Writer and performer Randy Ross got laid off and went around the world, came back and wrote a book about it, and now takes to Fringe to perform it. It’s true to the life of a traveller…
The Sock Puppet Guerilla Theater mounts a truly hilarious production of an ancient satire Lysistrata by setting it in 1969. It doesn't take much updating. The free love hedonism and pr…
No Sex, Please local storyteller Derek Hills recounts the saga of the 28 years it took to lose his virginity in every hilarious, sometime heartbreaking, mostly humiliating detail. H…
Washington Improv Theater goes where they have never gone before with Lore, a long-form improv show that explores the history of story itself by making storytelling the subject of e…
A Commedia Romeo and Juliet by DC Commedia dell'Arte troupe Faction of Fools Theare Company is Shakespeare like you've probably never seen it before performed by this company traine…
Straight No Chaser, the 10-man a cappella phenomenon, put on a great show of top forty hits, enduring classics and crowd favorites on a steamy night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. They r…
Silver Spring Stage puts on a 1950's screwball comedy murder mystery, espionage, romance - about communists and a whole lot of fish in Red Herring to close out their 2013 season. It's …
It's July in DC, which means it's hot, it's humid, and it's time for Fringe! On the last day of June at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, 21 shows brought their A game for the annual Fringe Pr…
The In Series, DC's premier company for intimate opera and classical concerts, closes their season with a creative pairing of two very different, moving pieces in Pocket Opera: Love and Mone…
For the 36th time, college students from Montgomery College and around the nation gather in Rockville for Summer Dinner Theatre. This year, they mount an energetic, hilarious productio…
American University staged a very special reading of a very special musical Signs of Life about an important part of our history. It was billed as a drama with music, and that is th…
It was a night of flying fingers and familiar classics with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Music Center at Strathmore for Romeo and Juliet. The three pieces chosen for the …
Shakespeare Theatre Company returns with the Bard to finish the season in a lovely, polished, and powerful production of The Winter’s Tale. This play is filed with his comedies, but so…
Broadway legend and Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and the Washington Choral Arts Society wowed a Mother's Day crowd with a feel-good repertoire of Broadway and instant classics at …
The stars were out in force for the Kennedy Center's 21st Annual Spring Gala. On the program was My Fair Lady In Concert sung by some of Broadway and the West End's biggest names like Jonath…
Once in a lifetime you get the opportunity to see four opera companies, 100 performers, and 50 musicians put on America's first, most iconic musical, Show Boat. Washington National Ope…
The people called it Ragtime," and the cast of the Kensington Arts Theatre's production of the musical Ragtime makes some truly breathtaking Ragtime. Most of the cast has several…
"Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Spooky Action Theater takes Candide's satire of life, love, hope and human decency to the extreme in Optimism! Or Vo…
In its American premiere, Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by Shakespeare Theatre Company is a tour-de-force, surprisingly funny, sharp, and shattering. It's paired with th…
Before there was RENT, there was Puccini's La bohème, perhaps the most popular and certainly one of the most frequently performed operas in history. The University of Maryland Scho…
You don't watch Miriam by writer, choreographer, and dancer Nora Chipaumire so much as you experience it. This one-hour performance piece that explores light and dark and black and white, br…
"Welcome to the spoken world." Thus begins a one of a kind performance piece piece by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an artist, poet, dancer and activist named by the United States Artists Rockefel…
Quotidian Theatre Company heats up the Cold War with Lee Blessing's classic, A Walk in the Woods. Quotidian's mission is to present theater about real life with "no-frills acting" o…
Washington National Opera mounts a dazzling production of Bellini's Norma. American soprano Angela Meade makes her debut with WNO. Norma is the role of a lifetime; the Everest of female oper…
There is a fine group of young actors in the cast of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone, a surrealistic and sometimes confusing play (I wish there were more production notes to help make the…