"The moon is down; I have not heard the clock." Those words"spoken by 10-year-old Owen Peakes in the Folger Theatre's startling new production of Macbeth"send a faint tremor through the pack…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) today announces the appointment of Simon Godwin as its next Artistic Director. Godwin, currently the Associate Director at the National Theatre of Great…
Natalie Graves Tucker is so many things to so many people that we might need to add “superwoman” to her resume: actor, mom, marketing professional, voice over artist, video produ…
“You have everything you need within you to be human,” says an unseen guru on the god mic. He is speaking in a sonorous voice to six seekers who now sit rapt in a row facing us t…
Kennedy Center’s annual Page to Stage Festival is always chock full of tempting offerings, and the challenge of deciding what to see is daunting. It’s like an all-you-can-eat buf…
Born into a society coming off a bloody, soul-crushing war nobody asked for. The folks who govern are taxing their people into oblivion; the common man looked at as a lesser caste, an undese…
There is a good, rather grim, chance that The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek will be Athol Fugard's last play; well into his eighties, Fugard has wryly admitted as much in recent interviews…
The final days of summer are here. And you know what that means? It's time to score some awesome deals during Theatre Week. For the third year, we're bringing you exclusive prices to some of…
For a long Labor Day Weekend, September Song is presenting Cole Porter's Anything Goes at the Carroll Arts Center in Westminster, Maryland. Produced by Allen Cross and Joan Eichhorn and dire…
The Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Page to Stage Festival offers theatergoers the chance to view and give feedback on works of theater. The free performances feature work by over 60 loca…
Building Better People Productions’ performance of Dream House: A Rainy Day Play, is a funny, clever show about the power of imagination. Written by Jeremy Gable and directed by Lynne …
The Washington, DC-area premiere of Athol Fugard's most recent play The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek opens this weekend at MetroStage and will run through September 30. First preview on T…
Theater Alliance launches Season 16 with the Word Becomes Action Festival: Flipping the Script. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural festival, this second annual festival e…
Imagine a cluster of windows without walls, set against a backdrop of doors. And imagine a stage with a floor whose texture resembles sand. Those are just a few of the images"improbable as t…
I could well make this a one-word review: Wow. After the sensational opening of Marie and Rosetta at Mosaic last night, wow was first word I heard from everyone I talked to, and wow was the …
Creative Cauldron is celebrating its 10th season performing at its ArtSpace venue in Falls Church. Creative Cauldron is one of the area's small theater gems, with a consistently high quality…
First-rate Shakespeare for free is one of the most valuable gifts the Shakespeare Theatre offers the DC community. The two-week run of Romeo and Juliet is a reprise of director Alan Paul's a…
Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, died last night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 91 years ol…
Patrick Flynn's The Ferberizing of Coral was one of six plays chosen for publication by Samuel French at the 43rd Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival this week. 850 plays were submitted to …
Leaving Stephen Sondheim's Passion, directed by Matthew Gardiner, I found one word to describe my reaction: Believable. Yes, believable. This Signature Theatre production of Passion took …
Romeo & Juliet's famous entreaty–"wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"– is strikingly realized in the latest addition to Shakespeare Theatre Company's yearly Free For…
Here’s an idea for a grad lit student in search of a dissertation topic:Â “Bewilderment and Brilliance in the Theater of Kathleen Akerley.” That thought flipped through …
Stephen Sondheim's Passion, now playing at Signature Theatre, has two of the greatest songs in the composer's brilliant portfolio " "I Wish I Could Forget You" and "Loving You" " and three c…
Studio Theatre has added a production to its previously announced 2018-2019 season. The Children, by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, will close out Studio's season beginning on May 1st, 20…
In a recent telephone interview, Matt Bassett, Hub Theatre's new artistic director discussed the company's upcoming season. In shaping the season, his first as Hub artistic director, Bassett…