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Theatre Washington has announced that nominations are open for a new award in honor of beloved DC-area theatre champion Victor Shargai.

The Richmond Environmental Film Festival has announced its 12th annual showcase of over 20 free local and national films selected to raise awareness of environmental issues and offer solution-oriented messages of hope that inspire action towards promoting planet health and environmental justice.

Founded 50 years ago by National Medal of Arts recipient, Tina Ramírez, Ballet Hispánico is a renowned Latinx dance organization recently recognized by the Ford Foundation as one of America's Cultural Treasures.

Today’s subject Yesenia Iglesias is currently living her theatre life onstage at Signature Theatre in Daphne’s Dive which runs through March 20th in the ARK space.

Signature Theatre has released production photos and videos for Daphne’s Dive, a play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, which reopens Signature’s ARK Theater for live performances now through March 20, 2022.

Colorful characters create a makeshift ménage at the neighborhood watering hole in a vivid and vibrant play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Water by the Spoonful and In the Heights.

'La Casa de la Laguna' is a fascinating and thoughtful play, and carefully balances delicate conversations about statehood and independence, race, colonialism, and socio-economic status, and gender.

In a new production, Washington National Opera will present Così fan tutte, March 12–26, 2022 in the Eisenhower Theater, marking the first fully staged production since March 2020.

Ok, I’m going to date myself.

NextStop Theatre in Herndon, VA is proud to announce the opening of Every Brilliant Thing, by Duncan McMillan.

Anyone that has read my reviews or columns over the years knows that I always pay attention to the orchestrations and orchestrator of any given musical.

Any time you can spend with a master storyteller is time well spent; and when the storyteller is Psalmayene 24, you know you're in for a rewarding, though-provoking evening.

Change Agent is a play based on historical events, in this case the life of American painter Mary Pinchot Meyer (Andrea Abello) and her relationship with President John F.

Kennedy Center has announced events and performances for the months of March – April 2022!

The pandemic changed the world and it changed art - most immediately in closing places where people would gather for it, for months on end.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Brian Ganz celebrates his 11th concert in his quest to perform the complete works of Frédéric Chopin with “Chopin: Breaking the Rules” at The Music Center at Strathmore at 8 p.

LA TI DO Productions (LTD) will celebrate 10 years of cabarets and more to re-launch on February 5, 2022 at Union Stage with a hybrid in-person and virtual show and celebration as a program of its new parent production company DMH Mendoza Productions, LLC.

Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim, will present Washington National Opera: Written in Stone on February 6, 2022 at 7:30 pm.

The Cartography Project is a major multi-year National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera commissioning initiative to foreground the phenomenon of race-based violence in the United States by commissioning new chamber and vocal works by creators of color from grieving communities

'Compulsion or the House Behind' is a good show, with a strong creative team and an immensely talented cast, but it’s also a flawed one.

Join the Hylton Performing Arts Center for an evening of festivities for the Hylton Center’s 12th  Anniversary Gala on April 29 and April 30.

Ford’s Theatre Society today announced full casting and the design team for the world-premiere musical Grace, with Music and Lyrics by Nolan Williams, Jr.

The Simon and Garfunkel Story is an evening of wonderful music and nostalgia.

There is almost nothing consistent anymore in life with the current state of affairs but when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater comes to town, things almost feel normal again.