Nostalgia is on the menu at Silver Spring Stage this holiday season with A Christmas Story. As a Cleveland, Ohio native, I can't get enough of this iconic holiday classic in which Ralphie Pa…
True confession time: Until this weekend, I had never seen a British Panto. Of course, I was familiar with the theater form. Pantos (short for pantomimes) are theatrical events that pair pop…
Based on the wildly popular memoir, a tender exploration of mortality and friendship.
Sara Bareilles' engaging and emotional score remains a source of joy, but this non-Equity tour is a pale shadow of its Broadway counterpart.
Playwright Larissa FastHorse's satire about white "wokeness" is a brilliant middle finger.
For anyone with a funny bone yearning for a few hours of frothy fun.Â
A man who imagines he's Don Quixote runs after adventure and tilts the world.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced today the postponement of all scheduled ticketed performances through August 9, 2020, due to the ongoing effects of COVID"19. The…
Playwright Patrick Flynn was on a roll before Coronavirus brought American theater to a standstill. His adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit, produced by Adventure Theatre MTC, earned him a 20…
This article originally appeared in the April issue of District Fray Magazine. It is reprinted here with permission. The paint was still drying on the set of Signature Theatre's world-pr…
He takes requests at his online concerts. If he doesn't know a song, he'll learn it. And if you want to send him a few bucks through Venmo? Well, that would be cool. Jordan Friend, the 26-ye…
Announcement of Awards: 20th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (THE WATCH AWARDS) The 2019 WATCH Award winners were announced on April 4th, 2020. The ceremony was canceled due …
Arena Stage announced on Saturday, March 28th that it will temporarily furlough the majority of its staff starting on April 13th. 88 employees will be furloughed at that time. Furloughed emp…
Welcome to the second installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up local theater artists who are finding ways …
Welcome to the first installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up local theater artists who are finding ways t…
One by one, theaters announced late last week that they would be closed for the foreseeable future in compliance with Coronavirus recommendations. It is a stunning and unprecedented time in …
There is nothing like a good old-fashioned plague to get you pondering life's big questions: the Bubonic Plague, the AIDS Crisis, COVID-19, really any epidemic will do. Of course, Jordan Har…
In a particularly poignant scene in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz's Exquisite Agony, a heart transplant recipient named Amer has an intimate conversation with Romy, the pregnan…
Football and musicals rarely overlap, but it was eight years ago this month " in the coveted slot right after the 2012 Super Bowl " that Smash, the NBC series about developing a Broadway mus…
Poor Melvin Ferd the Third just can't catch a break. The ladies shun him, the jocks harass him, and the pretty blind librarian he has a crush on? Well, she thinks he's a scrawny dweeb. But d…
Multidisciplinary artist Paige Hernandez is not a fan of boundaries. Whether performing, directing or teaching, the Baltimore native has made a career out of blending artistic forms and reac…
In his five years on DC stages, actor Justin Weaks has played an impressive array of characters written by contemporary African-American playwrights. It is a dream he feared would never beco…
Oh, that pigeon! Always causing trouble. He never wants to take a bath. He stays up past his bedtime. And now he wants to drive… a bus?! Children's author Mo Willems continues his tenure a…
When Gunderson agreed to rework 'Peter Pan' for Shakespeare Theatre Company, she had one stipulation: the sexism and racism had to go. The post Playwright Lauren Gunderson had one stipulatio…
We all want to feel loved, right? And there are times we feel forgotten. Unseen. Disposable. The classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit is a sentimental reminder that a child's love c…