Love new plays? Then THE ROSE THEATRE CO's Reading Series|FIRST DRAFT has great news to report. The series will begin its 2018-19 season of new play readings with a new Northern Virgini…
Continuing to expand their regular offerings of performance events, the Workhouse Arts Center now has an official dance company-in-residence, Next Reflex Dance Collective. Stepping out to fi…
When I grew up in a small New Jersey shore town with a single synagogue to serve many surrounding communities, I recall a particular question uttered within my family and my own Jewish tribe…
Creative Cauldron is celebrating its 10th season performing at its ArtSpace venue in Falls Church. Creative Cauldron is one of the area's small theater gems, with a consistently high quality…
Leaving Stephen Sondheim's Passion, directed by Matthew Gardiner, I found one word to describe my reaction: Believable. Yes, believable. This Signature Theatre production of Passion took …
In a recent telephone interview, Matt Bassett, Hub Theatre's new artistic director discussed the company's upcoming season. In shaping the season, his first as Hub artistic director, Bassett…
Over its 30 seasons, MetroStage has had several homes, including 17 years in a cozy venue in Alexandria's West End. Now, redevelopment of the area will lead MetroStage to another location in…
It's that time of the theater season for those of us with a taste for the offbeat and original. It's time to accept the invitation for the yearly production from Longacre Lea displaying Kath…
Washington, D.C. is no longer just a tourist city with iconic national monuments and fabled museums. Over the past decades, a distinguished cadre of small and medium-sized cultural instituti…
Iowa can seem such a mythical place. That crossed my mind as I took in the Keegan Theatre's top-notch production of the bittersweet, mystical romance of The Bridges of Madison County. Sure,�…
Entertainment and enlightenment are only two of the expectations for the upcoming performance of Coming of Age at the Creative Cauldron as a group of talented teens perform a cabaret with co…
The real news getting you down? Do you have a plentitude of cares and woes hanging over your head? Are you an addicted MSNBC watcher who wants to get off the couch and away from the cell for…
Throughout my years covering the arts in the DC area, I have often heard that Fairfax County is a wasteland, a desert, no place for the creative theater artist. A locale with few outlets for…
Synetic Theater's admirable, family-friendly production of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is the premiere mainstage production of Synetic's New Voice Series. For those fam…
Where Did We Sit On The Bus? is a solo performance that examines identity in America through the eyes and observations of a Brown young man named Brian Quijada. With his charismatic smile, p…
Yes, there is magic done at Monumental Theatre's nifty production of Pippin. I am not overstating my utter enjoyment of this production. It is spunky, buoyant, and engaging from the moment t…
Set in a non-descript stand-up comedy club, the 1st Stage production of Brahman/I has a clever premise: a solo performer reveals some of a human being's most intimate details. Brahman/I is a…
"The dark side is my beat." These are some of the first words heard from a New Jersey detective. He is recalling a hate crime from a decade previously that put his small "half-assed" South J…
They are likely the unseen in our midst; that is until a particular, probably short-term job needs the informal employment market as the source of a worker. They have their own personal stor…
Getting audience attention these days with a title few likely know is no easy task. So know that once again UrbanArias has found a terrific little musical gem: a chamber opera called Why is …
With NextStop Theatre Company celebrating its 30th anniversary, I chatted with Evan Hoffmann, NextStop's producing artistic director, to learn about the company's journey. Founded in 1988 as…
Art and activism are long-time partners. What better place than the DC area to meld the two in an effort to stimulate social justice and discover humanity from a progressive perspective. Or …
Motown the Musical is one irresistible playlist of infectious chart-topping music performed by a bevy of fine singers and dancers who have plenty of acting chops as well. While too-sweet …
With the announcement of its New Voice Series, Synetic Theater is taking its own unique approach to the development of the richly talented pool of emerging theater-makers and budding theater…
"In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times." ― Bertolt Brecht With unsettling powers of persuasion, compelling is the watc…