Theatre News: Helen Hayes Awards Presentation and Recipients
The Washington Theatre family was dressed in the finery at The Anthem for the Helen Hayes Awards on Monday night, May 13, 2019. Dozens of performers, directors and designers were honored…
The Washington Theatre family was dressed in the finery at The Anthem for the Helen Hayes Awards on Monday night, May 13, 2019. Dozens of performers, directors and designers were honored…
The National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a true delight right here in Washington, DC. Their strength as an ensemble allows them to master many…
I look forward to every production I am privileged to see at Dundalk Community Theatre (DCT). Even the ones that are not my musical cup of tea are so well done that they usually change my mi…
'On Air' at Creative Cauldron. ". . . this is a lovely show about hope and dreams and a time when America still seemed to be excited about progress and believed that yes, we can." " Mary Ann…
Though it is not a recent Disney hit or from a well-known children's classic, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" playing now at the Children's Theatre of Annapolis (CTA), has taken many audience memb…
There is funny ha-ha, clever funny, and situationally funny. Though many of the things we find hilarious in our lives generally fall into one of these categories, it is certainly quite the b…
A lavish production of "Tosca," one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular works, is currently gracing the stage of the Kennedy Center opera house. Set in 18th century Rome, "Tosca" opens in a ca…
The musical partnership of Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith has produced their fifth new musical under Creative Cauldron's "Bold New Works for Intimate Stages" musical theatre commissio…
The game is afoot! But with a different lens, as the women of Sherlock Holmes' life take center stage in "Sherlock's Veiled Secret," presented by Rockville Little Theatre. Perhaps one of the…
Stand Up For… Theatre is a young company that, along with Erase Hate For Art, makes up How Do You Like Me Now Productions. The two programs work to promote acceptance and equality with the…
On Monday, May 13, 2019, the following recipients were announced in a ceremony held at The Anthem in Washington, DC. 2019 Helen Hayes Awards: James MacArthur Award for outstanding supporting…
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, the Candlelight Concert Society presented "Escher String Quartet" at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre, Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center. Â Esch…
Studio Acting Conservatory has found a new home in Columbia Heights thanks to a lead donation of $1.5 million dollars from Dan and Gloria Logan. The building is a church in the neighborhood'…
I think every performer has a song that they wished they could sing in performance, but there's something that takes it out of your reach. In Bethesda Little Theatre's latest cabaret show, t…
4 men. 3 years. No women. Only studying and fasting. This is the start of William Shakespeare's "Love's Labor's Lost." What ensues is a wildly outrageous comedy unlike any of Shakespeare's o…
What is justice? How can a killer be punished? Can murder ever be justified? Does violence ever end? These are the questions that Aeschylus asked in "The Oresteia," his trilogy of tragedies …
For their final show of the 2018-2019 season, Dominion Stage is closing with a vintage 1970s play by James Kirkwood, Jr. Interestingly enough, the play came first, then the novel (both writt…
No doubt many of you are familiar with Strathmore " it is a preeminent performance venue right here in our backyard. Not only does it boast the impressive Music Center, which draws some of t…
Columbia's Pro Cantare presented "Salute to Gershwin & Kern" at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland. Under the leadership of Frances Motyca Dawson, …
Studio Theatre closes its current season with a tight, gripping production of Lucy Kirkwood's "The Children" " nominated for Best Play at the Tonys last year " that craftily combines small-s…
The album "Our Endless Numbered Days" was released in March 2004 and quickly became a definitive indie album of the decade. Sam Beam, the driving force behind the band Iron and Wine, joined …
Rep Stage's "The 39 Steps" adapted by Patrick Barlow and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, is presently playing at the Studio Theatre at the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard …
There is a moment in "Junk" when the protagonist investment banker Robert "Bob" Merkin praises the idea of debt as a simple promise to pay, trying to convince journalist Judy Chen that "Debt…
Vocal Arts DC concludes its 2018-2019 season at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Tuesday evening, May 14 presenting internationally acclaimed artists countertenor Iestyn Davies and lute…
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, at 7 PM Candlelight Concert Society will be presenting Escher Quartet and Christopher Shih, piano, at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center for the Arts at Howa…