Wes Culwell News

The Washington Ballet will conclude its all-digital 2020/21 season with Silas Farley's Werner Sonata and Dana Genshaft's Orpheus, premiering on the global arts streaming platform Marquee TV beginning June 18, 2021, at 7:00PM ET.

Flow, which saw its second production, in 2004, at Studio Theatre, is back! Part of Studio Theatre’s first digital season and more specifically featuring a trio of eclectic solo performances, Flow might be called a mixed metaphor. It blends the old West African tradition of griot — an oral tradition combining a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and musician — with seven storytellers of an urban community presumably in the States.

Without a doubt, this production is one of the most successful adaptations to the virtual theatre space, going beyond just a filmed version of a live play and embracing this new medium in a truly moving way.

DC’s Studio Theatre is known as a leading contemporary theater, and the subject matter of its current production can scarcely be more so. Inspired by the police killing of young Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., and based on dozens of interviews conducted in its aftermath across the city’s communities by playwright Dael Orlandersmith, Under the Flood goes beyond any specific such shooting to explore African American-White relations on a much-broader and emotionally charged scale. The anger and mistrust, the occasional ties of friendship. Personal success and failure amidst social upheaval.

It's crass and callous, heart-breaking and hilarious as it examines the nomansland where choice and identity collide.

The Trevor Project honored Tony Kushner in their May 20th benefit, A Totally Funny Whatever 5.

It was another hysterical/historical scene at Jim Caruso's Cast Party Monday night as they celebrated their 100th Cast Party.

Pictures from Monday night's Unexpected Songs After-party.

Backstage and after-pary coverage from the embrace! benefit concert for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Jai Rodriguez performed xPosed, an autobiographic pop/rock rendition of his life for the Actors' Fund on January 31st.

The talent of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's culture guru Jai Rodriguez is going to be exposed. Known to the Broadway world for his hit performances in RENT and ZANNA DON'T, Rodriguez is busy preparing for his upcoming show called Xposed, an autobiographical pop/rock Moulin Rouge style rendition of his life. The show will take place at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Hotel at 145 West 44th Street for one-night only on January 31st at 8pm.