At Traveling Players, teen actors find pandemic relief in ancient Greeks
By trusting their castmates and an ancient story, students took a leap of faith, channeled their grief, and began to heal.
Molly Smith on the allure of the con man in ‘Catch...
Terrance McNally’s 1960s-style musical comedy is now in its final week. Two powerful new works are coming next—‘Drumfolk’ and ‘American Prophet.’
Studio Theatre reopens after extensive renovation
Dramatic renovations — vivid murals, a ground-level café, the wholly redesigned Victor Shargai Theatre — extend welcome to everyone.
How ‘Nathan the Wise’ — ‘the anti-Shylock’ — got onstage at...
The story behind a witty rewrite of an 18th-century classic by Adapter Michael Bloom, with Director Adam Immerwahr
How Ukrainian playwrights are responding to the theater of war
More than three dozen dramatists in an international initiative are bearing witness to the horrors of Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Migguel Anggelo’s new dance-theater piece to open its wings in DC
As an immigrant from Venezuela, he tells the story of his transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, in 'English with an Accent' at GALA.
It’s still not time for theaters to quit mask and vax...
Continuation of COVID safety policies is crucial to local theaters’ economic health and survival.
The power of audiobooks: a novelist and a narrator tell how...
Thinking of getting paid to record audiobooks? Hear about it from a pro: Liz Wiley.
The stars align as Constellations returns to DC venue
On March 18 and 19, three chamber music concerts will take audiences on a journey from the depths of human despair to lofty joy.
‘I want to give you goosebumps when you’re at Mosaic’: Reginald...
Understudying Peter Marks at Mosaic Theater's season-reveal party, Ramona Harper asked the new artistic director new questions.
Start a theater in the time of COVID!? Rachel Felstein and...
They began a merry band that became Her Majesty & Sons, opened in August at the DC War Memorial, and now does 'Richard II' in a church.
Music at the Phillips Collection: innovation as tradition
In ten new commissioned works, musicians dialogue with visual art.
On PBS, Luke Frazier and his APO are DC’s musical ambassadors
Concerts by the locally-based American Pops Orchestra are appealing to audiences across the nation. Here's why.
Female comics stage a weekend ‘RIOT!’ at Kennedy Center
To preview the three-night comedy event, DCMTA chats with DC natives Brittany Carney and Jenny Questell.
‘I Am Shakespeare: The Henry Green Story’ part one: a review...
The film is a stunning documentary about a young Black man who triumphed as Tybalt on stage and was shot point-blank on his way home.
‘I Am Shakespeare: The Henry Green Story’ part two: the backstory
Interviews with Stephen Dest, director of the documentary, and Jeremy Goldman of Silhouette Stages, which is hosting a screening on March 12.
A Q&A with Francesca Zambello on WNO’s new opera, ‘Written in...
For Kennedy Center's 50th anniversary, the Washington National Opera takes on monumentalism.
Michael J. Bobbitt: ‘We can go further by being genuine and...
The former AD of Adventure Theatre talks about what he learned on his way to becoming the highest-ranking arts and culture official in Massachusetts.
Kathryn Tkel on playing Jackie Kennedy in ‘Change Agent’ at Arena
‘It’s a thrill ride to be able to play her, and to be able to talk about her like this.’
Will COVID safety protocols survive at local theaters?
As local laws no longer require masks and proof of vaccination, what will happen to the policies that have protected audiences and performers?