March 12 " Rasheeda Speaking postponed. Ally Theatre at Joe's Movement Emporium, originally schedule to run through March 22. March 12 " Adventure Theatre MTC Spring Gala, "Step Out in…
This morning, Ally Theatre Company's production of Rasheeda Speaking became the first production cancelled in our area due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Rasheeda Speaking has been…
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread COVID-19 across the globe, large scale gatherings across the world face postponement or outright cancellation. But this is hardly the first time,…
The hefty tome of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, a nondescript table, two chairs and a turquoise feather boa is apparently all one needs to stage all of the Bard's output: if you skip a fe…
True events, leavened with fable and fantasy (and a little bit of the Kinsey Sicks) will propel Theater J's 2020-2021, the company has revealed. In five months, the outline of our national p…
"Kill me now," says Moses. "What are your Promised Land Top Ten?" counters his side- kick Kitch. Thus begins two memorable, masterful, spell-binding and heartbreaking performances by Christo…
The Contemporary American Theater Festival will stake its claim as one of the country's most important new play festivals in 2020, with five world premieres (including one rolling world prem…
Ain't no mountain high enough to throw shade on Jacqueline "Jackie" Marie Butler (the incandescent, triple threat Felicia Curry), the heroine of Caleen Sinnette Jennings' world premiere play…
I was intrigued by Museum 2040, an alternate future immersive production that combines a museum exhibit and a theatricalized dedication ceremony, from the moment I interviewed its playwright…
Can incremental racism make you sick and even a little crazy? Rasheeda Speaking is a fascinating exploration into the premise that no matter how well-intentioned we try to be, the toxic …
ExPats Theatre's production of Einstein's Wife, (it bears the subtitle, An Imagined Encounter) takes place in an algorithmically graphed and projected after-life (Projections by Dylan Uremov…
A 16th century queer romance that's a jukebox musical set to the hits of The Go-Gos? It's hard not to think "train wreck potential" when you hear the synopsis of Head Over Heels, the musical…
As the novel coronavirus ("novel" here means no one has prior immunity) has incurred its way into DC, Maryland and Virginia, area producers of live theatre are taking measures to protect the…
The upcoming 2020/2021 season will introduce Encore Theater Company, based in the Takoma Park community. Encore's inaugural season, their press release announced, will feature "two intimate,…
The odd pairing of old Bob Dylan songs with Irish playwright Conor McPherson's new script about desperate lives during the Great Depression worked well enough when I saw it Off-Broadway in 2…
For a brilliantly good time, call Flying V, who notched up the fun last Friday with The Adult Fan Fiction World Championships. So why are you reading about it here? Because this is a theatre…
Bandstand, the Tony Award-winning swing style musical is making a brief stop at The National Theatre. A story of five World War IIÂ veterans trying to rebuild their lives through music, f…
Has this ever happened to you? You're Panthea, Princess of Iberia (Zoe Speas), and you haven't seen your brother, King Arbaces (Benjamin Reed) since you were nine years old. You live under t…
With all the trappings of a Southern gothic " eccentric characters, grotesque situations, and (off-stage) violence " Suddenly Last Summer blazes the stage with vivid imagery and poetic cruel…
This first weekend in March brings together works from some extraordinary women working in exciting new directions today in the realm of 'opera and beyond.'Â In Series hosts a Women Compo…
Empty nest syndrome is not an issue for Marian (an expertly controlled and controlling Susan Rome), a contentedly retired wife and mother living in Florida with her second husband Richard (J…
Starting this week, Washington, DC is getting a new museum, and a different kind of immersive theatrical experience. 4615 Theatre's upcoming production, Museum 2040, written by Renee Calarco…
It was inevitable. Don Giovanni would have to face the match of his life against the #MeToo movement. The problem is this production, not two years after the resplendent WNO production direc…
How do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock con…
The Theater Alliance production of This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers is a lusty, delirious, time-suspending and pulse-pounding journey. It is also " as intimated by the title " both…