Autism, family obligation, and innovative design collide on stage in Olivia Haller's This Is All Just Temporary, Convergence Theatre's contribution to the 2018 Women's Voices Theater Festiva…
Waxing West is a rich, moving story of immigration, culture clash, and revolution"the common political kind and a deeper, internal, personal kind. A little over a decade after the Romanian R…
It's always a treat to see what Pointless Theatre does with a story, and they rise to new levels with their take on one of Shakespeare's rambling masterworks. The program notes that Shak…
Brilliant ideas are charming on paper. They coax professors to smile and experts to furiously nod in agreement. Ideas that you think, when executed, would fly without a falter. But brilliant…
Despite the shutdown of the federal government, Jefferson’s Garden will continue its full run (January 19 to February 8) at Ford’s Theatre. The concern arose when Congress was un…
Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Love Is A Blue Tick Hound gives us not one play but four by local playwright Audrey Cefaly. These mini one-acts are but a half hour long ea…
"Are you kidding? I'd dance in a parking lot to do this play!" Pamela Reed was explaining to me her reaction to the offer of the role of Deirdre in The Humans. The 2016 Tony winner for Best …
I typically like to think of myself as someone well informed about the world of DC's Indie Theatre Community, so it came as a shock to me that I'd completely missed the formation of Perisphe…
When Nataki Garrett was 9 or 10 years old, her aunt took Garrett, her sister, and two cousins to visit Thomas Jefferson's home of Monticello. Garrett remembers walking through the gardens an…
Put a group of high school junior girls together and the conversations could range from anything from boys to movies to selfies, but when those girls are part of a win-now, demanding soccer …
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth serves as a mammoth of a play, covering time between the ice age to the post-apocalyptic future. Creating this hilarious, poignant, and heart-warming …
Baltimore’s Hippodrome, which specializes in brief visits by touring Broadway hits and classics, will offer a 9-production 2018-2019 season anchored by a June, 2019 visit from Hamilton…
In the poster for Rabbit Summer, a woman wearing a glamorous dressing gown stands provocatively, hands seemingly on her hips. A closer look through the shadows reveals she's actually hol…
After reviewing statistic after statistic about gender parity in the fields of playwriting and directing, I'm excited for the second Women's Voices Theater Festival. Queens Girl in Africa…
This coming weekend Washington National Opera will showcase its most vital work: insuring the future of the form by developing young creative talent through its American Opera Initiative (AO…
Ah, the 1%. If you can't join 'em, berate 'em. That's the thought behind Theresa Rebeck's cynical, screwball-funny, comedic bed-hopping The Way of the World, a fresh adaptation of William Co…
You know things are going to start getting weird when the woolly mammoth and the dinosaur show up at the front door. Indeed, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth may be a classic, but …
I have the answer to the question you all are dying to ask about NextStop’s new play — “how did it treat Millard Fillmore?” — but before we get to that let̵…
Stillpointe Theatre, a Baltimore-based company known for its sharp takes on the American musical, has just entered the field of opera and became one of the first out of the gate this year to…
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Fli…
“Home is the place where, when you go there,” Robert Frost wrote, “they have to let you in.” And so it is for the hapless Blake family, strivers and dreamers like all…
"Do you have long knees?"Â The question came to me from the gentleman of a certain age who had the seat in front of mine at On Your Feet! The Emilio & Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical, …
"We have been doing a classical musical in the January/February slot, but it gets dark at 5, it's winter and cold, and that audience sometimes doesn't like going out,” director Mark Mi…
In the fall of 2015, the inaugural Women's Voices Theater Festival, showcased 62 female-penned world premiere plays. The festival was a rousing success, garnering interest in the playw…
If your theatre tastes favor new and challenging works, Scena Theatre's world premiere of Guilt is worthy of your consideration with its interesting mélange of light comedy, dark tragedy…