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Indicoe: Networking Organization Gets Artists from A to B
Whether you are an actor, a dancer or a painter - being an artist can be a lonely business, characterized by short-term jobs, self-doubt...
Review: ‘Madeline’s Christmas’ at Creative Cauldron
This holiday season, Creative Cauldron reprises Madeline's Christmas, with book and lyrics by Jennifer Kirkeby and music by Shirley Mier, based on the beloved...
Review: ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ at Everyman Theatre
The Importance Of Being Earnest, often touted as a perfect comedy, plays at Everyman Theatre in downtown Baltimore through the end of the month....
Review: ‘A Christmas Carol 2018’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company
This isn’t your mother and father’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this present day version, Ebenezer Scrooge’s father Andrew runs the charitable...
Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ at Ballet Theatre of Maryland
Ballet Theatre of Maryland’s production of The Nutcracker is a colorful sensation, with beautiful costumes and lovely dancing mixed with inventive lighting and a...
Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Providence Players of Fairfax
The Providence Players of Fairfax and The Young Hearts present Charles Dickens' beloved classic A Christmas Carol, in an inventive adaptation by Rob Zapple....
Review: ‘The Christmas Revels: An Elizabethan Celebration of the Winter Solstice’ at Washington Revels
Washington Revels rings in the holiday season with their 36th annual production of The Christmas Revels. For those unfamiliar with the revels format, the...
Review: The Second City’s ‘Love, Factually’ at the Kennedy Center
The Second City lights up the Kennedy Center’s holiday season again this year with their new production, Love, Factually. Featuring a top-rate cast directed...
Report: ‘2018 DC Queer Theatre Festival’ at The DC Arts Center
Now in its sixth year, The DC Center’s DC Queer Theatre Festival delivers on its promise to unleash and celebrate underrepresented voices and diversity....
Review: ‘Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale’ at Silver Spring Stage
The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie’s Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young...
Review: ‘She The People’ at the Second City at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
It’s common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch...
Review: ‘A Wonder in my Soul’ at Baltimore Center Stage
“We fight like cats, but we love like dogs.” Marcus Gardley, the author of A Wonder in my Soul has just the right way of...
DC-based Conductor Angel Gil-Ordóñez Brings Classical Music to 40th Annual Havana Film Festival
When patrons of the 40th annual Havana Film Festival in Cuba enter the city’s Cine la Rampa on December 8, they’ll be treated to...
Review: ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ by the Arts Collective at Howard Community College
If Narnia was one of your beloved childhood worlds, you have the opportunity to share it with your nearest and dearest without anyone having...
Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ by Ballet West at The Kennedy Center
Ballet West’s Nutcracker, conducted by Jared Oaks, is one of the most unique productions to hit the stage this season at the Kennedy Center. Steeped...
Review: ‘Crystal’ by Cirque du Soleil at Capital One Arena
Cirque du Soleil's Crystal is staged on a slick sheet of ice where acrobats and skaters combine to create an amazing entertainment. A spectacular...
Northern Virginia’s Alden Theatre Reopens After Renovation
Northern Virginia’s Alden Theatre, with a long-standing moniker, “small stage, big talent,” reopens on Saturday, January 5, 2019, when renovations of the surrounding building...
Review: ‘Anastasia’ at The Hippodrome Theatre
There’s nothing wrong with Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical that a little modern relevance wouldn’t cure. It certainly looks sensational inside the grand proscenium...
Review: ‘Gem of the Ocean’ at Round House Theatre
There are only ever seven characters onstage in this majestic production—three of them former slaves—but it is as if multitudes of Africans lost crossing...
‘Indecent’ at Arena: Victor Raider-Wexler Returns to Washington in the Role of a Lifetime
The role of Otto in Paula Vogel’s Indecent—the Tony Award-winning play at Arena Stage—is an actor’s dream.
The play, about a Yiddish melodrama that scandalized...