Theater Alliance is thrilled to announce its 2025/26 season, continuing to produce bold, socially conscious theater in its pop-up venue in Southwest DC. This activated temporary space has become a ...

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Ché Navïn Arrington — a Black, gay, trans artist and writer born in DC — wrote The Hardest Words to Say in 2018 when they were a freshman in college. A one-time reading in the District Fringe festival ...

Interviews and Features How to soar if one can’t fly: Kaely Michels-Gualtieri on her career switch from trapeze artist to playwright Her bold new play 'Eclipsing Stars' blends circus, Shakespeare, and ...

An absurdist one-man show, impressively performed, sharply satirizes politeness. You can learn a lot about a character by how they enter a room. In “Be Good” with Paulette, now playing at DC’s ...

Creative Cauldron announces its 2025/26 season — the first full season in its stunning new home at Broad & Washington. Featuring a dynamic mix of beloved favorites and exciting new musicals, this ...

Scene from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s student production of ‘Macbeth.’ Photo courtesy of Troy Jennings. Why go? I am no longer teaching, choosing instead to focus on my writing and editing ...

Footloose the musical … is not a very good musical. It is campy to the point of cringe. The story shifts wildly between overtly self-serious and goofy. And the book is dated to the extent that, in the ...

Reviews A fresh and energetic must-see ‘Music Man’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre Toby’s Dinner Theatre has polished up this vintage cornet and made it shine and sound sweeter than ever.

It is rare to see a production turn B+ material into an A+ show, given how difficult it is to build on a shaky foundation. But the Workhouse Arts Center and director Frank Shutts have done it with The ...

Washington National Opera's new production is a spectacle of epic proportions and even more impressive musical prowess. In a period of fervent artistic production he later dubbed his “galley years,” ...

Reviews Theater Alliance has a champion in fast-moving ‘American Fast’ drama The intersection of Ramadan and March Madness sets up explosive tension for an Egyptian-American basketball player — and ...