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King Lear has sometimes been called the Everest of classical acting. Every great Shakespearean actor must sooner or later face the physically and emotionally exhausting task of playing the p…
Set in the hectic kitchen of a restaurant in New York's Financial District, Will Snider's How to Use a Knife focuses on a friendship that develops between two men " one a chef, the other a d…
After its award-winning Trans* Voices Workshop Series in Season 2, Cohesion Theatre Company (Cohesion) introduced a Playwrights Fellowship for Season 3. Cohesion's Playwrights Fellowship aim…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (The Kennedy Center) paid elegant tribute to the legacy of its namesake in A JFK Centennial Celebration on May 29, 2017, the 100th birthday…
Memorial Day this year coincided to the day with the 100th anniversary of the birth of President John F. Kennedy. To commemorate the occasion, The Kennedy Center put on a full weekend of eve…
The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else. King Lear, Act 3, scenes 4"5. Avant Bard's King Lear is a bracing, piercing production of a family and realm in heightenin…
"My party is a leather-clad dominatrix and an Elvin supermodel?" Shimmy into your chainmail and grab a broadsword, there's an awesome campaign starting at Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre …
Seeing All Shook Up at Arena Stage last weekend was like an adventure in time travel. The show, which played for one weekend only, offered a glimpse of a long-ago world"1955, when Elvis Pres…
SeeNoSun OnStage will open a four-week run of Doubtony , A Parable, John Patrick Shanley's controversial Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama. The play examines the Catholic …
The absurdity and grim reality of gender get a scathing going-over in this extraordinary play by Taylor Mac. Inside the hilarity of Hir (pronounced “here”) is a tragedy howling t…
The Confederate statues have been removed from their pedestals. Some people are disappointed. Their rosy vision of the lost genteel South has been taken away. To them, history has been rewri…
"The course of true love never did run smooth." And in the case of A Midsummer Night's Dream, it hits every bump in the road! One of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, Midsummer follows…
HCC's Arts Collective Presents "INHERITORS: The Nature of Keys" June 8 " 18, 2017, An Original Play Devised by The Company. Howard Community College's Arts Collective concludes its 22nd s…
In its latest quest to create and present a diverse array of bold, innovative and thought-provoking contemporary theater, Baltimore Center Stage (BCS) unveiled the world premiere production …
Memorial Day Weekend usually means a trip to the shore, but Steel River Playhouse brought the ocean to Pottstown, with its glorious rendition of Disney's The Little Mermaid. True, the show t…
I recently came back from London, where I saw the National Theatre's 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner's epic, Angels in America. I thought a lot about that play after seeing Wooll…
I have seen many World War II films that focused on either the battles that were fought, or the horrors of the Holocaust. Only a small number of films touch on the level of extremism exhibit…
Imagine a musical about a revolution, where a few scrappy rebels fight for the dignity of their fellow man against a tyrannical few. Now add a score that satirizes every musical under the su…
Lynn Nottage wrote One More River to Cross: A Verbatim Fugue a decade ago, yet oddly enough, it has never been produced onstage before. As Nottage's fame has grown " she just earned a Pulitz…
We all need a good laugh these days " not a snicker or a snarky smile. A series of side-splitting belly laughs that leave you exhausted and smiling. See How They Run aptly named for the nurs…
What do you remember most about the movie Saturday Night Fever? Is it the dynamic direction, the earthy dialogue, or the gritty story about a working-class Brooklyn kid trying to escape a me…
Packed with pizazz, energy and downright sizzle, A Chorus Line, as performed by Tantallon Community Players (TCP) and directed by Christopher Gerken, is the MVP of musicals on D.C. area stag…
Returning to the DC area, Audra McDonald gave a concert at Strathmore on May 26, 2017, full of her signature charm and joy. Her powerhouse soprano that transitions smoothly and easily betwee…
Near the beginning of The Wedding Plan, the latest from Israeli-American filmmaker Rama Burshtein, we find ourselves in an uncomfortable place. Michal, whom we first met at a fortune teller'…
With monikers like, Become Awesome and The Theatre for People Who Don't Think They Like Theatre, Flying V burst onto the DC-metro area theater scene. In 2015, Flying V received the Helen Hay…
