At the Folger Shakespeare Library's Reading Room Festival 2025, the air hummed with an energy that extended beyond the performances themselves. In Row J, as attendees settled in for the Day …
Actors, directors, and stage crew all strive for perfection when putting on a show. The Arlington Players have mastered perfection in the art of imperfection in their current production of "…
Suzan-Lori Parks is one of today's most relevant and most produced playwrights, but one of her earliest works, 1993's "The America Play," has never been performed in the D.C. area until now.…
 For two nights only, Conductor Gianandrea Noseda led the glorious National Symphony Orchestra, the University of Maryland Concert Choir, and a cast of world-class singers in a rare conc…
We must never forget. But what if forgetting is the only way to survive? That is the question that looms over Diane Samuels's 1993 play, "Kindertransport," about the suffering wrought on two…
Thrilling lineup to feature three national tour launches, straight-from-Broadway debuts, sensational season options and more! BALTIMORE, MD " Ron Legler, president of the France-Merrick Perf…
The first few days of Folger Theatre's The Reading Room Festival 2025 shows that theatre is constantly evolving through new perspectives, cultural lenses, and artistic interpretations. This …
The Reading Room Festival at the Folger Theatre kicked off Thursday with a deep dive into the historic-minded Shakespeare. Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels invited a few friends to help h…
 China recently surpassed the world in developing the world's most advanced AI engine, DeepSeek, achieving this milestone with fewer dollars too. Could ballet be next? In a mesmerizing f…
Folger Theatre's third annual Reading Room Festival, which starts today, is a four-day festival of staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations. Shakespeare serv…
When you lose a son, what do you do? Manuel Oliver, father of Joaquin "Guac" Oliver whose life tragically ended from a mass shooting at his Parkland School, hopes you never have to find out.…
Celebrates Two Decades of Creativity and Growth, and Introducing a New Chapter WASHINGTON "Â It is with a heavy heart that Capital Fringe announces it will no longer produce the annual Fri…
Rutter's decade-long leadership of Nation's Cultural Center was marked by bold campus expansion, artist-centered vision, expanded programming, unprecedented audience growth and fundraising, …
Too busy for hospice. We may have heard about people too busy for love, too busy to keep up with friendships, but too busy for hospice? It's a phrase that arrests the imagination"short yet p…
Tysons, VA" 1st Stage is launching the Directors' Residency and Commission (DRaC) program to help develop early career directors who live and work in the region. This new residency …
This concert, a Schirmer Theatrical/Greenberg Artists co-production, featured vocalists Shayna Steele, Chester Gregory, and Terron Brooks with instrumentalists Chris Kuffner (bass) and Jacob…
Constructing objects from paper is often one of the first forays into visual art for young children. With "Paper Dreams" (written and originally directed by Claudia Moreso, Mons Dansa Dance …
Enjoy 37+ performances of story, movement, and sound over five weekends! Washington, D.C. " The Atlas Performing Arts Center proudly announces the return of its highly anticipated INTERSECTI…
The bright and inventive comedienne, Sarah Silverman, has given us the hilarious autobiographical musical "The Bedwetter" soon to open at Arena Stage. It centers on Sarah at age 10 as she be…
A talented cast and some clever production concepts cannot overcome the confusion of ideas present in Scena Theatre's production of Sophocles's "Ajax," translation by John Tipton, currently …
There was a meme circulating years ago with a crying girl asking, "Who fought for women's right to work?! Because that sh*t is pissing me off right now." Another meme joked about women going…
  "An Act of God," presented by Iron Crow Theatre, is playing at Baltimore's Theatre Project to rave reviews. Written by David Javerbaum, it is directed by Sean Elias, Iron Crow's ar…
The great Irish playwright, John Millington Synge, wrote the original dark comedy "The Playboy of the Western World" in 1907. The play was so controversial it caused riots both in Dublin…
"Proof," David Auburn's 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, is about a young woman's depression, sibling rivalry, mental illness, the death of her beloved father, and all she ga…
The symbols for theater, Melpomene (tragedy) and Thalia (comedy) originate from the ritualistic belief held by the ancient Greeks that a "good" play should evoke an emotional response causin…