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Washington National Opera concludes its 2017-2018 season with the company premiere of Leonard Bernstein's biting satire Candide, running now through May 26, 2018, in the Kennedy Center Opera House.

The final production of Mosaic Theater Company of DC's third season will be the world premiere staging of The Vagrant Trilogy, written by Mona Mansour and directed by Mark Wing-Davey.

Rorschach Theatre launches KLECKSOGRAPHY: COLLECTIVE INK, an event that brings together six theatre companies and more than 30 artists to make something unimaginable for one night only on June 2, 2018.

The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) today welcomed the introduction of S.

Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the expansion of the Arts Innovation and Management (AIM) program to seven new cities.

Many only get to experience Feinstein through his recordings, PBS specials and the NPR show Song Travels with Michael Feinstein.

There's something incredibly rewarding about a simplistic production.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.

Billboard-charting recording artist violinist Chelsey Green and her band The Green Project will make their Washington Performing Arts main stage debut on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 8pm at Sixth & I.

Culminating its 28th season making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly presents Shakespeare's classic comedy THE TEMPEST at Gunston Arts Center May 31 to July 1, 2018, directed by Artistic and Executive Director Tom Prewitt.

National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA's second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018.

BroadwayWorld is excited to announce we're launching a new Facebook Group for the Washington DC Theatre community, bringing together performers, audience members, theatre groups, and more to create a local space for discussion and networking.

If, like me, you missed Mosaic Theater Company's HOODED, OR BEING BLACK FOR DUMMIES last season, here's your second chance: a remount, featuring almost all of the original cast, has arrived by popular demand.

The Welders -- Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work -- are launching their next production, Switch by Brett Abelman.

The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) today announced the honorees and keynote speaker for its annual meeting in Manhattan on June 13, 2018.

It was on a May evening 105 years ago when the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet 'The Rite of Spring' caused booing, catcalls and near riots in Paris.

Candide's little delights can't quite atone for the production's original sins: injecting far too much self-importance and taking itself far too seriously.

The combination of all of these voices and musicians sharing this powerful story set the concert on a good footing, initially.

Creative Cauldron presents a beguiling new version of E.

If you've somehow missed the buzz surrounding Paapa Essiedu in the title role of Royal Shakespeare Company's HAMLET, let me be the one to tell you: get thee to the Kennedy Center before the end of its very short run.

If you've never read George Orwell's 1984, the seminal classic examining a world that's fallen under the rule of the nameless Party and their omnipotent leader Big Brother, stop what you're doing and read it now.

Emmy Award-winning actress Sally Struthers returns for her fifth engagement at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia as Louise Seger in Always Patsy Cline opening on May 16th.

Solas Nua, the DC-based organization bringing Irish contemporary arts state-side, has gone back two hundred years to find inspiration for its upcoming production, The Frederick Douglass Project.

Today's subject Judy Kuhn has been living her theatre life as a working actress/singer/recording artist for over thirty years.

Studio Theatre is serving up a spectacle of a show that mashes satire and high emotion.