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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – An Interview With CJ...

Welcome to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up...

The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – Interview with Playwright A.K....

The Playwright’s Playground is a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than...

Source Festival: ‘Revenge: Six 10-Minute Plays’

Someone once said “revenge is sweet.” In the case of CulturalDC’s Source Festival show Revenge, not only is revenge sweet, but it is hilarious,...

‘Happy Days’ at SCENA Theatre

Rejoice, Beckett fans! Short of an actual festival, it's rare to have the opportunity to see two productions of the same Beckett play in...

‘Menopause The Musical’ at The Warner Theatre

If a musical about not being able to the pay the rent or a plant that eats people can make it big, a musical...

“Spring Awakening’ at Little Butterfly Theatre Company

It wasn’t difficult to locate Little Butterfly Theatre Company’s production of Spring Awakening. All I had to do was follow the overpowering scent of...

‘La Traviata’ at The In Series

The In Series tackles their first Verdi in their 31-year history with the classic tragedy La Traviata (The Fallen Woman).  Director Nick Olcott apparently...

Source Festival Review: ‘Countdown’

Countdown: An Interlude Albert Einstein said, “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” This statement is particularly apposite to...

Washington National Opera: American Opera Initiative: ‘An American Soldier’

Washington National Opera continues their new project the American Opera Initiative with An American Soldier, with music by Huang Ruo and libretto by David...

A Celebration for Jerry Manning Is Set for Monday, June 23rd...

A celebration of Jerry Manning's life will take place at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater on Monday, June 23 at 6:00 pm. The...

‘Made in America: Celebrating American Choral Music’ at The Kennedy Center

“Made in the USA”: for generations, assurance that the product we were about to enjoy was produced upon the great land mass containing the...

5 Top Scene Stealers of the Week-Week Ending 6/13/14

Here are our 6  (We have a tie) Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 13, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees!  A Special Scene Stealer...

Source Festival: ‘Mortality’-Six 10-Minute Plays

Last night I was back at CulturalDC’s Source Festival for Mortality, a series of six 10-minute plays inspired by the full length play, A...

Magic Time! ‘Grounded’ at The Studio Theatre

Sometimes an extraordinary piece of theater plays like a synecdoche on steroids. It serves as a small part that represents a vast whole with...

Source Festival Review: ‘A Bid to Save the World’

Summer is theater festival season in DC and first up is CulturalDC’s Source Festival, now in its seventh year. Each year the festival is built...

‘Grounded’ at The Studio Theatre

America's air war--first there was the B-17 Flying Fortress, then the B-52 Stratofortress, then the F-16 Fighting Falcon, then the Cruise Missile, then Precision...

The Playwright’s Playground: Part I: Izumi Ashizawa & The Art of...

Welcome back to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the DC theater community. Female theatre artists make...

Meet the Cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Boeing Boeing’: Part...

In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s production of Boeing Boeing, meet Sherry Berg. Joel: Tell us where...

‘Private Lives’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Noel Coward's 1930 comedy Private Lives, now playing at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, could not be more richly produced, more beautifully and expertly acted,...

‘Pure Tango II’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre

Tango is a sensual style of music that has enraptured the world for many years. This style of music was created in the working...