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Bekah Brunstetter and 'Schmigadoon!'s' Cinco Paul concoct a delicious biblical musical at Olney Theatre Center.
Weekend concerts featuring a cast studded with Broadway talent leave a critic wondering why there can't be more theater that begins life on the arts center's stages.
The long-awaited revival at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre is an exercise in misconception, and doesn't do justice to the Tony-winning classic.
A notebook about two new D.C. productions that spotlight minor historical figures: "Change Agent" at Arena Stage and "Compulsion or the House Behind" at Theater J.
HBO's "The Gilded Age" is chockablock with Broadway stars, in what feels like an unprecedented degree for television.
"MJ" is propelled by remarkable dancing and the galvanizing breakout performance of Myles Frost.
The Bard of Avon's continued relevance and appeal were cause for debate at a recent gathering of the Shakespeare Theatre Association.
Studio Theatre produces a revised version of the dramatist's 2019 play
Audible produces a two-hour version of what is normally a 3 1/2 hour play, with Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel.
Lynn Nottage's "Clyde's" gets a showing at Rikers Island, and prisoners have plenty of feedback.
The new musical, hobbled by omicron, sees salvation in a pause, in hopes the coronavirus subsides.
Resident actor is first person of color to lead the Staunton, Va., playhouse, which also announced a new roster of productions after some recent strife.
Tony Award royalty will turn out in February to celebrate "50 Years of Broadway musicals at the Kennedy Center."
Through performance and discussion, soldiers find new meaning in ancient Greek drama.
Simon Russell Beale, Adrian Lester and Adam Godley talk about the rigors and pleasures of more than three hours onstage every night.
But a week of dispiriting theater closings is topped off by a rejuvenating visit to a sensational new musical, "Akimbo."
"Once Upon a One More Time," about fairy-tale princesses, has its world premiere at Shakespeare Theatre Company. While it lacks finesse, lead performer Briga Heelan brings out the show's pot…
The Arlington, Va., company honors the composer who put it on the musical-theater map.
The new musical about celebrities in the 1950s taking LSD trips over its conceits.
"Seven Guitars" is the 1940s entry in Wilson's cycle of 20th-century plays, one for each decade.
"Once Upon a One More Time" has Broadway hopes and a Dec. 17 opening night at Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Directed Marianne Elliott switches the genders of the musical's characters in this fine revival.
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize winner gets a vivacious tryout at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
Even in a year of recovery, theater hit some high notes, onstage and on-screen.
A new musical version of the 1993 film comedy 'Mrs. Doubtfire' has its official Broadway opening
