Come From Away at Ford’s Theatre recounts one such echo on that fateful day in Newfoundland, Canada – the northeast tip of North America. Digging into a vast array of individual stories from the day, this production is equal parts moving, humanizing, and at times even humorous.…
Excellent performances elevate an uneven script.…
Amid August Wilson’s ambitious and towering 10-play American Century Cycle, each one representing a different decade in the Black experience, “Ma Rainey’s Black Botton,” set in 1920s blues recording studio, is perhaps most dynamic.…
The immigrant story meets Wizard of Oz in DC premiere of new musical. See what our critic had to say.…
Written by Steve Yockey (HBO’s The Flight Attendant and Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives) and directed by Reggie D. White, Woolly Mammoth's new Artistic Director, VENUS is wonderfully of the moment, full of all our modern anxieties, peculiarities, and humor, but at its core are timeless questions a…
Cabarets are always a bit of a crap shoot depending on the performer’s theme and choice of material. Signature Theatre’s current cabaret offering is a prime example of what happens when the performer and the material are in perfect sync. Take the immeasurable talents of Tracy Lynn Olivera, add a…
What did our critic think of THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR at Arena Stage?…
Besides the massive geopolitics of it all, the terror attacks also jolted individual emotions , almost to a person. We dealt as a nation with loss, felt empathy, a degree of hopelessness and a welling of national pride and determination as a way to endure and persevere.…
What did our critic think of PHILADELPHIA BALLET at Wolf Trap?…
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…
The Hothouse New Works Block Party returns to Theater Alliance in Washington, DC, from February 20 to March 1, 2026. This two-weekend festival will celebrate community and new works by DMV playwrights, featuring a diverse lineup of plays, performances, and workshops that...
A lyrical homecoming about what we carry, who carries us, and the freedom we dare to imagine. On a three-day furlough from prison, Sade returns to a changed world—and to Mina, the cousin who isn’t sure how to let her back in. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the East...
A dystopian comedy blazing with humor and revolutionary spirit. In a world where factory days and firework nights blur with revolution, fire work follows Eleanor and Bartholomew as labor laws shift and rebellion sparks. A darkly comic fable of revolution, fire work blends...
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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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Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (10/09-10/18) |
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Special Event: ARTS By George!: Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Center for the Arts (10/03-10/03) |
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The Second-Best School Shooting NextStop Theatre (9/17-10/11) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Some Like It Hot Bernard Family Theatre, Olney Theatre Center (9/18-11/08) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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Pippin The Bowie Playhouse (9/18-10/03) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Olney Theatre Center (6/30-8/22) |
