KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
We welcome back playwright and professor R. W. Schneider in another of his insights on life and American theatre. “In the quiet pond of my office a mystery had opened its toothy jaws a…
How many times have you tried to make plans with a friend to see a show, only to have it all get lost in phone tag, conflicting schedules, and awkwardness over who will be stuck with the bil…
Karen ZacarÃas' laugh-a-minute comedy Native Gardens has arrived at exactly the right time, delivering a dearly-needed burst of satire and levity to Washington, DC audiences. Director Bla…
Thanks to the Washington Post's This is Your Brain on Art we understand what you and I have known all along – that nothing quite compares to live performaning. But great theatre can…
I confess nerves got to me before I went and I hid in the house, not sure I could face the pressure. Even on arrival I wasn't sure I could cope. But there was the equity bulletin board that …
The chemistry between the characters of long-time husband and wife Willy and Linda Loman in Ford’s Theatre's Death of a Salesman may seem stronger than most other productions of Arthur…
What keeps our butts in the pews? Is it faith, fellowship, fear of hellfire, or infatuation with the charismatic preacher up at the pulpit? Lucas Hnath's play The Christians feistily examine…
For I Killed My Mother, you enter Spooky Action Theater through the bowels of a church, winding through the basement where performers are stationed"singing, strumming guitar, watching you wa…
We have 2 free pairs of tickets from Shakespeare Theatre Company to see Harold Pinter’s The Lover and The Collection at the Lansburgh Theatre. STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn (Old T…
Clover is the story of a 19th century socialite, Marion "Clover" Hooper Adams who was a participant and keen observer of the Washington, DC scene in the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s.Â�…
Harrowing, chilling and profound, Lela and Co. is a story about the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep sane, or in order to protect the status quo, or in order to be polite —…
In the Heights, now packing them in at Olney Theatre Center, has a visceral and emotional score coupled with a story of finding your home and your heart closer than expected. Behold the powe…
A skeleton crew is the minimum number of people needed to maintain something in operation"to keep something alive. The title of Dominique Morisseau's appealing, thought-provoking drama…
David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play, M. Butterfly, was an electrifying treatise on gender and East-West tensions and tragic preconceptions when it premiered in 1988 with John Lithgow and B…
It's always satisfying to discover something you weren't very aware of beforehand. Last weekend, my kids and I had a great time at The Legend of Pufferfish Pat, the latest offering from Inte…
In Cabaret We Trust is a carnival of artistic talent from across a variety of media, even inviting the audience to participate. TBD Immersive earns its name by opening up a tremendous set…
Dreamgirls is Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s loose interpretation of the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the challenges they had and the breakthrough of R&B groups to the mainst…
Duane Johnson, who sexually assaulted Tricia McCauley and then murdered her as she tried to fight him off, has entered a plea agreement under which he will serve thirty years in prison for f…
"I was at a dinner party and someone brought up a fight they were having with their neighbors and someone else brought up a fight their parents were having with their neighbors, and we all s…
An arsonist is an artist of obliteration; a wizard at turning matter to energy, and then dissipating the energy until it is nothing. Where before the arsonist came there was a home, a painti…
It's never more apparent how salacious the bard is than when watching The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a ridiculously wonderful semi-improvised comedy that parodies, red…
Hey, put down your guns! Â I'm not talking about hand-carrying, capitalist-and-NRA-endorsed devices you can buy on DC streets. I'm talking about the weapons of words we use to hate on each…
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train"a disturbing, dark dramedy by the Pulitzer-prize winning Stephen Adly Guirgis and first performed in 2000"places incarceration and morality side by side and asks y…
Watching Rep Stage's luminous production of The Heidi Chronicles as a spinster of a certain age, you don't know whether to belt out "Mirror, Mirror" from Stephen Sondheim's mus…