Movie Magic Live! answer our questions. Where did the idea for your show come from? While the submission process was in progress, my friends at Fringe mentioned that there were quite …
As a poet and director, when I came across the script, the poetic language, the dramatic aspects of the play, and the possibility of creativity the story provides attracted me to direct�…
Hello, we are Area Woman – a new performance collective made up of women who love and respect each other, and also love and respect you. We formed when we realized that we liked each o…
Joey Maranto answers our questions about Meet the Glory Wholes. Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: I just have to do this! I developed Meet the Glory Wholes while dri…
Actor Elan Zafir answers our questions about his play coming to Capital Fringe, The Unaccompanied Minor. – Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: I just have t…
Black Confederates have long been considered a minor historical footnote, and even a debatable one at that. What isn’t open to debate is the fact that there were some 4 million Blacks …
The Essential Theatre's new play People for Whom the World Spins and Turns is best described by its subtitle A World Premiere Play about Addiction & Recovery. It is a thoughtful a…
John Lanou wrote Love in Three Scenes to explore "love in the age of rage."The piece could stir controversy (on both the right and the left) as it tackles Muslim-American patriot…
This week, The Hub Theatre welcomed Matt Bassett as successor to Helen Murray as Artistic Director, the company announced. Bassett, an actor, director, and former Helen Hayes judge, first jo…
Many citizens have been welcome at community pools and swim clubs their entire lives. This is not true of African-Americans. Here we have the story of the African American Bowlding famil…
First, how we got here: In November 1955, a group of young Washingtonians and a former member of the then-all-male Princeton Triangle Club decided to put on a show devoted to "pure fun and n…
Word Dance Theater hasn't done a Fringe since 2008 so I wanted to do it this year. We always meet new people and pick up new audiences. Also, I like the "low tech" quality of the Fringe …
On press night of Ain’t Too Proud"The Life and Times of The Temptations, an impassioned cry pierced a moment between flaming montages of the 1967 Detroit riot and Dr. Martin Luther Kin…
The DC theatre community lost one of its most admired, respected, and beloved members on June 9th. Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang was only 53 years old when she succumbed to cancer. The outpouring of…
I fell in love with Hawaii in 1997 when my first wife and I took a vacation there. Â You might say my love of Hawaii outlasted my first marriage. Â But that's another story. In 1998, I b…
I first encountered the script for Ghosts by Elford Alley, when I was applying as a director for a Halloween one-act festival, last year at the Little Theatre of Alexandria. While reading al…
DC Metro Theatre Arts Senior Reviewer Wendi Winters was one of the five people killed by a gunman in the offices of The Capital Gazette yesterday, DC Metro Theatre Arts reported today. Winte…
Second City is back at it again with Second City's Generation Gap…or How Many Millennials Does it Take to Teach a Baby Boomer to Text Generation X?, now invading the Kennedy Center to h…
The American Shakespeare Center, a Staunton, Va.-based company dedicated to producing Shakespeare in the manner he might have been originally produced, has named longtime DC Shakespearian di…
When Carmen Jones opened on Broadway in 1943, one critic hailed it as "something more than a major theatrical event."Â Seventy-five years later, the Classic Stage Company is presenting wh…
In 2015 the president of Prince George's Community Pool in Mt. Rainier, Md., discovered copies of decades-old correspondence between pool officials and Raymond Bowlding, a local black man, w…
Olney Theatre celebrates its 80th season this year with this splendid production of On the Town, the Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Green musical which made its Broadway debut in 1944…
Ephraim Sykes can't seem to leave the '60s. He played Otis Williams in the Broadway show Motown the Musical, was a critical darling as Seaweed in NBC's Hairspray Live, and now can be seen in…
Near the beginning of Log Cabin, four old LGBT friends are so struck by their sudden societal acceptance that one of them jokes "It's here, the gay takeover we've been plotting all this time…
Happiness is Imagination Stage's production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: a musical that's adorned with the silly antics and sticky-sweet nature of childhood. Director Aaron Posner ho…