You may find yourself vibrating with joy and admiration for the protagonist Olga Ivanovna. This flamboyant production is theater at its most epic. By GREGORY FORD
The dramatic story of enslaved Africans' efforts to be freed by the courts of PG County, told in oral histories, choreography, and dazzling design. By GREGORY FORD
The playwright-director has a talent for bringing to our attention skilled storytellers we might not otherwise discover. This cast is full of them. By GREGORY FORD
Playwright Lynn Nottage shows in intimate detail what happens in a community when the jobs are gone.
Students share the exuberance of their 'musical theater boot camp' experience. By GREGORY FORD
A tribute to refugees from Central America during the 1980s and to people in the DMV who rose to address their needs.
Called a 'congregational opera' by its creators, Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the performance offers up a benediction of hope and faith.
The author and solo performer of 'Rock Paper Scissors' " a Welders production " shares the personal and artistic history of the show.
A mother's plan to bust her son out of prison plays like an explosive video game.
You shoulda been there. The newest production by IN Series was successful in so many ways. In his program notes, artistic director Tim Nelson highlights the fact that IN Series seeks to prod…
A conversation with Ryan Jamaal Swain, Justin Weaks, and Michael Kevin Darnall about a play whose title is a statistic about gay Black men and HIV.
Who will believe my verse in time to come?… The age to come would say 'This poet lies'… But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme. " Will…
The performances by Lezlie Hatcher and Patricia Williams-Dugueye evinced the tenacity and desperation of Jacob wrestling his angel.
This rarely performed work, with music by John Adams and text by June Jordan, is an experience not to be missed.
The exquisitely crafted performance, consisting of both scripted theater and unscripted communal storytelling, is clever, playful, tender, and poetic.
Tony Kushner's classic directed by János Szász is by turns disorienting, devastating, and exhilarating.
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art stages the 1738 opera by George Frideric Handel in Las Vegas " and Elvis makes an appearance.
"What I've really not seen and not experienced is African American family life when it's OK. When there's prosperity, when there's abundance." " Jeanine Tesori, composer of Blue "Thou shalt …
The production shows what is unique about Synetic Theater that makes it worth visiting again and again.
R. Nathaniel Dett's 1932 oratorio about the Israelites' liberation from the Egyptians is by turns startling, soul-stirring, and highly satisfying.
How the accomplished DC theater artist " a gay Venezuelan immigrant " shifted from scripted theater to devised, then from live performance to film.
New play with music sings of the musician who trained and mentored young artists and formed the first African American opera company in the United States.
In a performance on December 30, members of a multi-generational audience will share stories from their lives and see those stories enacted on the spot.
This show is all about the yuks. Oh, and the blood.
The Spanish-language Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini's beloved classic opera will screen for free on December 11 at Atlas and stream for free on demand.