– Ethan McSweeny's been handed the keys to the American Shakespeare Center. Here’s what he plans to do with them. – How the Job Found the Man He knew of the place, but he d…
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by  magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry…
Anna Ziegler's (Photograph 51) new two-person play Actually sets out as an intimate exploration of one of our society's most taboo, yet timely, topics"sexual consent among two young people i…
When a 15 year old boy leaves home with a gun, heads out to kill as many people as he can, say, at, a Planned Parentood clinic, and then kills himself, who should take the blame? The chi…
In the promotional materials for their production of Iris Dauterman's Sing To Me Now, Rorschach Theatre has been highlighting one particular quote from the script: "Every second you hesitate…
Mozart's delightful Marriage of Figaro has been a perennial favorite, not only produced frequently by opera companies, but its material has been poured over, parsed, and mastered as part of …
It is worth noting that almost all the Shakespeare histories are tragedies, and almost all the kings whose stories he recounts are fools or knaves or both. The one exception (aside from the …
What to call the rare and precious experience of sitting in the darkness of a theatre where something has broken out of its own self and taken wing? Â Some say a magical work of art is one…
We Happy Few specializes in bringing classical plays to life- and what better classic to choose this Halloween season than Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror story, Frankenstein? WHF’s…
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Life to lead the "talking circle," an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially design…
Reading the description of Anna Ziegler's thought-provoking play, Actually, it's easy to think the story was ripped right from today's headlines. After all, the plot follows two freshmen at …
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker's Dog Without Feathers (Cão Sem Plumas) at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater though Saturday is a small spectacle, but it's a powerful spectacle…
The rolling world premiere of Blight, a new play by playwright and DC Theatre Scene writer John Bavoso, is being produced by Pinky Swear Productions at the Anacostia Playhouse. "Silvia is…
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of of…
There are only about a dozen cast members onstage at the exhilarating closing of Aida's first act, but given their vocal power and emotional heft, you'd swear there were 30. Constellation Th…
Imagine a large group of college students, surrounded by the international media, anxiously awaiting the moment when a statue depicting a key figure from their country's racist past is toppl…
Racy photographs stoke the mayhem and comedy of local playwright D.W. Gregory's world premiere play, Dirty Pictures, but its true catalyst lies in finding beauty in the ordinary and overlook…
The title, New Guidelines for Peaceful Times, sounds like a satirical take on a dystopian world. But it's not. It's a much more earnest, honest, and delicate look at how war"the internal …
In Apologia, the well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's 2009 play, Â Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatri…
Studio Theatre's Board of Trustees announced today that, after an extensive nationwide search for the position of its Managing Director, it has selected Rebecca Ende Lichtenberg, who has ser…
Venus in Fur is a complex play within an even more complex play. The story begins simply: director Thomas Novachek (Joe Mucciolo) has adapted nineteenth century writer Leopold von Sacher-Mas…
It took a brave playwright to write How I Learned to Drive and it takes a brave company to stage it now, and if you go to see it with an open heart, you are a brave person, too. How I Learne…
We can't tell you much about 600 Highwaymen's new show, The Fever, without spoiling the experience. Woolly Mammoth Theatre cryptically calls it a "spellbinding examination of how we assemble…
In this play, Anon (Eiren Stevenson) and his mother Nemasani (Toni Rae Salmi) flee their war-desecrated county to go to a land that they have heard is just and prosperous. But when they get …
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will has been probably adapted into more styles, settings than any of the Bard's plays. Whether it's Play On, a Broadway jukebox musical f…