The Fruits of Our Labor is a world premiere production from Step Afrika!, commemorating America's 250th anniversary. Directed by Jakari Sherman, with Conrad R. Kelly II and Vusi Mdoyi, the work blends stepping, percussion, poetry, and song into a rhythmic exploration of...
Nikola – A New Musical charts the rise of inventor Nikola Tesla from unknown engineer to eccentric genius to "mad scientist." As his celebrity grows and his rivalry with Thomas Edison intensifies, Tesla pushes himself, his followers, and the limits of electric power to dangerous...
Prima Facie, written by Suzie Miller, is a Tony-nominated one-woman drama receiving its first-ever U.S. regional staging at Arena Stage. The play follows Tessa, a criminal defense attorney at the height of her career, who has built her success defending men accused of sexual...
Purpose, written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is a family drama about faith, inheritance, and long-held secrets. The play centers on the Jaspers, a Black political dynasty of civil rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen who have long anchored...
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The world premiere production kicking off the 51st season at GALA Hispanic Theatre, “GARBO: The Actor Who Saved the World,” is not, it turns out, about Greta at all. Rather, it’s about somebody else far fewer people have heard of, who was working roughly the same time — World War II to be sp…
Merrily We Roll Along tackles these behemoth existentialisms at a granular level in the lives of three old friends. It’s one of those shows that leaves you with something to ponder for days after the lights come up. In Signature Theatre’s hands, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s masterpiece …
Freddie: A Girl (now being presented by the Taffety Punk Theatre Company) is a triumph of theatrical form over content. The subject of resistance fighters against the Nazis in World War II is obviously a fraught and very serious business especially in these polarized times-- but Director Lise Brunea…
Diana Gitelman brings her one-person show to the Logan Festival of Solo Performance. See what our critic had to say.…
If you’ve ever wondered what it may be like to party with the Brontё sisters, get ready to sip on a lot of cordials, margaritas, and rosè and experience an evening like no other at Nu Sass Productions’ Brontё Sister House Party.…
It is not often that a singer can enter a stage with a full symphony orchestra playing behind him and hold a sold out crowd of 7,028 people spellbound. This past Saturday evening at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, Grammy nominated singer/actor Josh Groban did just that while being backed by YOUR Nation…
What did our critic think of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Monumental Theatre?…
Theater fans should run and catch Ronald Rand’s fascinating solo show about Harold Clurman's life and career, which is part of the Logan Festival of Solo Performance at 1st Stage in Tysons Corner, Virginia through August 30.…
Baron Vaughn tells tales of complex family relationships, generational trauma, and breaking that cycle through the way that he parents his own children and manages family life, with just the right amount of comedy. …
The Notebook at The National Theatre remarkably utilizes Allie & Noah’s lifelong love as an emotional smokescreen for the underlying calamity, time. Guided by a sweeping score, the beloved story is somehow even more impactful in musical form.…
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Everything has a price—even our dreams. Victor Franz has returned home to settle his late father’s estate. In an attic overflowing with memories and furniture he meets the enigmatic Gregory Solomon (Hal Linden), a professional appraiser committed to turning a profit off Victor’s...
Good fences make good neighbors…right? From the outrageous mind of playwright Karen Zacarías (Destiny of Desire) comes this hot new comedy about the clash of class and culture that pushes well-meaning neighbors over the edge. Tania, a very pregnant Ph.D. candidate, and Pablo...
Four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Edward Gero is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in The Originalist. This smash-hit show from 2015 returns to offer audiences another opportunity to see Gero’s “lively performance [that] lands the laughs, delivers the gravitas and at every...
Do our belief systems stem from our environment, or are some prejudices hard-wired into us? With barbed wit, Lydia R. Diamond (Stick Fly) explores the unavoidable nature of cultural bias and other sticky subjects in the controversial and fiercely funny new play Smart People...
Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking masterpiece follows the Younger family yearning for a better life far from the cramped confines of their Chicago tenement. Hope arrives in the form of an unexpected financial windfall, but family ties are strained when they realize they have...
Inspired by true events, Intelligence is a fictionalized account of a covert operative who, tasked with protecting the national security of the United States post-9/11, is racing to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the unthinkable happens. With the country at war...
Four-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) leads an ensemble cast as Fanny Farrelly in Lillian Hellman's suspenseful masterpiece Watch on the Rhine. With America on the brink of entering World War II, Fanny's daughter escapes to the...
The lawyer: a young, brilliant, courageous woman arguing Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court. The plaintiff: a complex, single woman seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy. The landmark 1973 case legalized abortion, but also began their separate journeys that would come to mirror...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater continues the company’s season-long Lillian Hellman Festival by hosting free programming, including staged readings, panel discussions and film screenings, January 25-February 5, 2017 to celebrate the iconic playwright, author...
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Brian Henson's Puppet Up! Lincoln Theatre (9/30-9/30) |
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GARBO: EL ACTOR QUE SAVÓ AL MUNDO (Garbo: The Actor Who Saved The World) GALA Hispanic Theatre (9/03-9/27) |
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A Monument To Comedy DC Improv (9/15-9/15) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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Where Dead Women Go to Dance Theatre Prometheus (9/25-10/17) |
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Round House Theatre (9/09-10/11) |
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Borisevich Duo The Alden Theatre (10/25-10/25) |
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Interplay Orchestra presents "Time of Our Lives" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/07-10/07) |
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Grand Kyiv Ballet presents "The Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (11/18-11/18) |
