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Review: ‘Guilt, an opera without music’ at Scena Theatre
With its teasing, click-bait provocative subtitling, “an opera without music,” John Shand’s Guilt, having its world premiere by DC’s Scena Theatre, is a meaty, passionately...
Review: ‘Queens Girl in Africa’ at Mosaic Theater Company (Women’s Voices Theater Festival Production)
Playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings serves up an ace with the world premiere of Queens Girl in Africa – a riveting, semi-autobiographical account of her...
Review: ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ at The American Pops Orchestra
Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days is a classic novel that has stood the test of time--one hundred and forty-five years, to...
Preview: ‘Mamma Mia’ Opens Tomorrow at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts
The Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to be the first regional theater in the D.C. metropolitan area to...
Review: ‘House.’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
Reality TV shows have been described with many different words since they have pervaded the airwaves over the past two decades - crass, stereotypical,...
DC Theater Arts Kicks Off ‘Women’s Voices Theater Festival’ Coverage
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival kicks off this week, and DC Theater Arts is excited to cover this important event.
For the Women's Voices Theater...
Review: ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ at Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Robert Fairchild, a lead dancer with the New York City Ballet Company, burst upon the Broadway scene two years ago by playing the lead...
Review: ‘Inherit the Wind’ at Baltimore’s Vagabond Theatre
On a cold winter’s night, nothing heats up faster than a fiery debate. And when it comes to political grandiloquence – as timely today...
Review: ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ at The Montgomery Playhouse
Barely two months ago, the call went out for auditions to this cast. This is worth mentioning because in that short time, considering all...
In the Moment: Arts Council of Fairfax County Announces 2018 grant awards
As we well know, funding for the arts from all levels of government sources are under assault. Government funding is either static, or in...
Interview: Meet the Playwright of ‘House.’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
The new year brings the opening of the original play by Daniel Johnston, House., to Laurel Mill Playhouse in Laurel, Maryland. House. is directed...
Dance Preview: ‘Bald Ballerina’ Maggie Kudirka Dances for Life
There wasn’t a dry eye when Margaret “Maggie” Kudirka ripped off her headscarf and fell to the floor during her poignant Loss and Survival...
Review: ‘The First Christmas’ at the Music and Drama Ministry of Shiloh Baptist Church...
Written and directed by Fay Brake, The First Christmas, performed recently at Shiloh Baptist Church of Landover, speaks to the essence of Christmas -...
In the Moment: The National Symphony Orchestra at The Hamilton Live This Thursday, January...
Ready to un-compartmentalize your music tastes? Open to thinking differently about what some may call stodgy "High Art" for the well-fixed? Ready to have...
Review: ‘Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert’ at Strathmore
Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert, conducted by Maestro Bernhard Schneider and featuring the vocal talents of German tenor Tilmann Unger and soprano Micaëla...