Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the composer's operatic meditation on the metaphysical nature of love, sex, and death, is generally accepted to be the "before/after" point in the history of …
“You fucked up! You fucked up! You fucked up!” rails the older brother, berating the younger. “You fucked up! You fucked up! You fucked up!” he goes on, as if he cann…
Tonight, at a celebration honoring theater excellence on stages across the Washington area, theater artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre's He…
When you go to see The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Rockville Little Theatre — and you should — prepare to be confused. This is not a bug, it’s a feature. The co…
Offering timely explorations of important topics, 1st Stage continuously produces memorable plays. They are always solid, but The Brothers Size will knock you out. In it, a young man newly r…
The title of Topher Payne's play is, of course, ironic. Set during the early 1950s "Lavender Scare," a purge of gay and lesbian Federal employees coinciding with the Red Scare of that era, t…
Laurel Mill Playhouse delivers a madcap, hilarious examination of judicial frailty in Ian McWethy's 12 Incompetent Jurors. The twelve jurors are a rollicking physical ensemble that makes you…
It was just announced at London's ninth annual Off-West End Awards (or Offies – the English equivalent of New York's Obies), presented this evening in the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts …
Avant Bard theatre announces that veteran screen actor Khalil Kain will star with award-winning stage actor Louis E. Davis in Suzan-Lori Parks’s acclaimed Topdog/Underdog, led by award…
By all means, go, have a great time at Signature Theatre's grandly jaunty Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show. A musical revue centered upon the prolific composer Fats Waller (19…
We can hold our breath but we're never likely to get another musical as perfect as Gypsy. Sixty Broadway seasons ago it caught the unique charms and pathology of show business in a magic bub…
One of the scariest moments in Kleptocracy –Â Kenneth Lin's drama about the struggle for power in post-Soviet Russia – occurs when the shadow of a tiger prowls the length of an…
A quaint house at first glance is anything but when it is discovered that Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha are serving their guests something a little stronger than tea in Arsenic and Old Lace by J…
Soon to open back on Broadway at Studio 54 – where Andy Warhol, who coined the phrase "famous for 15 minutes," spent more than a minute in the late 1970s, when it was the hottest cl…
Outside, the Polar Vortex reigned. Inside, the jazz was hot and smoky and funny and sexy. Ain't Misbehavin', celebrating the work of Fats Waller, brought his music and the feel of his lif…
Presented by Blackfriars Repertory Theatre and The Storm Theatre at The Sheen Center, Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's coming-of-age three-act comedy, offers an opportunity for diehard f…
Marius Petipa must have been smiling from his grave last night when the American Ballet Theatre presented another brilliant Russian choreographer's staging of Petipa's Harlequinade. This swe…
The American Pops Orchestra recently presented their original adaptation of the children's story, An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. Writer, Claybourne Elder, has taken the madcap rhyme and tr…
Cross-racial casting can be totally wrongheaded"as when white actors impersonate characters of color. It can also be speciously universalizing"as when actors of color play all the parts in a…
BlackRock will be kicking off its jam-packed February with Broadway Gold, a musical cabaret spun together by Signature Theatre's own Tracy Lynn Olivera. On Friday, February 1 at 8 PM, Oliver…
Pointless Theatre has produced a stage adaptation of Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, City Lights, called Visions of Love. Using the original score, adapted and composed by Chaplin himself,…
When the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” comes on the pre-show soundtrack, it’s a tipoff that C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters is going to be a diabol…
Imagine sitting in your home watching a rerun of "Gilligan's Island" when suddenly, the characters come through the screen, stand in your living room, and sing about their adventures while e…
Wisconsin-born and New York-based award-winning actor Kyle Taylor Parker is well known to lovers of musical theater and to all loyal KTPEEPS for his featured roles in the original Broadway c…
Yes, But I Have To, a new drama, will premiere at Hard Bargain Amphitheater in Accokeek, MD from February 15 to 18, 2019. Written and directed by emerging DC playwright Addison Janney, and s…