Productions that are the most fun ask their audiences to buckle up, embrace the madness, and hang on for a wild ride. Pointless Theatre has such a carnival of entertainment in their latest o…
Washington Stage Guild, well known as the premier DC producer of the works of George Bernard Shaw, won’t be producing any of the master’s plays this year. Instead, it will serve …
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clich…
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
School was out. Daddy had some days off. Seemed like a good time to take the kids up to New York City " and then to go back again the following week to see some theatre not suitable for (the…
Is Washington, D.C. ready to support Black theatre produced by a new Black theatre company? I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ella Davis, co-founder of All About the Drama Theatre…
Natascia Diaz has wowed DC audiences for a decade, but when Signature Theatre offered her the lead role of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, she hesitated. The popular actress has e…
Stephanie Ybarra, The Public Theater’s Director of Special Artistic Projects, will be the new Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, the company has announced. She succeeds Kw…
You may have heard of Douglas Turner Ward's 1965Â Day of Absence, but might not be as aware of his other one-act play that was often performed as a full evening. Â Here's a chance to fin…
No one can put music and lyrics together the way Stephen Sondheim has done " astonishingly " for decades, since the mid-1950's. In my interview with Matthew Gardiner, who is directing a …
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
Alzheimer's, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
From Kurt Boehm's direction and nuanced yet sure performances of the leads to Michael Innocenti’s evocative gorgeous lighting and Patrick Lord’s projections, Keegan Theatre's The…
"This is a good time for this piece to be in this city,”director Kurt Boehm says of The Bridges of Madison County, now onstage at Keegan Theatre. No matter what side of the political a…
Trimmed up and in glorious voice on all accounts, the national tour of The Color Purple has moved into the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center. And Hamilton, packing them in next door i…
Imagine that George and Martha from Virginia Woolf invited the squabbling couples from God of Carnage over for a spot of dinner and some Hitchcock-style mystery and you pretty much have Dinn…
Perhaps you have never heard of Amour, the musical with a score by the prolific French composer Michel Legrand. Perhaps it was champagne when the masses wanted beer back in 2002 when it open…
What do you get when you take one of America's most controversial theatre artists and its most divisive political issue and put them in a room together in our nation's capital? In the case o…
NextStop Theatre is celebrating its 30th year, a history that took root as the Elden Street Players in 1988, when the newly-formed community theatre took over a Herndon-based warehouse an…
N'Jameh Camara is playing Nettie in The Color Purple, now concluding its national tour at The Kennedy Center. "Nettie is the younger sister of Celie and looks at her environment and wonde…
"We either repeat mistakes or don't update our own sense on what love is for," Kathleen Akerley, artistic director at Longacre Lea, said in our recent interview about her upcoming debut p…
Contemporizing Shakespeare's plays, abridging them, moving them to different locations, or having them center around different cultures: these are all fun ways to mold classical theatre into…
If I walked into the Highwood to see the fledgling 4615 Theatre's stab at the Scottish Play with lowered expectations, I hope my readers and colleagues can forgive me. There were numerous re…
Dave is a musical for our times. A snapshot of our current political climate swathed in red, white and blue, the world premiere musical with music by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), a book by the…
Just when you wondered what else Holly Bass would do with her arsenal of skills in hip-hop, dance, spoken word, poetry and theater, she snaps us into shifting realities. This workshop pr…