I have an ongoing interest in how theaters in DC with predominantly white audiences raise and represent the issue of race. And one of the things I've been noticing is how the white comfort z…
By Christina Ling Or should that be hit-switchers? Either way, the talented cast of the Bethesda Little Theatre (BLT) is sure to delight as they cross the musical gender divide with their up…
Black Pearl Sings! by Frank Higgins, at Alliance for New Music-Theatre, is an absorbing production with an uplifting message. This witty play was successfully produced here in 2016 at MetroS…
In response to the growing momentum behind the #MeToo Movement, Bowie State University Theatre has dedicated their season to the creation of a new, devised performance entitled #MeToo. Throu…
What's so funny about mounds of bloody, dismembered, and spurting bodies, flatulence and excrement, necrophilia, and penises " lots and lots of penises? That depends on your sense of humor. …
The King William Players' production of Rumors delivers constant laughs. Neil Simon's 1988 farce comes to roaring life in this production, directed by Sarah Irving and performed and produced…
Many artists cite their family as one of their main sources of inspiration, but violinist Yevgeny Kutik can make a stronger claim than most. Even some of the repertoire he performs stems dir…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a challenging and much-loved absurdist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, has had long runs and featured many famous actors. Fells Point Corner Theatre's amb…
It is a joyful occasion when a new, vital theater company opens, and the advent of Boundless Theatre in Frederick is a welcome addition to the Western Maryland arts scene. Their inaugural pr…
Closing out its 11th season, The Strand Theater Company presents the final three performances of Paula Vogel's And Baby Makes Seven. Directed by Emily Hall and featuring a talented cast and …
Can you imagine a parallel universe in which the politics of the 2008 US presidential campaign are played out by people with the same names, situations, and inter-relationships as the real-l…
With the concept of nationalism hovering uneasily in the political air, it was as edifying as it was gratifying to hear four first-rate musicians celebrate in song some of the masterworks of…
You've seen ten productions of Hamlet, you've seen 'em all, right? There is nothing new you care to see at this point, because even the innovative approach is becoming tired. But have you ev…
The splashy opening is spectacularly preconception-smashing. We know we're about to see a play premised on a 1953 meeting in a Paris café between the literary lion Richard Wright and James …
Actor/singer/dancer John Edwards is not just a triple threat, he's also an awards-nominated one, and deservedly so. A current member of the Grammy-nominated Broadway Inspirational Voices gos…
Staging an epic that involves a bloody chain of events in "a deluge of violence," as the Shakespeare Theatre Company describes The Oresteia, requires not just the skills and talents of the a…
In Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son, Playwright Psalmayene 24, Director Raymond O. Caldwell, and Founding Artistic Director Ari Roth take on the risky task of staging a well-kn…
Theater and Policy Salon partners with New York University Washington Center to organize a conversation on "Who Gets to Feel Safe?" in conjunction with Mosaic Theater Company's productions o…
In the early 1990s, I lived in New Orleans at the corner of Philip and Constance streets. At the time, it was the transition zone between the toney Garden District and the St. Thomas project…
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature? If you are the least bit curious and open to a quie…
After three " count 'em, three " local productions of Blithe Spirit during 2018, Maryland audiences are well aware of the fact that it takes more than fear of Christmas to make a Noël …
Things are getting silly at the Olney Theatre Center these days. Very, very, silly. Very skillfully silly, in the production of Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors. A follow-on to Ludwig's highl…
Actor and Playwright Liza Jessie Peterson is an extraordinary artist/activist. Tucked inside her uproarious one-woman show, The Peculiar Patriot"which she performs through April 20, 2019, at…
Harmonious voices! Hilarious hoofing! A dancing frog! With over 30 songs packed into its 90 minutes, the Colonial Players' A New Brain is a magnificent autobiographical musical comedy that i…
If you are not from the great sub-continent of India or do not have any Indian friends, you might be forgiven for not knowing that there is a healthy culture of Indian classical dance in the…