In January 2025, James "Fuzz" Roark is retiring from his role as the Artistic Director for The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre (Spotlighters). He will remain as part-time Managing Directo…
Two up, eight to go. The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration has hit its stride. After Arena Players' triumphant production of "Gem of the Ocean" in April (read our review), Chesapeake Shake…
Eboni Booth won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her play "Primary Trust" and is currently being presented at Signature Theatre. It's a rather intimate play that investigates the theme…
To open their new season and celebrate their 15th anniversary, Nu Sass Productions is revisiting its first production which was presented at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival. Rosencrantz and…
Just days apart, two plays have premiered in the DMV, each exploring themes of the African immigrant experience in America. The first is the vibrant "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" at Arena S…
Lately, I have heard pundits complain that movies and television producers are timid about doing political drama. Early Greek playwrights, Shakespeare, writers like Arthur Miller, and those …
The board of directors and staff of DC Theater Arts are saddened to announce that Nicole Hertvik will be stepping down as editor-in-chief and publisher of DC Theater Arts on December 31, 202…
A well-known chef once said, "It was God who created oysters and apples. And you can't improve recipes like that. But it is our job to try." In the case of William Shakespeare's "Much Ado Ab…
The Montgomery Playhouse's production of "Red Herring" at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn transports audiences to 1952 when Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were in the presidential race. "I L…
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to his DC roots with "The Comeuppance." This being only the third production of this play, it centers on…
As the curtain rose in Wolf Trap's Filene Center, Artistic Director Edwaard Liang entered down stage center to welcome us to "An Evening of Ballet with the Washington Ballet." It was a super…
First produced in 2003, "Intimate Apparel" is based on the life of playwright Lynn Nottage's great grandmother, a Black seamstress who moves to New York City in 1905 to make a new life, star…
It is curtain up at The Shakespeare Theatre Company with "The Comedy of Errors," famously known as one of Shakespeare's earliest, shortest, and most humorous comedies. Under the direction of…
'Quarry Theatre's mission is to "engage audiences with compelling storytelling that reflect contemporary social issues." Their production of "The Red Shoes: Soul Stories," at Theatre Project…
If there ever was a more relevant moment for the Tony Award-nominated "POTUS; Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," this is it! When Everyman chose this p…
With a 2023 world premiere on Broadway, it would seem that "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" is already bound to become a canonical part of American theatre. The first leg of its tour kicks off…
 When you attend a performance at Toby's Dinner Theatre, you never are disappointed. The musical,"The Addams Family," directed and choreographed by Mark Minnick, lives up to expectations…
A Tony Award nominee for Best Play, "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" by Jocelyn Bioh opened September 6, 2024 at Arena Stage. It is a very funny comedy that gives insight into one of our count…
Kicks off with "A Night Out: A Blueprint For Iron Crow Theatre." Season features work not yet seen in the region and new fundraising event. BALTIMORE, MD (Friday, September 13, 2024) " Iron …
The Colonial Players, Annapolis' premier theatre-in-the-round company, is keeping it real. Every show scheduled for their 76th season is based on a true story. First up? "Tiny Beautiful Thin…
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Jason Buckwalter as the company's first General Director. Jason has been a fixture in the classical music world in Baltimore and the surroundin…
Immediately, the set design of GALA Theatre's "The 22+ Weddings of Hugo" whisks you into a quasi-paradisiacal realm in which anything seems possible despite the obstacles and detractors that…
The fame and endurance of Billie Holiday's discography overshadow the facts of her cruelly brief life, gone at just 44 years old. What would you give to have seen Holiday perform live, her w…
Highlights include a groundbreaking program of music and dance, a celebration of Maestro Ryan Brown's three-decade tenure, and the much-anticipated world premiere of the 138-year-old, first …
Sofie Treadwell's "Machinal" is an important play with a fascinating back story. It's regarded by many as a crucial member of the 20th century American theatrical canon, but has been very ra…