In the Moment

Area non-profit arts organizations continually develop fresh ideas to reach children who may not regularly have access to the wonders of the performing arts....

What can be more exhilarating and authentic than standing up in front of an audience to tell a true story about yourself? Maybe unnerving at...

Satchmo at the Waldorf, at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, is not timid. Nor should it be. With a script by Wall Street Journal arts critic...

These are times of increasing emphasis on STEM as the seemingly set future direction for American students; when there is serious discussion that college...

Many know Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Arts Center (TFAC) as a re-purposed war-time munitions plant now a prominent and beloved non-profit home for artists to...

Reaching out to new or underserved audience for audience development is likely a major, on-going activity for any local theater troupe. Given the large number...

What a way to blast open the new theater season. So take your seat at Signature’s bold, daring, muscular production of a tale about...

How often do we theater-goers find ourselves totally in disbelief when we witness stage violence or physicality? Do you, as I do, find yourself...

Hungry for inventive choreography? Up for a summer’s night adventure with performance that is unconventional and live? Hungry for inventive dance and movement? Desire...

This summer’s Kitchen Sink Fest at Dance Place is showcasing a curated, meant-to-provoke on-lookers, dance and theater technical design elements collaboration. From Kitchen Sink Fest...

American epic grandeur will be visible and heard at Wolf Trap when the National Symphony Orchestra presents America the Beautiful in a grand pre-July...

Rare words indeed to take in and ponder from the preface to the The Brookings Institution’s Creative Communities, Art Works in Economic Development: “Without good...

Over the past nearly two decades, I have always anticipated what multi-Helen Hayes Award Scenic Designer Tony Cisek will bring forth on the Folger Theatre’s...

The Workhouse Arts Center is a 55-acre cultural arts center located in southern Fairfax County. For the history minded, It was 100 years ago...

Signature Theatre’s production of La Cage aux Folles under the sure hands of Director/Choreographer Matthew Gardiner is a fabulously fun-rendering.  There is simply no...

This summer Hylton Performing Art Center is offering a unique opportunity for “hands-on” learning about what happens backstage during a live theater performance. The Hylton is...

Giving back to the community is an important goal for the Providence Players of Fairfax. The Providence Players (PPF) is known for its work to...

So here we are in a world class city with ever changing demographics that represent all the world. Those include refugees, immigrants and people...

Synetic Theater’s The Man in the Iron Mask is a good yarn, well told. With the production Synetic continues to expand beyond its original...

Story telling has been part of human history for--well--forever. In recent days story-telling has had a resurgence with digital media, pod casting and, of...