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Bryant Park has announced that the 2022 season of its popular free-of-charge Picnic Performances, presented by Bank of America, will kick off this Friday, May 27, starting at 7 pm, with New …
The co-founder and executive artistic director talks about the DC-based company's expansion to other cities and its niche of intimate art and top-tier talent.
The quality of the writing and the caliber of the performances at Studio are enthralling, but here's what impressed me most. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Three new Sondheim productions highlight the company's special connection to the legendary composer.
Making his professional debut for Pan Underground, the 19-year-old displays astounding skill in conveying the hope, wonder, fear, and disappointment of a child.
Whatever the playwright's intention, it didn't come through.
For the latest installment of Broadway by the Year " the popular series of one-night-only concerts recounting the musical history of Broadway, created, written, and directed by host Scott Si…
As the play delves into its subject of life and death, the hearts of the audience are treated with tender and gentle grace.
The wonderfully absurd show becomes hilarious musical theater.
When the Irish Potato Blight " caused by an infectious fungus that spread throughout Europe " struck in 1845, it decimated the country's staple crop, leading to food shortages and the Great …
Playwright Paula Vogel lifts three women from 'Othello' " Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca " and puts them in their own risqué play about today.
The Broadway premiere of Paradise Square, an epic new musical ten-years in the making by the team of Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan (book), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (ly…
Tia Shearer Bassett's showcase of versatile acting shows what live theater is capable of even over the internet.
Adapted from the original 1992 film (which received mixed reviews and didn't fare well at the box office when it opened 30 years ago), Mr. Saturday Night is now surprisingly a Broadway music…
Recipients of the 2022 Drama League Awards, the oldest theatrical honors in America, first presented in 1922, and formalized in 1935, were announced beginning at noon today (Friday, May 20) …
Problems at the DC company are rooted in the harmful leadership practices of Artistic Director Richard Henrich and a board that fails to stop his abuses of power, say multiple artists who ha…
Six productions that range from intimate drama to riotous comedy to theatrical spectacle to celebrated musical.
In the 1961 Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's, Hollywood icon and big-name draw Mickey Rooney was cast in the small and significantly …
Projects span Prince George's County, Arlington County, Fairfax County, Falls Church City, Loudoun County, and D.C. Public Schools.
Lineup to include Horton Foote's 'The Trip to Bountiful' and Cheryl L. West's new musical about rock 'n' roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Tap dancing his way to fame since the tender age of five in his hometown of Reading, PA, actor/dancer/choreographer Danny Gardner made his Broadway debut as Lucky in Dames at Sea in 2015, af…
BGR!FEST makes its highly anticipated return"collaborating with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) for the very first time.
It was announced today by the Theatre World Awards and The Dorothy Loudon Foundation that four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein will receive the 9th Annual John Willis Award for Lifet…
The lineup includes the return of the Broadway Center Stage series, thrilling Broadway plays and musicals, and exciting world premiere works for young people.
In 2016, a group of eight Chinese dissidents filed a class-action lawsuit against an American-based IT corporation for personal damages resulting from its collusion with the Chinese governme…