Brian Feldman puts a lot of faith in his virtual audience. His production #txtshow (on the internet), which he creates and performs, is based on the texts he receives in real time from his a…
History always has lessons to teach during times of enormous tumult. How did past societies struggle through similar cataclysms and emerge with their spirits intact? Many of us are newly awa…
Marian's cheery Florida home " an over-decorated retirement nest she shares with second hubby Richard " has become a tropical haven for two adolescents in crisis. Richard's pregnant niece Ki…
Two generations before the African American space scientists immortalized in the film Hidden Figures propped up America's nascent space program, another group of pioneering female "computers…
On September 12, 2001, after a stunning halt to nearly all normal activity, life resumed for most Americans. And yet, we knew that everything had changed. Our sense of security was shattered…
The good news? The Second City's sharp-witted She The People: The Resistance Continues is back at Woolly Mammoth for another rollicking production of top-notch sketches and witty songs. The …
Like many of Charles Dickens's sprawling novels, Hard Times chronicles the lives and times of multiple characters dwelling in England's mid-19th-century industrial chaos. But unlike the e…
The economic and social plight of America's white rural working class has been the subject of recent blockbuster books from J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy to Educated, by Tara Westover. No…
The Woolly Mammoth Theater Company has rocket-launched its 40th anniversary season with a searing production of Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.…
Sensuous and just a bit sly, the smooth white pavilions of the Kennedy Center's new REACH complex wink at us amidst undulating grassy berms. One rises up from the green lawn, curling like an…
Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins still astonishes. An audacious meet-up of nine successful and would-be presidential assassins " from the narcissist John …
Back at the Fringe Festival after their successful 2018 appearance, Laugh Index Theatre's production of Hold the Tomato strikes a number of funny bones during its fast-paced series of comic …
Funny, sweet, and poignant, Colleen Hindsley's one-woman show, That's Not How It Happened, will resonate with anyone who misses their parents, has endured the torture of older siblings, or n…
Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning God of Carnage is a cautionary tale for modern times. Written in French and translated into English by Christopher Hampton, Reza's razor-sharp black comedy …
What if your favorite dramatic heroine could " just for once " alter her tragic fate? That's the question posed by playwright Jon Klein in the Washington Stage Guild's production of Resolvin…
Edmond Rostand's tale of a consummate wordsmith achieves profound new eloquence in Synetic Theater's wordless production of Cyrano de Bergerac. As they have done in so many previous producti…
Rising from its roots in the Deep South, African American music journeyed north with the Great Migration, invigorating urban culture with rhythms derived from shouts to spirituals, work song…
The Second City lights up the Kennedy Center's holiday season again this year with their new production, Love, Factually. Featuring a top-rate cast directed by Frank Caeti, The Second City d…
In the bleak Long Island backyard that serves as their coffee-klatch confessional, neighbors Lina and Jessie chat daily about the alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching emotional terrain …
It has taken more than 35 years for Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's iconic musical Little Shop of Horrors to reach the Kennedy Center. But it's been worth the wait! The Kennedy Center's Broa…
Twenty years ago, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive shocked audiences with its holistic examination of pedophilia. It takes a village to molest a child, Vogel believes, not just a perpetr…
Anne Frank's immortal words about love, fear, and hope come alive once again at Rockville Little Theatre's new production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Based on the words of World War II's mos…
Aubri O'Connor lights up the tiny stage at Caos on F, drawing us into this quirky, funny, and poignant play within a play starring her alter ego, Aubrey. During a 70-minute romp through Aubr…
When asked recently what he hoped audiences will get from watching Other Life Forms, playwright Brandon McCoy answered, "I hope they laugh, and I hope they have a really good time." Mission …
On a rainy afternoon in 1950, two middle-aged black servants slowly scrub the floor and wipe tables in an empty South African tea room. They banter about an upcoming ballroom dance competiti…