Never doubt the sheer power or the relevancy of a great work of opera. All you need for the first are extraordinary musicianship by a conductor, superb singers, and a stage director who can …
It's rare that, after finishing a review, I'm ready to see the show again. But then, The Tarot Reading changes with every performance, so it will never be the same. Two years ago, my first i…
The Faction of Fools are at it again. After a decade adapting titles that one wouldn't typically expect of a Commedia troupe (Henry V, Our Town and The Cherry Orchard to name a few), Produci…
A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre's 2019-2020 seaso…
Fame the Musical is "an act of rebellion and an act of love." This is how director Luis Salgado describes his latest bilingual (Spanish and English) musical, opening tonight at GALA Hispanic…
"In the end, we're all just taller children," croons Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman on her band, Elizabeth & The Catapult's, aptly title 2009 song, "Taller Children." T…
Admittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn't tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British playwr…
It seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin's The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director a…
Next season at NextStop Theatre Company will feature a whole lotta musicals, as well as some farce, an adaptation of a literary classic, and Katori Hall's celebrated fiction about Martin Lut…
In their next season, 1st Stage's eclectic, collaborative twelfth season will take on air guitar wizards, race in the squared circle, aging in (a bad) place, brain surgery and the Attorney G…
Love's Labor's Lost is reputed to be one of Shakespeare's toughest plays to stage (and it rarely is). The late 16th Century comedy has a simple enough plot " one guaranteed to tee up som…
On the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington's outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced a…
Some familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature's 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen So…
We don't know which of this year's Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the John A…
If there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it's now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage's joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch wi…
The Kennedy Center's 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & …
The In Series, a Washington pocket opera company known for its innovative approach to the classics, will totally rework some of our best-known stories in 2019-2020, deconstructing, decontext…
In 2001, a group of Mexican migrants were left stranded in the blistering desert heat east of Yuma, Arizona. Smugglers, whom they had paid for safe transport to the border, promised them tha…
Tradition Be Damned (TBD) Immersive, DC's first large-scale immersive theater company, isn't interested in designing shows for audiences to watch. They want to create worlds for participants…
If someone told you to run down to the Lansburgh Theater to see a three-hour play about back-channel diplomatic negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO), you'd pro…
Brush up " your opera. There will be no better time to turn off, dial down, and otherwise forego small devices and experience the "think big" of live opera than in the 2019-2020 opera se…
When tickets go on sale May 9 for Hamilton at the Hippodrome ( June 25 " July 21) expect the usual crush for tickets. (Remember how Hamilton's first visit to our area crashed the box office …
Economy or first class? Glasses or inhaler? Go right or go left? Rather, stay or go at all? I say go"go fast to Escape from Peligro Island: YOU Create Your Own Adventure, a delightfully f…
Constellation Theatre Company's latest production may be called The White Snake, but it's the Green Snake who steals the show. Momo Nakamuru proves a delightful, hilarious presence as the sp…
House lights remain at half when a red curtain parts just enough to show a curled hand, then another, then two more. Fingers tentatively explore, then walk, then intertwine in what will be o…