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Rainbow Theatre Project presents Stonewall: 50 – new plays commemorating 50...
Rainbow Theatre Project presents Stonewall: 50, a staged reading of new short plays that celebrates the legacy and worldwide changes that started from the Stonewall riots in June 1969. The protests...
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Spoleto Festival 2019: Inspiring opening ceremony followed by a shocking Salomé
A sun-drenched morning greeted townsfolk and cultural tourists alike for the 43rd no-weather-spoiler day at this year’s Spoleto Festival Opening. People gathered in the street outside City Hall. Many...
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Spoleto Festival 2019: Chamber Music and Compagnie Hervé Koubi, dance
How often we, in our silos, get stuck in our own work and schedules. Even more, artists miss opportunities to be fed and inspired by the interplay of other arts forms. If released, dancers see dance,...
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Spoleto Festival 2019: Globe Theatre’s Comedy of Errors and Pericles
While Spoleto Festival is perhaps best known for its cutting-edge premieres of opera, dance, and theater, it grants special dispensation periodically to productions by English language’s favorite bard,...
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Spoleto Festival USA 2019: Path of Miracles by The Westminster Choir
There are rare but important artistic experiences that serve as spiritual pilgrimages. This year, in a kind of riches of Grace, we have shared in two at Spoleto Festival. Compagnie Hervé Koubi crafted...
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With Gwen and Ida, David S. Kessler connects a Hollywood star with an obscure...
David S. Kessler When we first met, David S. Kessler was a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo by day, avid theatre goer by night. He retired, but Kessler isn’t the type to rest for long. He...
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Quotidian Theatre announces the 3 plays for season 2019-2020
Bethesda-based Quotidian Theatre will be producing plays from two writers familiar to its audiences — Horton Foote and Connor McPherson — and one from Henrik Ibsen which shocked audiences when it was...
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Avant Bard director Megan Behm: A Misanthrope is a millennial’s Molière
The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière, and first performed in 1666. More than 350 years later, this literary classic has been reimagined by Manhattan-based...
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Infinity’s new season will feature a hi-tech Fantasticks
New York-based Infinity Theatre Company will offer a two-show season this summer in Annapolis. The season will feature Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing in collaboration with Live...
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Review: The Tale of Serse. Handel’s rarely seen opera gets a stunning...
Timothy Nelson has ended his first season as Artistic Director of In Series with a stunning and musically gorgeous production of The Tale of Serse. Like George Frideric Handel, the composer of the...
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Review: Richard III, a dystopian cyberpunk vision from Synetic Theater
Shakespeare’s most iconic schemer is the centerpiece of Synetic’s fourteenth (mostly) wordless re-interpretation of the Bard’s works. The world of 15th century England is updated to a dystopian...
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Review: Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
“Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true,” wrote British novelist William Makepeace Thackery, author of Vanity Fair. This simple sentence...
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Review: A New Brain from Iron Crow Theatre
A medical emergency. If that’s not song and dance material, I don’t know what is. But under composer William Finn’s tunefully neurotic steerage, serious brain trauma becomes a bright, fresh and...
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Dane Figueroa Edidi talks about Klytmnestra and working as a Black, Trans...
Dane Figueroa Edidi: “To be Black, and a woman and trans means each time someone experiences you or your work there is a shift that has to happen in others for them to even begin to lean in.” Dane...
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Who SHOULD win the 2019 Tony Awards Sunday night and why
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. The 2019 Tony Awards will be aired Sunday, June 9...
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“Theater Alliance is on the precipice of something big.” Jennifer Clements,...
Theater Alliance has appointed Jennifer Clements as the company’s Managing Director. She joins Raymond O. Caldwell, who became the company’s Producing Artistic Director in January, 2019. Jennifer...
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Review: Grease at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
Grease is still “the” word, judging from the packed house and enthusiastic response to the 50’s-style Broadway score most people can easily sing along with. The stage show has been a popular favorite...
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Review: Hello, Dolly! starring Betty Buckley, a Golden Age musical high
I expect that, if you’ve found your way to this review, you will love the national tour of the recent Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, newly ensconced at Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Look at the old...
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The 2019 Tony Awards: The Winners and most memorable speeches not shown on...
While viewers in past years might have retired early from the 3 hour Tony Awards show, 2019’s host James Corden gave them plenty of reasons to stay tuned through to the final awards in tonight’s 73rd...
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Review: Forest Treás. Pointless replaces puppets with cameras to tell the...
Forest Treás is a fictionalized cozy Mayberry-type Maryland town described by its residents as the “safest place” to live. This original story loosely inspired by conditions surrounding the 2002...
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