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Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
4/26 - 5/19/2024


This captivating drama explores human, and digital, interpersonal relationships and challenges our perceptions of memory, identity, and loss.

Shear Madness
Shear Madness
10/4 - 6/30/2025


Figure out whodunit at this wildly popular record-breaking comedy. Audiences all over the world have spotted the clues and questioned the suspects amid much hilarity. ...

Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again


Composed of actual letters between renowned poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Dear Elizabeth intimately reimagines a correspondence between two of the greatest poets of ...

An Unbuilt Life
An Unbuilt Life
4/11 - 5/5/2024


World Premiere by Elizabeth DeSchryver, directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee Steven Carpenter. When Agatha Ganner discovers a mystery painting in her deceased husband’s art collection, she engages ...

Webster's Bitch
Webster's Bitch
4/6 - 5/5/2024


When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster’s Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender ...

The Last Drop
The Last Drop
4/12 - 5/12/2024


Society collapses during an economic upheaval. People flee cities amid pestilence and war. Mary & Joe survive until invaders arrive and secrets are revealed.

Frontieres sans Frontieres
Frontieres sans Frontieres
4/25 - 5/19/2024


Frontieres sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze, directed by Elizabeth Dinkova. Featuring Frank Britton, Surasree Das, Lauren Davis, Jamil Joseph, Camilo Linares, Victor Salinas, Anna Takayo ...

Is God Is
Is God Is
6/13 - 7/14/2024


In this fierce and funny drama, follow impassioned twin sisters as they go on an epic adventure across America to exact righteous revenge on the ...

The Art of Care
The Art of Care
10/31 - 11/24/2024


One of the most profound experiences we all share is how we care for, and are cared for by, others. Created from interviews and interactions ...

cullud wattah
cullud wattah
4/3 - 4/27/2025


It is 2016, and it has been 936 days and counting since Flint, Michigan has had clean water. Third-generation General Motors employee Marion finds herself ...

Andy Warhol in Tehran
Andy Warhol in Tehran
5/29 - 6/29/2025


In 1976, pop artist Andy Warhol travels to Tehran to paint a portrait of the Shah of Iran’s wife. Amidst taking in the Crown Jewels ...



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Review: VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company


by Jackson Malmgren - April 23, 2024

What did our critic think of TAFFETY PUNK THEATRE COMPANY'S VENUS AND ADONIS at Taffety Punk Theatre Company?...

Review: PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S TODO TANGO at Kennedy Center


by Hannah R. Wing - April 22, 2024

On Saturday, April 20, 2024, PASO brought their program, Todo Tango, an intimate and fiery evening of tango to the Kennedy Center. ...

Review: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center's Family Theater


by Emily Berger - April 21, 2024

This new work featured three episodes in Asian American history....

Review: A JUMPING-OFF POINT at Round House Theatre


by David Friscic - April 17, 2024

An exploration of what constitutes the writer’s role and ownership of material, issues of representation in the arts, racial politics and the messiness of friendship and caring are all threshed out in Inda Craig -Galván’s play A Jumping-Off Point. Now being presented at the Round House Theatre, this...

Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild


by Roger Catlin - April 18, 2024

It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.” ...

Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua


by Roger Catlin - April 17, 2024

You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs. Three hundred po...

Review: CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron


by Jake Bridges - April 15, 2024

What did our critic think of CHICKS IN HEAVEN at Creative Cauldron?...

Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage


by Rachael F. Goldberg - April 15, 2024

'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little diss...

Review: ISLANDER at Olney Theatre Center


by Itai Yasur - April 14, 2024

Now on tour, a new musical makes landfall at Olney Theatre Center with a fantastical song worthy of our attention...

Review: MACBETH at Shakespeare Theatre Company


by Dara Homer - April 15, 2024

STC’s Macbeth highlights brutal pairs: war and domestic life, grief and humor, brief words and permanent consequences. While the setting could feel unassuming—indeed, audiences must make their way through the parking lot of a Home Depot when arriving via metro—it also shows how extravagant it is to ...



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