Rep Stage is pleased to announce that the third annual conference dedicated to women working in the theatre will be held in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community…
WASHINGTON, DC " August 14 " theatreWashington today announced plans for Theatre Week 2018, a three-week celebration that will offer $15 and $35 tickets to over 20 productions, a fr…
By Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about Alexander Hamilton, "the forgotten founding father," has become a turning poi…
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod's Roméo e…
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière newly adapted for now, plus…
By Bill Kamberger King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare's play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular works; indeed, it hasn't been performed in B…
From The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts: The Theatre Lab has lost a wonderful friend and an integral member of our family. We mourn the passing of George Grant, who over the past te…
By Leandra Lynn Step right up! Feast your eyes on PWLT's current production, Barnum! The fun started even before I walked into the Hylton Performing Arts Center, with clowns waving at me fro…
By Bill Kamberger On September 30, 1975, twenty years to the day after the car crash that took the life of movie legend James Dean, six of his female fans gather at a convenience store in a …
by Jill Kyle-Keith Two unconventional beauties take us on a wild ride through sex, politics, and the politics of sex. As the title implies, Chlamydia dell'Arte is a sort-of burlesque, with a…
By Becca Kurtz Raina Greifer's new play, Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It, produced by Purple Crayon Productions, is a tale of abandonment, friendship, and the teenage mind. It's fitting …
By Hannah Sternberg Riot Brrrain is a punk-fueled, nonlinear tour through the life of Teddy as they revisit their past relationships after being diagnosed with neurosyphilis. Teddy is bisexu…
By Shawn Reilly Simmons Hold The Tomato is a comedy variety show featuring sketches, songs, and improv, written by Nancy Safavi and David Stauffer, and composed by Wesley Fox. We're introduc…
By Shawn Reilly Simmons "I don't want to sit in front. I don't want to get picked on," a woman said to me nervously as we chose our seats, about to experience Unscripted, a two-man improvisa…
By Rebecca Kurtz If there is one thing to be said for Meet the Glory Wholes, it's that the creatively minded Joey Maranto has contagious confidence. Sixty minutes alone onstage is no small f…
By Bill Kamberger Ironically enough for a story that is propelled by sibling rivalry and longing for a better life, the stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid has always been a bit of a negl…
By Caroline Bock What's worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are "peddled out," i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds and doing shots at…
By Garinè Isassi Through the Wall is a dance story that sprang from an art experiment put together by Source Festival called the Artistic Blind Date Program. Artists from different discipli…
By Bill Kamberger Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in a theater seems only natural. There’s a reason, t…
By Beatrice Loayza A woman (IO Browne) climbs out of bed, her lover still fast asleep, unmoved. She lays out on the floor, limber and sensual as she dances like a flower budding through a cr…
By Ellie Milewski Four intelligent and gifted female playwrights/directors, three bold female actors and their marvelous male partner in crime, and a wonderful crew, walk into Arena Stage to…
By Ellie Milewski Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Parkland. These are only a few names from a list of mass shooting in the United States. A list that is painfully and heartbreakingly l…
The Ferberizing of Coral by Patrick Flynn which debuted at the DC Source Festival in 2016 has been selected from 850 submissions to be a finalist in the Samuel French 43rd Annual Off Off Bro…
"Quick! We need a word. Any word," says Travis Charles Ploeger, director and accompanist for iMusical, an improv ensemble out of Washington Improv Theater. He's standing in a black box theat…
By Bill Kamberger Full disclosure: I love The Mikado. I sang in the chorus of the Young Victorian Theatre Company's 1979 production, a publicity photo from which is being used to advertise t…