Moving into its 18th year of producing exciting and accessible alternative theater to cultivate new and diverse audiences, the Landless Theater will present the world premiere of The Mystery…
From the moment you step into the graffiti-laced environment and make yourself comfortable among the sofas, lawn chairs, and lounge seats, you are surrounded by the aesthetics of a post-mode…
One would not expect a tale full of heartbreak, betrayal, abandonment, and death to be labeled as a comedy. But that is exactly what Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and book by Peter Parnell. Based on the Victor Hugo nove…
The unsettling sight of a young man in shackles sitting on a bare, plank-wood floor; a glimmer of night sky piercing the darkness through the barred window of a simple jail cell; and the ten…
By coincidence, Nat Turner in Jerusalem opened at Forum Theatre the day that The Raid closed at Theater Alliance. The two plays seen in succession are powerfully connected. Idris Goodwin'…
Alice in Wonderland, the whimsical, magical story of a girl named Alice who follows a mysterious White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and into a mystifying dream world, strikes me as a difficult …
One sunny afternoon in 1984, Andrew Lloyd Webber (not yet "Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber" or "Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton" as he is known today) paid 50 cents for a used copy of Gaston Leroux'…
Growing old isn't for sissies. In South-African-born, British playwright Ronald Harwood's smart 1999 comedy Quartet, he gently wrestles with the indignities of aging in a British senior-citi…
As the play starts, Morrie Schwartz is dying from ALS. That such a heart-warming, honest, and funny play would begin with such a premise is startling. In Tuesdays with Morrie, produced by th…
In Dogs of Rwanda, now making its Off-Broadway debut at Urban Stages, playwright Sean Christopher Lewis revisits the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the scars they left – both…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of The Glass Menagerie is a quietly powerful rendition of Tennessee Williams' classic play, which premiered in 1944. Directed by Donald Hicken, thi…
Pipeline Playwrights, a Northern Virginia-based collective of accomplished women playwrights who support productions that explore the variety of women’s experiences, is undertaking a n…
While American folk band the Grateful Dead officially disbanded shortly after the death of frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995, the Dead has lived on in numerous "post-Jerry" incarnations in the d…
Breathing renewed life into a 72-year old literary classic is no easy task, but Baltimore Center Stage embraces the challenge, presenting George Orwell's Animal Farm with well-defined verve …
If you're in the mood for a fun-filled island vacation, look no further than Manhattan Island and the Broadway premiere of Escape to Margaritaville at the Marquis Theatre. With music and lyr…
With its snappy-saucy take on Chicago, The Keegan Theatre shows it knows how to give an audience the ol’ razzle-dazzle. And Keegan has done the durable musical proud. In fact in Kee…
It was a real pleasure to interview Aaron Posner, acclaimed playwright and director, who is directing Shakespeare's The Winter’s Tale, which opened at the Folger Theatre on March 13. I…
If you're looking for proof that big things come in small packages, then you need look no further than the tiny black box theater where A Burial Place, produced by the Wheel Theatre Company …
It was a haunting, atmospheric triumph. It was an urgent, yet respectfully accomplished multimedia exploration of American cultural issues rarely presented on DC stages about the unknown lab…
Breathe is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed gospel musical that celebrates black resilience even as it revisits the traumas endured by the black family in a nation built on s…
Monumental Theatre Company’s latest offering, Brooklyn The Musical will be presented March 15-31, 2018. Directed by Michael Windsor, Brooklyn follows our lead character on her journey …
Traveling Players Ensemble will present two public performances of The Trojan Women on March 17, and 18. The Trojan Women explores the consequences of war and women’s relat…
The Big Apple Circus has come to the DC area for their 40th Anniversary Celebration. Original founders, Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, established the BAC in 1977. Their European style…
Myra Melford's avant garde approach to music is filled with moments of intensity and light. Melford's career is an illustrious one, with a Fulbright scholarship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship…