 The purpose of theater has been debated throughout history. Is it meant to be thought-provoking? Is it meant to entertain? Should its goal be to bring people together? There will never …
 One day a prince was out disguised as a hunter. He found himself hungry and knocked on the door of a home in which a girl, who appeared to be a household servant covered in dust, kindly…
 The Washington Stage Guild, having successfully and safely returned to in-person performances in the 2021-2022 season, proudly announces its upcoming year's repertory, a season of plays…
Blue Man Group is, as the Kennedy Center website says, a "phenomenon." Created in New York in 1987, Blue Man Group has performed for more than 35 million people on multiple continents, with …
While it seems like we will never be living in "precedented" times again, you can take a deep breath knowing that in church basements in places like Rosedale, Maryland, there are still timel…
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of St. Mary's County's Summerstock Theater program. Thanks to the financial help of the St. Mary's Art Council and generous donors, the company has bee…
Herndon, VA/Washington, DC " NextStop Theatre Company is proud to announce their tenth professional season of theater in Northern Virginia. The company's first full season since the start of…
One of Classical Music's Most Exciting Young Talents, Signs a 5-year Contract as BSO Music Director Commencing with the 2023-24 Season BALTIMOREÂ " The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) a…
Falls Church, VA " Creative Cauldron announced the hiring of Lenny Mendez, in the position of Artistic Associate. Lenny Mendez (she/her/ella) is a Latina actress from the Washington DC area.…
William Donald Schaefer's signature phrase "Do it Now!" is the appropriately-titled, new musical based on his time as the four-term mayor of Baltimore City. It's not surprising that this pro…
The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) is once again serving up a menu of new plays by writers with a lot on their minds: climate change, race, police violence, reproductive right…
 Six improv comedians walk into a theater and… well, I'm not very good at improv. The cast of The Second City's "The Revolution will be Improvised" are more than qualified to come up w…
It can be far too easy for a director to forget that "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a comedy. After all, the most well-known plotline from one of Shakespeare's most well-known plays is about…
Rockville Musical Theatre (RMT) concluded its successful run this past weekend of the classic Broadway musical, "Once Upon a Mattress," based on the story of the Princess and the Pea. The pr…
Washington, DC " GALA Hispanic Theatre's Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Hugo Medrano proudly announces an Illuminating, Affirming & Hilarious 2022-2023 Season. "As we emerge …
George Bernard Shaw's comedy "Pygmalion" was presented this past weekend by Thunderous Productions. The play was later adapted into the musical classic, "My Fair Lady," and the basic story t…
Capital Fringe perseveres. Two years after the pandemic led to the cancellation of the 15th annual festival, Fringe has returned"a bit smaller, a bit quieter, but alive and unbowed. If there…
Michael Seebold's "Etched Glass Decanter" evokes Edgar Allan Poe or the darker works of Neil Gaiman. The 70-minute play takes place in an obscure universe where dream logic prevails and wher…
"Is this legal?" "More or less!" Welcome to the weird world of D.C. marijuana gifting. In the District of Columbia, every law comes with an asterisk. The Council can overturn a measure passe…
"Zanna Don't!" is a musical in a parallel universe to the one we're living in today. Girls are with girls, boys are with boys, and heteros are bullied. In fact, the main character, Zanna (Ge…
As the souls of the dead live for'er in my mindAs I live all the years that they left me behindI'll stay on the shore but still gaze at the seaI remember the fallen and they think of meFor o…
The timeless beauty of Verdi's "La Traviata" lives on. Recently it echoed through the woods of beautiful Wolf Trap"an ocean and more than a century away from where it originated"with a trium…
There's something supernatural about The Watershed's production of "The Approach." Presented as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, the theatre (actually a former fitness studio that has be…
 Most British school children recite the rhyme a few times a year to remember the date of each of Henry VIII's wives: "Divorced, Beheaded, Died: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived." Since the …
If you laugh at the abyss, the abyss laughs back at you. Samuel Beckett was the funniest of the existentialists who took European thought by storm after the horrors of Nazism and the Second …