Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience…
Scheherazade’s mystical folktale, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, still spins its magic. Taken from James Norris' 1940 adaptation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, Adventu…
Starting with Kendra Rai's gorgeously hued Indian-spice costumes, conjuring tamarind, cinnamon and saffron, Imagination Stage's production of The Jungle Book brings to life the rich imaginat…
In The Heights in Spanish is a show to shout about. The Broadway smash by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes, that swept New York's 2008 theatre awards, including the coveted Ton…
Having remodeled its physical plant, created a small black box playing space, and renamed itself, Baltimore Center Stage has picked a 2017-2018 season designed to shake up its audience’…
In the midst of a fever dream, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington flips the power dynamic of Mt. Vernon and leaves first First Lady Martha Danbridge Washington …
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
The long awaited Smart People at Arena Stage tackles issues of race and gender stereotypes from the viewpoint of four distinctly different people, each serving as a kind of archetype of hist…
No longer do we need to shudder to think what Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire and Martha from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf would be like as mothers. The Tennessee Williams and…
About halfway through Fun Home, which opened Wednesday night at the National Theatre, ten year-old Alison is in a coffee shoppe with her Dad. It's the second time during the show that father…
What's more invigorating than one boundary-pushing ballet company? Three! Wednesday's audience at the Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America series was treated to a varied and impressive, th…
Thursday, April 20: Jim Lokay of Fox 5 News interviewed Joel Markowitz on his battle to fight ALS, and the importance of continuing his legacy work at DCMetroTheaterArts.com. John Stoltenber…
The true story of Aphra Behn is the epitome of "stranger than fiction." In Round House Theatre's rollicking production of Or, director Aaron Posner, Holly Twyford, and company gleefully r…
Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, den mothers, scoutmasters, youth leaders – okay, anyone who oversees children, please follow directions: Go to the website Maryland Ensemble…
Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre’s six-play 2017-2018 season will feature a production of Red Velvet, the story of an extraordinary production of Othello, within a schedule of three well…
The Late Wedding doesn't have a traditional plot. Instead, the play is more like a lesson plan: Its central theme is introduced and explained methodically, and then the audience is exposed t…
The first national tour of the Tony-Award winning, Broadway hit Fun Home is on stage at the National Theatre through May 13. Adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, the musical…
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play Indecent, a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that featured a scanda…
Dorian's Closet is a musical about the life of the drag performer Dorian Corey, mainstay of the Harlem ball scene and "Mother" of the House of Corey. She died in 1993, just a few years after…
Is it sacrilegious to suggest that Easter was a good day to see The Magic Play, since the story of Easter, if true, is the greatest magic act in human history? I here use magic in its broade…
With puppetry, projection, lighting, and video timed perfectly to a live, original, nerdcore rap score, .d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet runs like clockwork, even as it tells the stories of machi…
Natasha Diaz, Sam Ludwig, Michael Sharp and Roz White are among the lineup of stars appearing at MetroStage for the cabaret being held to on Monday, May 1, 2017 to honor one of DC area th…
You would expect a company which derives its name from a speech in Henry V to do a good job with the play itself, and by and large We Happy Few acquits itself well. But there are shortcoming…
“Since it was my decision and my timing and my will, it was easy, on that level," Joy Zinoman said when I asked her if it had been easy to stop leading The Studio Theatre, the company …
1st Stage’s 2017-2018 will feature two plays by acknowledged masters, two other plays by up-and-coming artists (including a world premiere from a local playwright) and an evening of so…