It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, and the troupe of amateur actors is as ready as they will ever be — which is not very. With hopes high ...

She replaces the theater's Founding Artistic Director, Lucinda Merry-Browne, who had led the theater since 2011 and retired in 2024. Compass Rose Theater has appointed Madeline Austin as its new ...

The roll call of musicals rooted in history is distinguished, to say the least: 1776; Pippin; Titanic; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; Hamilton; Come From Away; and even the current Broadway hit ...

Blake Henri as Kent and Angela Iannone as King Lear in ‘King Lear.’ Photo by Alaina Shefelton. King Lear is very much a tragedy for our times: the tale of a monarch who chooses flattery over true ...

Lolita Marie in ‘hang.’ Photo by Teresa Castracane Photography. Situated in Britain, hang by debbie tucker green, directed by Deidra LaWan Starnes, traps us within an imagined legal system (in an ...

This left something in my mouth somewhere between disappointment at a missed opportunity and a bad taste. It felt like the other Stephen Schwartz joint, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this time with ...

In Out of Character, that journey — from the trauma of school to the triumph of a Tony for his role as a Middle Eastern trumpet player in The Band’s Visit on Broadway — is enacted with Ari, now a ...

Lillian Brown in ‘The Oreo Complex.’ Photo by Aubri O’Connor. Lillian Brown, the writer, director, and sole performer of Oreo Complex, is expected to remember them. She is expected to follow them, too ...

‘Frida Libre’ show art courtesy of GALA Hispanic Theatre. Frida Libre plays through October 26, 2024 (Saturdays at 3 pm), at GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th Street NW, Washington, DC.Purchase tickets ...

The cast of ‘Tick, Tick…BOOM!’: Michael McCarthy (Jon), Elizabeth Suzanne (Susan), and Dylan Nicholson (Michael). The show follows his own life fairly closely and contains characters based on his ...

Dave Harris. Photo by Izak Rappaport courtesy of the artist. Over the past year and a half, I’ve reviewed the DC productions of Exception to the Rule and Incendiary.Although Dave Harris started as a ...

N ot everyone takes the time to look back to face the meaning of their life. And fewer still are willing to share their reckoning with a painful moment of truth from their history, one that’s set the ...