Fifty years ago in 1973, Maynard Jackson became the first Black mayor of the city of Atlanta, Georgia. He was the first Black to become a mayor of a major Southern city. It began a new e…
In the early 1990s, Phillip Ridley did not have an easy time finding a theater willing to premiere his play, "The Pitchfork Disney." When The Bush Theatre of London finally gave in, Ridley's…
Sandy Point State Park, Annapolis, MD ' Sept. 30 & Oct. 1, 2023 Music ' Food ' Drinks ' Beachfront Venue ' Family Friendly * MORE! Daily Lineup and Single Day Tickets Announced! Clic…
Wolf Trap Opera's one-night only production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" featured vocal talent of the highest caliber in a memorable performance of some of opera's best-loved music. It was dir…
September 8 and 9 at 7 pm and September 10 at 2pm "Every four years it emerges,Politicians get Primary Urges.They believe that they're hot,Though the polls say they're not.Raw ambition from …
Featuring a Sondheim Musical, 2 DC Premieres, and 2 Audience Favorites The Keegan Theatre is pleased to announce its 27th season, featuring 5 mainstage productions in its beautiful, intimate…
The season of summer blockbusters is upon us. Movie theaters everywhere are filled with big stories, employing big casts, and consuming big budgets. It's enough to give one a sense of screen…
In the Hollywood-musical-turned-Broadway show "42nd Street," Peggy Sawyer, a young girl from Allentown, PA, dreams of being in a New York Broadway show in the theatre district of 42nd Street…
The Bowie Playhouse Theatre will be the site of a new production by playwright, Shekeia Cowan. Ms. Cowan not only wrote the play "The Delicate Flower," but along with Assistant Director Audr…
The 1984 blockbuster film "Footloose" launched actor Kevin Bacon's career into super-stardom and gave us the catchy title song that became a number one hit for singer/songwriter Kenny Loggin…
(Washington, D.C.)Â " The Folger Shakespeare Library announced that it will extend the timeline for the renovation of its historic home on Capitol Hill and move the public opening from Nov…
The pre-Broadway national tour of "The Wiz" kicks off in Baltimore at the Hippodrome Theater from September 23-30, 2023, with a limited Broadway engagement planned for spring of 2024. The or…
"Disco Fever" is a red-hot new cabaret special staged in Signature Theatre's versatile black box, and the perfect way to round out your summer theater calendar with something low-stakes and …
Synetic Theater's "Cyrano de Bergerac" is a gloriously silly, but tragic, romp based loosely on Edmond Rostand's play of the same name which follows the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, the soldi…
WASHINGTON, D.C."Ford's Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault announced the Ford's Theatre 2023-2024 season, featuring the world premiere of Pearl Cleage's Something Moving: A Meditation on May…
"Mean Girls," a Talent Machine Company summer production at Anne Arundel Community College, is the perfect vehicle for taking us back"some would say" to a terrible time in our lives. With mu…
"Grounded" is a one-woman show that chronicles an Air Force pilot's transition from flying actual fighter jets to becoming part of what she deems the "Chair Force." Not previously familiar w…
In rather vehemently discussing the stark differences between the cold, hard facts of science and the reassurance of belief, Mother Miriam exclaims, "I want the opportunity to believe. I wan…
Thank you to the thousands of Fringe theater-goers who took a chance on the unexpected by attending the 2023 Capital Fringe Festival. Some performances were sour, some were sweet, but all we…
Hee Seo and Daniel Camargo captivate in a night of ballet magic. The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) danced a hauntingly beautiful production of "Giselle" on the Filene Center stage that resem…
Admittedly, I had never heard of "The Absence of a Cello." This was also my first time attending a performance by the Bowie Community Theatre. Happily, I have to say that BCT delivered, and …
During the height of the inferno of a blazing summer, Wolf Trap Opera took its audiences "to hell and back" with its unusual production of "Faust." Charles Gounod's opera, based on the liter…
Prologue Theatre seemingly isn't afraid to take some risks when it comes to the types of productions they mount. They are happily in the process of laying the groundwork for a reputation tha…
In August, Fells Point Corner Theatre (FPCT) kicks off its 36th season with a production of ten short plays portrayed by ten actors and directed by five directors. The ninth annual 10x10x10 …
This one is for the Rentheads! If you can belt "La Vie Boheme" from memory and recognize "Seasons of Love" from its first piano bars, "RENT in Concert" delivers as you've never heard it befo…