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Dinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong. Serving under the contemporary ha…
Chicago, now running at Other Voices Theatre in Frederick, has a long and winding history. In 1924, Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins covered the sensational trials of Belva Gaertner and B…
Presented by the american vicarious in a limited-engagement world premiere at The Sheen Center, Pushkin, playwright Jonathan Leaf's latest historical drama, considers the last troubled years…
"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it," said the character Shug Avery in novelist Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color …
"All you have to do is move your little finger, move your little finger, and you can change the world." That line from Stephen Sondheim's Assassins could well serve as an epigraph for Mike D…
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod's Roméo e…
Mike Daisey’s monolog The Story of the Gun is a show both hilarious and sobering, and he begins it with a wry riff on who we are who have come to see it. As he joshingly reminds us, we…
New York's Dan Domenech, who wowed audiences last summer as Che in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's acclaimed production of Evita, was invited back to Center Valley, PA, on July 30, f…
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière newly adapted for now, plus…
By Bill Kamberger King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare's play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular works; indeed, it hasn't been performed in B…
Quotidian Theatre Company’s An Irish Twist on a Midsummer Night’s Dream is a fantastical adventure that transports Shakespeare’s classic to 1820s Ireland. This production w…
Are we brave enough to laugh at ourselves? That's a question The Second City explores in it's latest comedy show Generation Gap, playing now through August 12th at the Kennedy Center. The sh…
Hamilton: An American Musical is whatever kind of success you want to call it for its time. Artists, audiences, and critics observed it as groundbreaking in its music composition, choreograp…
A Broadway musical about Broadway musicals"what could be better for theatre-lovers of all stripes? The iconic A Chorus Line truly fits the bill! It features music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics …
You know those big live TV versions of blockbuster musicals that get broadcast decades after the show was a hit on the stage? Like, not until generations have come and gone? Well in the case…
Why do people commit evil, and once they have started, why can't they stop? Now, as always, it is a question worth asking. Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, is an exploration of …
The prodigiously imaginative performance artist Holly Bass belongs to the first generation of her family not to pick cotton for a living. I learned that startling fact as I passed through an…
Wow! Wildwood Summer Theatre's production of Little Women (The Musical) was both dazzling and polished; its shine reflected the animated energy of its all-youth (ages 15-24) cast and crew…
What could bring luminaries from the worlds of opera, musical theatre, a cappella, jazz, dance, choral music, and symphonic music together for one night of heavenly tunes? Perhaps nothing sh…
The real news getting you down? Do you have a plentitude of cares and woes hanging over your head? Are you an addicted MSNBC watcher who wants to get off the couch and away from the cell for…
Artistic Director Jordan Friend had a clear vision when founding 4615 Theatre Company last year. Each 4615 season would kick off with a pair of shows – one classic, one contemporary &#…
This August marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago " one of the watershed events in the history of the American protest movement and election politi…
In Sucks to be a Grownup, you'll see every side of CJ. Her funny side, her angry side, and even her emotional side. You'll see CJ laughing and interacting with her audience, and you'll see h…
By Leandra Lynn Step right up! Feast your eyes on PWLT's current production, Barnum! The fun started even before I walked into the Hylton Performing Arts Center, with clowns waving at me fro…
An epic marriage of Ancient, Elizabethan, and Post-Modern stylings, the Broadway premiere of Head over Heels at the Hudson Theatre, produced by Gwyneth Paltrow and Donovan Leitch, is cause f…
