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Interview With Tom Sweitzer About ‘Coming of Age’ Cabaret
Entertainment and enlightenment are only two of the expectations for the upcoming performance of Coming of Age at the Creative Cauldron as a group...
Review: ‘Legally Blonde’ at Zemfira Stage
I came to Zemfira Stage’s production of Legally Blonde as a virtual newbie, having seen neither the musical nor the 2001 Reese Witherspoon comedy...
Review: ‘Dinner’ at 4615 Theatre Company
Dinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong....
Review: ‘Chicago’ at Other Voices Theatre
Chicago, now running at Other Voices Theatre in Frederick, has a long and winding history. In 1924, Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins covered the sensational trials...
Review: ‘Pushkin’ at The Sheen Center
Presented by the american vicarious in a limited-engagement world premiere at The Sheen Center, Pushkin, playwright Jonathan Leaf’s latest historical drama, considers the last...
Review: ‘The Color Purple’ at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it,” said the character Shug...
Review: ‘The Story of the Gun’ at Woolly Mammoth
“All you have to do is move your little finger, move your little finger, and you can change the world.” That line from Stephen...
5 Questions with Joshua Conyers, Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he...
Magic Time!: ‘The Story of the Gun’ at Woolly Mammoth
Mike Daisey's monolog The Story of the Gun is a show both hilarious and sobering, and he begins it with a wry riff on...
Review: Dan Domenech’s ‘Bootleg Famous: To Broadway and Beyond’ at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
New York’s Dan Domenech, who wowed audiences last summer as Che in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s acclaimed production of Evita, was invited back to...
Avant Bard Announces 2018-2019 Season
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière...
Review: ‘King John’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare’s play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular...
Review: ‘An Irish Twist on a Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Quotidian Theatre Company
Quotidian Theatre Company's An Irish Twist on a Midsummer Night's Dream is a fantastical adventure that transports Shakespeare's classic to 1820s Ireland. This production...
Three Truths I Took Away From Second City’s ‘Generation Gap’
Are we brave enough to laugh at ourselves? That’s a question The Second City explores in it’s latest comedy show Generation Gap, playing now...
‘Hamilton’ is Encouragement for True Inclusion in Theater
Hamilton: An American Musical is whatever kind of success you want to call it for its time. Artists, audiences, and critics observed it as...
Review: ‘A Chorus Line’ at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts
A Broadway musical about Broadway musicals—what could be better for theatre-lovers of all stripes? The iconic A Chorus Line truly fits the bill! It...
Magic Time!: ‘Dave’ at Arena Stage
You know those big live TV versions of blockbuster musicals that get broadcast decades after the show was a hit on the stage? Like,...
Review: ‘Macbeth’ at 4615 Theatre Company
Why do people commit evil, and once they have started, why can’t they stop? Now, as always, it is a question worth asking. Macbeth,...
Past is Prologue at 4615 Theatre Company
Artistic Director Jordan Friend had a clear vision when 4615 Theatre Company began producing full seasons last year. Each 4615 season would kick off...
Magic Time!: A Report on ‘The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company’
The prodigiously imaginative performance artist Holly Bass belongs to the first generation of her family not to pick cotton for a living. I learned...