Theater Alliance is thrilled to announce its 2025/26 season, continuing to produce bold, socially conscious theater in its pop-up venue in Southwest DC. This activated temporary space has become a ...

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Ché Navïn Arrington — a Black, gay, trans artist and writer born in DC — wrote The Hardest Words to Say in 2018 when they were a freshman in college. A one-time reading in the District Fringe festival ...

Interviews and Features How to soar if one can’t fly: Kaely Michels-Gualtieri on her career switch from trapeze artist to playwright Her bold new play 'Eclipsing Stars' blends circus, Shakespeare, and ...

An absurdist one-man show, impressively performed, sharply satirizes politeness. You can learn a lot about a character by how they enter a room. In “Be Good” with Paulette, now playing at DC’s ...

Creative Cauldron announces its 2025/26 season — the first full season in its stunning new home at Broad & Washington. Featuring a dynamic mix of beloved favorites and exciting new musicals, this ...

Scene from Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s student production of ‘Macbeth.’ Photo courtesy of Troy Jennings. Why go? I am no longer teaching, choosing instead to focus on my writing and editing ...

Footloose the musical … is not a very good musical. It is campy to the point of cringe. The story shifts wildly between overtly self-serious and goofy. And the book is dated to the extent that, in the ...

Reviews A fresh and energetic must-see ‘Music Man’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre Toby’s Dinner Theatre has polished up this vintage cornet and made it shine and sound sweeter than ever.

Washington National Opera's new production is a spectacle of epic proportions and even more impressive musical prowess. In a period of fervent artistic production he later dubbed his “galley years,” ...

Reviews Theater Alliance has a champion in fast-moving ‘American Fast’ drama The intersection of Ramadan and March Madness sets up explosive tension for an Egyptian-American basketball player — and ...

2025 DISTRICT FRINGE FESTIVAL Reviews 2025 District Fringe Review: ‘Are You Out of Your Mind?’ by Oren Levine and Barbara Papendorp (4 stars) This delightful, upbeat cabaret-style revue is an ...