Thematically, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence is simple and relevant: the frightening trend toward rejecting selfless, mutual, unconditional love with a person in favor of a me…
For a Cirque-head such as myself, anticipation of a new Cirque du Soleil show coming to town kicked in months ago. It had been two long years since Cirque last pitched its Big Top here, with…
Long live King Richard! Join Robin Hood (Chris Dinolfo), Maid Marian (Alina Collins Maldonado), and all the Merry Men (Jon Jon Johnson, Jason B. McIntosh, Nick DePinto) on a swashbuckling ad…
The minute I walked in the joint, I could see this would be a play of distinction. Indeed, a high kicking, rollicking good time at the 1960s Fandango Ballroom was had by all on the opening n…
Using interviews of real community members wanting to live a full life here in America as her source of inspiration, Jane Franklin and her eponymous dance company have developed an engaging …
Stephen Sondheim himself felt some uncertainty in categorizing Sweeney Todd, the 1979 show that many regard as the masterpiece of his long and spectacular career. In his annotated book of ly…
The fun of seeing Motown the Musical starts a few hours before leaving for the theater. Just the promise of that glorious oldies playlist is like inner ear foreplay. There isn't much that pu…
When Natalie Toro steps onto the Arena Stage in the world premiere of Snow Child this week, she'll be adding a whole new role to the worldwide musical repertoire. But while the part is new, …
The University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance is bringing students, faculty, and the community-at-large together for their 2018 Black Theatre and Dance Symposium (BT…
Raise your skirts and bob your hair, because the toe-tapping flapper frolic Thoroughly Modern Millie is ready to take the stage at Reston Community Players. Based on the 1967 Academy Award-w…
Taking in Annie Baker's John at Signature Theatre gives me the rare opportunity to use a word I have always wanted to, but haven't before–the word “anhedonia.” Yes, Baker's…
We were promised surprises " guest artists and other treats – at the Kennedy Center's 2018-2019 Theater Season announcement Tuesday in the Center's cozy Terrace Theater. And, as expect…
An eerie sense of the supernatural combined with an almost ritualistic sense of the minutiae of daily living combine to form the aesthetic ambiance of playwright Annie Baker's haunting and d…
This is an absolutely absorbing medical drama performed with full-on passion by two of DC’s top-tier actors. Susan Rome plays Roz, a hematologist dedicated to her role as healer, and T…
Pinky Swear Productions' latest offering, Use All Available Doors, will open at the Dupont Underground this weekend. The popular DC arts and culture space in a subterranean trolley sta…
When Mark Medoff's award-winning play Children of a Lesser God premiered on Broadway in 1980, followed by the highly-lauded film adaptation in 1986, it provided groundbreaking insights into …
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s son, Samori, was 15 when his father wrote a book addressed to him, Between the World and Me. Before that book won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer…
There are few perfect things in life, let alone in theater. But Providence Players' The Front Page comes darn close. Every aspect of the production is first-rate. The newspaper world created…
Fierce. No word short of that can fairly describe the characters' commitment to their consuming passions, and the actors' commitment to their roles, in Theater J's harrowing production of Ka…
How do you solve a problem like translating music into words? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? Music is a gossamer thing, difficult to pin down with language. As the critic Winthrop …
50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot on the balcony outside of his room at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. His death at age 39 still reverberates throughout the country, which still…
WSC Avant Bard will present a reading of Natural Shocks, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, on Monday, April 23, 2018, at 7:30 pm at 1st Stage, 1524 Spring Hill Rd, McLean, VA 22102, as p…
By Kylie Miller Spotlighters Theatre is halfway through their run of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts.…
Young Artists of America & Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras Present RAGTIME in Concert Over 275 local student performing artists to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the production's ti…
On Saturday, April 7, 2018 student musicians in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids program performed at Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium as a part of a collaboratio…