Those pigs. Can't trust them, can't ignite a revolution without them. Why can't they just be content with being what they are–bacon? Pigs, propaganda, the proletariat and politics prol…
Breathe is a transformative work written and directed by Cleavon Meabon IV about the resilience of an African-American family trying to establish balance in the face of white violence. An…
Christopher Michael Richardson is "easing on down the road," nightly as the Lion in Ford Theatre's imaginative production of the Tony-winning, The Wiz, which runs through May 12. "The Lion a…
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winning Disgraced is a thoughtful character study about American Muslim identity. Driven by casual conversations, the play reveals earnest and unsettling disclos…
What do you think of this script for a possible Merchant/Ivory film? Fade in on Melissa, a young, very three-dimensional woman, sitting on a lounge chair in her underwear. Tina, her faithful…
This Little Light, like so many Venus Theatre productions, is a gem that radiates the very joy it dares us to find in ourselves, and each other, when we fear we've lost it most. Â If you …
The Texas Homecoming Revolution of 1995 has got to be one of the strangest titles that I’ve ever seen but the production is incredibly entertaining. The fast-moving script by Jennifer …
Elaine May's play Adult Education, currently in previews in a production by The Klunch, "is pretty delightful. It's kind of a porno Pygmalion sort of play, in terms of porn stars suddenly ge…
I'm going to spoil one of the twists in A Burial Place for you. It comes about 25 minutes into this 100-minute production of A Burial Place, and sadly those first minutes before learning the…
According to the newly released study by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, arts and culture have been good for the nation’s economy. And that has be…
After Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for "Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical " …
NextStop Theatre Company has offered professional theater to Herndon, VA and environs for five years, but for years before that the theater’s venue was home to one of the best communit…
Maria Manuela Goyanes, The Public Theater's Director of Producing and Artistic Planning, will be the new Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theater, the company announced today. Goyanes, wh…
With the sounds of shuffling headshots in the background, actors stretched and conducted vocal exercises outside of an Arena Stage rehearsal hall Sunday. It was a standard scene for an open …
It was a divinely beautiful sequence. Down the aisles of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater strode the Bowie State University Pep Band. They spread out in front of and on the stage and …
According to the press release from the American Theatre Critics Association the organization has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Associ…
There will be a whole lotta theater going on at Olney Theatre Center next season. In addition to its nine-production subscription series, Artistic Director Jason Loewith and his crew will we…
The Narrator (Alexander Strain), stands on the top step of an aisle and says that he has three words for anyone in the audience who is contemplating suicide: his voice lowers to nearly a whi…
Synetic Theater has dialed up its customary quota of Silent Shakespeare productions for its 2018-2019 season, but the new theatrical year will also mark another production for Synetic Family…
Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay's The Intruders  is an entertaining satire about the contemporary wave of gentrification in DC that packs lots of laughs, but fails to do more than scratch the su…
In queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as…
The icy blast that whipped through Washington this past week blew in a work rarely seen to the Kennedy Center's Opera House Saturday night that both tested one's brain stamina and also broug…
Followers of Jesus post Bible verses on Reddit. John the Baptist unplugs the wifi to get everyone's attention. The surrendering of your cell phone or laptop is the ultimate show of commitmen…
During my formative years in the suburban south, it seemed that the word "pro-life" extended beyond political headlines and chants: it was ingrained in the teen culture. Friends invited me t…
You have just three more days to see those fabulous folks of Happenstance Theater in their latest show- and kids, what a show it is! Slapstick Jukebox is a compilation of Happenstance Theate…