Puppet theater has long enjoyed popularity in Washington. The region has often generated a vibrant children's theater scene offering a multiplicity of styles for a variety of audiences.Å
Chief Dan George commanded attention when he stepped onto a Washington stage in May, 1973. He did so despite plentiful distractions. Just a few hours after his DC debut, Congress lau…
Wednesday, July 25, 1962 was rather pleasant for a Washington summer's eve, with the temperature hovering around 70 (though humidity lingered near 80%). Excited theatergoers were piling …
Perhaps a bit long and convoluted " with a plot that switches back and forth between the 1930s and 1980s " Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink collected generally favorable reviews in early stagings i…
On August 31, 1949, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt made her way to the SS Stavergerfjord to see off twenty-one Howard University students and faculty leaving on a European sojourn. All …
1998 was promising to be a banner year for Joy Zinoman and her Studio Theatre. Already settled into a stunning new building which opened the previous year that shone with what Washington…
One summer evening in 1941, a young graduate student home visiting his parents from Cornell University, attended a performance at Catholic University directed by Walter Kerr. Schneider was s…
Gilbert "Gib" Hartke was the son of an interdenominational love match that transcended the social norms of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. His father, Emil, the offspring of a prominent fir…
Editor's note: The mix of cultures has always provided a rich stew for theater, showing us both the universality of human longing and the diverse ways in which it can be expressed. So, for e…
By 1970, Washington, DC had long been a major college town; home to tens of thousands of young people who were trying to define their generation in opposition to the dominant values of their…
" This season, audiences have the chance to see plays about the African-American experience, written both by a new generation of writers and distinguished playwrights from the 20th century, …
[Editor’s note] In 2018, when Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s Hamlet, set in West Africa and directed by Simon Godwin, arrived at the Kennedy Center, Paapa Essiedu played the title r…