Nobody's quite sure of the birthdate of the greatest writer in the English language, but everyone is pretty sure William Shakespeare died in 1616, making this the 400th anniversary of his death, or as Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library calls it, 'the fifth century of his aft
I was all ready and looking forward to the final installment of Back to Methuselah, the George Bernard Shaw epic that the Washington Stage Guild has been staging in chapters since 2014.
Artistic director Ari Roth's dream of a vibrant and important theater group addressing the most vexing problems of the world, is coming to full flower this year at the Mosaic Theater Company, where he has revived the Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival that he developed at Jewish Community C
Every artistic company wishes it could come up with a seasonal title that could be come a holiday tradition - their own Nutcracker, Messiah or Christmas Carol to rely on every December.
Christmas productions come sweet or sour this time or year.
It's not easy to maintain a balance in dark comedy.
Even 21 years later, the horrific atrocities of the Rwandan genocide is hard to wrap one's head around.
Act locally, think globally is exactly what happened to Anu Yadav's innovative piece of activist theatre, 'Capers.
The anonymous hospital room full of false cheer.
It may be surprising and a little disappointing that one of the latest world premieres in the Women's Voices Theatre Festival is about a woman who fixates on a man to solve all her problems.
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Washington National Opera began what may be one of its more artistically challenging seasons Saturday with the most crowd-pleasing production.
Twenty-six years ago, the day after thousands of soldiers in China's so called People's Liberation Army cleared Tiananmen Square, killing what could have been thousands of students who had been protesting there, a lone man with plastic grocery bags stood in front of a line of advancing tanks there.
Celebrating more than 50 world premiere plays by women at Women's Voices Theater Festival.
DC Culture's Source Festival likely gets its name from its central place of operation, the Source Theatre on 14th St NW.
It's surprising that in its 45 years, D.
