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Closing its 2018 season with a World Premiere by a Local Author, Rapid Lemon debuts Dirty Pictures at Theatre Project. Pucker up: it's about sex and love and ambition and alcoholism and bad …
When Rick Foucheux, the award-winning actor whose work has dazzled DC audiences for 35 years, decided to retire last year, it wasn't because he was tired of the stage. He just wanted to focu…
The Russian Chamber Art Society (RCAS) has been bringing Russian chamber music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Washington audiences for more than a decade, so its decision…
Many students use their high school musical to dip their toes into the theater world. Walter "Bobby" McCoy, used it to launch himself into the deep end. When McCoy was a freshman, the …
It is mid-April, 1945. The war in Europe is nearly over. However, neither a proper armistice nor formal surrender has been signed by the Allies with the former Nazi regime. It is an unsettle…
By Gloria DuGan As one who had reservations about enjoying a musical about The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I was pleasantly surprised viewing the production at The Arlington Players. It had pas…
The Jonathan Larson project, conceived and directed by Feinstein’s/54 Below Creative and Programming Director Jennifer Ashley Tepper, paid tribute to 20th century composer Jonathan …
Agatha Christie's suspense story, Spider's Web, opened this weekend at the Laurel Mill Playhouse located on Main Street in historic Laurel, Maryland. This show is produced by Maureen Rogers …
Playwright Patricia Lynn, Artistic Director of Hunger & Thirst Theatre, began her series of present-day gynocentric adaptations of classic Gothic horror stories with the company's 2016 p…
Local theatre gems exist everywhere and The Little Theatre of Alexandria is definitely one of the DC area’s theatrical treasures. An exceptional cast brought Halloween to Old Town Alex…
By Julie Janson Peace Mountain Theatre Company's production of Barbara Lebow's A Shayna Maidel is a piercing, unabashed look at life before and after the Holocaust through the eyes of two se…
It's all together ooky, The Addams Family. That's a good thing, of course. Save for one chronic, annoying flaw, Silhouette Stages' production of the show is a comic delight, well sung and da…
Countless migrant children have been separated from home and family in war-torn parts of the world, and there is no way all their stories will be told. But Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ym…
By Jen Lofquist Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is almost a master class in restrained theatre. His words, like the Nordic landscape, are stark and carved. Ibsen will tolerate no over-acti…
As if inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness or even Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Synetic's highly original production of Sleepy Hollow, performed without dialogue, is…
It is officially Fall and nothing says Halloween Season like Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Synetic Theater has taken this American horror classic and adapted the story into th…
Making its Off-Broadway premiere with The York Theatre Company, Midnight at The Never Get, with book, music, and lyrics by Mark Sonnenblick (winner of the 2018 Jonathan Larson Award), has…
Before his untimely death in 1996 at the age of 35, composer and playwright Jonathan Larson created groundbreaking work that would become the touchstone of a generation and a watershed momen…
The Hippodrome Theatre has bookended its 2018 season with a pair of heavy-lifting musicals about democracy and revolution. For openers, it has that 30th-anniversary touring production of Les…
Washington, DC has had a long love affair with Shakespeare. In our midst are institutions like the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library, and many DC-area theater companies that celebrat…
Washington, DC:Â The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented six awards Monday night at Signature Theatre, October 8. The award was presented to actors Will Gar…
It is hard to describe Compass Rose Theater's production of Venus in Fur except as awesome in the original sense of inspiring awe. Written by David Ives and first appearing off-Broadway in 2…
Washington National Opera's current production of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata is a moving and heart-wrenching view of tragic romantic love in all its variations. Under the taut and astute d…
With the addition of original music from composer/lyricist Michael Dansicker, Shakespeare Theatre Company's (STC) The Comedy of Errors is abandonment into farce. Whatever may be outside the …
Seasonally-themed evenings of short plays are a staple for smaller theater companies " and with Halloween just weeks away, The Coil Project offers up a quartet of violent and supernatural on…
