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No matter the work, it is important to leave a theater feeling some sort of emotion.

Signature Theatre announces the full cast and creative team for the DC premiere of The Scottsboro Boys directed by Signature Theatre's Director of New Works Joe Calarco (Signature's Jesus Christ Superstar, Gypsy) and choreographed by Jared Grimes (Signature's Jelly's Last Jam).

The Welders-Washington's only playwrights' collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new plays-are thrilled to announce the selection of Laley Lippard as their new Creative Producer.

Witches are not sexy.

It's never a good sign when, during an opera, you pay more attention to the orchestra than the people onstage.

National New Play Network, the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays, celebrates the opening of two NNPN Rolling World Premiere (RWP) productions: Red Bike by Caridad Svich and The Madres by Stephanie Alison Walker.

I like, many musical theatre nerds get excited every time a world premiere musical comes to town.

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For being the centennial of Ingmar Bergman's birth, there seems to be very little evidence of the Swedish director's work around.

One of the great things about DC theatre is that we have the opportunities to experience theater from all over the world, including from some of the most artistically renowned companies.

Athol Fugard is one of the most difficult modern playwrights to perform.

Theater Alliance closes Season 15 with the regional premiere of Gabrielle Reisman's Flood City, an absurdly dark comedy about the aftermath of tragedy.

Internationally renowned Ballet Nacional de Cuba returns to the Opera House stage showcasing their extraordinary talent in two ballets, May 29-June 3.

One thing can be said about award-nominated playwright Annie Baker.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host the Voices of Now Festival, a four-day event featuring original works of theater written and performed by nine different youth ensembles.

Comedian Rosemary Cipriano returns to Washington, D.

I have seen and worked on plenty of solo shows in my more than twenty years in the business and sometimes I see one that just leaves me asking, 'How did this performer get to do this show?' Unfortunately Deb Filler is in that situation right now at MetroStage with her concoction called I Did it My W

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Written and composed by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock, Fly By Night is an appealing mish-mash of rock n' roll, opera, and classic music theater.

Constellation Theatre Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle isn't perfect.

The four Mirabal sisters, who resisted the oppressive dictatorship of Gen.

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Synetic Theater's Founding Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili will present the 13th installation of his Wordless Shakespeare series, Titus Andronicus, without uttering a single word or spilling a single drop of stage blood.

Pinky Swear Production's Use All Available Doors is filled with a local pride that Washingtonians rarely get to experience.

Martin Luther King, Jr.