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After winning London's Off West End Award for Best New Musical in 2019, the highly anticipated pandemic-delayed staged concert version of GRINDR The Opera is coming to NYC for two nights thi…
If you're a theater-lover in search of a quick summer getaway, consider taking a trip out to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival in Center Valley, PA, less than two hours west of NYC along…
José Torres-Tama's nonlinear performance ritual asks us to remember what textbooks would have us forget.
Close friends and fellow ecological researchers Sanam Shah and Ariel Spiegel have spent the past seven years investigating the cause of the worldwide decimation of the bee population, which …
Edgar Dobie and Paige Hernandez will be recognized for their outstanding service and creative leadership in the DC-area theater community.
The Glen Echo-based company spins a twisted, socially relevant tale that casts the infamous big bad wolf in a surprisingly new light.Â
A stunning family-friendly visual spectacle with puppets!
The playwright calls the rom-com a 'love letter' to the 'scrappy' West African film industry.
The modern dress musical production of Euripedes' ancient Greek tragedy is a unique, immersive Bacchanalian experience " and it's free.
Winners of the 75th Annual Tony Awards, honoring theater professionals of the 2021-2022 season for distinguished achievement on Broadway, were announced tonight, Sunday, June 12, in a liv…
Two young people in Dublin meet cute in a play that tackles the controversial subject of abortion.
A confection of acceptance and a rocking good time.
The first portion of Caleen Sinnette Jennings's play threatens to go full 'Noises Off' at any moment.
This original musical revue brings a hummable evening of Broadway to Montgomery College's Cultural Arts Center.
Based on Sarah Silverman's bestselling 2010 memoir of the same name, The Bedwetter, with book by Silverman and Joshua Harmon, music by the late Adam Schlesinger (who died of COVID-19 in 2020…
The lineup includes two world premieres by DC-area playwrights, one regional premiere, one DC premiere, two musicals, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
The groundbreaking artistic director will leave a legacy of 25 years of redefining and celebrating American theater in the nation's capital.
Seeing them both engages you in a conversation about race and art, about white supremacy and inevitable change.
Underscoring the power of art to address controversy and national crisis, the production warrants serious and major attention.
During the pandemic closure of theaters in 2020, the grassroots theater collective The Commissary was formed. Its members gathered remotely each Wednesday on their digital devices to read pl…
A young widow is wrongfully executed for a murder she didn't commit, precipitating a snowfall in June that bespeaks a heinous miscarriage of justice. Her ghost comes back to haunt the commun…
The Board of Spooky Action Theater has placed Artistic Director Richard Henrich on leave of absence, the theater announced last week. The news came ten days after DC Theater Arts published a…
Winners of the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards, presented since 1955, to honor outstanding achievement by professional theater artists and productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Br…
R. Eric Thomas's world-premiere comedy is an homage to and sendup of TV shows that have shaped our collective memory.
In 'The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day,' the words tell the story; the music breaks open our hearts.