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Silver Spring Stage's spectacular and engrossing show, The Crucible, under Director Craig Allen Mummey's expert guidance, tackles many contentious subjects, including sexism, racism, religio…
Big River is the musical adapted from the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. With music and lyrics by Roger Miller and a book by William Hauptman, the 1985 production …
If you’ve ever been in an acting class, a group-encounter session, a sensitivity training, or kindergarten, you’ll feel right at home in The Fever. Even if you’re by na…
The vexing concept of consent in sex gets a seductively smart parsing in Anna Zeigler’s Actually. Now playing in an electrically well-acted Theater J production directed by Johanna Gre…
It has taken more than 35 years for Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's iconic musical Little Shop of Horrors to reach the Kennedy Center. But it's been worth the wait! The Kennedy Center's Broa…
By Sophie Herreid, Caitlin Partridge, Lauren Patton I had so many hopes. I had so many dreams. But I died I died I died along the way. – Chorus of Refugees, ‘Anon[ymous]’ P…
Audience participation can so often be a painful and unwelcome component of a night at the theater, especially if, like myself, you're prone to minor panic attacks at the thought of being ra…
There is so much to be blown away by in The Fall, the powerful and thrilling performance piece devised and performed by seven South African students. Their majestic musicality, their propuls…
Illyria is fabulous, darlings. The clothes are to die for. The décor is out of its 1980s mind. The music is as eclectic as it is electric. And plot elements and characters drawn from Twelft…
The idea of sexual consent might seem simple: no means stop and yes means carry on. In practice, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The predicaments stemming from this issue t…
PUBLIQuartet is not a typical string quartet. Violinists Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth, violist Nick Revel, and cellist Amanda Gookin make up this unique ensemble dedicated to improvisi…
The Washington Stage Guild announced the stepping-down of Executive Director Ann Norton, one of WSG's Founding Members. Norton's 32 years in leadership roles helped nurture the WSG into one …
Among the many stage actors who have appeared on the big and small screen, New York-based Dan Domenech, Erik Ransom, Jamyl Dobson, and Johnny Smith are accomplished and well-versed in both. …
I’ve been wary of this play since it was first produced in 1997. I remember hearing that it was about a pedophile and his niece and that its treatment of the uncle was sympathetic. So …
Michael Bobbitt gets around. This master-of-all-trades, whose adaptation of Aida is now playing to sold-out audiences at Constellation Theatre, has danced, directed and choreographed his way…
There was a significant "first" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) 2018-19 ReDiscovery Reading Series at the Lansburgh Theatre this week. It was a reading of the enthralling, fearless …
A current exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library explores Winston Churchill's admiration for Shakespeare, above all the World War II-era patriotic inspiration of Laurence Olivier's film o…
Colonial Players' production of The Babylon Line is an engaging drama that raises many questions about memory and writing. Written by Richard Greenberg and first performed in 2016, it focuse…
Happy Theater, a theatrical group using object puppetry and physical theatre to heal, unite and inspire, and sorrows&songs, peddling poetry and wonder by way of the stage, will bring the…
Applications are now open for the 2019Â Capital Fringe Festival! See below for application details. OPTION 1:Â FRINGE RUN VENUE Participation in the Fringe Festival is an opportunity for…
Reston Community Players has built a reputation of presenting professional-quality theater that surpasses expectations of volunteer-based community theater, and their most recent production …
This Halloween season, Other Voices Theatre is conjuring up a delightful evening of comedy in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, brilliantly directed by Susan Thornton. Wishing to observe the beha…
Evil Dead: The Musical is full of guts and gore and audience involvement, like Rocky Horror Show meets Little Shop Of Horrors meets Gallagher, as directed by Quentin Tarantino's drunk half-b…
A few years ago, the teenage son of a single mom shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic, and now the nice suburban home they lived in is a blight. The house not only brings the neighborhood dow…
From behind tall blank panels, a cast of characters drawn from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro emerge, dressed in all white period garb, staging vignettes of frustrated and consummated love …
