BIRTHDAY CANDLES Extends Run at 1st Stage
by Stephi Wild - Dec 17, 2025
1st Stage has announced that Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, directed by 1st Stage Artistic Director Alex Levy, has been extended through December 28. Learn more here!
Review: Birthday Candles at 1st Stage
by Hannah R. Wing - Dec 11, 2025
1st Stage’s production of Birthday Candles, directed by Alex Levy and written by Noah Haidle, is a celebration of life, love, and family with a stellar cast led by Deidra LaWan Starnes.
Noah Haidle's BIRTHDAY CANDLES to be Presented at 1st Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 4, 2025
1st Stage wil present Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles. This poignant and funny play takes its audience through the highlights, heartbreaks and extraordinary moments that make up one woman's ordinary life.
1st Stage Announces New Dates For THE LAKE EFFECT
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 4, 2025
1st Stage has announced new dates for The Lake Effect, written by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rajiv Joseph, directed by 1st Stage Artistic Director Alex Levy. The Lake Effect will now run from February 6 – 23, 2025.
1st Stage Announces THE LAKE EFFECT By Rajiv Joseph
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 3, 2025
The 1st Stage production of The Lake Effect features returning 1st Stage artist Jonathan Del Palmer (The Rainmaker, columbinus, The Member of the Wedding) and welcomes Surasree Das and Shaan Sharma to 1st Stage.
Review: FRONTIERS SANS FRONTIERS at Spooky Action Theater
by Tavish Young - Apr 29, 2024
Frontiers Sans Frontiers is good. It's refreshing, biting, funny, and relevant. From April 25th to May 19th, under a few trashbags and discarded cups of tea, DC theatre goers may be able to find Spooky Action Theater's production of Frontiers Sans Frontiers.
Review: Lots To Like In ChesShakes Production of Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT
by Cybele Pomeroy - Oct 11, 2023
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company ensemble performers are quick on their feet, perfect in their enunciation, energetic and expressive as they deliver Shakespearean favorite plot elements of upper class people in forests, merriment, witty banter, love triangles, and everyone getting married. The action is fast-paced, the set stunning and immersive.
A NICE INDIAN BOY Extends at Olney Theatre Center
by Stephi Wild - Mar 24, 2023
Olney Theatre Center is extending the run of A Nice Indian Boy by Madhuri Shekar and directed by Zi Alikhan, for one week. The new closing date is Sunday, April 16, 2023.