Thursday, September 28, 2023
From escapist eye candy to heady experimental shows, the Washington area has a playhouse for every taste.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Pearl Cleage wrote “Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard” about the first Black mayor of Atlanta after working as his press secretary decades ago.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:19AMMonday, September 11, 2023
Sammi Cannold, 29, looks at Harold Prince’s “Evita” through a feminist lens at the Shakespeare Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:37AMThursday, August 17, 2023
A Tony-winning composer looks back on his 2014 show — now onstage at Signature Theatre — and reflects on the state of modern musical theater.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:55AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Director Alex Timbers, scenic designer Derek McLane and costume designer Catherine Zuber discuss shaping the Tony-winning musical, now at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:13AMWednesday, August 2, 2023
The transfer is a crowning achievement for the arts center’s Broadway Center Stage series, which staged the musical in May.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
The Juilliard-trained violist and standup comic performs this weekend at the Comedy Loft of DC.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:19PMLauren Yee's play strains to connect its musical interludes with the weighty drama of the Cambodian genocide.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:19PMTuesday, July 11, 2023
Lili-Anne Brown directs the first professional production of the Afrobeat musical "Fela!" since its Tony-winning Broadway tour ended more than a decade ago.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AMFriday, June 30, 2023
Gisela Adisa, Liz Mikel, Kassandra Haddock and Sav Souza star in the touring production of the nontraditionally cast Broadway revival of "1776," now onstage at the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:49AMWednesday, June 28, 2023
Jason Mantzoukas and a team of comics headline the Kennedy Center show, which combines theater and improv to gleefully unpredictable results.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:07PMFriday, June 16, 2023
The New York Times crossword constructor delivers a mesmerizing mash-up of cryptology, magic and intellect.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:04AMSaturday, June 10, 2023
Ariana DeBose returns to host the writers' strike-affected Tony Awards on Sunday at the United Palace in Washington Heights.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:55AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Highlights include free Shakespeare, the Muny’s 105th season, ‘Rent in Concert’ at the Kennedy Center and 'A Sondheim Celebration” at the Hollywood Bowl.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:13AMMonday, June 5, 2023
How Sarna Lapine, the niece of Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator James Lapine, puts her unique stamp on Sondheim.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:06AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Stand-up comedian and "Chappelle's Show" co-creator Neal Brennan is bringing his latest show the Howard Theatre and Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:06AMMonday, May 22, 2023
Company’s revival of “On Your Feet!” wins ceremony-best nine prizes as D.C. theater community gathers for its first in-person awards ceremony in four years and honors GALA’s Hugo Med…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:54PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
The touring production of the retooled, Tony-nominated show comes to the National Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMThursday, May 4, 2023
Director Raymond O. Caldwell delivers a sublime revival of the 2008 rock musical in Signature's intimate Ark theater.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PMThursday, April 20, 2023
The comedian brings her show “Your Favorite Woman” to the Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:12PMMonday, April 10, 2023
The stage adaptation of "Aladdin" comes to Washington in April; live-action "The Little Mermaid" hits theaters in May.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:42AMFriday, April 7, 2023
Aya Ogawa wrote, directed and stars in the interactive play, now onstage at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, about grappling with her father's death.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
At the Shakespeare Theatre’s immersive theater experience, the actors — former refugees — and audience share the stage: a re-creation of a migrant camp
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:32PMMonday, March 6, 2023
As Synetic Theater co-founder and performer Paata Tsikurishvili recuperates from injuries sustained in a car crash, his son Vato steps to the fore.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:46AMThursday, March 2, 2023
"Pacific Overtures" book writer John Weidman, "Sweeney Todd" director Thomas Kail, "Into the Woods" star Montego Glover and others break down the musical theater icon.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Longtime collaborators, director Simon Godwin and movement director Jonathan Goddard, reunite for Shakespeare’s tragedy of power struggle and family strife.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:04AMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Nathan Alan Davis’s ‘The High Ground’ is the latest offering in Arena Stage’s Power Plays initiative.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:37PMMonday, February 20, 2023
Stars Vincent Kempski and Solomon Parker III are the right fit for director Jason Loewith’s stirring staging.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:09PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
The Silver Spring performer plays drag queen Lola in Olney Theatre’s production of the musical.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Based on the acclaimed 2012 book, Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell’s play comes to Keegan Theatre.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:30AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
10-year initiative will launch in April with “RiverRun: Arts Nature Impact,” a month of performances, installations, exhibits and other events celebrating the world’s rivers.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:00AM 
