The first thing audiences will see, when they enter the four-sided Fichandler theater at Arena Stage, is a giant chandelier in the form of a plexiglass White House, looming over the darkened…
The wickedly funny playwright talks about assimilation and Jewish identity. Interview by RAVELLE BRICKMAN
The Taffety Punk production portrays women, diagnosed as 'hysterics,' who were confined to a prison-like hospital in Paris in the 19th century. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN
The Expats Theatre founder tells why she is directing a play about the weaponization of rape in war.
How the playwright and director came up with 'Jennifer Who Is Leaving.'
The award-winning playwright talks about her sharp-edged thriller set in the fragile world of today's Middle East.
'The personal is the political' in this closeup on Gloria Steinem, who championed the cause of women's rights at a time when most people thought they had none. Â Â
From Hollywood to the halls of local high schools, playwrights talk about the joy of trying out new work for audiences eager to see live theater.Â
Mona Golabek delivers a tour de force performance in the musical memoir 'The Pianist of Willesden Lane.'
A conversation with playwright Ari Roth and dramaturg Debbie Minter Jackson previews 'My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship.'
The coauthor and director of 'Old Stock'"coming to Theater J"talks about how the acclaimed klezmer musical merges comedy and sex with the sorrow of loss.
The Broadway actor and singer"known for her roles as Ma Rainey and Ella Fitzgerald"on the most sophisticated play she's ever been in.
The world premiere comedy about small town life in the South came and went in a flash, leaving laughter, applause, and hopes for a revival in its wake.
Terrance McNally's 1960s-style musical comedy is now in its final week. Two powerful dramas are coming next"'Drumfolk' and 'American Prophet.'
The story behind a witty rewrite of an 18th-century classic by Adapter Michael Bloom, with Director Adam Immerwahr
Washington Stage Guild draws out the humor and the horror in George Bernard Shaw's classic take on hypocrisy and deceit.
The director points to the role of antisemitism in the whitewashing of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
Shaped by memory and imagination, the autobiographical play by the award-winning writer and performer premieres next week at Mosaic
'Oy Vey in a Manger,' their adults-only holiday special, is not for the pious or prudish"let alone right-wing fanatics"but it's hilarious for everyone else.
Regina Aquino, David Bryan Jackson, and Serge Seiden talk about time and its loss and life's precious moments.
The deliciously comic young actress, who aspires to be Castro's comrade (and stand-in for his late mistress), talks about her role in her cousin's play.
The incisive and inspiring play filmed at Ford's Theatre is now streaming through November 4. Â
A landmark acting school settles into a former church"home of the long-lost Black Last Supper"and welcomes the return of in-person classes.
Theater grande dame Jane Squier Bruns, starring in 'The Day Emily Married,' talks about the challenge of playing 'the mother from hell.'
When I interviewed Ken Ludwig about his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which opened at Arena Stage more than a year ago, I was curious about his parents"the Jack and Louise of the titl…