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Your mother no doubt told you not to discuss religion or politics over dinner. In Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, the exchanges among the characters during…
Silhouette Stages' production of Anything Goes with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and book by Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse is presently playing at Slayton…
Arresting and compelling are two words that come to mind to describe Signature Theatre's fiery production about survival in a society racked by long-term natural disasters and deadly human-m…
The National Symphony Orchestra delighted with a superb program on Thursday night at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Acclaimed cellist Kian Soltani performed with panache as he joined force…
By Rob Cuevas The current production of Oleanna by Providence Players of Fairfax, hosted at Italian Café in Falls Church, VA, is the perfect night out for both delicious Italian cuisine and…
Heathers: the Musical is an intense roller-coaster of a show, careening from biting satire and dark comedy to touching and intense emotion to hope. In the 2013 Off-Broadway debut, based on t…
As presented at Baltimore Center Stage, Indecent is a timely, timeless story, about a sexuality, about a religion, about a people, about all people. Audiences will leave this production emot…
Avant Bard regrets to report that Khalil Kain had to withdraw from the cast of Topdog/Underdog due to unforeseen personal circumstances. But Avant Bard is happy to announce that Jeremy Keith…
Note before you begin:Â Confection is a unique, multimedia, multisensory, ambulatory, audience-interactive, site-specific theatrical experience " "a rollicking rumination on teeny-tiny des…
When we see an unwell homeless person on the street"these days huddled in layers of rags against the cold"we can know nothing of the story of who they are and how they got there. All we can …
Making its debut at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, Chick Flick the Musical " a new work "written by a woman about women for women" (but directed by a man) " unapologetically employs the pe…
Marin Alsop thinks we're ready for a "new normal" in classical music. That is why the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's music director has commissioned a work by a renowned composer who happens…
The Charm City Fringe Festival has opened applications for its 8th annual theatre festival in Baltimore's Bromo Arts District. Once again, application fees for Baltimore artists are waived i…
Opening night in any form of theater is a big deal, but this Saturday's opening of Eugene Onegin at Washington National Opera carries extra meaning at several levels. It's the first appearan…
"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year." "Becky Sharp William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) is considered a great writer. Vanity Fair, despite its flaws, is his fin…
Compass Rose Theater's production of Man of La Mancha is an entertaining, colorful show in an unusual location. While the theater is looking for a permanent home, they are performing the cla…
Arena Stage announced its 2019-2020 season this morning. The season will include the following: Ann By Holland Taylor In the Kreeger Theater | July 11 " August 11, 2019 Jitney By August Wils…
Olney Theatre Center has announced the lineup for its 2019-2020 season: Mainstage Productions: Cabaret (August 28 " October 6, 2019) Singin' in the Rain (November 8, 2019 " January 5, 2020) …
The musical Hands on a Hardbody opens at the Keegan Theatre on March 9. Based on a contest held in small-town Texas in 1995, Hands on a Hardbody chronicles a group of people participating in…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's Artistic Director Michael Kahn invites theatre-lovers to a series of intimate conversations about life in the D.C. theatre scene as he prepares to retire from t…
Ask just about anyone Gen-X and younger and they can (and will, gladly) tell you which House they would be sorted into, if we had the chance to attend a certain school of magic. For those of…
Over the weekend, County Manager Mark Schwartz submitted his recommended 2020 budget to the Arlington County Board. If implemented, it will prove to be devastating to the Arlington arts comm…
There are a few shows " very few " which on first viewing have left me breathless. The original productions of Sweeney Todd and Copenhagen come quickly to mind. To this small list add the Am…
Raymond O. Caldwell kicks off his new Producing Artistic Directorship at Theater Alliance with a production of Dominque Morisseau's Blood at the Root that is bursting with youthful exuberanc…
Before the advent of purpose-built theaters in Elizabethan England, the coach yards, covered balconies, and galleries of inns and taverns " historical forerunners of the British pub " had se…
