The Maryland Lyric Opera (MDLO) presented an evening of an assortment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical excerpts from three of his most esteemed operas"The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovann…
It's been a quarter of a century since Satan came to call on the Kennedy Center, but the Washington National Opera's production of Faust (with music by Charles Gounod and libretto by Jules B…
The 19th Annual WATCH Awards winners will be announced tonight at a ceremony at the Birchmere in Alexandria Virginia. DC Metro Theater Arts will be at the ceremony to bring you updates on so…
Leaving Arena Stage's world premiere of JQA, the fictionalized account of John Quincy Adams as imagined by playwright/director Aaron Posner, I'm feeling this: Adams was a sour, stiff-necked,…
Hexagon has been around for 64 years and never seems to age. Since 1956 the musical comedy theater group has been turning out original political satire that's as of-the-moment as the news. I…
The circus I fell in love with as a kid is gone. It was touted at the time as the greatest show on earth: a three-ring tented extravaganza that smelled of roasted peanuts, sawdust, and manur…
An aspiring playwright and son loves an aspiring actress and ingenue. A famous actress and mother loves a famous writer and inconstant. Life doesn't often provide neat parallels between gene…
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Be More Chill has. Following its sold-out extended run at The Pershing Square Signature Center, the sensational high-school musical that def…
(Washington, D.C.) Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia and the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, sent fou…
Rep Stage has announced its 2019-2020 Season: Souvenir By Stephen Temperley Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch September 5-22, 2019 E2 By Bob Bartlett WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch O…
Baltimore Center Stage today announce its upcoming season of mainstage plays to mark the debut programming under Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra: Miss You Like Hell Book and lyrics by Qui…
One of the darkest periods in modern American politics was the McCarthy Era of the mid-20th century. Fueled by the anti-Communist sentiment of the Cold War, the government issued a list of s…
Making its New York premiere in the Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row, Keen Company's resonant production of Surely Goodness and Mercy by playwright Chisa Hutchinson is an uplifting present-day…
The title of this show, if you have never heard of it, doesn't mean what you might think. It's not about fitness. It's not about sex. It's a country-western musical about ten hard-up Texans …
The newly formed Studio Acting Conservatory has secured temporary space for its next season of classes. 2019-2020 Classes will take place in Washington, DC, at the Garnet Patterson School, d…
We like to think that the Holocaust could never happen here. We want to believe that it shouldn't so it couldn't. And then comes along a work of theater like Crying Hands that screams out ho…
Of all the grand tear-jerkers, those epic romances that make you want to tear your heart out and roast it on the barbecue, Tchaikovsky's masterpiece Eugene Onegin stands out. Packed with bea…
Taking their seats in the black box theater, the audience is confronted with three immobile figures cloaked in chiaroscuro, as small, gold-leafed picture frames faintly reflect tiny boxes of…
Many plays try to capture the complexity of the human spirit and the Reston Community Players production of Donald Margulies', Time Stands Still, does just that. The poignant tale examines a…
These days, it is rare to hear an organ in a jazz ensemble. The exception is Dr. Lonnie Smith who not only remains the master of the Hammond B-3 organ but also has had a career that spans mo…
Christy Escobar's mesmerizing, compelling, utterly brilliant, performance is the centerpiece of Studio Theatre's world premiere production of Hilary Bettis' Queen of Basel. In Bettis' reimag…
Noises Off is the Mount Everest of farce. Numerous critics have called Michael Frayn's 1982 masterwork the greatest farce ever written, and its second act may well be the most difficult to p…
Infusing some eccentric Southern charm into their 103rd season, Baltimore's Vagabond Players segue into spring with their revival of Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Crimes of the …
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts is excited to present The Color Purple opening Wednesday, March 13 and running until Sunday, May 5. The Color Purple opened at The Broadway Theatre i…
Sometimes you find a gem in an unlikely place. That happened to me recently at a small state-of-the-art black-box theatre on the campus of a boarding school on a quiet street in Arlington, V…