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Written and directed by Brian Schwartz and Karen Snyder, Interconnected tells the twisted and complex story of three intertwined families. It is ripe with dramatic...

You never expect to sympathize with the murderer and rapist. You expect to be repulsed and disgusted by them. That, however, would do a...

The Music Man is Charm City Players’ summer production that is sure to dazzle and delight all ages. With Book, music, and lyrics by Meredith...

The Source Festival is a showcase of new works; not world premieres but workshops of 3 full-length works in progress (the 12 ten-minute plays...

The full moon is rising, the ancestors are emerging from their slumbers, and Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre is offering up a creepily fun and...

The touching and humorous production of Driving Miss Daisy, currently running at Other Voices Theatre, is well-worth the drive to the theater. A beautiful...

After the rain comes the rainbow—tonight the rainbow was Lindsey Stirling’s sublime performance at Wolf Trap following this afternoon’s thunder and hailstorms. With her own...

Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre is presenting one of American Theater’s timeless classics: West Side Story. With book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard...

Sponsored by CulturalDC, the Source Festival presents 24 new plays over the course of three weeks that showcase the talents of a variety of...

Mallery Avidon's Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, now playing at Studio's Milton Theatre, is many things. It is a poetically funny exposé on 21st century...

The author of the infamous Ubu Roi, the play which proudly proclaims high culture as but "pshit" sculpted into attractive façades, Alfred Jarry is...

If there were a Richter Scale for risk-taking in theater, Forum Theatre’s  production ofThe Shipment would register right up at the top. In brazenly...

Starving artists, jealous relationships, chronic illnesses..... as brilliantly used in their marketing campaign, “the struggle is real” for the characters in Puccini's La Boheme,...

I first read Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead back in 1974. It was but one of many plays I devoured as part...

Silhouette Stage's Godspell, directed by Stephen M. Deininger, opened last night at Slayton House in Columbia. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book...

“The best laid plans of mice and men, often go awry.” In this case, to the great enjoyment of all in the Washington National...

America used to be defined by its communities. Communities of ethnic and national identity, of urban migration, of rural affiliation, of blood and toil. Today,...

Lovers of 20th century literature know Kafka and his darkly dangerous worlds of angst and hopelessness. And they know Metamorphosis, it's tale of the demise...

Port City Playhouse is a scrappy little theater company brave enough to tackle important plays. Their literature states that they specialize in top-quality, thought-provoking...

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. And, for the month of May, he's alive and well at the Audrey Herman...