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Given a Sharpie and a table of paper at Bats!, Submersive Productions’ new show, participating audience members are given directions to write a haiku on the subject of bats, I penne…
Much like its storied source material, (Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), The Wiz is an American cultural institution. Seven Tony Awards in 1975. Numerous revivals. A 1978 film ad…
Referenced more now as "the first show from the guy behind Hamilton," the decade-old In the Heights created by current cultural darling Lin-Manuel Miranda burst spirited and joyful during it…
"The great work begins!" Prior Walter, a character with AIDS who stays defiantly alive, proclaimed at the end of Angels in America when it debuted 25 years ago on Broadway. By the time Prior…
Holding onto a gleaming crystal trophy, actor Vaughn Midder beamed as he stood at the center of the Miracle Theatre's stage. He had just been named Monologue Madness 2018 Champion, winning a…
Newsies, just opened at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, takes us back to 1899 New York City, when newspapers were sold on street corners by impoverished newsboys to people who trusted the ̶…
Last night at the Miracle Theatre in DC, actor/produced Edward Daniels led 32 contestants through the eight performance brackets of Monologue Madness, all vying to take home the crystal Mono…
Many times theatres have faced crises, and, like the plucky heroes of movies, their workers band together to overcome the obstacles. The solutions may not always be pleasant. The answers may…
What most engaged me about Frozen, if I'm honest, is Sven the reindeer. This said more than I initially realized about the Broadway musical adaptation of the highest-grossing animated film o…
When Studio Theatre decided to stage Irish master Brian Friel's Translations this season, the timing seemed like a perfect fit for Studio's Belfast-born associate artistic director Matt Torn…
The earliest recorded reference to The Winter's Tale is a 1611 performance at the Globe. Letting my romanticism momentarily override my scholasticism, I find so many elements of the play …
You know this girl, this woman, this ghost. You met her in Galway, or in a small town in the Slieve Mish Mountains in County Kerry, or in Peoria — or in Bowie, or in Rwanda, or any pla…
Essentially Rent, but half as long and without everything that makes Rent unlikeable to modern sensibilities. Monumental Theatre Company's top-notch production of Brooklyn the Musical, which…
Nat Turner in Jerusalem is a journey into the fervent religious belief behind the leader of a slave rebellion in Southampton County, VA, armed only with a sword and spirit. You may have seen…
Bethesda’s Round House Theatre will kick off its 41st Season with a $14-million capital campaign — designed to raise money to improve both the company’s physical plant and …
There's no getting around it " The Winter's Tale, as far as Shakespearean romances go, is a weird play. One King's jealous rage springs into action for seemingly unfounded reasons. Huge chun…
"With any new endeavor," said Washington Ballet's Artistic Director Julie Kent before Friday night's performance, "there is an element of risk " and excitement." The risk was in presenting T…
Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
"Razzle dazzle 'em!"Â Silver-tongue shyster lawyer Billy Flynn melodically opines that if you do that, you'll have an audience eating out of your hand. If you can snag a ticket to the Keeg…
Susan Galbraith speaks with director Aaron Posner and actor Katie deBuys during rehearsals for The Winter’s Tale which opens at Folger Theatre this week. ————&#…
The first post-Kwame Kwei-Armah season at Baltimore Center Stage will feature the classics: established, new and aspiring. It will start off with one of the most celebrated plays in the Amer…
The ancient Greeks took to the stage with joyous dancing and choral singing thousands of years ago, even before they created the timeless tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles. So why not a b…
To a world of Instagram, YouTube, reality television, and other forms of hyped up, electrified media for the short attention span-addled populace, MetroStage offers something different. Cath…
The Contemporary American Theater Festival’s annual 3-week July celebration will feature five world premieres and a recent work by “This is Us” producer and screenwriter Be…
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Big Apple Circus. Designed originally as a small touring circus with just one ring and a few performers along the lines of traditional American circus…
