"The main function of theatre is to teach. Theatre is about life and nothing can teach it more honestly. Theatre has to stir a person up to live life, not just proceed through it." " Bev Sok…
The Holocaust is universally recognized as one of the most traumatic eras in world history during which six million Jewish people lost their lives in unfathomable acts of evil. During this h…
Murder is always a little more entertaining under flashing bright lights and with a punk-rock score. This is especially the case when it surrounds one of the most infamous, acquitted cases o…
"Hadestown" is coming to The National Theatre in DC this November. It is the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theate…
Verdi's "Aida" is one of the most beloved works of the operatic repertoire, and it has an unusual history, having premiered in Cairo before being performed in Europe. The setting of the oper…
José Limón (1908-1972) is one of the foundational figures of American modern dance. A student of Doris Humphrey, Limón went on to create his own dance technique, and the company he fo…
Henrik Ibsen is on a hot streak in DC. Two high-profile theatres opened their seasons to great fanfare as they each featured an adaptation of Ibsen. Amy Herzog's 2024 reworking of "An Enemy …
As the director (and co-founder of Synetic Theatre) Paata Tsikurishvili says in his playbill note, creation always demands a price and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a classic example. Famil…
Everyone who appears on stage in NextStop Theatre's production of Jason Robert Brown's "The Last 5 Years" does a phenomenal job. Ben Clark as Jamie and Caelyn D. Williams as Cathy are exc…
Agatha Christie's renowned detective stories are famously known for their winding plots, deceptive tones, misleading clues, and eccentric personalities. These thematic elements and concepts …
This musical celebration of Halloween started even before the first note was played. The Meyerhoff lobby staff, dressed as Count Dracula, greeted audience members, and the members of the orc…
This year will be Jane Austen's 250th birthday. Over the centuries, Austen has amassed many fans from all over the globe. Whether they enjoy the Victorian view of culture or they see Austen …
The world premiere of "Fremont Ave." at Arena Stage is an evocative and moving exploration of family, legacy, and unrealized longing"an experience that feels especially poignant for fall, an…
"The air is humming," and something great has come to the Children's Theatre of Annapolis (CTA) stage! An extraordinarily talented cast of young performers is currently staging "West Side St…
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's performance at George Mason Center for the Arts was a display not only of the wide variety of dance that exists under the moniker of "contemporary," but also o…
The holiday season will be starting before we know it. With that comes a plethora of holiday plays, most of them dealing with the Christmas. However, there is always a sprinkle of Hanukkah p…
 Directed by Debbie Barber-Eaton at The Colonial Players, this production of "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors" (written in 2023 by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen in 2023) is silly, fast-p…
AI is everywhere. As a professor, I attend numerous faculty meetings, seminars, and sessions to address the head-scratching dilemma of "what do we do with this thing?" This dilemma has been …
Call it intuition, good vibes, or a hunch, but the guess here is that The Washington Ballet's (TWB) 2025-26 Season (its 49th in DC), is going to be special. Youthful, fresh faces and a new d…
 In the dusty wilds of Spitwhistle, West Texas, boredom consumes the townsfolk day in and day out. Basically, there is little to do in these parts except get lost in thought or gather at…
Henrik Ibsen, arguably the forerunner of theatrical realism, did like to take little expressionistic leaps now and then, blending the bleak workaday world with a more surrealist spin on the …
WASHINGTON, DC " October 22 " Theatres across the Washington, DC-area are offering free and discounted tickets to federal workers affected by the ongoing shutdown. In uncertain times, theatr…
If we all hate online dating so much, why do we consistently force ourselves through the humiliation ritual? Deep down, when all is said and done, we just want to be remembered as a person w…
"HAIR" stands as perhaps the most iconic musical of the 1960s"the first Broadway production to truly capture the nation's political and generational unrest. Premiering in 1967 on the heels o…
In keeping with their international flavors, Chamber Music of Maryland, will be presenting Spanish Brass on November 2, 2025. This world renown ensemble will be performing a wind array of mu…