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Capital Fringe Preview: ‘It’s What We Do: A Play about the...

What is it like for a young Israeli soldier to have to enforce the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza? What is life like...

In the Moment Interview: Jordan Friend, Artistic Director of 4615 Theatre

A new generation of theater-makers are beginning to assert themselves in the DC area. They are the Millennial generation who have made DC their...

Review: ‘American Idiot’ at Beyond the Page Theatre Company at West...

A guitar solo sounds, the band joins in,  and the stage is set for a very talented group of performers at Beyond the Page...

Report: ‘Justice for Shylock’ at the Library of Congress

The verdict is in: Shylock--the Jewish moneylender whose trial is detailed in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice--has been exonerated. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presided...

Spine: ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid’ at The Keegan Theatre

Stepping back 45 years, America is in the midst of a social revolution, and feminist consciousness-raising sessions are underway. Radical feminists, cultural feminists, and political...

An Interview with the National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F) Director...

When the National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F) began in 1987, its first director appealed to student musicians across the country by telling them...

In the Moment: Interview with Theatrical Designer Deb Sivigny Part I

Deb Sivigny is one busy scenic and costume designer in the DC theater community. Just recently, she developed design elements for the Rorschach Theatre production...

Review: ‘d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re’ at the Flamboyán Theater

The world-premiere full-stage production of d4rkly your retrorockets fl4re, written by Steven Mark Tenney and co-directed with his sister Susan Tenney, is presented by...

Review: ‘The Little Mermaid JR’ at BRAVO Productions

Theater is a vital part of our culture. Imagination is discovered. History revealed. New ideas expressed. And the limitless lessons to be garnered from...

Celebrating the Lives of the Emanuel Nine: An Interview with the...

During a prayer service on June 17, 2015, nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, were...

Magic Time!: ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid’ at The Keegan...

On the top floor of The Keegan Theatre is a cork board labeled "What Does Feminism Mean to You?" Pushpins, pens, and slips of...

Review: ‘Broken Glass’ at Theater J

Shards of unseen, but sharply-felt shattered glass, both of a collapsing marriage and the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), are fused together in Arthur Miller’s...

Review: ‘Rent’ at the National Theatre

Okay, twenty years ago I was more concerned with raising kids than living rough on the street, but that’s what the current tour of...

Review: ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid’ at The Keegan Theatre

In 1972, there was no Roe v. Wade or Violence Against Women Act. Battered women had little legal recourse, and many found shelter—if they...

Baltimore Center Stage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah Announces Departure at End...

The Board of Directors of Baltimore Center Stage and Kwame Kwei-Armah have jointly announced that Kwei-Armah will leave his position as artistic director at...

Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at The Collaborative Theatre Company at Fells...

Delving into classic text with histrionic flair, The Collaborative Theatre Company (TCT) presents The Manhattan Project’s version of Lewis Carroll’s time-honored 1865 tale, Alice in...

Opinion: ‘Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, and the Fine Art of Dissent’

It’s a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that...

Review: ‘The Summer Club’ at Venice Island Performing Arts Center

In his banter with the audience during last night’s musical homage to Swing, Big Bands, and ‘The Rat Pack’ at Manayunk’s Venice Island Performing...

Review: The Second City’s ‘Divided We Stand’ at The Kennedy Center

They’re back! Second City--the group that made Chicago the capital of comedy and that all but invented improv--has returned to DC, where it is...

Review: ‘Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook’ at Adventure Theatre...

When I was about eight-years-old, I saw an irresistible set of Hello, Kitty pencils while shopping with my mom. She told me I couldn’t...