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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is proud to present the American premiere of Dead Inside, a hilarious and deeply personal new musical written and performed by actress, comedian, and songwriter Riki ...

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 ...

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater revealed the highly-anticipated title, partial cast, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity attached to Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney’s new play We ...

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 ...