During a prayer service on June 17, 2015, nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, were killed by a 21-year-old white s…
On the top floor of The Keegan Theatre is a cork board labeled “What Does Feminism Mean to You?” Pushpins, pens, and slips of paper are provided so that patrons can have their sa…
Shards of unseen, but sharply-felt shattered glass, both of a collapsing marriage and the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), are fused together in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, no…
Okay, twenty years ago I was more concerned with raising kids than living rough on the street, but that's what the current tour of Rent celebrates. Where to live, how to love, finding work, …
In 1972, there was no Roe v. Wade or Violence Against Women Act. Battered women had little legal recourse, and many found shelter"if they were lucky"in safe houses run by good Samaritans. Ho…
The Board of Directors of Baltimore Center Stage and Kwame Kwei-Armah have jointly announced that Kwei-Armah will leave his position as artistic director at the end of his contract on June 3…
Delving into classic text with histrionic flair, The Collaborative Theatre Company (TCT) presents The Manhattan Project's version of Lewis Carroll's time-honored 1865 tale, Alice in Wonde…
It's a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that Shakespeare was writing …
In his banter with the audience during last night's musical homage to Swing, Big Bands, and 'The Rat Pack' at Manayunk's Venice Island Performing Arts Center, Jeff Coon, Executive Director a…
They're back! Second City–the group that made Chicago the capital of comedy and that all but invented improv–has returned to DC, where it is part of The Kennedy Center's month-lo…
When I was about eight-years-old, I saw an irresistible set of Hello, Kitty pencils while shopping with my mom. She told me I couldn't have them, so I slipped them into my pocket. Once home,…
Reflections of a hard-headed son on the Round House Theatre production of August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned. As a theatrical production, August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learn…
Inside this taut and provocative two-character play"which vividly evokes the political tension between the Israeli state and its Palestinian citizens"there is a startling sex scene, one that…
"Write what you know." Attributed to Mark Twain, this advice is adhered to by many a playwright, including a local one, William Leary. His Forsaken Angels, a joint production of Wolf Pack Th…
Anyone who has ever felt any heartfelt connection to another can hear a legendary Patsy Cline song and say "Oh yes, been there, seen, done that." The lyrics are about much more than trucks, …
"I'm stuck with writer's block!" Who among us"be we beginners, practitioners or professionals, list makers, blog posters, PhD thesis or diary writers"has not been visited by that alarming th…
Art has a way to awaken the senses and make you feel alive. Art shakes the dreariness of everyday life off you as you bathe in the beauty of a live musical performance. The Sound of Music at…
The life of Eva Perón is the stuff legends, and rock operas, are made of: a rags-to-riches story of a poor illegitimate child from provincial Argentina, whose ambitious determination, sed…
Thunderous Productions’ Murder on the Nile is not your parents’ or grandparents’ version of Agatha Christie. Opening Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Greenbelt Arts Center …
Dreamgirls, with book and lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger, was one of the very first shows I saw on Broadway, back in the 1980s. It was memorable then and it remains memorable …
"May I return to the beginning?" runs a beloved lyric to the song "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, now back for the summer at Toby's "Â The Dinner The…
Still Life With Rocket is greater than the sum of its arts. The diverse forms of installation, choreography, and character-driven drama come together in this collaboratively devised experien…
We've all heard the cliches about aging: Life begins at 40. You are not getting older, you are getting better. Age is just a number. Once a man, twice a child. The inspiring dance repertoire…
Gritty and harsh, but with flashes of humor and hope, Project Dawn tackles a vital issue and doesn't shy away from showing its worst repercussions. Karen Hartman's play, inspired by a real-l…
June 1967. What memories does that bring? Sgt. Pepper, The Rolling Stones, bell bottoms, assassinations, the conflict with '50s conformity, trouble in the Middle East? This is the era summon…