The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie's Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young girl, Magda, and a band of actors searching…
It's common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch show. The myth that women cannot …
"We fight like cats, but we love like dogs." Marcus Gardley, the author of A Wonder in my Soul has just the right way of putting things. Baltimore Center Stage continues its standard of e…
When patrons of the 40th annual Havana Film Festival in Cuba enter the city's Cine la Rampa on December 8, they'll be treated to an unexpected viewing experience – a conductor and an o…
If Narnia was one of your beloved childhood worlds, you have the opportunity to share it with your nearest and dearest without anyone having to actually (perish the thought!) read–but …
Ballet West's Nutcracker, conducted by Jared Oaks, is one of the most unique productions to set stage this week at the Kennedy Center. Steeped in lush colors, with a gorgeous set design a…
Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal is staged on a slick sheet of ice where acrobats and skaters combine to create an amazing entertainment. A spectacular array of chills and charms to thrill a…
Northern Virginia's Alden Theatre, with a long-standing moniker, "small stage, big talent," reopens on Saturday, January 5, 2019, when renovations of the surrounding building complex, the Mc…
There's nothing wrong with Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical that a little modern relevance wouldn't cure. It certainly looks sensational inside the grand proscenium framing of Baltimore's…
There are only ever seven characters onstage in this majestic production"three of them former slaves"but it is as if multitudes of Africans lost crossing the ocean or sold in chains are evok…
The role of Otto in Paula Vogel's Indecent"the Tony Award-winning play at Arena Stage"is an actor's dream. The play, about a Yiddish melodrama that scandalized Broadway nearly a century ago,…
Back by popular demand, MetroStage returns Christmas at the Old Bull & Bush for its 2018 holiday season. Written and directed by Catherine Flye, Christmas is reflective of British variet…
The character Lianne Harvey plays in J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, Sheila Birling, really fascinated me. Sheila stands out as no ordinary ingenue. During the course of the pl…
The entryway to the Muritz-Gudelsky theater at the Olney Theatre Center is lined with holiday lights and garnish. The cozy lobby is adorned with electric candles and sprigs of holly, creatin…
I can’t recall seeing another play by someone who came to playwrighting from standup, but I’ll not soon forget how I laughed my feckin head off at Sonya Kelly’s How to Keep…
Love is unique. It is an intense bond of emotion, desire, and care between two people, deeply special to one another, that for them cannot be duplicated anywhere on Earth. Bureaucracy must r…
A biographical jukebox musical about a Pop icon who's lived her life in the public eye since the age of sixteen, The Cher Show, making its Broadway debut at the Neil Simon Theatre, has all t…
By Julie Janson If you are looking for some holiday merriment that is fun for all ages, dance and sing your way over to Adventure Theatre's Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas. This musical…
It's a witch hunt! Witches, whores, collusion, and corruption, peppered with a bit of witness tampering, threaten the dreams of small-town America in Lumina Theatre Company’s inaugural…
A mini Hamilton reunion took place at the Kennedy Center last night as actors from Hamilton's original Broadway cast took part in the 41st Kennedy Center Honors Awards that recognized the co…
"Why must every Jew on stage be a paragon?" A key question asked without bombast by one of the fictional characters created by playwright Paula Vogel for Indecent, her daring stage play c…
At a time when we are marching for our rights, a show like Les Misérables feels only too appropriate. If you don't hear the people sing, then you have cotton in your ears. The outstanding s…
A Civil War Christmas at 1st Stage is a strong addition to plays that connect with the holiday season. Playwright Paula Vogel embraces and examines provocative themes in this piece, looking …
The Accident Bear is an unusual play, staged in an even more unusual location. Written by Bob Bartlett and directed by Jay Brock, it is set in a laundromat and is performed at The Avenue Lau…
At 126 years old and still going strong, Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas has lost none of its power to tickle an audience's funny bone. Fells Point Corner Theatre's production keeps t…