Review: HAMLET at Avant Bard Theatre
by Audrey Cahak - May 12, 2025
The Avant Bard Theatre’s niche lies in reinventing the classics, and to close out its 35th season, Avant Bard Theatre is taking on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This rendition, directed by artistic associate Kathleen Akerley, uses an abridged original script (with no sign of the Danes) while bending the tone, characters, and scenes with heightened malice and sorrow to explore how grief impacts the story.
Review: hang at 1st Stage
by Hannah R. Wing - Mar 21, 2025
hang takes its time getting to what the play is actually about. The suspense doesn't really start to develop until the final half hour, and this is where the small ensemble cast of Marie, Greer, and Joy really shine.
Debbie Tucker Green's HANG Will Play at 1st Stage Theatre
by Nicole Rosky - Feb 9, 2025
One crime. One room. Three people. A woman’s unspeakable decision as the criminal’s fate hangs in the balance. Set in a haunting world where every word is a revelation and every silence speaks volumes, this electrifying production will take you on a journey through the complexities of justice and human nature.
Mosaic Theater Company to Present Workshop of POSTMORTEM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 13, 2024
Mosaic Theater Company will present a workshop for POSTMORTEM, a new play that combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with her difficult childhood. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Interview: Theatre Life with Psalmayene 24
by Elliot Lanes - Mar 6, 2024
Today’s subject Psalmayene 24 is someone we can aptly classify as the whole package when we talk about artists in the DC theatre community. He is an accomplished writer/actor/performer and educator whose work has been enjoyed by audiences of all ages over the years. Currently Psalmayene 24 is the director of Arena Stage’s current Power Play entitled Tempestuous Elements. The show is currently playing in the company’s Fichandler space through March 17th.
THE BROTHERS PARANORMAL Comes to the Olney Theatre Center in September
by Stephi Wild - Aug 30, 2023
The Brothers Paranormal by Prince Gomolvilas and co-directed by Hallie Gordon and Aria Velz gets its regional premiere in Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab in a production that seeks to thrill audiences with its supernatural plot elements.
Review: SWEAT at Keegan Theatre
by Mary Lincer - Aug 21, 2023
What did our critic think of SWEAT at Keegan Theatre? No matter what year an audience sees Lynn Nottage's (her second Pulitzer) Sweat, something will be going wrong someplace for some part of the American workforce.
Cast Revealed For SWEAT at the Keegan Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jul 26, 2023
The Keegan Theatre has announced the cast and creative team of its upcoming production of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, SWEAT. The final production of Keegan’s 26th season, SWEAT plays August 19-September 16, 2023.