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 ...

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 ...

In keeping with its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to life for a present-day audience, Red Bull Theater’s current Off-Broadway offering at New World Stages is a limited engagement of ...

Mosaic Theater Company’s production of Andy Warhol in Iran is a masterful, creative blend of humor and reflection. Brent Askari’s play imagines a possible event during the pop artist’s 1976 visit to ...

Despite the musical's dated book, this is a high-energy production set to a nostalgia-tinged soundtrack. Footloose the musical … is not a very good musical. It is campy to the point of cringe. The ...

Gilbert and Sullivan’s swashbuckling two-act comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, which premiered at NYC’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1879, is the subject of a new adaptation, Pirates!The Penzance ...

WorldPride 2025 is coming to Washington, DC and Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will be the anchor of the arts and culture calendar. In celebration of WorldPride 2025, GMCW will present a two-week ...

Has anyone not seen The Music Man?. Ever since its 1957 Broadway debut ran for 1,375 performances, followed by major revivals in 1965, 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2022, two movie versions, and countless ...

It is astonishing to think that Jonathan Larson, the visionary composer, the voice of a new generation, the tunesmith who brought rock to musical theater in his iconic show RENT, would be 65 this year ...

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 ...

Avant Bard Theatre presents a truncated and transformed adaptation of a collection of Shakespeare’s histories titled The Margriad, or the Tragedy of Queen Margaret, playing through March 29 at the ...

American audiences simply can’t get enough of Edith Wharton’s 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence.Since 1924, this evergreen tale of forbidden love against the backdrop of stifling ...