Audiences for Václav Havel's Protest will be seeing it underground less than a mile from the White House in a performance space virtually unknown to theatregoers until this week. They wil…
Creative Cauldron is presenting the world premiere of Kaleidoscope, a new musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, that examines Alzheimer’s disease through the ey…
Rorschach Theatre's co-artistic director Randy Baker has penned some intriguing plays over the years"memorable shows such as Dream Sailors and After the Flood. His latest, Forgotten Kingd…
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, will have its DC premiere as the first-ever production for the Ally Theatre Company. "I had the privilege…
The world premiere of Midwestern Gothic is being staged at Signature Theatre's intimate ARK Theatre marries music, lyrics and orchestrations by Josh Schmidt and book and lyrics by Royce Vavr…
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not "about my mother and …
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not "about my moth…
Over the course of the next two months, the Kennedy Center will showcase the work of five of the theater's preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman Al…
With St. Patrick's Day only a week away, and “Danny Boy” heard in many a pub, Solas Nua, the DC based company dedicated to Irish arts, is presenting the American premier…
For Road Trip, the Congressional Chorus' 11th annual cabaret, 80 singers, a 20-member specialty dance troupe, and a rockin' seven-piece band will travel the nation and feature songs that sig…
For eight years, the Intersections Festival has been bringing some of DC’s best performance artists to the H Street venue, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and this year's nine jam-packed…
"…puppetry, projections, dance and live music, will capture the imagination of the audience." That was Michael Ross, Managing Director of Baltimore Center Stage, talking with DCTS abou…
Since its founding in 1963, Center Stage has grown into an important cultural resource, touching the lives of thousands of people in the Baltimore area each year. The popular theater h…
When director Kathryn Chase Bryer saw Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway five years ago, she was blown away by how it created stage images in such a minimalistic way. Now her versio…
Last year, Keegan Theatre’s new Theatre for Young Audiences program called PAY-RAH-KA staged a reading of How to Catch a Leprechaun. The program’s first full-scal…
Chris Stezin cut his teeth professionally as an actor doing Shakespeare for about six years all over the country, which instilled in him a deep reverence for the work. "I started performing …
When Christopher Paul Curtis wrote the children's book, Bud, Not Buddy, in 1999 it quickly became a darling among book critics and beloved by families everywhere. The cherished book won two …
Although Roe v. Wade is considered one of the Supreme Court's most landmark cases, and there's probably been as much written and debated about the case as any other in history, aside from th…
Since its beginning in 2001, Synetic Theater has included, among its unforgettable visceral offerings, shows targeted for younger audiences including the much ballyhooed Alice in Wonde…
When MetroStage’s artistic director Carolyn Griffin  pursued staging Becky Mode's comedy Fully Committed, a huge hit on Broadway this year with Jesse Tyler Ferguson playing a myr…
A few years ago Helen Murray Pafumi, Artistic Director for the Hub Theatre, first started considering doing a stage version of O. Henry’s classic The Gift of the Magi. Then sh…
In the annals of American literature, most agree that Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, written by Herman Melville in 1851, is one of the greatest masterpieces of all-time. The classic story foll…
Little Thing, Big Thing, a dark comic crime thriller by Dublin playwright Donal O'Kelly follows a thief and a nun who are thrown into impossible circumstances with immense odds against th…
Where Words Once Were, commissioned by The Kennedy Center from Irish Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer, tells the story of young Orhan, who lives in a world where words are both very…
When Open Circle Theatre announced it was staging The Who's Tommy, OCT's artistic director Suzanne Richard also announced she had cast Broadway actor Russell Harvard in the title role of …