Latest Photos
Photo Flash: First Look at Signature's GRAND HOTELby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(04/10/2019) - Signature Theatre presents Grand Hotel, the Musical directed by Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and choreographed by Kelly Crandall D'Amboise. Set in 1928 Berlin, a series of eclectic guests and staff including a fading ballerina, a destitute baron, a wannabe-starlet typist and an ailing bookkeeper collide at the bustling Grand Hotel. Grand Hotel the Musical runs from April 2, 2019 - May 19, 2019 in Signature Theatre's intimate MAX Theatre.
BWW Interview: Kelly Crandall d'Amboise Sets Signature's GRAND HOTEL in Motionby Benjamin Tomchik - Washington, DC
(04/03/2019) - With 'velvet stairs, easy chairs, and perfumed air gently blowing,' the Grand Hotel Berlin may not be a character in the traditional meaning of the word, however, it is the catalyst which sets in motion the fate of every guest who walks through its opulent revolving doors. For choreographer Kelly Crandall d'Amboise, it is her job to provide that motion as the production begins performances this week at Signature Theatre.
BWW Photo Exclusive: First Look At Ahrens & Flaherty's MARIE, DANCING STILL At 5th Avenue Theatreby A.A. Cristi - Broadway
(04/02/2019) - 5th Avenue Theatre presents Marie: A New Musical. Tony Award-winning authors Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime, Once On This Island), five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact), and acclaimed New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck.
Photo Flash: First Look at COLUMBINUS at 1st Stageby Rebecca Russo - Washington, DC
(03/31/2019) - Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the tragic 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, this docudrama combines fact and fiction to illuminate the dark realities of adolescence. Weaving together excerpts of real interviews with parents, survivors, and community leaders and powerful characterizations of contemporary teens, columbinus thoughtfully explores the Columbine shooting and the conversations that continue to this day. The New York Post hailed columbinus as 'a powerful and important piece about the churning rage that's all too likely to bubble over again.'
BWW Interview: Arena's JUNK Brings Nancy Sun Back to DC and the World of Financeby Benjamin Tomchik - Washington, DC
(03/20/2019) - When the curtain rises for Junk on April 5, it will mark a full circle for Actress Nancy Sun
Photo Flash: Ford's Theatre Society Presents INTO THE WOODSby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(03/19/2019) - Ford's Theatre Society presents Into the Woods, directed by Peter Flynn and choreographed by Michael Bobbitt.
Photo Flash: Arena Stage's JQA Celebrates Opening Nightby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(03/19/2019) - Arena Stage's JQA celebrated opening night on March 15, 2019. Check out photos from the evening below!
Photo Flash: First Look at Avant Bard's TOPDOG/UNDERDOGby Stephi Wild - Washington, DC
(03/18/2019) - Avant Bard presents the acclaimed dark comedy TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, starring Louis E. Davis and Jeremy Keith Hunterand directed by DeMone Seraphin. The play-a tensely funny and dead serious tragicomedy about two African American brothers grappling for destiny-won Parks the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and the New York Times named it the best American play of the last 25 years.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal For Shakespeare Theatre Company's THE ORESTEIAby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(03/14/2019) - On Tuesday, March 12, Shakespeare Theatre Company's cast and creatives met for first rehearsal for ' The Oresteia by playwright Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Michael Kahn.
Photo Flash: First Look At THE SEAGULL At The Wheel Theatre Companyby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(03/13/2019) - The Wheel Theatre Company's production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull adapted and directed by Jack Read opens this week at the DC Arts Center in Washington, DC.
Photo Flash: Inside the Sondheim Award Gala Honoring Audra McDonaldby Julie Musbach - Broadway
(03/12/2019) - On March 4, 2019, Audra McDonald received Signature's tenth Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie Gala Benefit at theEmbassy of Italy. The award, established in 2009 in honor of America's most influential musical theater writer and composer, benefits Signature's artistic, education and community programs.
Photo Flash: Folger Theatre Presents CONFECTIONby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(03/05/2019) - Folger Theatre presents the world premiere of Confection, an immersive theater piece imagined and performed by New York's acclaimed theater company, Third Rail Projects. Confection is conceived and written by Zach Morris, directed and choreographed by Zach Morris, with Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett, and created in collaboration with the company. Commissioned by Folger Theatre in association with Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures, Confection is a rollicking rumination on opulence, inequity, and teeny-tiny desserts.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Arena Stage's JUNKby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(03/04/2019) - Arena Stage presents Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author Ayad Akhtar's (Arena's Disgraced) timely tale Junk. Inspired by the real junk bond giants of the 1980s, Akhtar explores how the riveting, hostile takeover of a family-owned manufacturing company paved the way to expose the rise of greed, power, race and wealth that led to reshaping the rules of Wall Street and the world.
BWW Interview: Hilary Bettis of QUEEN OF BASEL at Studio Theatreby Jack Read - Washington, DC
(03/04/2019) - It was only a matter of time before a Hilary Bettis play received a full production in DC. Her work has brought her to Orlando Shakes PlayFest, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, New York Theatre Workshop, Cape Cod Theatre Project and La Jolla Playhouse, among many, many others. She is one of the newest members of The Kilroys and was a writer for FX's The Americans. In her Artistic Statement, she tells us that "through Story we can climb inside others' lives, and quite possibly find understanding, empathy, unity and forgiveness." Her plays - which include Alligator and The Ghosts of Lote Bravo - reveal a writer who cares deeply about the possibility of change through human interaction.
BWW Interview: Arena's JQA Explores the Complicated Legacy of a Complicated Americanby Benjamin Tomchik - Washington, DC
(02/27/2019) - Lamented as an ineffectual president, and later celebrated by then-Senator John F. Kennedy as a legislative statesman in his landmark book Profiles in Courage, Adams' legacy will get a long overdue reexamination thanks to Arena Stage and their world-premiere production of Aaron Posner's new play JQA.
Photo Flash: MEAN GIRLS Star Ben Cook Returns Home To Lorton, VA For A Workshopby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(02/25/2019) - A Class Act NY brought Broadway's Ben Cook (MEAN GIRLS, BILLY ELLIOT, NEWSIES) back home to Virginia for an exciting MEAN GIRLS Workshop!
Photo Flash: THE HEIRESS Celebrates Opening Night At Arena Stageby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(02/15/2019) - Arena Stage presents Ruth and Augustus Goetz's melodrama, The Heiress, suggested by the Henry James novel, Washington Square. After growing up subjected to her father's disinterest and strong resentment, a young woman in the 1850s discovers what love is in her journey towards independence, growth and strength, without an impactful female role model in her life. Directed by Deputy Artistic Director Seema Sueko, The Heiress runs February 8 - March 10, 2019 in the Fichandler Stage.
Photo Flash: Folger Theatre Presents East Coast Premiere of NELL GWYNNby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(01/29/2019) - Behold the year of the woman: 1665. Folger Theatrecontinues its 2018/19 season of characters who 'shake the world' with Nell Gwynn, the Olivier Award-winning 2016 comedy from London about one of the first women to perform on the English stage. Written by British playwright Jessica Swale (Blue Stockings), Nell Gwynn was commissioned by Shakespeare's Globe where it premiered, followed by a celebrated 2016 run on the West End that earned an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. Robert Richmond (Macbeth, Timon of Athens, Henry V at the Folger) will direct the East Coast premiere of the play at Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Photo Flash: KLEPTOCRACY Celebrates Opening Night at Arena Stageby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(01/28/2019) - Arena Stage recently celebrated opening night for the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's timely cautionary tale of capitalism run amok, Kleptocracy. Check out the photos below!
Photo Coverage: Norm Lewis, Jessie Muller & More Rehearse for Kennedy Center's THE MUSIC MAN!by Walter McBride - Broadway
(01/25/2019) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis (Porgy and Bess) as Harold Hill and Tony Award®-winning actress Jessie Mueller (Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful) as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage: How to Succeed...) with choreography by Chris Bailey (Jerry Springer: The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores!) and music direction by James Moore (Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime).
FREEZE FRAME: Jessie Mueller, Norm Lewis & More Rehearse for Kennedy Center's THE MUSIC MANby Walter McBride - Broadway
(01/24/2019) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man. It will star Norm Lewis (Porgy and Bess) as Harold Hill and Tony Award®-winning actress Jessie Mueller (Waitress, Carousel, Beautiful) as Marian Paroo in the starry semi-staged concert production directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful, Broadway Center Stage: How to Succeed...) with choreography by Chris Bailey (Jerry Springer: The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores!) and music direction by James Moore (Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime).
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with THE HEIRESS at Arena Stageby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(01/08/2019) - Arena Stage presents Ruth and Augustus Goetz's melodrama, The Heiress, suggested by the Henry James novel, Washington Square.
Photo Flash: First Look At KLEPTOCRACY In Rehearsal At Arena Stageby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(12/18/2018) - Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater presents the world premiere of Kenneth Lin's timely cautionary tale of capitalism run amok, Kleptocracy. Inspired by the power struggle between the richest of the Oligarchs and an ambitious Vladimir Putin after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lin (House of Cards) explores U.S. - Russia relations then and now. Directed by Jackson Gay, and by special arrangement with Robert Ahrens, Mickey Liddell and Michael Mills, Kleptocracy runs January 18 - February 24, 2019 in the Kreeger Theater.
Photo Coverage: First Look at MY FATHER'S DRAGON at Synetic Theaterby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(12/04/2018) - Synetic Theater will present a new adaptation of 'My Father's Dragon' December 4, 2018 through January 6, 2019 at 1800 S. Bell St. in Crystal City.
Photo Flash: INDECENT Celebrates Opening Night at Arena Stageby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(11/30/2018) - Arena Stage celebrated opening night of Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's thought-provoking play Indecent. Check out the photos below!
Photo Flash: A CHRISTMAS CAROL Returns to Ford's Theatre For The Holiday Seasonby A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(11/19/2018) - Ford's Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault announced that acclaimed Washington actor Craig Wallace will return to Ford's to perform the role of Ebenezer Scrooge for the company's holiday production of A Christmas Carol. Performances of the classic Charles Dickens story begin November 15 and continue for a six-and-a-half-week engagement through December 30, 2018. This 'musically high-spirited' and 'infectiously jolly' (The Washington Post) production is adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron.
Photo Flash: ANYTHING GOES Celebrates Opening Night at Arena Stageby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(11/16/2018) - Arena Stage presents Cole Porter's madcap seafaring musical, Anything Goes, with music and lyrics by Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, with co-authors Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; and new book by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman.
Photo Flash: ANASTASIA Celebrates Its Kennedy Center Reign!by A.A. Cristi - Washington, DC
(11/12/2018) - Broadway's Anastasia celebrated its spectacular engagement at the Kennedy Center this week! Check out the company of the show at the festivities below!
Up on the Marquee: BEETLEJUICE at the National Theatreby Walter McBride - Broadway
(11/04/2018) - The new musical comedy Beetlejuice will open on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) on April 25, 2019, but first the musical will have its world premiere at The National Theatre in Washington D.C., officially opening today, Sunday, November 4, 2018. We've got your first look at the marquee for the show's pre-Broadway run! Check out the photos below!
Photo Flash: Get a First Look at Alex Brightman and the Cast of BEETLEJUICE in Actionby Stephi Wild - Broadway
(10/31/2018) - The new musical comedy Beetlejuice will open on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) on April 25, 2019, but first the musical will have its world premiere at the National Theatre in Washington D.C., officially opening on Sunday, November 4, 2018. We've got your first look at the cast, led by Alex Brightman, in action! Check out the all-new production photos below!
Photo Flash: First Look At Megan Hilty, Josh Radnor, and More in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORSby Alan Henry - Broadway
(10/25/2018) - BroadwayWorld has a first look at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' semi-staged concert production of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors, helmed by director Mark Brokaw (Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella). Check out the photos below!
Photo Flash: First Look at Folger Shakespeare's KING JOHNby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(10/25/2018) - Secret deals. Threats of mass destruction. Shifting loyalties. Folger Theatre follows its sold-out run of Macbeth with King John, Shakespeare's rarely performed history play chronicling King John's turbulent reign from 1199 to 1216.
BWW Interview: Parker Esse Makes Sure Arena's ANYTHING GOES is De-Lovely!by Benjamin Tomchik - Washington, DC
(10/25/2018) - Choreographer Parker Esse is responsible for not only ensuring that happens, but also for making sure that the moves of the characters onboard the S.S. American are not only de-lovely, but the tops!
Photo Flash: First Look at Avant Bard's ILLYRIAby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(10/23/2018) - Avant Bard presents the world premiere of ILLYRIA, or What You Will, freely adapted from Twelfth Night by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hebert, and directed by Mitchell Hebert.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Arena Stage's INDECENTby Julie Musbach - Washington, DC
(10/23/2018) - Arena Stage presents Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's thought-provoking play Indecent
BWW Interview: Matthew Gardiner Helps Two Billys Take Flight in Signature's BILLY ELLIOTby Benjamin Tomchik - Washington, DC
(10/19/2018) - Audiences familiar with Signature Theatre know that it is not uncommon for Matthew Gardiner to wear dual hats as both a musical's director and choreographer. However, having dual actors tackle the lead role brings its own set of unique challenges.
Photo Flash: First Look at Horror Rep's FRANKENSTEINby Stephi Wild - Washington, DC
(10/18/2018) - Come and see the culmination of our Classics-in-Action horror trilogy and our first-ever performance in repertory! Just in time for Halloween, take your pick from our adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. With our customary fidelity to the text, immersive staging, high-energy tone-shifting performances, and custom cocktail pairings, join us as we explore Poe's lonesome paranoia, Stoker's deadly seductive hunt, and Shelley's arrogant despair in this unique theatrical event. The productions contain some scary content, but are appropriate for all ages. Each ticket includes a custom drink for our 21+ guests. Running time for each show is approximately an hour. The Horror Rep runs from October 18th to November 10th at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.
FREEZE FRAME: Megan Hilty, James Monroe Iglehart, and More Star In LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at the Kennedy Centerby Walter McBride - Broadway
(10/11/2018) - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will continue its Broadway Center Stage series with Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors, helmed by director Mark Brokaw. The production will run Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - Sunday, October 28, 2018. Check out some early shots of the cast of the production below!
Videos
|
Loot Gunston Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
|
The Motion Arena Stage (5/06-6/14) |
|
Wendell Pierce in Othello Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/19-6/28) |
|
Once NextStop Theatre (5/21-6/21) |
|
OR Atlas Performing Arts Center (5/15-6/07) |
|
A Festival of Favorites and Firsts Theater J (5/30-6/06) |
|
Ford''s Theatre presents: Come From Away Ford's Theatre (9/10-10/18) |
|
Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
|
Commedia Christmas Carol (2024) Streaming Traveling Players Ensemble (12/23-12/23) |
|
Somewhere over the Border Mosaic Theater Company (9/10-10/04) |
| VIEW ALL SHOWS ADD A SHOW | |
Get Washington, DC's #1 Theatre Newsletter
Get the best news & discounts for Washington, DC Shows & beyond.
