"'Deru kugi wa utareru.' Dad first said it to me. 'The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hit.' It's an old Japanese proverb. To stay out of danger or harm's way, one must conform. On…
See why area theatre companies are making the Washington DC and Baltimore areas the busiest theatre hubs in the country. We’ll refresh this list as new season announcements are announc…
For 2018-2019, Ford's Theatre has opted for a season of magic and optimism in which the corrupt are smited, the stingy are enlightened, wrongs are righted and children are delighted. The sea…
Dr. Ruth. Nearly everybody knows her iconic look, sound and effervescent spirit. Little did we know, however, about the marriages that didn’t work, early professional hardships, experi…
A fantasy about a high school teacher who becomes a Presidential double and then the de facto President when the real President suffers from a scandalous illness will open a season for Arena…
What becomes a legend most? For the Shakespeare Theatre Company, celebrating the final year of its artistic director since 1986, Michael Kahn, it will be this: two Shakespeare plays, a new a…
Callie Kimball is an actor and playwright who graced DC stages for several years before moving to New York City. Rep Stage will be producing the world premiere of her new play, Things that a…
It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
Count Down, one of many extraordinary plays included in this year's Women's Voices Theater Festival,  is an emotional drama about teenage girls living in a group home in Chester, Ne…
Although Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi might not be a name people recognize, many know his story and the historic Supreme Court case which bears his name" Hirabayashi v. United States. The son …
Are you ready to be old? By that I mean are you ready to sell your home, where you’ve lived for fifty years and raised your family, and go…elsewhere? To lay aside your lifetime f…
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
"Everyone in this play is dead," Harriet Tubman (Tiffany Byrd) announces minutes into the first act. Frederick Douglass (Marquis D. Gibson), John Brown (Nicklas Aliff), Henry Kagi (Josh Adam…
The theatre can be a messy place, and often this is most evident in the rehearsal process. Violence and intimacy scenes stand as two of the more interesting challenges. How do we display …
It may seem an odd choice at first for Quotidian to revive a century-old comedy of manners in an era of #metoo. Happily, though he's no George Bernard Shaw (that's OK, I'm no Ben Brantley), …
In The Veils by Hope Villanueva, Melody, a female Marine translator in Afghanistan, has completed her tour of duty and returned stateside trying desperate to pick up the pieces of her lif…
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a beloved '80s icon. The tiny, yet big-opinioned sex therapist was a fixture on late night talk shows and the radio throughout the decade, and even fronted several of …
The Farnsworth Invention, showbiz writer Aaron Sorkin's misfired attempt to retrofit a screenplay about the patent battle over television transmission into a stage drama was a dud when it op…
In 1919, Eugene O’Neill wrote a play called Exorcism. It is about shame. It is set in 1912, and in it the protagonist confesses to his boozy friend that he committed adultery with a pr…
Light Years celebrates the cornerstone to all human relationships, the first and most defining: child and parent. In this case, the focus is Robbie Schaefer and his father Konnie (Bobby S…
Dreams often come with wild, cartoonish images. We wake up remembering their eccentricity and wonder: "How did my brain come up with that?" Watching The Lathe of Heaven is like stepping that…
Chess at the Kennedy Center is a checkmate. In other words, this formerly troubled musical with a beloved score, is taking the Eisenhower Theatre stage by storm in a staged, semi-concert for…
It was more than a dozen years ago that actor Heather Raffo, whose family is from Iraq, recognized a void of female Iraqi protagonists in American theater. That propelled her to write…
Imagination Stage takes Mark Twain’s classic ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ and with a sprightly script by Anu Yadav, cleverly relocates it to a bedazzling fairytale India, co…
Most theater performers don't get to spend Valentine's Day with their significant other, but that's not the case for Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis, who spent the night kissing, embracing and …