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Sarah Ruhl is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. Playwrights Horizons has played host to two of her many play — Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. He…
The Round World is excited to present Tales from the Round World:Â The Log of the Salty Pearl, the second in their series of live radio plays with variety acts interspersed to raise money…
"What gods?" asks the devastated Clytemnestra after the sacrifice of her first-born daughter Iphigenia, in The Philadelphia Artists' Collective's Fringe adaptation of Iphigenia at Aulis. The…
This piece, “Two Years After Launching Mosaic, Ari Roth Reflects” by Marilyn Millstone was originally published on HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community…
Did you ever want to sail away from it all and begin anew with a circle of like-minded friends? That's what the figures in Almanac's Leaps of Faith and Other Mistakes do, in a decision that …
Pufferfish Pat is hardly your run of the mill Cowboy name. In fact, it's so unusual that the cowboy it identifies gets "madder than a wet hen!" whenever it is mentioned. His face turns red, …
It's rare that a play allows for a more distanced view than that of its cinematic counterpart, but in the case of the Little Theatre of Alexandria's production of Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred …
I reported on this extraordinary play when it was a staged reading at Theater J last June and said at the end: “Somebody needs to pick this one up and bring it back.” Well, that&…
The Word, in spiritual parlance, is the creative power of God made audible and visible through His Son. It is the energy of the divine dynamic made manifest through Self-revelation. True to …
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with a book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and music by Gene de Paul, includi…
Lord, in a bourgeois town It’s a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues Gonna spread the news all around Any Washington theatregoer who craves a working class show, where the charact…
Evincing the seminal inspiration of Fringe mainstays Pig Iron Theatre Company and New Paradise Laboratories, Strange Tenants is the latest original work developed in Sam Tower + Ensemble's c…
There are times in the theater when the particulars of a play"its people, place, and poetics"pull you in as only an arresting, well-told story can. But then something even more interesting b…
Eternal, romantic love conquers all — even a jealous rival — in Verdi's ravishingly melodic Aida, now being presented by the Washington National Opera with splendid work from all…
For the great South African playwright Athol Fugard, the personal is political. And nowhere is that more true than in Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, a 1972 Fugard play,…
Tradition Be Damned Immersive has taken over a desanctified church at 700 Delaware Street, SW, Washington, DC. Known as the Blind Whino, or better by the fanciful colors that electrify the c…
Even before the houselights go dim, sparks fly. That vision " of fire blazing from a riveter's gun in a factory in Detroit " is emblematic of what is to come in Skeleton Crew, Dominique M…
What a combustible evening at NextStop's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Under Thembi Duncan's adroit direction and with fascinating casting, this in-your-…
Stephen Adly Guirgis's Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, now in production at 1st Stage, opens while the audience is still finding their seats. On a raised platform, in the round, Angel Cruz (Luis…
All of the characters in Lee Cortopassi's colorful cartoon-like adaptation of Aesop's Fables sparkle, and speak, just like the original ones drawn up way back circa 600 B.C. But they also sn…
Philadelphia sketch-comedy icon, and longest-running annual act in the history of the Fringe, The WaitStaff marks its seventeenth year of participation with an all-new Labor of Love. Directe…
The program for GATZ claims that it is "A parody based on 'The Great Gatsby' Written by F. Scot. Fitzgerald." (Note that Fitzgerald's middle name is misspelled.) But a parody is, by definiti…
Everybody loves a winner. The song "Maybe This Time" reminds one of the spark of hope in a new beginning, what it feels like to cross a path and find someone and find a home. How very simple…
A transportive adventure awaits Fringe-goers in JUNK's . . . strand . . ., as Brian Sanders and his stunning troupe contemplate the enigma of the time-space continuum in a dreamlike meditati…
Aglaonike's Tiger, written by Claudia Barnett and directed by Deborah Randall, is playing now at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD. The drama is based on the first recorded woman astronomer of…
