Hamilton. What's to be said that hasn't been said? Phenomenon. Game Changer. Standard Bearer. #GOALS. But there was a time before it was…well…what it is. In 2013, I was in Matild…
Romeo and Juliet, Beatrice and Benedick, and even (don't say it) Macbeth were on hand for a Shakespearean love fest on Monday night, all to benefit the wonderful education programs the Shake…
While hitchhiking across Europe by herself at 18, Anne B. Thomas fell asleep in the back of a car, and when she woke she was lying by the side of the road. She tried to stand up but found sh…
Directed by Stephanie Bonte-Lebair and presented in conjunction with Gaithersburg Arts Barn/Arts on the Green, Dasmascus Theatre Company’s The Bridges of Madison County is a crowd-plea…
In The Legend of Georgia McBride, a theatrical cornucopia of camp, country music, drag, domestic dilemmas, and larger-than-life divas await you. This disarming and sexually-charged excursion…
The summer season of DC's very own Chamber Dance Project will be in residence this month at the acoustically rich, 450-seat Lansburgh Theater in downtown DC. The contemporary ballet troupe w…
The vagrant of the title is a Palestinian scholar named Adham who, while on a trip to London as a grad student, must decide, when war breaks out in his homeland, whether to stay or go. Will …
From the opening number by hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles to the big winners of the 2017-18 Broadway season, the 72nd Annual Tony Awards presentation, held at Radio City Music Hall and…
Jon Hudson Odom’s performance in Botticelli in the Fire just blew me away. And it wasn’t the first time that had happened. I’ve been following his work for several years…
After launching seven months ago, arts organization Indicoe is hosting its first event: an Artist Mix N' Mingle at Woolly Mammoth Theatre on June 16th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. The event is held…
The atmospheric and ethereal The Band's Visit led the 2018 Tony Awards with 10 wins, including Best Musical, Best Director and Best Leading Actor and Actress in a Musical and Best Score for …
The Promised Land is entertaining, thought-provoking, unsettling, and at times disturbing. Director and Playwright Lane McLeod Jackson has written and directed a dystopian tale in which the …
Love and money: when fated to compete, can the fight ever be fair? Or is it"and are the parties caught between them"invariably, if not inevitably, doomed? The Russian Romantic poet, playwrig…
Sick of cynicism, vitriol, and vulgarity? The British Players has an antidote: their 53rd Old Time Music Hall (directed by Malcolm Edwards and produced by Sue Edwards). The latest installmen…
The highly anticipated Columbia Festival of the Arts begins on June 14th with the highly acclaimed The Stoop Storytelling Series at the Smith Theatre at Howard Community College. If you have…
Step Afrika!, the acclaimed African American dance company, launched this powerful multisensory dance-theater work eight years ago. Since then the spectacular show has toured the world and h…
By Ellie Milewski Today, theater has grown into an extravagant event. It's normal to spend hundreds of dollars on tickets, go to a fancy Broadway Theater, and wait after the show by the stag…
Whether we grew up in the heart of DC, Manhattan, Evanston, on a midwestern farm, or in the Everglades, we all seemingly arrive at adulthood after spending years on an isolated island, cut o…
If you’ve ever found fleeting social trends to be disconcerting- never fear, so did Gilbert and Sullivan. In their comedic operetta Patience, now on stage at The Victorian Lyric Opera …
The Kennedy Center advertises its Broadway Center Stage series as presenting shows in a "semi-staged concert format." For Frank Loesser's 1961 satire of mid-20th century New York corporate l…
How does a nimble theater company retool an often produced Shakespeare classic such as The Tempest? Well, Avant Bard found a way under Tom Prewitt's inviting direction, with gender-swapping …
Having been a reader and judge for the past several years for the national Jewish Plays Project, I looked forward to taking in the premiere stage production of Lindsay Joelle's Trayf at Thea…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of The Miser, performed at the outdoor patio of Reynolds Tavern, is a fun farce of a French play. Written by Molière, and first performed in 1668,…
Politics may have played a key role in driving the future Gloria Estefan from her home in Cuba and positioning her for eventual world acclaim in Miami. But politics hardly merit an "air guit…
Spend a one-of-a-kind musical evening with Helen Hayes recipient Tom Teasley at the Workhouse Arts Center, Teasley will add fresh musical life to silent comedy films in a mini-film festival …