The NSO Pops presented its first-ever collaboration with superstar Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds on Friday night for a two-night run in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center. Under the musical d…
With most of the performances sold out before the show even opened, Lantern Theater Company has already announced a one-week extension of its current production of Copenhagen, and that's goo…
This is the first part of a multi-part series of interviews with Women's Voices Theater Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same series of questions to a number of Women's Voic…
Imogen, Pointless Theatre's adaptation of Cymbeline, places one of Shakespeare's most confusing heroines at the center of a battle for her independence. As in Cymbeline, Imogen has to conten…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
Bravo Productions had their first of two productions in 2018 this past weekend. Fiddler on the Roof JR ran for four shows in two days to completely packed houses. The Junior musical is a con…
Colonial Players of Annapolis' production of Quartet is an amusing comedy that offers plenty of food for thought. Written by Ronald Harwood and first performed in 1999, the play revolves aro…
As DC Metro Theater Arts continues to grow in its mission to provide theater fans with the best critically-engaging coverage, we are happy to announce that we will be exploring additional af…
Twelve years after it was first adapted for the stage by British playwright Simon Block, the play Everything Is Illuminated –Â based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer –Â h…
The 16th Annual Let Freedom Ring! Celebration honors the life, legacy, and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hundreds of people from all walks of life filled the pews of the Kennedy Cente…
What is the TodayTix 5 for 5 Lottery? Studio Theatre and TodayTix are offering a mobile Lottery for $5 preview tickets! Enter the 5 for 5 Lottery for a chance to win exclusive tickets …
La-Ti-Do, DC's premier cabaret series, will award Lawrence Grey, Jr. the inaugural Joel Markowitz Audience Award at their 6th Anniversary Celebration on January 22, 2018. This award, named i…
Having grown up on Dr. Seuss and having seen the 2008 Horton Hears a Who movie a dozen times, I feared Seussical Jr. (book by Leslie Aherns and Stephen Flaherty, based on the works of Dr. Se…
The DC performing arts scene will be losing one of its visionary artistic directors this summer. Hub Theatre's artistic director Helen Murray will be moving on to become the Executive Dir…
What is the TodayTix Free First Preview Lottery? There’s nothing better than seeing a great show for free. TodayTix and Ford’s Theatre are offering a mobile lottery for each f…
A young Jewish American writer named Jonathan arrives by train in the Ukraine on a quest to find a woman named Augustine who helped his grandfather Safran escape the Nazis. He has only a fad…
Veteran Chicago improvisers Tara DeFrancisco and Rance Rizzutto have traveled together to 20 countries and more than 50 U.S. cities to perform their improvised musical, HERE, recently called…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents  Mamma Mia!, with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and book by Catherine Johnson, with some songs by Stig Andersson.…
Morning's at Seven fits the definition of "quaint." With its elderly characters and its winsome setting " a Midwestern town in the 1930s, where everybody knows each other's problems a little…
The Way of the World, a deft satire of the mating habits and financial vicissitudes of the 1%, arrived at the Folger Theatre last night. It was a hilarious evening. Theresa Rebeck's comedy, …
No garden gnomes were injured in the writing of this review As part of the 2018 Women's Voices Theater Festival, Rapid Lemon Productions is presenting the regional premiere of Love is a Blue…
Thornton Wilder’s allegorical paean to humanity’s survival “by the skin of our teeth” has itself become a marvel of endurance. First staged in 1942, when times were d…
New York City is ringing in the New Year with a full slate of new works presented in January, February, and March, including a one-day event with the Dramatists Guild Fund in support of the …
Sex and guilt were linked in superstition before institutional Christianity came on the scene, but thanks to the medieval Catholic Church they got hooked up with theology too. It was in the …
It's no coincidence that Queens Girl in Africa"Caleen Sinnette Jennings' semi-autobiographical one woman play now at Mosaic Theater Company of DC"was chosen to kick off the Women's Voices Th…