In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, community theatre companies Virtual fundraising telethon unites DMV community theatres, prominent personalities in the Washington, DC metropolitan area …
For a show set entirely in a small, out-of-the-way girls' bathroom in a high school, this was a show that was surprisingly big. It was big in ideas and concepts. As a very nice touch, pre-sh…
"Gloria: A Life," written by Emily Mann and directed by Diane Paulus, originally opened off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater in October 2018 and ran until March 2019. This production, by e…
To combat racism in the DC theatre community, we've created "We Must Do Better DC." Currently, we're working with local leaders in the NAACP, Broadway for Racial Justice, and other partner o…
Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra released plans for an upcoming season, set to begin in January 2021. Four mainstage productions are planned: "The Swindlers: A True-…
This week, The National Theatre is streaming Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," produced in 2019 by the Bridge Theatre in England. This is a smart and novel approach to this wonderfu…
This was a brisk, mildly diverting new play reading in three acts presented by Maryland Theatre Ensemble. The structure lent itself to elliptical story-telling as it is comprised of three mo…
One judge wore a cream bathrobe with "JUDGE" embroidered on the chest. One wore her robes and looked quite serious. One cracked herself up at one point with her pun (to be fair, everyone had…
Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will leave his position as of next Tuesday in the wake of allegations of sexual assault. Schaeffer co-founded Signature in 1989 and has bee…
Tony Shalhoub is a man of many talents. He sings, dances, and portrays unparalleled characters. Think Monk on TV who brought awareness to OCD; the sensitive Egyptian Captain in the award-win…
On June 30, 2020, thirty years after he co-founded Signature Theatre, Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will retire from his position and depart the company. Signature Theatre released …
Montgomery County-based Flying V fired Producing Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein and accepted the resignation of Associate Artistic Director Jon Rubin on Monday evening following the rev…
'Transferal' by Jack Novak was the last in Spook Action's New Works in Action that was presented for the last month or so on-line on their YouTube channel. Fittingly, it was about letting go…
An unusual operetta was to have been performed this month by the Rockville-based Victorian Lyric Opera Company " "El Capitan" by John Philip Sousa, an exotic romance by America's "March King…
Our local acting troupes are getting quite creative. Rude Mechanicals had five playwrights put together a group of one-act plays on Zoom. They chose the directors and performers and with onl…
Like so many other area theatres, Arena Stage has been closed since March. As luck would have it, they were set to celebrate their 70th Anniversary in May. Molly Smith has been the Artis…
"Small Island" a 2019 drama based on the epic and award-winning novel by Andrea Levy, adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Rufus Norris. It is now streaming on YouTube, thanks to the N…
The death of George Floyd and the protests that followed affected almost everyone in one way or another. The Pandemic Theatre decided to postpone showing Act IV of "Much Ado About Nothing" f…
'Circular' is a two-hander, ably acted via Zoom by Lisa Hodsoll and Jonathan Holmes. It clocks in at a brisk one hour and 35 minutes, which is no small feat with a story that begins with Ody…
Brittle, sophisticated, witty, and tuneful are just a handful of words that could be used to describe Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's 1970 masterpiece of concept over plot, the musical c…
During the summer of 1984, young Edward Norton interviewed Columbia's founder James W. Rouse for a teenage television program called "The Graffiti Show." Jim Rouse looked directly into the c…
 A rainy night in Fairfax was just the right night for Clue, a game played on a board with dice, pieces, and facsimiles of murder instruments " a murder in a drawing room mystery. The Fa…
Even though these are difficult times, Emily Dickinson's poem "Hope" reminds everyone that life is not hopeless, saying, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sin…
 The monthly podcast series (heard on Baltimore's WYPR and by Podcast on NPR) by the Poe Theatre on the Air is developing an excellent reputation, for it is not only dramatizing the famo…
"Pandemics are Foul, Theater is Fair" Wyrd Sisters Shakespeare Society is an online performance group formed by several Shakespeare-loving friends in April of 2020 as an artistic response to…