I never feel like I'm fully in the Christmas spirit until I've donned an ugly sweater, had a gingerbread cookie and watched a production of A Christmas Carol. Little Theatre of Alexandria's …
You can skip your one-hundredth viewing of A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker this holiday season and, instead, laugh the evening away at the delightfully original musical comedy, The Crate…
The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre's Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel's lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes define the characters nearly as much as…
Long Island native Joe Iconis knows better than anyone about the power of the internet to achieve fame that extends well beyond Andy Warhol's proverbial fifteen minutes. Following its region…
Fans of zany humor might remember when AnyStage Theater popped up in the Capital Fringe Festival with its ridiculous (and mostly fact-free) takes on Margaret Thatcher and Amelia Earhart. The…
The Little Mermaid is bringing big waves of happy little faces to Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Whether they come adorned in magical gowns with sparkling tiaras or sneakers that light up with…
The controversial scene that ends this “true story of a little Jewish play” has been foretold at length throughout the show and mentioned in much publicity, so it’s no spoi…
It’s hard to resist the charm and humor of a good operetta. Though the form has been less popular recently, The In Series is doing its part to revive the legacy of Victor Herbert"one o…
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is a delightful, heavenly-sounding, Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Carole King, who "wrote the soundtrack to a generation." With a h…
Northern Virginia's NextStop Theater has announced a very special cabaret event for the Holiday season. It is called A Kosher Christmas Cabaret. The performance is a follow-on to NextStop…
Last year, Alliance for New Music-Theatre performed Protest in Dupont Underground. Regular theatergoers and people who had never been to theater alike were struck by the power of Václa…
Don’t throw away your shot! Sing Hamilton songs with some of DC’s favorite musical theater performers this Friday, November 30th on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. The Kenne…
“To let one’s hair down” is to open up, be freer than usual, be willing to share. The idiom is apt for what transpires in Barber Shop Chronicles, an extraordinary explorati…
Arts on the Green, the City of Gaithersburg’s home for the performing and visual arts which includes the Kentlands Mansion and Arts Barn, is now soliciting production proposals for the…
Get ready for your jaw to drop, your eyes to open wide, and your mouth to be agape! Back on Broadway for the fourth year with a limited six-week engagement of an all-new touring productio…
The 2018 DC Queer Theatre Festival is presenting performances of 7 ten minutes plays on Friday, December 7, at 7:30 pm and Saturday, December 8 at 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm at DC Arts Center…
For people seeking holiday entertainment in the Frederick area who might seek an alternative to A Christmas Carol, or The Nutcracker, or It's a Wonderful Life, or one of the endless cavalcad…
J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, as directed by Stephen Daldry, represents the best of international theatre. The play combines the chocolate-box delights of an Agatha Christie mystery w…
With the holiday season upon us- whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year's- the performing arts calendar is full of productions that help connect an audience to the larger, div…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of A Christmas Carol is a delightfully faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Co-written by Donald Hicken and Sally Boyett, and dir…
J. B. Priestley’s classic An Inspector Calls"a drawing-room drama set in England in 1912 and written there in 1944"has landed in DC with uncanny currency. Now at Sidney Harmon Hall in …
An acclaimed writer for both the big stage and the small screen, Itamar Moses is the reigning 2018 Tony-Award winner for the Best Book of a Musical for the hit Broadway production of The Ban…
SMOKE! That raises the alarm that there's been another "Clinker" episode from the diabolical furnace in the basement of the Parker home as the Gaithersburg Arts Barn hosts an entirely entert…
Founded in 2013, by Executive Director James Rightmyer, Jr. and Artistic Director David Andrew Laws, Hamlet Isn't Dead specializes in keeping Shakespeare alive for 21st-century audiences,…
I remember being so bored by my high school American history class that I got a D in it. This was not normal. My report cards always had A’s and B’s. So the kindly elderly woman …