65 stories by "Em Skow"
A delightful mix of humor and heartwarming moments, this musical adaptatiion is a favorite for audiences of all ages. By EM SKOW
With a coin toss bringing chance into each performance, every night promises to be an entirely new adventure. By EM SKOW
You just can't stop the beat from tapping your toes and bringing a smile to your face long after the curtain falls.
A comedy at its core rooted in friendship and reaching for your dreams.
Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer showcase two powerful storytellers who have shaped the folk music songbook since the 1960s.
Tanya Saracho's play is an enjoyable shock of life that finds friction and connection in two people's different experiences of Mexican and Mexican-American cultures.
The physical theater's season opener explores the danger of leaders who raise armies in the destruction of an 'other.'
In the hidden back room of a 1960s Greenwich Village bar is the stage for a past, hidden love at the center of Midnight at The Never Get now streaming from Signature Theatre. Trevor, a color…
After receiving a foreboding prophecy of loss and destruction, the King of Arcadia is determined to outwit the gods and save his kingdom's "beat." To do so, he takes his queen, two daughters…
A reverently curated evening by the Artistic Director of Washington Performing Arts' Men and Women of the Gospel Choir, Theodore Thorpe III, I am a Man: Reclaiming Brilliance in the Midst of…
William Joad is a proud Oklahoma farmer with roots to the land as old and deep as the fields his family has tended for generations. But after decades of dedication, dust and sweat poured int…
In this small Missouri town, everyone knows everyone and everything. The church where people notice when you're not in your pew, the factory where your high school classmates put in their sh…
After a lifetime of believing he was a humble nobody, Montague "Monty" Navarro learns he is a long-lost member of the D'Ysquith family and the 9th in line for the family earldom. Determined …
Dear Jack, Dear Louise by Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Lend Me a Tenor) follows the relationship of U.S. Army Captain Jack Ludwig and act…
A cult favorite TV show created in the '80s, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3) has left your screens and found its way to the DC stage for one weekend and one weekend only. The weird (I me…
Suddenly and immovably convinced his wife has been unfaithful, a jealous king's actions result in the death of his queen and son, the abandonment of his infant daughter, and a cheery start t…
While considered one of the classics in opera's storied canon, Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini is simultaneously acknowledged to be one of the most problematic for its depictions of race…
Anyone who has been a server in a restaurant will likely sympathize with the plight of the well-intentioned and yet deterioratingly cheerful waitress, Lauren, in Intimate Dinner by Lauren Fr…
Years after Wendy's tales of lost boys, pirates, and mermaids, Michael Darling is grounded and committed to a hospital when his brother, John, finds him on the roof. In the world premiere of…
A matchmaker, dance instructor, legal counsel, and mandolin teacher (among other occupations), Dolly Gallagher Levi is a woman of countless talents and side-hustles in bustling, turn-of-the-…
Undampened by the rain outside, the DC stop on the Ben Platt's Sing to Me Instead tour brought three serious talents to the Anthem stage with thunderous applause. Passionate, creative, and d…
Though it was storming outside, the stars shone brightly inside for Strathmore's Annual Spring Gala Saturday night. Raising funds for the educational and artistic programs that impact over 3…
There are two things every teenager knows are true: you can't choose your parents and you can't choose the jerks you go to school with. Such is life for Annie Jump in small-town Strawberry, …
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 often provide neat parallels between gene…
Life is hard enough when growing up, but when you find out that you're the son of a god, the stakes get even higher. Armed with friends and a pen, Percy Jackson explores the world of newly d…
