Have you ever wanted to be inside a video game? Now is your chance. 8 Bit Circus S*it will bring video games to life through two games of fire and circus art. In Game I, our cast will useÂ�…
Manual Cinema: The End of TV proved to be an interesting last night for the Columbia Festival of the Arts for this year. It was presented at the Smith Theatre at the Horowitz Center at Howar…
So many men seem destined To settle for something small, But I won't rest until I know I'll have it all… Stephen Schwartz's lyrics for "Corner of the Sky" sum up everything that the title …
Not your grandparents' My Fair Lady, Olney Theatre Center presents a brilliant reimagining of this classic musical. With book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, it w…
Feeling overwhelmed by the demands of work, everyday chores, and the incessant pings of your digital devices? Then don't just find the time, but make the time, for getting together, catching…
In support of her latest album, aptly entitled Be Myself, nine-time Grammy Award-winning, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow returned to Wolf Trap. The sold-out crowd at the Filene Center eagerly…
Arthur Miller’s 1994 Broken Glass does not rise to the stature of his greatest works (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, The Price, and others). But even lesser Miller can be arresting…
Wonderland: Alice's Rock & Roll Adventure follows the timeless Lewis Carroll tale, with all the memorable characters we know and love, but with a Rock 'n' Roll twist. Written by Rachel R…
Each time I’ve seen Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, now playing at Montgomery College's Summer Dinner Theatre through July 2nd, is the best time I’ve seen In…
Baseball players take the winter off. Football players do the same in the summer. Ballet dancers are of a different breed. When their companies go on hiatus, typically in early June, they fi…
It was 2012 when King's Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the Marquis …
Alex Keiper is a well-known Philadelphia actor who was originally asked to do a solo cabaret show by the Arden Theatre Company. Unexpectedly, she decided she wanted to share this event with …
On Friday, June 23rd, the Columbia Festival of the Arts brought up the curtain on another edition of the wonderfully unusual, Baltimore-based performing arts group, Stoop Storytelling, at th…
Imagine this scene. You're on a paddle steamer on the Nile River in Egypt. It's the mid-60s. You find yourself surrounded by an off-kilter cast of characters: Miss Ffoliot-ffoulkes on holida…
Fifteen of the 80-plus shows in the 12th Annual Captial Fringe Festival presented five-minute teaser scenes to a packed house Thursday night at Logan Fringe Arts Space. Act after act, the ho…
This year marks the centenary of the beginning of America's involvement in World War I in 1917, and The Sheen Center has recognized it with the stellar world premiere of Death Comes for the …
What is it like for a young Israeli soldier to have to enforce the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza? What is life like for Palestinians living under that occupation, subject to martial l…
A new generation of theater-makers are beginning to assert themselves in the DC area. They are the Millennial generation who have made DC their home over the past decade. Many are natives of…
A guitar solo sounds, the band joins in, and the stage is set for a very talented group of performers at Beyond the Page Theatre Company of West Potomac High School. Who knew that the re…
The verdict is in: Shylock–the Jewish moneylender whose trial is detailed in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice–has been exonerated. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur…
Stepping back 45 years, America is in the midst of a social revolution, and feminist consciousness-raising sessions are underway. Radical feminists, cultural feminists, and political feminis…
When the National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F) began in 1987, its first director appealed to student musicians across the country by telling them that "participants will have th…
Deb Sivigny is one busy scenic and costumer designer in the DC theater community. Just recently, she developed design elements for the Rorschach Theatre production of Forgotten Kingdom…
The world-premiere full-stage production of d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re, written by Steven Mark Tenney and co-directed with his sister Susan Tenney, is presented by The Constellation Proj…
Theater is a vital part of our culture. Imagination is discovered. History revealed. New ideas expressed. And the limitless lessons to be garnered from our fundamentally flawed human selves …