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Director Rikki Howie Lacewell does with Black history what more artists should: complicate, elevate, and force us to reflect on our varied roles.
On Tuesday, April 18, the NYC-based Iconoclast Theatre Collective hosted a celebration of theater, community, and new musical development with a party held at The Dickens " a recently opened…
Premiering April 20 to 23 at George Mason, the play germinated from her pilgrimage to the Grand Canyon in mourning.
An iconic figure since the Middle Ages, King Arthur still remains the subject of debate as to whether he was a fictional character or an actual historical person in post-Roman Britain of the…
Two bickering nail salon workers decide to grant a client his dying wish.
This first play in Graziella Jackson's ecological tetralogy has a pressing message.
A fantastical and fun study of the famous writer with dedicated performances and a wonderfully ghastly design.
A lovely way to experience the composer's power, beauty, and brilliance.
On May 30 the company's Women's Works Program premieres 'Dissonance'"a two-woman play about race, love, friendship, and the impact of Floyd's murder.
Now playing a limited engagement through April 23, at Theater for the New City, Martin's Truth, the latest play by Victor Vauban Júnior, who also directs, follows the compelling Summer…
Signature Theatre's new associate artistic director talks about bringing identity, history, and authenticity to a culturally fraught Sondheim musical.
The very real interaction of two characters we cannot help caring about.
It's one of the world's greatest musicals and essential to see.
Music lovers will dig the energy and innocence.
Women's exasperation with men has never been mined for the stage more hilariously and achingly.
When two teenagers fall in love and kill themselves because their families can't get along, everyone agrees that it's a tragedy. Comedy is not so universal; everyone has a different sense of…
Commissioned and premiered by Costa Mesa, CA's South Coast Rep in 2009, Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson (America's most produced playwright of…
The multi-genre countertenor stars in Annapolis Opera's 'Voices of Our Time' concert on April 15.
The one-woman show about a Muscogee Nation leader is compelling from start to finish, thanks to Mary Kathryn Nagle's writing and performance.
Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.
A series of eight fictionalized face-to-face conversations between real-life first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, spanning the years 1904-62, is the format for Elle…
If you missed it live and in-person during the winter of 2022, the next installment of the new PBS primetime performing arts series Next at the Kennedy Center, a multi-year collaboration bet…
A young boy's fantasy has a lesson: Enjoy your youth, death is coming.
It's a rich and nostalgic production, but Bartlett Sher's revival brings us squarely into the present.
In August 2017, 63-year-old Mélisande (Méli) Short-Colomb packed her bags and moved to Washington, DC, to begin her freshman year at Georgetown University. It was the start of a new life f…
