Good news to opera lovers, opera is very much alive and growing in its John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (KC) home on the Potomac. While many big and small opera companies in Ne…
In 2013, Olivier-winning playwright Jessica Swale wrote a play about the life of actress Nell Gwynn, one of the first women to trod the English stage, and who became a celebrated actress dur…
We quickly learn that Everything Is Wonderful is Amish shorthand for "Shut your pie hole, I beg you." But you wouldn't want to miss a single plainspoken word of this magnificent, wholehearte…
The Brothers Size is a deceptively simple three-character play that tackles themes of brotherhood, devotion, and freedom. It is receiving an outstanding production at 1st Stage. The stor…
Last night, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre's Helen Hayes Gallery for theatreWashington's announcement of the nominees for the 3…
Few words strike fear into the hearts of wide swaths of the theatre-going population than 'Audience Participation.' But when said participation involves sipping champagne, swanning around a …
Gypsy is a grand, brilliant affair. Then and now and forever. And Toby's Dinner Theatre is giving it a first class production. This is the story of Rose (Cathy Mundy). The precursor to th…
If you've got a case of the polar-vortex blues, Signature Theatre has the prescription for you: a two-hour extended-release burst of high-wattage, endorphin-pumping rhythm, courtesy of one F…
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano's Austin, an Ivy…
The Screwtape Letters, in a touring revival at the Lansburgh Theatre, is a polished, imaginative rendering of a tedious, self-righteous play. The acting and production values in this polishe…
American Ballet Theatre's production of Harlequinade, at the Kennedy Center through Sunday, transforms old-fashioned commedia dell'arte stock characters and situations into something elegant…
MarÃa Celeste Arrarás interviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda in El Dorado, Puerto Rico for "Al Rojo Vivo" the day after the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, in which Miranda reprised …
A nonlinear remembrance of family and self, Fun Home was lauded as a groundbreaking piece when it opened on Broadway in 2015, winning the Tony for Best Musical that year. Based on Alison Bec…
Want to know what the most powerful man in the world is really like? Why not ask the man who plays him on stage? We may judge and condemn others with abandon, but there is one character with…
Assuming love and sex are an intertwined riddle to be solved and you want an answer to the mystery "you're not going to get it here. If you want to walk away deep in thought, contemplating t…
Sunday night’s opening at MetroStage was a fanfare affair. Not only did the press come out in full force (not always easy to get in the crowded local theater market,) being in the audi…
In the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing "The Wind Beneath My Wings" at a bar mitzvah at Leonard's of Great Neck for the thousandth time; Daphn…
La Vie Boheme is not mort. On the contrary, it is shiny and perky as all get out. That could be a problem for those who consider Rent, the late Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking 1996 rock mus…
A line delivered by Frog, a homeless man, encapsulates the dilemma of Heidi Shreck's play, Grand Concourse. Speaking in a soup kitchen filled with raw vegetables for chopping, he tells the s…
Sheldon Epp's Twelve Angry Men, his directorial debut at the historic Ford's Theatre, promised a present-day take on the 1954 legal drama that follows jury deliberations in the murder trial …
The Fox Network will broadcast a live production of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent this Sunday, January 27, from 8 to 11 PM EST (8 to 11 on tape delay for those in the Pacific Time Zon…
Kenneth Lin wrote for “House of Cards” back when “House of Cards” was cool. But what denizens of our town know is that, for the terrifying and the bizarre, there ain&…
For Washington Stage Guild patrons, the downtown theatre company's current production offers a bit of closure. After introducing DC audiences to a complicated young couple in Last Train to N…
Writers excavate the marrow of life in order to create their fictional universes, and thus are sometimes required to mine their own marrow for their art. So it was with Paula Vogel, who lost…
A couple of weeks ago, the satire site McSweeney's published an article entitled, "How Can I Help to Promote Diversity Without Relinquishing Any of My Power?" This title alone could serve as…