When Will Gartshore had the opportunity to be in Signature Theatre's upcoming production of A Little Night Music, there wasn't much need to think about it. "You just say 'yes' to a Stephen S…
"The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him," Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front of an…
Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that "There are no second acts in American lives." F. Scott Fitzgerald never met Barbara Cook, the beloved Broadway star and singer who passed away on August …
WSC Avant Bard will bring some familiar names — in one case, in a whole new play — into its three-production 2017-2018 season. Lauren Gunderson (I and You) brings us the life and…
The National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I is currently wowing audiences at the Kennedy Center, and many of its cast will be …
The Greatest Show on Strings! This is how our Ringmaster describes Circus! at The Puppet Co. after he has entered the stage's single ring. What follows is thirty-five minutes of engaging big…
Happiness is tucked away in an office park in Columbia, MD. Amid the chiropractors, computer businesses, dance schools and Asian delis is the Red Branch Theatre Company, currently the home o…
As the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall is one of the most important judges in U.S. history. He remained on the Court from 1967 until 1991. His leadershi…
Tonight at 7:45pm, Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters will dim their lights in honor of Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and director who died of complications of ALS on Thursday, July 27 on h…
Silver Spring’s Forum Theatre will produce four plays — one of them yet to be announced — in a season which features the human struggle against the crushing forces of conve…
It was in the spring of 2007 when the Signature Theatre decided to hold its first-ever Open House event, a chance to introduce itself to those in the community who weren't familiar with the …
Anacostia’s Theater Alliance, which scored big earlier this past June with the debut Mollye Maxner’s devised play, Still Life With Rocket, will do itself one better this year, wi…
The 4615 Theatre Company has joined the ranks of full-time producing DC-area theaters this year with a four-production schedule balanced between classic and contemporary stories. The Silver …
It's that time of year again! That most glorious time each summer when for one magical week the Capital Fringe festival is extended. It's a great chance to see the hit Fringe shows you mi…
Talking with Janet Langhart Cohen is like stepping back in time and talking to a time traveler "she's been everywhere and knows everybody. A broadcast journalist and President and CEO of…
An Octoroon is a big play. It makes you sit up and take notice. It makes you laugh and it makes you wince. More often than not it makes you squirm uncomfortably. I'd say that it is t…
Rodgers and Hammerstein, the team which gave us Carousel! Sound of Music. Oklahoma! South Pacific. The King and I, undoubtedly have one of the most celebrated musical theatre canons in the w…
"Any story about a world leader who realizes the only way to protect the country is not by extending walls but extending a hand of friendship to a foreigner"I find that very profound," Jose …
In their first original piece in five years, Synetic Theater tells a grand story, from humanity's flawed origin all the way to an ignominious end. The non-stop display of physical prowess an…
The King and I, Lincoln Center’s dazzling new incarnation now at the Kennedy Center, is the jewel in the crown of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s work. Written during the golden age of…
For the past 12 years, DC's Capital Fringe Festival provides performance space and resources to small theatre companies, solo and performance artists, dance troupes, musicians, and more. Â�…
It's a great time in Washington to re-evaluate through drama the weights and balances of our justice system. Downtown at Arena Stage we're watching Scalia's story, penned as The Originalist,…
Adapting Shakespeare to a modern context is always a dicey proposition " witness the NY Public Theater's ongoing "Julius Trump" firestorm. But Welders playwright and Washington Post humor co…
The TheaterMania sponsored Capital Fringe winners of the Audience Choice Awards were announced tonight: Winner Best of Show – Fringe Audience Awards Hexagon 2017: Let Freedom Zing!…
Imagine a bird emoji tweeting. No, it's not another bizarre White House official message. The Hodgepodge Group has adapted Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. It would be wise to be h…