In honor of World Puppetry Day celebrated on March 21st, it was time to learn more about the puppetry used in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Kate Hamill's adaptation of Vanity…
One of the all-time greatest vocal groups from the golden age of Motown in the 1960s, The Temptations topped the charts with such iconic R&B and crossover hits as "The Way You Do The Thi…
"Watch me close, watch me now!" As I watched Avant Bard's production of Topdog/Underdog, I knew that it is a production for the ages. Under the visceral, athletic direction of DeMone Seraphi…
Winner of the first Tony Award for Best Musical when it made its debut in 1948, Kiss Me, Kate has a long history as one of the great Broadway classics by the legendary Cole Porter, who wrote…
I have loved Sondheim's Into the Woods since seeing its original Broadway production. Three decades on, Ford's Theatre's current version carries the tradition forward proudly. For anyone unf…
The Washington Chorus (TWC) celebrated St. Patrick's Day 2019 with a concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, followed by its annual Gala dinner at the Watergate Hotel. The concert featur…
The critically acclaimed Aquila Theatre returns to George Mason University's Center for the Arts on Sunday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. for an enchanting performance of William Shakespeare's belov…
Wolf Pack Theatre Company has found a new home at the Cora B. Woods Center in Brentwood Maryland. After almost five years of being nomads, Wolf Pack Theatre Company will be moving into the C…
Based on actual events of World War II and sorely relevant today in light of the resurgence of hate-mongering and anti-Semitism in our current socio-political climate and widespread acts of …
Valerie Leonard's engrossing performance as a powerful matriarch lifts the Theater J premiere of the English-language The Jewish Queen Lear beyond a nostalgia-laden look back to a once highl…
By Daniel Rinehart Britches and Hose Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors begins with a boisterous crowd scene. Then suddenly a great lord and a prisone…
A new generation of playwrights is taking over The Welders " Washington DC's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work. Starting in January 2020, …
Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr and Managing Director Jojo Ruf announce Theater J's 2019-2020 season, welcoming home audiences to a beautiful and refreshed theater located in the …
Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…
If there's could be a single word to describe NextStop Theatre Company's production of Noel Coward's 1925 comedy, Fallen Angels, it would be symmetry. Emily Lotz's delightfully realized peri…
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this season, opened to an enthusiastic full house at Everyman on Friday. The play give…
After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its pre…
Queen of Basel by Hilary Bettis, now on the boards at Studio, is scathingly brilliant. One walks out gobsmacked. (I completely concur with my colleague Bob Ashby's astute review.) But watchi…
Thumbelina, the story of a miniature girl who grows from a seed, is kidnapped by a toad, tormented by beetles, and eventually marries the fairy prince, is not one of Hans Christian Andersen'…
It took a little over 120 years. But"thanks to Theater J"Jacob Gordin's wildly popular Yiddish drama, celebrated as The Jewish Queen Lear, has made it onto the English-language stage. The pl…
Young Artists of America presented its annual concert last Sunday, performing a semi-staged concert version of Les Misérables that featured a large ensemble of performers, chorus members an…
The East Coast has the Newport and DC jazz festivals. The Midwest claims the world's largest free jazz extravaganza, the Detroit Jazz Festival. The South showcases jazz and R&B talent at…
If you have not yet visited the intimate Workhouse Theatre in Lorton, Virginia, Frank Shutts is currently directing a screwball comedy full of inappropriate giggles. Attitudes are purposeful…
The 19th Annual WATCH Awards recipients were announced tonight at a ceremony at The Birchmere in Alexandria Virginia. The ceremony was notable for two touching moments. Charles Hall, father …
There was a moment in the first act of Annapolis Opera's Carmen in which Director Fenlon Lamb assembled her cast in a colorful tableau that enthralled me and impressed itself on my mind. Thi…