Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents La Cage Aux Folles, with Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman and Book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on Jean Poiret’s farcical play by the sa…
MetroStage's Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – a…
An evening of conversation with Broadway legend Baayork Lee is coming to Reston's CenterStage. Baayork Lee has performed in some of the most far-reaching musical theatre events of the past d…
A young Vladimir Putin (Christopher Geary) steps onto the stage, wearing a 1980s tracksuit, quoting a passage from the Soviet absurdist and surrealist writer Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) "How a…
How any of us deal with the death of a loved one is so very personal. With the passing of her beloved brother Carl, playwright Paula Vogel found her own sui generis way to let the world know…
Gulf View Drive is the third and final play in Arlene Hutton's highly-acclaimed Nibroc Trilogy, which opened this week to waves of laughter and applause at the Washington Stage Guild in down…
Human beings are mysterious creatures: how deeply can we know even those closest to us, or ourselves? What's the cost of knowing? In Bathsheba Doran's 2015 play, The Mystery of Love and Sex,…
The Maryland Lyric Opera's stated raison d'etre is to find and nurture good singers, then give them a place to test their meddle on masterworks such as those by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, and t…
Following his appearance in two sold-out runs of Titanique, Frankie Grande has returned to The Green Room 42 with an updated revival of his solo cabaret act Livin' La Vida Grande for two …
Chess, the complicated Cold War tale with music by Abba alumni Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and lyrics by the unstoppable Tim Rice, bursts on to the stage at 2nd Star Productions under …
"Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue." With this lyric, the Bechdel family invites the Baltimore Center Stage audience into their home " free of judgment and with all their family dysfuncti…
Some sixty-five years since its original premiere as a black-and-white teleplay, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men remains timeless; all too intriguingly relevant as ever. In the Ford's Theat…
Anna always wanted to go to Europe. See the City of Lights. Drink a pint of authentic German beer. Have a rendezvous (or two, or five) with strange men who whisper unintelligible sweet nothi…
J.M Barrie's Peter Pan is a classic tale whose title character first appeared in a 1902 novel from the same author. Peter is a carefree spirit, who never wants to grow up and embodies innoce…
In honor of last week’s Women’s March, DC Metro Theater Arts sat in on a workshop performance of 19, a musical in development highlighting the fight to pass the 19th Amendment gi…
With a winning young actor in the lead role, any ticket to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is good as gold. Eleven-year-old Rueby Wood made the perfect Charlie Bucket the night we attended…
“Some of my best friends are white men,” says Sherri, the very liberal white woman who handles admissions at a small New England prep school. Avowedly antiracist, Sherri is on a …
At some point in their careers, most concert pianists tackle some, if not all, of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. Many pianists also commission new music for their instrument by living compose…
It's an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to terms with their privilege. How in muted voices they ma…
Brooklyn-born comedian Colin Quinn, familiar to TV viewers everywhere for his regular appearances on Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, and MTV's Remote Control, continues to ignite New Yo…
The Castaways Repertory Theatre opened their production of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's better-known romantic comedies, this past weekend. The story is packed with chicanery.…
Go with no preconceived notions to best absorb Scena Theatre's Submission, the American premiere theater adaptation of the 2015 European best-selling novel by French author Michel Houellebec…
The Big Apple Circus is back in the DC region for its second year. From February 14 through March 24, the Big Apple Circus will transform National Harbor into a big top with a modern twis…
LA TI DO Productions will present its second annual Joel Markowitz Award at LUCKY: A 7th Anniversary on January 28, 2019. Russwin Francisco, a film actor, producer and business owner, was ch…
LA TI DO will present its second annual Joel Markowitz Award at LUCKY: A 7th Anniversary on January 28, 2019. Washington, DC's premiere cabaret series will award DC business owner Russwin Fr…