Washington Revels presents us with a festive holiday offering for a 35th year. This season, we take a trip to the winter wonderland of Quebec in The Christmas Revels: A French-Canadian Winte…
Now in its seventh year, the Keegan Theatre's annual production of Matthew J. Keenan's An Irish Carol has become a favorite Washington DC holiday tradition. It's easy to see why. A quintesse…
How many versions of A Christmas Carol have you seen? Probably too many to count. But I can guarantee you've never seen one that mentions Doylestown, Lambertville and Peddler's Village befor…
“Let’s rethink sex” has suddenly become a thing. Well, not suddenly maybe. But it certainly has new pertinence in this era of full-frontal disclosure. Which made the th…
Dan Hoyle's extraordinary solo show The Real Americans is based on his travels through small-town America and the folks he met, many of them part of Trump's so-called base. When I reviewed t…
Knott Foundation Grant Opens Doors for Theatergoers Baltimore Center Stage has announced the rollout of its newly expanded and updated Accessibility Programs, funded in part by a grant f…
Classic holiday productions, like Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Irving Berlin's White Christmas, always show up around the theater circuit this time of year. But there are also many…
Part of the popular Urban Scuba Series, this year's holiday offering by Brian Sanders' JUNK is one that's sure to land you on Santa's naughty list! Urban Scuba: Adult Swim presents a sequenc…
In 1839, Mary Kathryn Nagle's great-great-great grandfather, Cherokee statesman John Ridge, was assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota. In 2017, Nagle wrote a play about her famil…
LiveConnections Presents kicked off its new season in rousing fashion with an evening of music from the Chicago-based Fifth House Ensemble and classical guitarist Jason Vieaux " introduced, …
"It's a powerful thing to come together and laugh in a scary time." " Playwright Lauren Gunderson Mon Dieu! I had no idea how much I needed a good laugh until I attended a performance of Eve…
Nothing is quite as draining as endless discussions in the classical music world about how concerts "should" work to recapture their prominence in the cultural fabric. So nothing is quite as…
It may take place in rural Georgia circa 1909, but because of today's headlines about the mistreatment of women, The Color Purple is more relevant than ever. The tour of the recent Broadway …
Drawing room comedy is back for the moment, thanks to Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman. Genuine high wattage star Uma Thurman is riding in this vehicle which deals with the powerful …
Philadelphia's Midtown Village is a whole lot brighter this year with the opening of Tinsel, a new Christmas pop-up bar in the space occupied for over 100 years by Simpson's Jewelry. The spa…
Compass Rose Theater's production of Fiddler on the Roof is a lovely revival of the classic 1964 musical. With book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and direc…
"I don't perform ‘You Don't Know What Love Is’ that often," jazz singer Sara Jones admits. "I mean, the song's a real downer. You have lyrics in that song like 'lips that taste l…
The Leonard Bernstein Centenary continues with concerts by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Last weekend's performances featured one of Bernstein's most interesting (an…
The InSeries' An Operetta Holiday, written and directed by Nick Olcott, is a charming aural journey through the era between opera and musicals. Four male and four female singers delivered a …
Continuing its signature holiday tradition this year with the company's 14th annual panto " a family-friendly seasonal brand of musical-comedy entertainment, with origins dating back to the …
A snowy Princeton afternoon may be the most festive of conditions in which to see the great McCarter Theatre holiday tradition of A Christmas Carol. Add to that a host of Dickensian characte…
Engaging, sophisticated entertainment and education that didn't talk down to the intended audience; children who may not have been familiar with the grand musical and cultural figure, DC's v…
David, the character Cameron Folmar plays in The Santaland Diaries (now at Drafthouse Comedy Theater in DC through December 23), struggles with compartmentalizing his identity as a Macy's El…
The Piano Guys might just be one of the 21st century's most notable social media success stories. Now a successful musical group known for their lush videos of classical and contemporary com…
This 90-minute sketch by Steve Martin begins as a situation comedy. Until fairly recently there were always several lighting up Broadway; and they were usually written by the likes of Neil S…