Please tell us about yourself and your theater background. I’m Cristen Stephansky and I’m playing Gertrude, known as “Gert” for short, in Lost in Yonkers. IR…
Generations of budding ballerinas have lusted after the shiny crimson satin pointe shoes in the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes. Who can resist those shoes, they make the wearer dance, and d…
There’s a lot going on in Sarah Gancher’s I’ll Get You Back Again, now at the Round House Theatre through October 29: A bitter stand-up comedian and her struggles to rec…
In Sotto Voce, Theater J's first production of the 2017-18 season, the characters don't actually lower their voices. Instead, they speak in whispers, and not always to each other. However, t…
It started with the basics. Q-Tip took us back to the early days of hip-hop, to 1973 when soldiers were returning from Vietnam and the architects of hip-hop started doing their thing in obsc…
In November 1919, the 36-year-old Modernist writer Franz Kafka wrote a searing 45-page letter to his domineering father Hermann, dissecting his tyrannical attitude and lifelong emotional abu…
Claude Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, is a unique masterpiece. But it's very long: five acts, around four hours. So director and playwright Peter Brook in 1992 devised an adap…
Big Pharma is not only big, it's growing bigger by the panic attack, by the back spasm, by the botched terrorist attack. We want that pill that makes us happy because that happy is our lates…
In the current political zeitgeist, which includes Russian hackers manipulating opinion through Facebook ads, playwright Carlyle Brown's Are you now, or have you ever been… is germane to t…
Tap dancers are family. As family they gather together, catch up, trade stories, reminisce, honor their forbears and simply, yet profoundly, enjoy each others' company. Saturday evening's so…
"Your status has expired." For Canaan Muponda, these are the most fearsome words imaginable. A refugee from Zimbabwe, Canaan has spent the last five years living in Liverpool with his young …
My three-year old son and I sat with about forty restless children and their haggard parents in a crowded playroom while we waited for Drumming with Dishes to begin. I was especially nervous…
Creative Cauldron presents The Mistress Cycle, with Book and Lyrics by Beth Blatt and Music by Jenny Giering. Matt Conner directs a cast of five women in this ambitious musical that, while a…
Illuminating what has been in the shadows, or usually whispered about, Creative Cauldron has provided a delicately rendered musical about the harsh realities women have faced over the centur…
When two lovers in life or on stage display an intense interaction of attraction, they are said to have “chemistry.” That elusive feeling may be more than a metaphor, according t…
Thornton Wilder’s New Hampshire creation, Grover’s Corners, sits on some of the oldest rock in the world: “a shelf of Devonian basalt” crossed with “vestiges of…
Velocity is speed with purpose: a change in distance over time, crucially defined by direction. The VelocityDC Dance Festival took us in many. In its ninth iteration, the variety-style perfo…
Universal button-perfect delivery of delicious Noël Coward lines takes Carly L. Bodnar's production of Blithe Spirit at Hedgerow Theatre miles into gratifying comic territory, but rollick…
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov believed the role of the artist was to ask questions, not answer them. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang's 2013 Chekhov-inspired Tony A…
"We all had things we had to let go of," says the woman flanked by her six sisters-in-arms in Night Witches, directed by Kathleen Anne Hefron, and created by the seven women who comprise the…
Family is everything according to Eugene O'Neill. The relationships you form as a child will haunt and guide all of your future life. Rebellion is a basic of the dynamic, and as much as O'Ne…
When Opera Philadelphia's O17 Festival was announced in October of 2015, the company headlined its importation of the Berlin's Komische Oper (Comic Opera) production of The Magic Flute. That…
By Natalie Barsoum The neoclassical room at the Former Spanish Ambassador's Residence was the perfect backdrop for the sold-out concert of the Catholic University of America's Chamber Orches…
This season for whatever reason"and far be it from me to speculate"three theater companies in the nation’s capital are presenting Stephen Sondheim’s tunefully insolent tribute to…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing is an amusing spectacle. Directed by Sally Boyett and set in the 1950's, it is a visual and musical treat, with talent…