Reviews A hip ‘King John’ power play with lip-synched pop tunes from STC Academy Director Aaron Posner's lighthearted Prologue sets the tone of the production — a mixture of contemporary and timeless.

The inclusion of Igor Stravinsky’s artfully realized opera in this 50th Anniversary Season shows Glimmerglass Festival at its best.

Interviews and Features The real-life duo in ‘Duel Reality’ at STC get personal about trust Gerardo Gutiérrez and Michelle Hernandez, whose dramatic acrobatics portray Romeo and Juliet, share the ...

Now to Ashes, which played at the 2025 District Fringe Festival, is tour-de-force theater-making that breathes life into pivotal white and Black figures at the vanguard and intersection of ...

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 ...

2025 DISTRICT FRINGE FESTIVAL Reviews 2025 District Fringe Review: ‘Hey Pamela? Yes Pamela?’ by Pamela H. Leahigh (2 ½ stars) A two-person show stages one woman’s conflicted inner dialogue.

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 ...

Sun Mee Chomet, actor and playwright, longs to see her birth mother’s face “to see someone who looks like me.” As a transracial adoptee from Korea, she has carried this ache to connect with her birth ...

Peter Marks is gone. Now what? The veteran theater critic leaves the Post as a new generation takes DC theater journalism in new directions. Readers must adjust their habits to find them.

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 ...

It is rare to see a production turn B+ material into an A+ show, given how difficult it is to build on a shaky foundation. But the Workhouse Arts Center and director Frank Shutts have done it with The ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the cast of Uncle Vanya, directed by STC Artistic Director Simon Godwin. The production, hailed the “show of the year” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “pure ...