Spontaneity rules the evening and the #BossBabes are in charge in Washington Improv Theater's (WIT) production of "Not a Pyramid Scheme." Now playing at Studio Theatre where WIT is celebrati…
 An earthquake can"either literally or figuratively"rock the foundations of a person's life. In this two act, "song-play," with music by John Adams and libretto by June Jordan, it's 1994…
"Les Mis" is back! A spectacular production of the Tony-Award winning musical is currently playing in the Kennedy Center Opera House, featuring some of musical theatre's finest actors, singe…
Washington's theatre community gathered at the elegant Perry Belmont House on Tuesday evening to celebrate this year's Helen Hayes Award nominees and raise a toast to yet another bountiful y…
'"Gloria: A Life" at Theater J takes the audience on a journey through second-wave feminism with feminist icon Gloria Steinem (Susan Lynskey) as guide while she reflects on her youth and ear…
"Blue," in its D.C. premiere by The Washington National Opera, elegantly makes use of a centuries' old art form to tell a 21st century story. It is one with national repercussions, but that …
In Sylvia Khoury's "Selling Kabul," lives swiftly unravel as the Taliban closes in on Afghan interpreter, Taroon (Mazin Akar) in retaliation for his collaboration with American military forc…
The Royal Court Theatre Production presented in association with The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival Set both in real life and the virtual world of social media, the provocatively …
More than a century after its premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy, Verdi's "Falstaff" continues to charm audiences with its humor, lovable characters, and magnificent score. The Maryland Ly…
Any musical theatre enthusiast alive in the 1980s (or maybe just anyone alive) will remember the immense popularity of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "CATS," winner of seven Tony Awards® including…
 Howard University's Cramton Auditorium was awash in color, rhythm, and light during the Dance Institute of Washington's annual concert dedicated to the observance of Kwanzaa. This is a …
Witches and wizards have taken up temporary residence in the Kennedy Center Opera House in a spectacular production of "Wicked," almost 20 years after the beloved musical made its Broadway d…
"Just For Us" is an award-winning, one-man show starring the incomparable Alex Edelman at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. He keeps the audience laughing from the moment he appears onstag…
 Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball") is the Maryland Lyric Opera's second production in an all-Verdi season featuring some of the composer's best-loved works. In true Verdi …
 Some of the opera world's most glorious voices are currently filling the Kennedy Center Opera House in the Washington National Opera's dazzling production of Verdi's "Il trovatore" …
Rorschach's "Dracula" delivers the feminist revenge fantasy it promises with a witty, relentless, and bloody satisfying attack on the patriarchy. Loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula, play…
There's only one Tina Turner in this world, but you'd be forgiven for doubting that reality after seeing "TINA " The Tina Turner Musical' now playing at the National Theatre. The actor who p…
Set in the 1950s, American playwright Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" is a meditation on memory, the search for meaning, and the need to belong. Seen through a 21st century lens, it i…
 Set in 11th-century Scotland, "Macbeth" is a play in five acts that examines blind ambition, its effects on those who embrace it, and the consequences for anyone standing in its path. A…
 The winner of six Tony awards including Best Musical, 'Dear Evan Hansen' has returned to the Kennedy Center this month, with a dazzling set and gifted cast. Written by Steven Levens…
'Firebringer: A New Stone-Age Musical' is a laugh-out-loud reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Directed by Michael Page with musical direction by Chad Rabago, …
 Coil Project's world premiere of "Forgotten Monsters of Filmland" picks up the stories of classic literary characters whose lives, as reimagined in this production, continued on even af…
 The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) opened the evening with Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's "Vitava" ("The Moldau") from Ma Vlast (My Country). The piece, which celebrates one of Boh…
Frederick Douglass' spirit is once again gracing the nation's capital in a world premiere of "American Prophet." The musical, based on his writings and speeches, resoundingly demands racial …
The timeless beauty of Verdi's "La Traviata" lives on. Recently it echoed through the woods of beautiful Wolf Trap"an ocean and more than a century away from where it originated"with a trium…