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At the National Philharmonic Orchestra 'Broadway's Brightest Lights' concert, there was no shortage of cross-generational jubilation.
The young cast of this new musical has an energy that's contagious.
The haunting events surrounding the trial of Emmett Till's killers seen through the eyes of Black reporters trying to get the facts of the story.
When playwright George Bernard Shaw created his original romantic comedy Candida in 1894, written in response to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House and first published in his Plays Pleasant collect…
The production passes on the absurdity and orders optimism instead.
The award, named for Trish Vradenburg, will go to Itamar Moses at Theater J's benefit on November 15.
In Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle's contemporary adaptation of J.M. Synge's classic, it's not clear who has more fun, the audience or the ensemble on stage.
During the period following Chairman Mao's 1966 Cultural Revolution in China and his death in 1976, the Communist country began to reopen to Western cultural influences and economic reform. …
In My Broken Language, now in its world-premiere Off-Broadway engagement at Pershing Square Signature Theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, who also directs, em…
An entertaining and essential autobiographical play about a woman's dual identity born in Palestine and raised in Israel.
The musical may have a weak plot but this production is excellent.
Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer showcase two powerful storytellers who have shaped the folk music songbook since the 1960s.
This one's an instant classic, and well worth the drive, the tolls, whatever it takes to get you to Staunton, Virginia.
The multiracial acting company has created one of the most thought-provoking versions of this play you are likely to see.
Martinique author Aimé Césaire's redo of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' should be receiving revivals across the country in very short order.
The junior at Winston Churchill High balances headlining roles, school, and volunteer work while blossoming into one of the region's leading high school thespians.
The actor talks about his indelible performance and his personal connection to the role.
A candid conversation with the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of 'Cost of Living' now on Broadway and 'Sanctuary City' now playing at Arena Stage.
Playwright Ifa Bayeza transforms this terrifying and traumatizing story for Black Americans into a catalyst for change.
Commissioned by the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Haitian-American writer Jeff Augustin is now playing a…
The scary staple of Spanish-speaking popular culture is imaginatively reframed by a modern mother-daughter conflict.
Attendance is down, COVID protocols are going their own way, and Theatre Washington and Limelight Insights release new survey on mask-wearing.
NYC-born actor Ken Leung has had an acclaimed career on screen, from his 1998 professional debut as Sang in Rush Hour, to such other popular roles Miles Straume in Lost, Admiral Statura in S…
This play in Ifa Bayeza's 'The Till Trilogy' shows how the Emmett Till murder distorted the most intimate human relationships among the people involved.
The weekend program, the first of three, was directed and choreographed by Antonio Granjero, the 'Baryshnikov of Spanish Dance.'
