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What did our critic think of MARLENE at ExPats Theatre?

Fresh from their Helen Hayes Awards win for Outstanding Production (La Salpêtrière) the Taffety Punks bring back the Riot Grrrls to show us how Shakespeare is done.

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings.

Today’s subject actress Joanna Glushak is currently living her theatre life on tour in the rip-roaring good time board game gone theatrical version of Clue.

What did our critic think of CRACKING ZEUS at Spooky Action Theater?

But the new play by Dave Harris at Studio Theater is framed the same way: Six people marooned in an afterschool detention classroom on the Friday before Martin Luther King weekend, who bicker, flirt, nearly fight, and wonder if the presiding teacher will ever come to sign forms allowing them to go h

GALA Hispanic Theatre will continue its 49th season with the bilingual world premiere of Frida Libre, book and lyrics by acclaimed playwright Karen Zacarías and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma.

What did our critic think of SHREK THE MUSICAL at Capital One Hall?

Taffety Punk's Riot Grrrls will perform THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH, featuring an all-female cast.

You Don’t Want to Miss The Pilgrim’s Progress Live on Stage

Primary Trust is a touching, intimate, and deeply affecting work.

What happens to the characters in a play when they’re not on stage? Do they continue to exist in a narrative limbo outside of time? Does the paradox of characters without stories parallel how we struggle to find meaning in life’s entrances and exits?

CLUE: LIVE ON STAGE! at The Kennedy Center Opera House is a sharp and breezy murder-mystery farce right at home in DC says BWW's critic.

What did our critic think of DISTRICT CHOREOGRAPHER'S DANCE FESTIVAL 2024 at Dance Place?

Arena Stage will host Jaja's Marketplace, an EmpowerHER event inspired by the Tony Award-winning Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, running from September 6 to October.

Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for the world-premiere drama THE OTHER AMERICANS, written by John Leguizamo.

Nigerian ancestry, and American ideals clash, merge, and play off each other in Sojourners by playwright Mfoniso Udofia -this deeply moving play is part of the epic nine-play Ufot Cycle which follows a Nigerian American family through many cycles of life and generations.

Colombian-born cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia will perform in recital with pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion at The Phillips Collection in Washington D.

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is presenting the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Jocelyn Bioh's, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.

Leana Rae Concepcion has joined the company of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at The John F.

Themes of identity, bonding, loss, self-realization and especially death permeate the numerous layers of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ thought-provoking play The Comeuppance.

Every once in a while, you see the billing for a concert and think to yourself “That’s an interesting combination”.

The Keegan Theatre has announced the cast and team of its Season 28 opener, the spine-chilling thriller THE WOMAN IN BLACK, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the book by Susan Hill.

Saturday, September 21, 2024 marks the 15th year of National Dance Day, a celebration of artistic expression and the joy of movement.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company has opened its 2024-2025 season with a fun, frothy, beautifully rendered Comedy of Errors by the theatre’s “resident playwright” William Shakespeare and directed by the company’s artistic director, Simon Godwin.