When Bryan Mercado, then 10, was first told he had been signed up for a playwriting workshop after school with Young Playwrights' Theater (YPT), a D.C.-based arts education nonprofit and pro…
Working Theater's production of American Dreams, hosted in our area by Round House Theatre, is a zany, interactive "game show" sponsored by a fictitious arm of the American government (combi…
When Studio Theatre's acting conservatory parted ways with its' eponymous Studio Theatre more than a year ago, the split was "existential," according to conservatory Co-Director Joy Zinoman.…
Bandstand, the Tony Award-winning swing style musical is making a brief stop at The National Theatre. A story of five World War IIÂ veterans trying to rebuild their lives through music, f…
If you love groundbreaking musical theater, I suggest you navigate away from this page for just a few seconds to snap up tickets to Signature Theatre's Gun & Powder while you still can. …
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's musical Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006, was a real-life Cinderella story for its creators and young cast. Despite unconventional origins"a…
No holiday season would be complete without a viewing of Charles Dickens' 176-year-old classic, A Christmas Carol. And while my heart will forever hold true to the George C. Scott movie-vers…
In truth, I never before thought of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan as a particularly masculine, or anti-feminist, story. Most of us have warm recollections of the far-off Neverland, reached onl…
For those who were lucky enough to catch Second City's original sketch comedy She the People when it rolled through town last December, you might be wondering how the all-female cast of come…
Newsies is a frolicking, joyous musical with a healthy dose of "kid power:" the perfect recipe for families this holiday season. Based on the original Disney film and drawing from the real-l…
A Chorus Line is known as one of the most pared-down, starkly intimate "song-and-dance shows" in the Broadway canon. On a barren stage"devoid of any scenery or set but for a wall of floor to…
For those unfamiliar with the work of British playwright Caryl Churchill, Signature Theatre's production of Escaped Alone (2016) may come as a bit of a shock. Skillfully directed by well-lov…
Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has a rare sleepwalking disorder " one that almost killed him. Â As he tells it, one night"in the throes of a particularly vivid, bad-guy-chase-sequ…
In its best moments Love Sick"the opening show of Theater J's 2019-20 season in its newly renovated space"is a brilliantly woven tapestry of competing forms. The music, written by Ofra Danie…
Dear Evan Hansen is a heart-wrenching, ultimately transformative, gut-punch of a musical. Â The Kennedy Center's production, directed by Michael Greif and featuring the national touring ca…
"Oh. My. God. Oh my god, you guys!" Keegan Theatre's production of Legally Blonde is so over-the-top, fabulously fun " the perfect sweet treat on a sweltering DC summer evening. For thos…
Blame their parents. Albert and Jennifer Chen are failing at life. Sure, they both graduated top of their class from Harvard. And, yes, Jen went on to get a medical degree and PhD (both …
Playwright Nell Benjamin's (Legally Blonde) The Explorers Club lambasts the last bastion of the manly man"an 1879 London gentleman's club where explorers and scientists of great renown impar…
In case you haven't heard, the future is female"and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights"a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each presenting on…
I'm going to come right out and admit it: I'm no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC's swelte…
Love's Labor's Lost is reputed to be one of Shakespeare's toughest plays to stage (and it rarely is). The late 16th Century comedy has a simple enough plot " one guaranteed to tee up som…
Signature Theatre is known for reviving and revamping long forgotten musicals " and they don't shy away from a challenge. Grand Hotel tells the story of a handful of strangers, drawn tog…
I'm a sucker for Shakespeare. And having lived on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and enjoyed many events at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the opportunity to participate in an "imm…
We here in Washington, DC are no strangers to a "political circuses," but it was hard to know what to expect from Swedish acrobatic troupe Cirkus Cirkör, whose past performances have been d…
Sheldon Epp's Twelve Angry Men, his directorial debut at the historic Ford's Theatre, promised a present-day take on the 1954 legal drama that follows jury deliberations in the murder trial …