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Monumental Theatre Company Styles ‘Pippin’ for a New Generation

Fresh off its 2018 Helen Hayes Award win for Outstanding Emerging Theater Company, Monumental Theatre Company will close out its season with Pippin (July 13-30)....

Free Events in NYC This Week: ‘Broadway in Bryant Park’ and...

Along with the heat and humidity of summer in the city comes the return of two popular annual events that will make you forget...

2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Accidental Pilgrim’

Theatre Du Jour's The Accidental Pilgrim is an ensemble-devised work, directed by company co-founder B. Stanley. The ensemble's style is heavily indebted to such...

2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘50 Ways to Date Your Aubrey’

Aubri O’Connor lights up the tiny stage at Caos on F, drawing us into this quirky, funny, and poignant play within a play starring...

Review: ‘Secrets of the Universe (And Other Songs)’ at the Hub...

Secrets of the Universe (And Other Songs), a new play by Marc Acito having its world premiere at the Hub Theatre in Fairfax, explores...

Get Ready, DC: The 2018 Capital Fringe Festival Opens This Weekend

Get ready Washington, DC: July is hot and about to get even hotter. The always spicy Capital Fringe Festival opens this weekend, delivering 80-some...

Can a Community Theater Go Professional?

With NextStop Theatre Company celebrating its 30th anniversary, I chatted with Evan Hoffmann, NextStop’s producing artistic director, to learn about the company’s journey. Founded in...

Prepare for the Unexpected: An Interview with Christopher Bell, Artistic Director...

Even in Washington, DC, a town unofficially known as the choral capital of the United States, Christopher Bell stands out as a milestone hire...

Capital Gazette Shooting Victim Was Also A ‘Humorous, Witty’ D.C. Theater...

By Rachel Kurzius Wendi Winters was one of five staff members murdered while working at the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28. But in addition to...

Review: ‘Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations’...

Ain’t too many surprises in Ain’t Too Proud, the new jukebox musical about the supergroup The Temptations and their rise to meteoric heights. Their...

Statement on the Death of DCMTA Staff Writer Wendi Winters

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Capital Gazette Reporter and DC Theater Arts Senior Reviewer Wendi Winters....

Love and Friendship IRL: A Q&A With Brandon McCoy and Brianna...

I went to see Other Life Forms, the new comedy at Keegan Theatre, not expecting to write about it. But the play changed my mind....

Perfecting the ‘Burn’: Props Master Jay Duckworth on Styling the Iconic...

As a Props Master, you try and read through a script and see where the big "what ifs" are, but there is always a...

Review: ‘On the Town’ at Olney Theatre Center

D.C.–area audiences are notorious for their too-free-and-easy awarding of standing ovations. But last night’s prolonged, enthusiastic, standing, whooping, hollering, response to Olney Theatre’s presentation...

Is DC Theater Getting Addicted to Trump?

Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Theater Arts writers. In this one, Senior Writers and Columnists John Stoltenberg (Magic Time!) and...

Exclusive: ‘Hamilton’ Through the Eyes of Original Broadway Cast Member Betsy...

In part one of our "Summer of Hamilton" series, original cast member Betsy Struxness recalls the show's earliest days.  Hamilton. What’s to be said that...

“The Queerest Role I’ve Played”: A Q&A with Jon Hudson Odom...

Jon Hudson Odom's performance in Jordan Tannahill's new play Botticelli in the Fire just blew me away. And it wasn't the first time that had happened....