All's well that ends well, and the dispute between the Shakespeare Theatre Company and its landlords of the Lansburgh building is apparently over. Pending a formal dismissal of the STC's sui…
The poster for the Shakespeare Theatre Company's new "Measure for Measure" is a bit of a shocker. Glance at it and you'll find yourself peeking up the garments of a young nun. She's sitting …
Rep Stage in Columbia and MetroStage in Alexandria represent the northern and southern poles of the Washington theater world. Both are small professional troupes that have been around for a …
In "Detroit," the hot-topic drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011, nobody says "Democrat" or "Republican." No one says "Wall Street" or "too big to fail," though the 2008 economic…
Washington theater's Helen Hayes Awards unveiled a major makeover Tuesday night, restructuring its maligned judging process and nearly doubling the number of prizes that can be handed out. T…
Ahem, harrumph: Commedia dell'arte, the Renaissance style involving comic archetypes, masks and improvisation, is a deceptively intellectual tradition well suited for interpretations of " W…
You're free to fiddle with your phone during "Bell," the one-man bio-drama about Alexander Graham Bell now playing at the National Geographic Society. Bell, after all, invented the telephone…
Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company basked in Broadway limelight last summer when it received the Regional Theater Tony Award. What does an internationally acclaimed classical troupe do…
Amy Herzog's savvy "After the Revolution" is set in New York and Boston, but it's a first-rate Washington play. The drama, being acted with heart and intelligence at Theater J, follows a fam…
The mad tango of "Nijinsky's Last Dance" is back in Washington, where it began its award-winning career at Signature Theatre in 1998. The Slovenian version at Flashpoint this week is radical…
The inventive Rorschach Theatre has a flair for cult fantasy, but the troupe has upped its game big-time for the sprawling "Neverwhere." The wild plot careens through a seedy underworld know…
It was 20 years ago today " well, within a month or two " that the low-budget, serious-minded American Theater Project rolled the dice in an Anacostia storefront. It survived only a couple o…
Should the Helen Hayes Awards be handed out on two separate tiers, splitting larger and smaller theater companies into separate groups? Or not? The debate has run on two distinctly separate …
Should the Helen Hayes Awards be handed out on two separate tiers, splitting larger and smaller theater companies into separate groups? Or not? The debate has run on two distinctly separate …
"Miss Saigon" " isn't that the megamusical with the helicopter onstage? That's not what director Eric Schaeffer and his cast of 19 are talking about at Arlington's Signature Theatre as they …
The Olney Theatre Center has long staked a claim to musicals, but "A Chorus Line" " surely that's a high kick too far, right? After all, it's a pro's show, forged from the personal confessio…
Ian Leahy's new drama "Waiting for Orson" is about a young man hanging around public transit urgently expecting an alien encounter. And we've all been there, right? The strength of Leahy's h…
Synetic Theater's sexy and funny "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with its half-dressed heroines and slapstick clowns, was a high point in the troupe's decade of successes when it first appeared…
Dolphins surface onstage in Natsu Onoda Power's "The T Party," played by actors in sleek grayish body suits and wearing their bathing trunks on the outside. The dolphins couple freely, often…
Washington's Nanna Ingvarsson won a leading actress Helen Hayes Award playing Janet in "The Rocky Horror Show" with Woolly Mammoth in 1991. A few years later, performing with a Kennedy Cente…
A late night-style chat show is only as good as its guests, so the random factor is extremely high for No Rules Theatre's "The No Rules Show." Wednesday's entertainers on the intimate Ark s…
If the daring young No Rules Theatre Company is now showing something called "The No Rules Show," what can audiences expect? "We're calling it half 'The Judy Garland Show,' half Conan O'Brie…
Fringe is freedom to do your own thing, as two young D.C.-based performers are proving this month. Brynn Tucker and Emma Crane Jaster are both under 30 and bringing original dance-themed pie…
CLEVELAND " The box office miracles of "The Book of Mormon," chapter and verse: The musical has played to over 100Â percent capacity audiences on Broadway since opening more than two years…
Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival this year: America's overseas conflicts, with at least three shows dealing head-on with the military and post-traumatic stress disorder. Each production…