Explore some of the modern culture and 20th-century history, the music and movement, of the world's most populous country, China. Take in a full-scale epic tale, full of pageantry and a yout…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Hamlet, directed by Michael Kahn, is a rich, multi-layered interpretation of a uniquely great play. Hamlet is central to the Western literary …
With one two-act-long scene, eight loudly slamming doors, and countless head-over-heels tumbles, Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade Smith makes its hilarious D.C. premiere at the Keegan Theatre…
This year's Women's Voices Theater Festival includes three plays adapted from works by great male writers"Shakespeare, Congreve, Ibsen"and one adapted from the work of a great woman writer:�…
Have you ever met someone who left you feeling as though there is nothing you can't do? I got that feeling each time I sat down with four playwrights and a director who identify as women of …
Convergence Theatre, as a part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, has produced a new play by Olivia Haller called This Is All Just Temporary. The original work focuses on college gradua…
Annapolis gets a little Broadway treatment when Live Arts Maryland presents The Secret Garden on February 9-10 at 8 p.m. at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts. Joining Music Director J. Ern…
Long buried in a box marked “forgotten” was this remarkable play, now unearthed by Jonathan Banks’ Mint Theater Company, which has brought it back to shimmering life for a …
This sold out production by local playwright John Morogiello and directed by Rabbi Stan Levin touched on so many current and historical hot points that I wonder how it all happened in ninety…
This is the second part of a two-part series of interviews with Women's Voices Theatre Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same questions to a number of Women's Voices Theatre …
Pinky Swear Productions is excited to announce the world premiere production of a new play by a local playwright that celebrates the beauty, diversity, and absurdity of life in the nation's …
As the Great American Songbook America continues to recede from its long-held prominence, productions such as the In Series All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern are priceless for those who wa…
If the Women's Voices Theater Festival existed only to give us Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, it would be worth it. But we have more than 20 other new plays by female playwrights to enjoy in th…
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." So said F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the end of The Great Gatsby. Waxing West, by Saviana Stanescu, is the story …
"Life is a mistake that only art can correct." That's not a line you'd expect to hear at a rock and roll show, is it? But Passing Strange isn't your typical rock show, or musical, or biog…
Washington, D.C.-based musician Justin Trawick's career can be traced back to the day he found a guitar under the steps of his parents' pre-Civil War Virginia home. "Neither of my parents we…
Kafka’s nightmare novel about a man named Joseph K"who is arrested, detained, and tried but never told what he has done wrong"would seem perfect for Synetic Theater’s magic touch…
The creative, resourceful folk from Synetic Theater have made another date with an old friend and literary powerhouse, well beyond the "silent" Shakespeare for which it is justly known. The …
Ovations Theatre's The Addams Family Young @ Part brings a fresh and original storyline to the beloved, if unconventional, family with a penchant for all things macabre. The Ovations Junior …
As you’re spending January shivering against these sub-freezing wind-chills and bracing yourselves for the next bombogenesis, I strongly urge you to seek refuge in Falls Church with Te…
There's lots to like about Theresa Rebeck's The Way of the World just as my DC Metro Theater Arts colleague Sophia Howes points out in her review. The show is the Folger Theater's Women's Vo…
The annual 18th annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH Awards) nominees were just announced. Here are the nominees…. In each of the thirty-eight categories, five nomine…
Last night I had the pleasure of my first trip to the Washington Stage Guild to see See Rock City at the Undercroft Theatre in Washington, D.C. When you visit, you will find this theater tuc…
Based on the 2005 book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher is a Tony Award-winning play by Rick Elice, with music by Wayne Barker. A lively production opened Friday, …
The 18th annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (The WATCH Awards) nominees will be announced tonight at 7:30 PM at a ceremony taking place at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia.…