leonard's engrossing performance as a powerful matriarch lifts the Theater J premiere of the English-language The Jewish Queen Lear beyond a nostalgia-laden look back to a once highl…
Leaving Arena Stage's world premiere of JQA, the fictionalized account of John Quincy Adams as imagined by playwright/director Aaron Posner, I'm feeling this: Adams was a sour, stiff-necked,…
Arresting and compelling are two words that come to mind to describe Signature Theatre's fiery production about survival in a society racked by long-term natural disasters and deadly human-m…
The musical Daddy Long Legs is coming to the DMV area, thanks to Monumental Theatre Company. Monumental Theatre Company "seeks to connect emerging artists, specifically those of the millenni…
Expanding its reach into the Northern Virginia community, the Providence Players of Fairfax are producing a special limited engagement of David Mamet's Oleanna. The production will be at a n…
How does a young artist prepare for the rigors of a professional performing career? For the six talented recipients of Strathmore's Artist in Residence program, that preparation includes a 1…
True to its founding mission of presenting narrative and storytelling "to provoke or thrill," 4615 Theatre is producing the world premiere of playwright Joe Calarco's Separate Rooms, said…
Taken with his debut as a director for Synetic's touching Cyrano de Bergerac, I took the opportunity to interview Vato Tsikurishvili. It was a chance to delve deeper into the creative mind b…
With a singular mission to expand the music universe for diverse audiences, ground-breaking pianist Lara Downes will be gracing DC's Sixth & I Historic Synagogue stage in a live event co…
Regional Tony Award recipient Signature Theatre continues its singular Signature in the Schools program with another original production written and directed by Joe Calarco. Calarco is the R…
Shu-Chen Cuff and her Gin Dance Company are returning to perform at the celebrated DC Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival. "We are thrilled to be part of the 10th anniversary of the Atlas INT…
Complex villains are irresistible on stage and screen. They can be so magnetic. They certainly keep my attention even with the awful consequences of their thinking and action. Their restless…
The upcoming Second Glance at Alexandria's Athenaeum promises to cross artistic boundaries to produce the uniquely dramatic in a highly original venture. So what is Second Glance? It is stri…
By all means, go, have a great time at Signature Theatre's grandly jaunty Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show. A musical revue centered upon the prolific composer Fats Waller (19…
An evening of conversation with Broadway legend Baayork Lee is coming to Reston's CenterStage. Baayork Lee has performed in some of the most far-reaching musical theatre events of the past d…
How any of us deal with the death of a loved one is so very personal. With the passing of her beloved brother Carl, playwright Paula Vogel found her own sui generis way to let the world know…
Some sixty-five years since its original premiere as a black-and-white teleplay, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men remains timeless; all too intriguingly relevant as ever. In the Ford's Theat…
Go with no preconceived notions to best absorb Scena Theatre's Submission, the American premiere theater adaptation of the 2015 European best-selling novel by French author Michel Houellebec…
A far-reaching cultural exchange production from China by the China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) is making its United States premiere at The Kennedy Center. It is Image China: Xuanzang's…
Zemfira Stage is producing an uncommon sighting in the DC area: a production of the offbeat mid-1950's play, The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson. An unconventional nightmare of a melodrama e…
With its premiere of Cartography, The Kennedy Center continues to be a welcoming venue for theatrically devised civic discourse on often fraught issues. Cartography is a unique live document…
DMV area theaters are always a class act. With no end to the government shutdown in sight, many DMV theaters are offering special discounted tickets to federal government workers. DMV theate…
A blunt assessment: It's time to move on. It is time to retire Miss Saigon as the seductive, out-of-touch, museum piece that it is. Miss Saigon has little to say about the sorrows of the Vie…
Man of La Mancha has long been an icon of mid-20th century American musical theater with its share of 1966 Tony Awards. This show about a man marching forward for "a heavenly cause" is a …
A perfect fit for a convivial concert on a winter's night is coming to the acoustically rich Reston CenterStage. It is a cozy evening of personally selected music and song with critically ac…
