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Hamilton tickets at the Hippodrome. How to beat the bots
When tickets go on sale May 9 for Hamilton at the Hippodrome ( June 25 – July 21) expect the usual crush for tickets. (Remember how Hamilton‘s first visit to our area crashed the box office system at...
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Review: The Dupont Under(world). The passages between life and death await you.
Tradition Be Damned (TBD) Immersive, DC’s first large-scale immersive theater company, isn’t interested in designing shows for audiences to watch. They want to create worlds for participants to...
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Review of Oslo. Round House Theatre’s cast brings heat to Nordic high-stakes...
If someone told you to run down to the Lansburgh Theater to see a three-hour play about back-channel diplomatic negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO), you’d probably think...
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Review: 14 from Theatre Prometheus
In 2001, a group of Mexican migrants were left stranded in the blistering desert heat east of Yuma, Arizona. Smugglers, whom they had paid for safe transport to the border, promised them that the...
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In Series announces its innovative 2019-2020 season in which subscribers...
The In Series, a Washington pocket opera company known for its innovative approach to the classics, will totally rework some of our best-known stories in 2019-2020, deconstructing, decontextualizing,...
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Ally Theatre Company announces the three plays in its third season
On the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington’s outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced a three-play...
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Signature Theatre turns 30, a Frank Wildhorn musical debuts, new plays launch...
Some familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature’s 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen Sondheim-John...
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theatreWashington reveals two Helen Hayes Award honorees for 2019
We don’t know which of this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the John Aniello...
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Review: The 39 Steps, a joy-buzzery production of the noir comedy from Rep Stage
If there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it’s now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage’s joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsch with an...
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The John F. Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 Season for Young Audiences
The Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant & Piggie) Mo...
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Review: A furiously funny Love’s Labor’s Lost at Folger Theatre
Love’s Labor’s Lost is reputed to be one of Shakespeare’s toughest plays to stage (and it rarely is). The late 16th Century comedy has a simple enough plot – one guaranteed to tee up some adventures...
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NextStop Theatre’s 2019-2020 season, musicals bookend their 6 show lineup
Next season at NextStop Theatre Company will feature a whole lotta musicals, as well as some farce, an adaptation of a literary classic, and Katori Hall’s celebrated fiction about Martin Luther King,...
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1st Stage’s 2019-2020 season includes co-productions with Keegan and Olney
In their next season, 1st Stage’s eclectic, collaborative twelfth season will take on air guitar wizards, race in the squared circle, aging in (a bad) place, brain surgery and the Attorney General —...
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“An act of rebellion and love.” Luis Salgado on directing GALA’s bilingual...
Fame the Musical is “an act of rebellion and an act of love.” This is how director Luis Salgado describes his latest bilingual (Spanish and English) musical, opening tonight at GALA Hispanic Theatre....
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Review: God of Carnage at Keegan Theatre
“In the end, we’re all just taller children,” croons Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman on her band, Elizabeth & The Catapult’s, aptly title 2009 song, “Taller Children.” This is the...
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Review: The Children at Studio Theatre
Admittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn’t tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British playwright Lucy...
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Review: The Oresteia, a stunning production marks Michael Kahn’s final show...
It seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director at the...
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Keegan Theatre announces its 2019-2020 season. Four of the seven shows are...
A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre’s 2019-2020 season. Jeremy...
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Review: Faction of Fools’ whodunnit, The Great Commedia Hotel Murder Mystery
The Faction of Fools are at it again. After a decade adapting titles that one wouldn’t typically expect of a Commedia troupe (Henry V, Our Town and The Cherry Orchard to name a few), Producing Artistic...
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Review: The Tarot Reading V, an easy prediction
It’s rare that, after finishing a review, I’m ready to see the show again. But then, The Tarot Reading changes with every performance, so it will never be the same. Two years ago, my first introduction...
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