Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to be the first regional theater in the metropolitan area to present The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Jus…
By writing Mom Baby God’s central character Destinee Grace Ramsey as a likable, "trying-to-find-her-place-in-the world” young woman speaking her own truths, playwright Madeline J…
NextStop Theatre is reaching the end of their July 2017 to June 2018 "Point and Counterpoint" season. Their third and final show pairing explores the contrasting effects that religious teach…
Bullies in the bathroom, rampant rumors and petty one-upmanship. Whether in Texas, Iowa or Connecticut, the horrors of high school cattiness haunt many into their adult years. Texas Homecomi…
Can you imagine a chamber music concert"a quartet, playing mostly classical work by composers with names like Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich"getting six encores? And seven"yes, seven"standi…
"Peace and transcendence can only be found in death" seems to be the eternal thread that runs through Verdi's operatic masterpiece, Don Carlo. Presented by the Washington National Opera, the…
In turbulent times, escaping into a yarn that is as light and high-flying as a helium-filled balloon can be a welcome respite. So, the Great Performance Series at the Center for the Arts/Geo…
Wouldn’t it be fun to be a young urban radical and cohabit with other young revolutionaries"in a cheap walk-up apartment that you all share"eating fast food, having polyamorous sex, do…
The theme of a man and a woman who can't live without each other and can't live with each other is as old as theater. Often enough it has been played for comedy, as in the couples in Noel Co…
Five minutes into the start of Every Brilliant Thing, most of the audience had already cried for the first time – and had laughed aloud. By the end of the show, the entire room s…
Race, religion, office politics, and fear of the "other" are just some of the issues that explode onto the stage in playwright/novelist Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner.…
The audience for Workhouse Theater's production of Avenue Q (music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Mark, book by Jeff Whitty), loved every minute. And what's not to love? The 2003 Tony A…
A movement is taking flight and Young Playwright's Theater (YPT) is one of its co-pilots. Their upcoming Silence is Violence event will explore environmental injustice as it relates to gentr…
Gypsy, A Musical Fable, a Broadway classic that debuted in 1959, has become intertwined with the DNA of most Baby Boomers, Gen Xs, Gen Ys, and even Millennials. The book by Arthur Laurent…
A play like Othello raises many questions in the minds of theater-lovers: Should art be recuperative? Should plays written long ago be redeemed to suit the tastes of modern-day audiences? Ot…
For nearly two decades, the inventive Signature in the Schools education program has exposed Arlington County public high school student actors to highly-charged, real-world issues well beyo…
There is a dramatic moment in Hold These Truths that comes as no surprise yet comes as a heart-stopping shock. We know going in that this moment is going to happen. We know that the U.S. Sup…
Satire is a comic form I have always loved. Among the greatest geniuses of the genre is Moliere, whose comedies from 3.5 centuries ago still evoke howls of laughter when done well. Directed …
Do you ever wonder about the nature of awareness and the mechanics of perception? Luckily for us, Baba Brinkman does, and returns to SoHo Playhouse with his well-conceived and brilliantly en…
Catch Happenstance Theater’s Slapstick Jukebox before it scoots away. Only five shows were planned for this weekend, so only the fast and the few will get the opportunity to watch this…
Sex with Strangers, written by Laura Eason, is now on stage at Colonial Players. Directed by Dave Carter, this play about two writers navigating the difficulties of love in the digital age s…
An apt subtitle for Of Mice and Men, adapted from the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, might be "the futility of hope." In the small, corrosively lonely, universe of a California ranch during…
Mom Baby God"a solo show written and performed by Madeline Joey Rose about the right's attack on abortion rights"is as playful as it is powerful. The play centers on a fourteen-year-old girl…
When is art an intentional expression of respectful cultural appreciation and when is it an unconscious foray into cultural misappropriation? These were some of the deep questions raised in …
All too often the work of a theater sound designer can go unnoticed. In fact, not long ago the Tony Awards decided not to even provide an award category for sound design (now reinstated). Th…