It's 2023, and that brings forth the end of the Little Theatre of Alexandria's current theatrical season (2022-2023) and ushers in the beginning of yet another year of top-notch entertainmen…
Dear friends and collaborators, It is with a wave of complex emotions that after 15 years of joyfully serving Baltimore City and beyond with bold, transformative theatre and impactful, inspi…
An International Festival Celebrating the World's Rivers and Their Cultures March 22 (World Water Day)"April 22, 2023 (Earth Day) (WASHINGTON)"The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing A…
Prize Will Be Awarded at the Kennedy Center at a Gala Performance on March 19, 2023. (WASHINGTON)"The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the 24th Mark Twain Prize fo…
WASHINGTON, DC " Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater company, is delighted to announce that Hayley Finn (she/her) will become its new Artistic Director on Febru…
The story of "Peter and the Wolf ""Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's program music fairy tale introducing instruments of the orchestra for children"is told effectively by the Puppet Co. wi…
Week of January 15, 2023 1. "Ride the Cyclone" at Arena Stage "Wacky and wonderful…a side-splitting, hilarious original musical…unmissable…packed with earworm songs and vivid cast of c…
Gabriel Mata's performance at Dance Loft on 14 was one of those performances that doesn't end when you walk out of the theater; you have to sit with his work and let the ideas marinate. Mata…
Will a butch lesbian gardener and four New Jersey housewives save us from the oncoming climate apocalypse? The Greek god Dionysus"god of wine, parties, the arts, ecstasy and vegetation"has b…
At one point in his six-minute curtain speech, Spotlighters' Executive Director and Managing/Artistic Director, Fuzz Roark, gives a telling description of "[title of show]." "It's about us,"…
 Arlington, VA " On April 3, 2023, Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre will honor the theatrical icon Chita Rivera with the company's twelfth Stephen Sondheim Award. T…
Washington, D.C. [January 24, 2023]"Shakespeare Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the extension of their upcoming production of King Lear. Due to the excellent response the producti…
Oscar Wilde once said, "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." My experience of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and his music began by m…
After a three-year Covid hiatus, the Compass Rose Theater is back with a vengeance, alive and well in its new home at Maryland Hall. The company's first offering fits their new space well. "…
The love story of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda is one that would make for a pretty engaging movie, a lively limited series, or perhaps even a musical. A musical had actually been p…
More than a century after its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy, Verdi's "Falstaff" continues to charm audiences with its humor, lovable characters, and magnificent score. The Maryland Ly…
What could be more fun on a winter's night than to try to solve a wonderful Agatha Christie mystery with friends? Laurel Mill Playhouse is currently presenting "Towards Zero" by Christie and…
St. Cassian High School Chamber Choir were dealt an unlucky hand"they came in second place when they were the only team in competition; they hail from the boring small town of Uranium, Saska…
It's 3 p.m. on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Though free tickets will not be distributed for another hour and a half, hundreds of eager guests line the Hall of Nations waiting for the chance …
"Between Riverside and Crazy," the Pulitzer prize-winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, is currently making its Broadway debut, and people"especially New Yorkers"are raving. Although the pla…
Any musical theatre enthusiast alive in the 1980s (or maybe just anyone alive) will remember the immense popularity of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "CATS," winner of seven Tony Awards® including…
Week of January 8, 2023 1. "Two Jews Walk Into a War…" at Theater J "It is a joy to watch these two actors…one is left with a sense of having been both entertained and also educated in r…
The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage was created as an artistic celebration of our "collective cultural heritage in the most inclusive and accessible way possible." A series of free concert…
This Friday and Saturday, Dance Loft on 14 presents a deeper look into past, present, and future dance works of D.C.-based artist, Gabriel Mata. Gabriel Mata (pronounced: gah-bryehl mah-tah)…
Many years ago, I saw "CATS" at The National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Since then, I have seen it two more times, but that first time was the most memorable. Now "CATS" is back at The Nati…