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Megan Anderson once again excels starring in this mystery.

  In response to audience interest, Everyman has announced a unique experience that invites patrons to watch backstage crews transform the set from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman into Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire - the two classics making up the Theatre's Great American Rep. This free, ticketed experience will begin immediately following matinee performances on Saturdays and Sundays, starting May 28 and running through June 12.

Two shows in Repertory: DEATH OF A SALESMAN and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE...it just doesn't get better than this.

'Jack in the Beanstalk' gets a modern twist at Imagination Stage as two friends embark on a giant adventure to save Jack's house, all the while learning lessons about being friends and knowing what matters.

Donald Hicken directs the delightful romantic comedy written by John Patrick Shanley is a regional premiere.

Part of the Women's Voices Theatre Festival, author Brandli shows great promise.

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), continues its 23rd season with Jami Brandli's "Technicolor Life," directed by Joseph W. Ritsch, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director. Maxine, a book smart teenager, is caught between her older sister, a wounded soldier who just returned from the war in Iraq, and her ailing grandmother with a flair for American movie musicals.

Written by Howard L. Craft and presented by StreetSigns, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Green tells the story of an African American male who exists in five different dimensions of the same universe at different points in American history.

Written by Howard L. Craft and presented by StreetSigns, Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green Green tells the story of an African American male who exists in five different dimensions of the same universe at different points in American history.

Can superb acting save a play that may be dated?

There is a kind of magic which will exorcise the problems of Blithe Spirit, and let us not notice them: This production cruises and coasts on the farcical elements and the bickering and the eccentricities of Mme. Arcati the medium, and in so doing it certainly keeps the audience laughing. But it does not dispel the sour taste lingering at the end.

Artistic Director Vince Lancisi has brought a superb selection of plays for 2015-16.

Playwright Dominique Morisseau's play features Valeka J. Holt, Manu H. Kumasi, and Jefferson A. Russell.

Everyman presents Henrik Ibsen's 1882 tragedy.

Woolly Mammoth's beautiful theater in which every seat has an intimate view of the expansive stage and the company's diehard dedication to new plays has found another win in Lisa D'Amour's follow up to 2013's DETROIT. Upon entering audiences are immediately greeted with recordings of tribal music and a stage dense with flat planks giving the illusion of trees stretching far above. This play is all about transformations, sometimes subtle and sometimes ridiculous to the extreme, and it couldn't have found a better home than Woolly, who's aesthetic seems motivated by the constant need to innovate, explore, and reinvent, not only from season to season and production to production, but often from act to act and even scene to scene. All around, the creative, production, and design teams have risen to the challenge of A'Mour's play and together have created an epic highlight in the DC theater scene.

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its 22nd season with David Ives' 'Venus in Fur', directed by Joseph Ritsch, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director.

Rep Stage, the regional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), opens its 22nd season with David Ives' "Venus in Fur", directed by Joseph Ritsch, Rep Stage's co-producing artistic director.

Everyman Theatre began rehearsals today for the 2014/15 season opener, The Understudy. Theresa Rebeck's comedic look into the backstage world of show biz runs through September 28th. The three-person cast features Everyman Resident Company Members Clinton Brandhagen,Danny Gavigan and Beth Hylton. Joseph W. Ritsch makes his Everyman directorial debut with the production. Check out a first look at the production below!

Joseph W. Ritsch directs his first Everyman production.

We come into life with a desire to do meaningful things, just as an understudy comes into the theater motivated to produce great thespian art. Yet if the understudy is our avatar, how discouraging is his example! For, as in Rebeck's play, the understudy's task is condemned to nearly certain futility. Particularly so on today's Broadway, where plays are too often packaged as vehicles for screen stars whom the audience pays a large premium to see, in productions with limited runs. The setup is almost guaranteed to incentivize producers to demand that the big screen stars appear at every performance, and to incentivize the stars to do so, affording no opportunity to the understudies.