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Cast and Creative Team Set For AN IRISH CAROL at Keegan Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 25, 2025

The Keegan Theatre has announced the 2025 cast and team of Matthew J. Keenan’s AN IRISH CAROL, an original holiday tradition that has become one of DC’s holiday favorites over the past 15 years.

A Hot Time: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at Toby's in Columbia, Maryland
by Cybele Pomeroy - Sep 23, 2025

Mark Minnick directs SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER at Toby's in Columbia through November 2, 2025. The music is most of the Saturday Night Fever album by the incomparable BeeGees. It’s a terrific immersive experience, filled with color and sound. The band is flawless, the vocals impressive, the choreography inspired, and the cast’s commitment to the performance unrestrained.

FOOTLOOSE Opens In May At NextStop Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 22, 2025

NextStop Theatre Company has announced its season finale production: the iconic musical Footloose, with previews beginning on May 8 and opening on May 10, running through June 8.

Review: CHICKEN & BISCUITS at NextStop Theatre
by Tavish Young - Mar 18, 2025

NextStop Theatre invites the DC-Metro area to church with Chicken & Biscuits, which runs through April 6th. The show focuses on a Black family, the Jenkins, gathering in a reunion of sorts for the patriarch of their family's funeral. 

Photos: CHICKEN AND BISCUITS At NextStop Theatre Company
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 15, 2025

NextStop Theatre Company invites audiences to pull up a chair for Chicken & Biscuits, the hit Broadway comedy by Douglas Lyons, running March 15 through April 6, with previews on March 13 and 14. See photos from the production.

CHICKEN & BISCUITS Begins In March At NextStop Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 27, 2025

NextStop Theatre Company invites audiences to pull up a chair for Chicken & Biscuits, the hit Broadway comedy by Douglas Lyons, running March 15 through April 6, with previews on March 13 and 14. Directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell.

Cast Set for Tony-Nominated Comedy HAND TO GOD at Keegan Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 7, 2025

The Keegan Theatre has revealed the cast and team of the acclaimed dark comedy, HAND TO GOD by Robert Askins. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.

Interview: Theatre Life with Chris Nee, Michael Kooman, and Christopher Dimond
by Elliot Lanes - Dec 5, 2024

Today’s subjects Chris Nee, Michael Kooman, and Christopher Dimond are the creators of a fantastic World Premiere Commission Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) musical at Kennedy Center called Finn. The show runs through December 22nd in the Family Theater. The trio collaborated on the book, music, and lyrics with Michael Kooman providing the dance arrangements and the underscoring.

Review: FINN at Kennedy Center
by Elliot Lanes - Dec 3, 2024

With the holiday season now upon us, there are many theatrical viewing options. Many of them have a holiday theme, but for those of you that want something off the tinsel and caroling path, I am about to tell you about a world premiere commission musical that the Kennedy Center is running at this festive time of year.

Review: SONDHEIM TRIBUTE REVUE at Creative Cauldron
by Peter Rouleau - Oct 8, 2024

Few American composers have been as influential as Stephen Sondheim, who passed away in 2021 at the age of 91. His large catalogue, with subjects and settings that vary from a modern single man navigating social relationships among his married friends to a murderous pie-shop keeper in Victorian London, to an amalgam of fairy tales, is widely performed and much beloved around the world.

Review: SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy
by Jennifer Muscato - May 13, 2024

What did our critic think of SING DOWN THE MOON: APPALACHIAN WONDER TALES at Adventure Theatre & ATMTC Academy?

Adventure Theatre MTC To Present SING DOWN THE MOON: Appalachian Wonder Tales
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 22, 2024

Experience the magic of Appalachian folklore with Adventure Theatre MTC's SING DOWN THE MOON, running from April 26 to May 26, 2024. A captivating journey into wonder tales for all ages.

Creative Cauldron Gets Magical With 'Bold New Voices' Premiere of CHICKS IN HEAVEN
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 16, 2024

Experience the Creative Cauldron premiere of CHICKS IN HEAVEN under the Bold New Voices series.

World Premiere of CHICKS IN HEAVEN Announced At Creative Cauldron
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 7, 2024

Explore the battle of witches against the patriarchy in the new musical CHICKS IN HEAVEN by author, professor, and performance artist Carol Lee Campbell.

SPAMALOT, SWEPT AWAY And More Nominated for 2024 Helen Hayes Awards
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 23, 2024

Tonight, at a celebration honoring outstanding theatre on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center for Theatre Washington's announcement of nominees for the 40th Helen Hayes Awards.

Review: NUNSENSE A-MEN! at NextStop Theatre
by Tavish Young - Jan 22, 2024

On January 20th, NextStop Theatre Company premiered their production of Nunsense A-Men!, directed by Andrew Regiec.

Adventure Theatre MTC Presents Magical Holiday Fantasy THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 27, 2023

Adventure Theatre MTC presents a wintery fantasy with the 2016 revival of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Discover the enchanting world of Narnia in this magical production.

Review: SOMETHING ROTTEN! Reeks Of Hilarity At Toby's In Columbia
by Cybele Pomeroy - Feb 6, 2023

Designed for fans of musicals, SOMETHING ROTTEN! is a Queen's farthingdale full of fun. It’s lighthearted, full of color and movement, funny, packed with references to amuse Broadway lovers and Shakespeare scholars, with familiar four-second musical riffs scattered through the show. Toby’s Dinner Theater delivers again with SOMETHING ROTTEN!

Handsome Production, Tedious Script: THE LION IN WINTER at Everyman Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn - Oct 31, 2022

You not only have to have the talent to do the technical side of costume drama well, and have actors who can emote convincingly and then (in this case) reverse gears convincingly, and then reverse gears again as many times as the script calls for. You need a script that doesn’t make them do it so often it makes the audience stop following and stop caring. That is a bar this script doesn't clear.

THE LION IN WINTER At Everyman Theatre Begins October 18
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 21, 2022

All is fair in love and war, as Everyman Theatre presents James Goldman's modern-day classic, THE LION IN WINTER.