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Annual ‘Table of Silence Project 9/11’ will be live and livestreamed from NYC’s Lincoln...
It’s been 23 years since the 9/11 attacks, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Buglisi Dance Theatre, will once again...
Seth Sikes and Nicolas King celebrate the Golden Age of Hollywood in ‘The New...
Seth Sikes and Nicolas King, both award-winning artists known for their smooth, swinging, blockbuster deliveries of classics from the Great American Songbook, have been...
NextStop Theatre Company adds ‘Footloose’ to 2024/25 season
"POTUS' kicks off a lineup promising stories of joy, hope, and unexpected connections.
City of Fairfax Theatre Company does a Woodstock-y ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
The plot is framed as the goings-on behind the scenes of a 1975 music festival. Does it work? By ALEXANDRA BOWMAN
Folger Theatre opens its 2024/25 season with ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Raymond O. Caldwell directs Shakespeare's famous tragedy of star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of an election year.
WIT’s hit election-year satire ‘POTUS Among Us’ returns this fall
Washington Improv Theater's third season at Studio Theatre also features 'DC's Funniest Improvisers' ensemble showcases.
‘The Comeuppance’ comes home to DC at Woolly Mammoth
Woolly teams up with Philadelphia's Wilma Theater to mount Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' dark comedy, set in Prince George's County.
New film about renowned playwright Samuel Beckett gets personal
Following the author from his childhood to his final years, the biopic 'Dance First' is more a portrait of the artist's life than a précis of his lit. By CHARLES GREEN
Mark your calendar for the 38th annual ‘Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction’ in...
Now in its 38th year, the popular Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, supported by corporate sponsors The...
‘Suddenly, I didn’t know who I was,’ says Sun Mee Chomet as her hit...
The actor and playwright talks about her search for identity as a Korean adopted in infancy into a Jewish world. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN
What’s new at the Folger Shakespeare Library? A theater lover has a look.
The author's recent tour of the dynamically curated expansion revealed thought-provoking spaces worth returning to time and again. By ERIC COLCHAMIRO
Constellation Theatre announces 2024/25 season: ‘Infinite Possibilities’
Lineup features work by A24 screenwriter Nick Payne, along with a jaunty jukebox musical.
A men’s club comes undone in wacky ‘Explorers Club’ at Little Theatre of Alexandria
The Marx Brothers meet Benny Hill in this feast of jokes and slapstick. By ANDY ARNOLD
A stirring hero’s journey in ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ at Museum of the Bible
In scenes of cinematic quality, the Logos Theatre offers an immersive, embodied reminder of the power of live theater to inspire us all to keep going. By HANNAH ESTIFANOS
‘Dinosaur Babies’ at The Puppet Co. sees DinoRock go out with a roar
Michele Valeri and Ingrid Crepeau give their farewell performances after 40 years of entertaining generations of children. By ALEXANDRIA BOWMAN
Behind the scenes of Theatre Week with Amy Austin
The CEO and president of Theatre Washington puts in context the service organization's seventh annual launch of the theater season. By JULIAN OQUENDO
Checking in on a day full of free theater within Kennedy Center’s REACH
A sampling of offerings in the second-annual Local Theatre Festival — all of it worthy and some of it a surfeit of surprise and satisfaction. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN and JOHN STOLTENBERG
Zora Neale Hurston tribute to begin Essential Theatre’s 35th season
Women's Works Program production of Laurence Holder's 'Zora' opens September 22.
Empowering musical ‘She Persisted’ to kick off Adventure Theatre season
All-woman production for young audiences based on the #1 New York Times bestselling book by Chelsea Clinton.
Betrayal, heartache, and redemption in ‘Treachery Lies & Deception’
Domestic abuse, family secrets, and the power of forgiveness are among the topics in this touring show from MPB Entertainment. By WILLIAM POWELL