Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s new rep of healthcare plays"Mercy Killers and Side Effects, both written and performed by Michael Milligan –Â tackle the broken nature of America…
Christ's last mortal days are a "strange thing, mystifying" in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1970 Jesus Christ Superstar. But as conceived by director Joe Calarco in Signature Theatre's…
Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
Capital Fringe Festival has posted its schedule a few weeks early to give Fringe fans the chance to make plans and take advantage of money saving offers. This year, Capital Fringe runsÂ�…
There are thirty-five characters in Scena Theatre’s production of Fear Eats the Soul, and thirteen actors to play them, but as it is a love story it is really only about two people. On…
Laura Giannarelli has been to each Helen Hayes Awards ceremony since the inception of the awards. As this is the 33rd annual, she's heard "and the award goes to" many, many times. As it was …
Awards shows are their own animal. Each iteration has its distinctive aspects, but, no matter how much they try to fight the basic formula, it's hard to avoid similarities: acceptance speech…
Spooky Action's production of The Man Who is a remarkable theatricalization of reality as experienced by patients with brain damage. The play was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks' book,�…
I wept during the musical Kaleidoscope. Quietly, but involuntarily, tears welled up and just started flowing. What a time not to have a tissue or handkerchief handy. I cried for people I hav…
Behold the King. He is standing in front of a boiling, roiling thunderstorm (“Blow, wind! And crack your cheeks!”), beard laced with iron, wild hair crowned with an even wilder l…
It was a brave man who first et an oyster, Jonathan Swift once wrote. Maybe so, but not nearly as brave as someone who seeks to stage Timon of Athens, which could otherwise be known as ̶…
After the 3 hour Helen Hayes Awards ceremony on Monday, May 15th, the crowd had plenty of energy for the after party celebration at the 9:30 Club. The 2017 Helen Hayes Awards recipients and …
A wordless production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame makes plenty of sense: Quasimodo has literally gone deaf from ringing the bells of Notre Dame. And on a deeper level, the primal forces a…
This year’s ceremony is being held at the historic Lincoln Theatre with Washington favorites E. Faye Butler and Lawrence Redmond as co-hosts, followed by an after-party hosted at…
“People like us, who believe in physics,” Albert Einstein once said, “know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." …
Best arrive on time for Nearly Lear, a one-woman clownish Shakespeare adaptation blowing through the Kennedy Center for just this weekend. That's not just because KC's Family Theater may be …
"Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody who is t…
"Can this nation be the same one that until recently behaved so magnificently?" wrote Václav Havel, in 1978, in Czechoslovakia. That unnaturally relevant line is spoken by a character in …
"Thirteen wonderful years."Â As this theatre season comes to its end, an era will come to an end as Naomi Robin leaves her job at Theater J as its long-time Casting Director. Naomi is a fr…
King Charles III, a filmed adaptation of the London production of Mike Bartlett's Tony-nominated play, airs this Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. EDT as a one-off episode of PBS's Masterpiece Theat…
The Arabian Nights is perhaps the quintessential Constellation Theatre show, and therefore ideal for them to revisit ten years after they first presented it, as part of their anniversary sea…
It’s a wonder that we Irish haven’t gone extinct from all our slow courting. Beyond President Kennedy, there are no Irish Casanovas, and there are certainly none in John Patrick …
5Â Lesbians Eating a Quiche invites its audience to the 1956 Annual Quiche Breakfast, a pastiche of 1950s femininity that whets the appetite for Capital Fringe, with high energy antics, ri…
The Tony Award-winning play Master Class, now at MetroStage, is a thrilling tribute to opera, love, passion and artistry. Playwright Terrence McNally includes the audience as part of an actu…
It's rare for traditional, big budget Shakespeare productions to find new angles on the major works of America's most-produced playwright, and even more rare for those angles to work well wi…