Nikola - A New Musical
Nikola - A New Musical features book and lyrics by Nikko Benson and Benjamin Halstead, music by Nikko Benson, choreography by Katie Spelman, and direction...
Kreeger Theater, Arena Stage
Upcoming Shows
Review: MY FAVORITE SOCIOPATH at Contemporary American Theater Festival
We need plays like Aurin Squire's “My Favorite Psychopath” to remind us that when it comes to shameless, yellow journalism, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. Squire offers us a finely-crafted portrait of digital-age journalism in all its messiness, and director Céline Rosenthal has created…
Review: THIS IS A PLAY ABOUT GOD at District Fringe Festival
While the volleyball court may be the setting for most matchups, THIS IS A PLAY ABOUT GOD is far more concerned with the action behind the scenes when the athletes stop performing. Written by Aimee Dastin and directed by Rachel Johns, this is a world premiere produced as part of the District Fringe …
Review: BEST LINE WINS at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Ms. Kander has set herself a high bar indeed, writing at a level to match one of the early Sketch Comedy era’s most famous duos, and she absolutely nails it. It helps, too, that we have a perfect cast for this run: in the role of Elaine herself, Lori Vega is edgy, scalpel-sharp, and as proud and…
Review: THE SMOKER at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Lisa D’Amour offers us a fascinating character study in her latest play, The Smoker, and under the empathetic eye of Director Shelley Butler we are invited into the lives of normal people we routinely pass by without a thought. As if by accident we meet our central character, a recovering alcoholi…
Review: ¡VOS! at Contemporary American Theater Festival
The one-word title of this play isn't just a form of direct address; in Argentina, it's a form of 'You!' that turns its gaze away from the stage and back on all of us in the audience. Playwright Christina Pumariega is determined that we never forget the Disappeared of Argentina, and recognize the em…
Review: REFUGEE RHAPSODY at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Playwright Yussef El Guindi has given us a window into many issues at once—too many at once to keep track of, from this critic’s perspective. But the issues collide here in the Contemporary American Theater Festival’s Studio 112 with memorable force.…
Review: ICONIC WORKS at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
For her final production as Artistic Director of Washington, D.C.-based Chamber Dance Project (CDP), Diane Coburn Bruning chose to pair a few of her signature contemporary ballets with others from CDP’s rich repertory, along with a world premiere ballet by up-and-coming choreographer William Moore…
Review: HOW TO DIE IN JAPAN at District Fringe
If nothing else in this world, we all have one thing in common – everyone is born, and everyone will die. Regardless of the country or culture shaping us, every human encounters the daunting ambiguity and the rigid finality of the end of this life sentence equally. Contrastly, our experience with …
Review: WHEN I WAS at District Fringe
Teenage years are no picnic for anyone. That we survive it at all makes us wish we all had the knowledge then what we know now. Such is the premise of MaKayla Baker Paxton’s play “When I Was” that’s playing as part of the District Fringe.…
Review: PLEASE CLAP! at District Fringe
What did our critic think of PLEASE CLAP! at District Fringe?…
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical Arena Stage (6/12-8/09) |
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Macbeth - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/16-7/25) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Twelfth Night - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/15-7/25) |
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Define "Black" District Fringe (7/12-7/17) |
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Hairspray Hylton Performing Arts Center (9/18-9/27) |
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Tarzan The Washington County Playhouse (6/26-8/16) |
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Penny's Dreadful Parlour: The Séance of Edgar Allan Poe The Ghost Museum (7/16-7/25) VIDEOS |
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Philadelphia Ballet Stars and Stripes Forever! Wolf Trap (9/10-9/10) |
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Doja Cat at Capital One Arena Capital One Arena (11/11-12/11) |