Interviews and Features

An up-close conversation with the Fairfax County high school senior who's now playing factory girl Iola Stover in the Tony-nominated musical.

Get to know the creative duo who are up for the prestigious Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical.

Elizabeth Stahlmann stars as Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, the real-life archivist who received a mysterious album of Nazi photographs.

Everything you need to know to prepare for DC theater’s biggest night.

The incoming artistic director of Spooky Action Theater is the face of renewed hope for a company whose very survival was in doubt just a year ago.

The Expats Theatre founder tells why she is directing a play about the weaponization of rape in war.

The 1995 'songplay' by John Adams and June Jordan created a new genre of musical theater and boldly confronted systemic issues of the 1990s.

Premiering April 20 to 23 at George Mason, the play germinated from her pilgrimage to the Grand Canyon in mourning.

Signature Theatre’s new associate artistic director talks about bringing identity, history, and authenticity to a culturally fraught Sondheim musical.

The multi-genre countertenor stars in Annapolis Opera’s 'Voices of Our Time' concert on April 15.

Inside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.

In a series called 'The Companies We Keep,' DC Theater Arts spotlights the good and beneficial work done by theater companies in the DC region. This month we focus on a nonprofit that teaches youth peer intervention and empowerment.

'Everyone gets to dress up, sing and dance along to show tunes without feeling judged or silly,' says cofounder Ethan Maccoby.

How the playwright and director came up with 'Jennifer Who Is Leaving.'

The award-winning playwright talks about her sharp-edged thriller set in the fragile world of today’s Middle East.

Legal wits went to battle in the trumped-up case of Goneril v. The Kingdom at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

The projection and video designer talks about writing and directing 'Fitting In,' a show for two- to five-year-olds, which just premiered at Arts on the Horizon.

‘The personal is the political’ in this closeup on Gloria Steinem, who championed the cause of women’s rights at a time when most people thought they had none.   

The Broadway star lifts up the rock-and-roll trailblazer whose musical influence was global.

As the acclaimed opera opens at Kennedy Center, the mezzo-soprano who plays the mother of a slain Black son talks about going to a place beyond grief.