Review: ‘Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son’...
In Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son, Playwright Psalmayene 24, Director Raymond O. Caldwell, and Founding Artistic Director Ari Roth...
Review: ‘Beckett Trio, Part 2’ by Scena Theatre
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature?...
Interview: JaBen Early in Arena Stage’s ‘Junk’
JaBen Early is a Washingtonian through and through. His father worked at the Smithsonian, and his mother was a teacher in DC. He went...
‘Two Wings’ Celebrates the Music of Black America in Migration
“Pick a chord and I’ll be there,” Alicia Hall Moran told husband Jason Moran from the stage of a packed performance hall at Georgetown...
Amanda Gookin’s Forward Music Project at Kennedy Center’s Direct Current Festival
Amanda Gookin is a cellist, a founding member of the acclaimed music group PUBLIQuartet, and, since 2015, the founder of the Forward Music Project,...
Folger Shakespeare Library Celebrates Shakespeare’s Birthday with Annual Open House Celebration
The Folger Shakespeare Library will host its annual open house and Shakespeare birthday celebration on Sunday, April 14 beginning at 12 pm. This free,...
Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata Series: A DC Tradition in the...
For thirty years, the Washington Bach Consort has offered its Noontime Cantata Series to Washingtonians seeking a free musical escape in the middle of...
Playwright Michael Hollinger to Visit Quotidian Theatre for ‘Ghost-Writer’ Talkback
Quotidian Theatre Company will have VIP guests, "Ghost-Writer" playwright Michael Hollinger and his wife, Megan Bellwoar (who originated the role of Myra), in house...
Director and Playwright Psalmayene 24 Discusses ‘Native Son’ and ‘Les Deux...
DC Theater Arts caught up with Director and Playwright Psalmayene 24 to discuss Native Son and Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a...
The Kennedy Center Announces Its 2019-2020 Theater Season
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced its 2019–2020 theater season, with more than 15 productions from New York, London,...
Review: ‘Into the Woods’ at Ford’s Theatre
I have loved Sondheim’s Into the Woods since seeing its original Broadway production. Three decades on, Ford’s Theatre’s current version carries the tradition forward...
Review: ‘The Seagull’ at The Wheel Theatre Company
An aspiring playwright and son loves an aspiring actress and ingenue. A famous actress and mother loves a famous writer and inconstant. Life doesn’t...
Review: ‘Eugene Onegin’ at Washington National Opera
Of all the grand tear-jerkers, those epic romances that make you want to tear your heart out and roast it on the barbecue, Tchaikovsky’s...
Ford’s Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Season
Ford’s Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault today announced the upcoming 2019-2020 theatrical season will include the following:
August Wilson’s Fences
Featuring Craig Wallace and Erika Rose
A...
Review: ‘Among the Dead’ at Spooky Action Theatre
Hansol Jung is an imaginative young playwright whose work focuses on feeling perpetually uprooted. Born in Jeonju, South Korea, she moved with her family...
Review: ‘The Music Man’ at the Kennedy Center
We’ve got trouble, right here in the Capital City.
That might be true - mind-numbingly true - but it’s not at the Kennedy Center...
Review: ‘The Baltimore Waltz’ at the Keegan Theatre
Anna always wanted to go to Europe. See the City of Lights. Drink a pint of authentic German beer. Have a rendezvous (or two,...
Review: ‘Admissions’ at Studio Theatre
It’s an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to...
Theater J Names Jojo Ruf New Managing Director
Theater J, the nation’s pre-eminent professional Jewish theater, announced yesterday that Jojo Ruf will become its new Managing Director on January 28, 2019. Ruf...
American Opera Is Becoming Its Own Genre and It’s Happening Here...
Opera in America has had the stink of death upon it for some time now. Lavish productions of period piece love stories and power...