Michael Bobbitt's big dream is a small audience. Not a scarce one, mind you — no arts organization wants that — but an audience made up of our smallest citizens, young enough to …
An impressive array of veteran artists and rookie contenders share the nominees’ list for this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, now in its 28th year celebrating achievement in Washingt…
Big dreams start small. Just think of that dollhouse you had growing up. Inside that diminutive frame is a multiverse of stories. In a child's hands, a new version of reality is brought to l…
Brimming with energy, Paige Hernandez brings a joyful creativity wherever she goes. As a teaching artist, actor, dancer and choreographer, and a self-professed hip-hop advocate, Hernandez ha…
Maybe I'm over-analyzing things. But after a thorough review of the evidence, plus an extensive background check, I'm just not convinced that the Kinsey Sicks are actually running for presid…
– Shirley Serotsky has been directing theatre in DC for ten years, at the helm of projects with Theater J, Keegan Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, The Hub Theatre, and others. …
Jennifer L. Nelson is the Director of Special Programming at Ford’s Theatre, and the director of their most recent production, Necessary Sacrifices. This new drama — the fo…
Think back to that oddball uncle who always showed up at your birthday party with a trick up his sleeve. You remember him. Loud blazer, toothy grin, something not quite right about his hair.…
Actor Ray Ficca has been well-known and well-loved in DC for many years. After an extended hiatus from our stages, he's back in the limelight as hotheaded TV personality Max Prince in Keegan…
Let’s raise a glass to any theatre company foolish enough to slot Romeo and Juliet into their season in this day and age. It’s not that the star-crossed lovers turned to dust cen…
We've all had our days of anxiety, waiting for the proverbial gun to go off. It's on such days that we most enjoy taking a night out at the theatre, to clear our minds and " go figure " wait…
A few times every season, assertions mount that there seem to be no more original story ideas out there. With Hollywood beginning production on the sixth Fast and Furious movie, it's temptin…
“God has cared for these trees,” said naturalist John Muir on one of his Western expeditions a century ago. “He has saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thou…
For many young men in our favorite dramas, self-discovery means finding a way out from under the shadow of the father. But when strong, silent Dad shifts from the shadows to center stage, we…
If your last name is an adjective, people are bound to have some fun on your behalf. For Thornton Wilder, at least, the puns are well-earned. Two of his best known plays — the quiet co…
Some memories waft into view from a lazy distance. Others brew slowly in the back of the mind. No such luck for Quentin, whose trip down memory lane isn't so much a stroll as a triathlon, el…
Collect all the polluted epithets that people hurl at each other on the street and you'd have quite a heavy volume, not the least of which would concern people's mothers. The streets of 1980…
Headed for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances in the musical Parade at Ford’s Theatre If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank " and the lynchi…
Overlooked by the powerful, and eager for a chance to prove himself, Aladdin hungers for some sign of magic to pick him up out of life's daily routine. The same can be said of the target aud…
A boy finds himself in a strange new garden on that day when, suddenly, his sexuality starts to blossom. The assumptions he's made about who he is — and the assumptions that others hav…
In these troubled modern times, one has to find things to be thankful about. I, for one, am thankful that Artistic Director Michael Kahn has dug up another dusty old script from the bottom o…
Who can predict what will happen the moment after a first kiss? Those tender, uncertain seconds can reveal worlds about the heart you've just touched. But they can also reveal the secret hea…
Greek playwright Zoe Mavroudi entrusts the world premiere of her new play to Venus Theatre Two strangers sharing a private room over drinks might not typically turn to talk of ”Crim…
If, at times, theatre-going makes you painfully aware of the hours you spend sitting immobile in one spot, you start to have a teeny tiny inkling of how Winnie feels. The high-spirited heroi…
Working in the theatre, you quickly learn that you can't please everyone all the time. Sometimes audiences steer clear of a show because it looks too dark or upsetting. Maybe the content is …