Eureka Day, the Tony Award winning play (for best Revival in 2025) by Jonathan Spector, is getting a top-notch production at Theater J directed by Hayley Finn. The play is a timely one, centered around the 5-person parent-principal executive committee at Eureka Day School, a private day school located in an affluent suburb in Northern California.
The 2026 Helen Hayes Award nominations have been announced, recognizing outstanding achievement in Washington-area professional theatre. Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, and dozens of regional companies are represented across performance, direction, design, and production categories. The awards highlight the breadth of theatre work presented throughout the D.C. metropolitan area.
Folger Theatre will open its 2025–26 season with Julius X: A Re-envisioning of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, written by Al Letson, directed by Nicole Brewer, and starring Brandon Carter in the title role.
Kristine Nielsen has made her name on Broadway playing roles in all kinds of comedies and dramas, but only a very few musicals. She’s changing that up this season, however, portraying Susan Proctor, an Actors’ Studio teacher and confidante to Ivy Lynn, a Broadway star preparing to play Marilyn Monroe, in the new musical comedy “Smash,” at New York’s Imperial Theatre.
What did our critic think of AMERICAN FAST at Theater Alliance?
Theatre Alliance will close its season with American Fast, written by Kareem Fahmy and directed by Reginald L. Douglas. The location will be at their pop-up venue in Southwest DC.
Tickets are selling fast for Island City Stage's milestone production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance. In response to popular demand, an additional show has been added on Wednesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Family secrets, friendship and loyalties drive the heart of Island City Stage's milestone production of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance, running January 16 – February 9.
Tony winner Karen Ziemba (for 'Contact') leads a stellar cast directed cannily, as usual, by iconic theater maven Austin Pendleton
Amas Musical Theatre and the Amas Musical Theatre Lab, will present developmental lab readings of Show Me Eternity, a new musical with music & lyrics by Samantha Caps and book by Annie Dillon. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.
What did our critic think of METAMORPHOSES at Folger Theatre?
Folger Theatre concludes its homecoming season with Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award®-winning play, Metamorphoses. See photos from the show.
Folger Theatre will conclude its homecoming season with Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award®-winning play, Metamorphoses.
MidAmerica Productions Inc. has revealed programming for its 2024 season at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. See what's coming up and learn how to purchase tickets.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has revealed the cast and creative team for the world premiere of Tempestuous Elements, playwright Kia Corthron’s new work exploring the trailblazing career of visionary Black feminist and educational luminary Anna Julia Cooper.
Former Wall Street Journal theatre critic and host of CUNY TV's Spotlight Edwin Wilson passed away at his home on December 2, 2023 at 96, according to an obituary in the New York Times.
The award-winning musical Show Me Eternity will premiere Off-Off-Broadway at Culture Lab LIC this fall from November 30th - December 4th, 2023.
Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills will present a Special 60th Anniversary Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary horror-thriller, THE BIRDS, starring Tippi Hedren, on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Learn more about the screening and how to attend here!
Controversial statues have been de-installed long before a racial reckoning meant the end of most Confederate statues in recent years. An 1840 marble sculpture of George Washington was removed from the U.S. Capitol rotunda because some didn’t like that he was shirtless (it sits now at the National Museum of American History)
Mosaic Theater Company presents the world premiere of Monumental Travesties, a searing new comedy written by Mosaic's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence Psalmayene 24 and directed by Mosaic Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas. Inspired by the Emancipation Memorial in DC's Capitol Hill neighborhood, the play runs September 7-October 1, 2023, and opens Mosaic's 2023-2024 season.
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