John Wilkes Booth, the B-list actor and Confederacy fanboy who shot President Lincoln, is merely one of nine hit people featured in Sondheim’s musical Assassins. The limelight-hog would be…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:15PMPlaywright Kelsey Mesa shrewdly makes hysteria the centerpiece of her satiric dark comedy, and the show's originality and substance make it a must-see. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:30PMThe storytelling is complex and gripping — a tragedy wrapped in a fable and a memory play set in a war zone. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
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SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:54PMThe performance is stunning sonically, scenically, and choreographically — haunting in its grace, alarming in its force and power. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:50PMThe virtuoso circus acts are as breathtaking as ever, but here they remind us that trust, cooperation, and support are crucial to coexistence. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:38AMIn a rip-roaring co-production with Olney Theatre Center, James Graham's astute play is the origin story of sensationalism and sleaze as news. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:50AMThe physicality of these dancers’ freedom in the midst of myriad data offers a tech-surfeited viewer vicarious liberation. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:03AMAs a 'proof of concept' production of a solidly laugh-out-loud script, this promising comedy is very worth catching. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:09PMA gender-and-ethnicity affirmation ceremony in the form of a music-poetry-and-sketch revue with elements of a religious service. Which is a lot.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:09PMAudition anxiety and performance insecurity take centerstage as two friends seek through the art of acting a sense of worth.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:58AMThe image of a brainy don interrogating the universe to the music of the spheres was unmistakable.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:17PMThe show is so moving it suspends us in belief she is still with us.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:14PMThe comedy's sendup of celebrity culture and this post-truth world is well-timed.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:00AMMarch 12, 2020, was the day the COVID theater shutdown began, including the show I was booked to see that night: Hexagon’s 65th annual satire revue. This intrepid all-volunteer organizatio…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:44PMTwo bickering nail salon workers decide to grant a client his dying wish.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:22PMIt's one of the world’s greatest musicals and essential to see.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:42PMWomen’s exasperation with men has never been mined for the stage more hilariously and achingly.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:15AMInside the creation of the Arena Stage production, which transforms our understanding of a great work in a way that finds in it new truth.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:00AMA fabulist hodgepodge of fresh fairytales with diverse new characters, the show is a riff on one-way romances.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:17PMAt the heart of this beautiful play is a tenderly tentative connection that becomes an improbable love story.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:14PMThe socially conscious company surprises with a sweet intergenerational fairytale, 'This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:55PMWith talented playwright Doug Robinson, the company pooled their recollections of young love and collaboratively created a confetti-colored comic confection.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:30PMThe designer and the director of Prologue Theatre's resplendent production share their winning recipe for authenticity and astonishment.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:14PMJasmine Lee-Jones' provocatively titled 'seven methods of killing kylie jenner' comes to Woolly Mammoth Theatre from sold-out runs in London.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:04PMAn almost hypnotic humanizing of the melancholic and existentially bleak masterpiece.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:16PMThe Logos Theatre's spectacular family-friendly stage adaption of the fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis is now playing through March 4 at the Museum of the Bible.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:23AMNow playing: 'The Horse and His Boy,' the Logos Theatre's stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis' classic allegory, with music and life-size animal puppets.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:36AMThree women gather to seek self-loving in a tsunami of truths.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:05PMIn 'Just for Us," the comedian sends up antisemitic white supremacists. And he is so sly about it, you will double over in laughter before it hits you.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:36PMPlaying an addicted actress, she gives a performance you will be intoxicated by.
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