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When three-hours-plus in the theater elapse faster than many a 90-minute performance, it’s a good bet you’ve been in the thrall of a master storyteller. And that’s what hap…
In ancient Greek mythology, Charon is the daemon who ferries the souls of the deceased to Hades across the river Styx, which divides the worlds of the living and the dead. In Jez Butterworth…
It can be hard sometimes for a musical adapted from a well-loved movie to meet expectations. Prince William Little Theater's production of 9 to 5: The Musical was a fantastic and energy-fill…
The witty title gives a good indication of what to expect in the Off-Broadway engagement of The Book of Merman, now performing at St. Luke's Theatre. A laugh-out-loud mash-up Broadway's s…
For those of us who are fans of the Baroque period, it’s no secret that the Counter Reformation served as one of the most fertile periods in European art history. With the advent of op…
Sex, sin, retribution, and vengeance are only starting points for the simmering cauldron that is Brave Spirit's amped production of The Changeling, a four centuries old Jacobean drama by Tho…
Editing from the playwright's own words, "Émilie is a play about legacy," and "is a dilated moment in time just before Emilie's death. It is a game of wit, a defiance of mort…
A giant, wheezing monster, many feet tall and wide, a formless head towering over the audience, bathed in green light, with a voice made of dust and despair. That's just one of the many fabu…
When Michael Kevin Darnall plays a character who is the focus of a long scene and we can watch every nuance and shading of his emotional expression without interruption, he can be transfixin…
Sweet innocence with a mature danger underneath " that is Let the Right One In at Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) in a phrase. If you are a fan of the horror and vampire genres, you have lik…
Here's a slick, snappy, lively show that's timely, relevant and fun. It's She Like Girls, and it's got dance and music and diversity and authenticity. The best thing about this show is how t…
In San Francisco, the Unbound Festival included twelve choreographers and was a massive undertaking filled with phenomenal risks, tremendous creative freedom and the excitement of new territ…
In San Francisco, the Unbound Festival included 12 choreographers and was a massive undertaking filled with phenomenal risks, tremendous creative freedom and the excitement of new territory.…
Hurt people hurt people: a cliché, yes, but one that helps understand many of the characters in Steven A. Butler, Jr.'s Chocolate Covered Ants, revived in Restoration Stage's gorgeous new h…
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Award-winning writer, speaker, social activist, and feminist Gloria Steinem is the subject of Emily Mann's new play Gloria: A Life, making its debut at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Directed by Di…
Adventure Theatre MTC announced its grand reopening on October 15th in Glen Echo Park after 7 months of renovations due to an electrical fire. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined executives from…
The latest data from the Child Welfare League of America indicate that in Maryland in 2015, there were over 51,000 referrals for child abuse and neglect. Of those, nearly 21,000 reports were…
Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias is a heartbreaking story that exemplifies the female bond and illustrates the resilient strength that bolsters six women from a small southern town throug…
Beetlejuice opens at the National Theatre this month, featuring the work of a tightknit team of American theater professionals – and one Australian that none of them had ever heard …
By Danny Romeo MetroStage is getting the band back together. Rooms: A Rock Romance celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its premiere this year, in the very theatre where the production had…
Just before intermission in Constellation Theatre Company’s sparkling and stirring production of Aida, there comes a wonderful “Wakanda Forever” moment. The fearless Nub…
Twenty years ago, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive shocked audiences with its holistic examination of pedophilia. It takes a village to molest a child, Vogel believes, not just a perpetr…
The passionate purity, the incandescence of engaged young people whose hearts are touched with fire, contending against oppressive institutions burns bright in the 2015 South Africa depicted…
When asked to picture a lute, the average 21st-century music fan might envision an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, depicting someone in tights, maybe some sort of tunic …
