247 stories by "Nicole Hertvik"
The 100% student-led production brings the Percy Jackson rock musical to life with few bells and whistles but loads of enthusiasm
If it weren't ripped from the headlines, it would be hard to believe. Yet novelist Louis Bayard's debut play, Sheboygan, is indeed based on recent true events. In 2020, when writer H.G. Carr…
A hilarious, heartfelt, and heartbreaking show based on the performers' childhood relationships with their mothers.
The story of a woman who considers herself an atheist and who is courted by two men who expect her to convert to their religion.
To be totally honest, I went into The Body Show with pretty low expectations. Spoken word was fine when The Moth Radio Show played on NPR while I was running errands, but it wasn't something…
An ambitious yet raw work-in-progress from a 17-year-old playwright.
A dark drama that imagines a future when pregnancies are regulated to control overpopulation.
A fun and spooky mystery about a spoiled white gentrifier.
A thrilling mystery about cyber security, a dramatically fun and exciting ride with top-notch acting.
The playwright calls the rom-com a 'love letter' to the 'scrappy' West African film industry.
The Board of Spooky Action Theater has placed Artistic Director Richard Henrich on leave of absence, the theater announced last week. The news came ten days after DC Theater Arts published a…
Problems at the DC company are rooted in the harmful leadership practices of Artistic Director Richard Henrich and a board that fails to stop his abuses of power, say multiple artists who ha…
Gloria and Emilio Estefan aren't afraid of the word "no." They have heard the word a lot through their 44 years of marriage and professional collaborations that began with the band The Miami…
John Morogiello's new rom-com looks at the idealized hero of Jane Austin's 'Pride and Prejudice' and takes him down a comic notch.
She and three other former princesses will perform Disney hits with the National Symphony Orchestra for two days only at the Kennedy Center.
Washington Improv Theater and the owner of Source give different accounts of who understood what when.
Featuring an ensemble cast that is clearly having a good time, fun choreography, and Stephen Schwartz's iconic songs, this 'Godspell' is one fun ride.
Concerts by the locally-based American Pops Orchestra are appealing to audiences across the nation. Here's why.
The national tour now rocking the Kennedy Center feels both extremely current and deeply rooted in the 1970s musical zeitgeist.
A musical retrospective featuring performers singing the songs that made them stars " and a night to send any Broadway fan into spasms of delight.
A black comedy like nothing you have seen before.
His name is on a new theater award for high schoolers, and he'll be featured Friday on PBS.
Unexpected costs, performance cancellations, and staff shortages stress a field just beginning to operate again.
'I want to create theater for people to see themselves on stage...a world where diversity thrives.'
The show at STC inspired by the music of Britney Spears is as thought-provoking as it is toe-tapping, as clever as it is hilarious, and a bona fide success.
