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With bright lights, bouncy tunes and an abundance of Yuletide cheer, "Elf The Musical" will get you into the holiday spirit! When was the last time you hummed along to a show tune like "Spar…
 Music director Robert Spano conducts Mozart's comic opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" ("Le nozze di Figaro)," as it returns to The Kennedy Center Opera House with a powerhouse cast. "'The…
All aboard the one-way train to the underworld you won't want to miss""Hadestown," winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, now at Broadway at The National. Anaïs Mitc…
Samuel D. Hunter is a playwright rapidly on the way to becoming an iconic voice of the blue collar, the downtrodden, and the frequently forgotten. Often based in Idaho (from where Hunter hai…
Compass Rose Theater's production of "Pride and Prejudice" is a sweet treat that will erase the stress of  a week of work and news. Written by Jane Austen in 1813 and adapted here by Emma…
Seventy-five years ago, C.S. Lewis began his renowned "The Chronicles of Narnia" series with the beloved classic, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. This children's literature phenomenon…
Alex and Olmsted (the husband and wife team of Alex Vernon and Sarah Olmsted Thomas), an internationally acclaimed puppetry and physical theater company, is now in residency at Baltimore The…
"Welcome to 'Urinetown'! Not the place, of course. The musical!" The opening line of Rockville Musical Theatre's production, directed by Kristina Friedgen, sets the tone perfectly. "Urinetow…
"The Phantom of the Opera," with music by Andrew Lloyd- Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, and book by Lloyd-Webber and Stilgoe, is based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux,…
Slow, steady, sensual, fierce, and fast set the cadence of "Crónica de un suceso," the world premiere production created, choreographed, and performed by artist Rafael RamÃrez. The fir…
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) November 10, 2025 " IN Series, the innovative opera theater based in Washington, D.C., today announced the appointment of David Mack as the organization's f…
There's a reason "Fiddler on the Roof" has withstood the test of time"not just for those of the Jewish faith, but for anyone seeking to celebrate love, heartbreak, and joyful music. Signatur…
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra continues to bring incredible and diverse performers to the stage with its Live at the Meyerhoff Series. One of theater's greatest talents, the ageless Berna…
 "Art," the 1994 play by Yasmina Reza, seems to be having a moment right now. A limited-run revival of the show is currently on Broadway, featuring big name actors (Bobby Cannavale, James…
Baltimore's only queer theatre kicks off new season with intimate community gathering on November 16 BALTIMORE, Maryland (NOVEMBER, 2025) " Iron Crow Theatre invites the community to celebra…
Enter the Rabbit Room at the distinguished Eagle and Child pub in Oxford and perhaps you will hear the echoes of literary geniuses past, spiritedly discussing and debating the subjects and b…
"The main function of theatre is to teach. Theatre is about life and nothing can teach it more honestly. Theatre has to stir a person up to live life, not just proceed through it." " Bev Sok…
The Holocaust is universally recognized as one of the most traumatic eras in world history during which six million Jewish people lost their lives in unfathomable acts of evil. During this h…
Murder is always a little more entertaining under flashing bright lights and with a punk-rock score. This is especially the case when it surrounds one of the most infamous, acquitted cases o…
"Hadestown" is coming to The National Theatre in DC this November. It is the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theate…
Verdi's "Aida" is one of the most beloved works of the operatic repertoire, and it has an unusual history, having premiered in Cairo before being performed in Europe. The setting of the oper…
José Limón (1908-1972) is one of the foundational figures of American modern dance. A student of Doris Humphrey, Limón went on to create his own dance technique, and the company he fo…
Henrik Ibsen is on a hot streak in DC. Two high-profile theatres opened their seasons to great fanfare as they each featured an adaptation of Ibsen. Amy Herzog's 2024 reworking of "An Enemy …
As the director (and co-founder of Synetic Theatre) Paata Tsikurishvili says in his playbill note, creation always demands a price and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a classic example. Famil…
Everyone who appears on stage in NextStop Theatre's production of Jason Robert Brown's "The Last 5 Years" does a phenomenal job. Ben Clark as Jamie and Caelyn D. Williams as Cathy are exc…