It's simply magical when a family-friendly comedy show can make children and adults laugh wildly in their seats. Throughout Potted Potter, J.K. Rowling's wizarding world serves as the backdr…
Rare is the show that would be better if it were significantly longer. At a mere thirty-ish minutes, Nameless Theater's Honey comes out to nearly a dollar a minute for the ticket price. And …
If you're looking for the cutting edge of DC theater, look for the groups who are interrogating the boundaries of what it means to even be a theater. From Forum's actor-less The State to TBD…
Site-specific shows are not new to DC theatre. We've had plays performed in a swimming pool, in bars, in vacant spaces and in a residential home. Nameless Theater is taking it further, produ…
Take a tip from me. If your jones for hard-nosed detectives, shady nighttime dealings on foggy piers, dive bars serving bathtub gin, torch songs, sassy dames and the like can't be satiated b…
“My drag isn’t a costume I use to hide in," famed performance artists and playwright Taylor Mac says, "it’s exposing what I look like on the inside.” And the same cou…
Attendees of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards on May 14, 2018 will be heading to a new part of DC for DC theatre’s biggest night. theatreWashington has announced that this 34th yea…
As reported here last week, the Baltimore company Iron Crow Theatre is dealing with a sexual harassment allegation, which forced cancellation of the opening of Terrence McNally’s Corpu…
If this was the concert version, what on earth will they add to a fully-staged version? Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was the latest in the string of musicals being broadcast live o…
Craig Wright's The Pavilion is a modern classic because it wades through a starlit sentimentality on its way to a clear-eyed lesson. As a tale about a man trying to reunite with his lost lov…
Mosaic Theater Company’s fourth season will bring iconic figures from our past — Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Donny Hathaway, the great R&B and Gospel singer Rosetta…
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Baltimore’s Iron Crow Theatre has closed down its troubled production of Corpus Christi, according to an announcement signed by 13 members of its cast and released today. “We, th…
"I was tall and I was strong,"Â recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or c…
Theater J will be all around town during the 2018-2019 theater season, as the Edlavitch DCJCC makes significant renovations to its digs on 16th Street. While the Jewish Cultural Center will …
Being stuck in the world of 410[GONE] might seem like Hell for most people. After all, it is a trippy video game afterlife full of maddening puzzles based on Dance Dance Revolution and manic…
Timothy Nelson, who spent ten years as the Artistic Director of the American Opera Theater in Baltimore, will return to the area after the conclusion of this season to take over the reins of…
Justin Peck's "Pulcinella Variations," an ecstatic circus of the soul, made its sensational D.C. debut Tuesday in an altogether winning evening of mixed repertory by the New York City Ballet…
Has My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity? Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw's century-old pla…
Everybody loves a day at the beach, especially kids. In these DC days of a snowy Spring, Kennedy Center is providing an opportunity for seashore fun (no airfare needed) by hosting, in its Fa…
A play written at the dawn of the 17th century and one written at the dawn of the 21st will bookend the second full season for Silver Spring’s 4615 Theatre, the company announced Sunda…
RS/24 is an ethereal drama about one long night in the life of Herbie, a record store owner (writer and director Clayton LeBouef, the veteran actor is best known for his performances in R…
Many languages are bandied about in Brian Friel's Translations"Greek, Latin, Gaelic, the king's English, to name a few"creating a rich linguistic tapestry central to the play's theme of cult…
The facts behind the real life incidents captured in Kenneth Jones's Alabama Story – the controversy over banning a children's book – stands as a cautionary tale, one that has be…
The opposite of screaming is silence. That silence can contain a multitude of meanings. If you see something wrong, and you do not speak up, silence is complicit. If you represent the dead, …