2021

‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ at Theater J touches us with joy and sadness

Based on the wildly popular memoir, a tender exploration of mortality and friendship.

‘The Great Leap’ scores a solid win at Round House Theatre

Regional premiere of Lauren Yee’s play gives AAPI artists a shot.

Off-Broadway’s ‘Blue Man Group’ celebrates its 30th anniversary at Astor Place Theatre

There’s good reason why the iconic award-winning Blue Man Group is celebrating the major milestone of its 30th anniversary this month at the intimate downtown space of Off-Broadway’s Astor Place...

The 25th anniversary celebration of ‘Chicago’ on Broadway

On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Chicago, as it nears its 10,000th performance on Broadway, celebrated 25 years of “Razzle Dazzle” with a special anniversary celebration. Produced by Barry and Fran...

Susan Derry’s new holiday album inspired by Creative Cauldron cabaret

Atypical tunes with lyrics to bring comfort, light, and hope at a dark time.

Enjoying supernatural thrills with Baltimore Concert Opera’s ‘The Medium’

This local gem of an opera company continues to attract top-tier talent.

A star-studded cast delivers an amusing slice of Americana in the Off-Broadway revival of ‘Morning’s at Seven’ at St. Clement’s

It’s a regular day in the autumn of 1922, and the four aging Gibbs sisters – Cora, Ida, Arry, and Esther, now in their sixties and seventies – are living ordinary lives very near to each other in a...

Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at WSG still speaks urgently

Washington Stage Guild revives the extraordinary play written just before the end of apartheid in South Africa.

It’s payback politics and high finance per usual in Off-Broadway’s ‘A Turtle on a Fence Post’ at Theater 555

In the new musical comedy/vanity project A Turtle on a Fence Post by Prisoner #11RO731 (aka political consultant and broker Hank Morris), the writer continues his public feud with New York’s embattled...

Sterling Playmakers gets away with an entertaining ‘Catch Me If You Can’

Buckle up for a musical about one of the greatest con men of all time.

Without reservation, ‘Fully Committed’ at NextStop is a delight

The script gives an actor the opportunity for a sparkling display of comic virtuosity, and Jaclyn Young takes full advantage.

Welcome to the sound and sheer energy of ‘Rent’ at Signature Theatre

In these still difficult times, ‘Rent’ is a much-needed tonic for the soul.

GALA’s flamenco festival wraps with cathartic ‘De paso’

Sara Pérez and company stripped GALA’s theater back to bare walls and floor, to give us the authentic experience of pure flamenco.

An enjoyable ‘Enchanting Elgar’ by the National Chamber Ensemble

This beloved string ensemble returns to the stage (and screen) with ‘pomp and circumstance.’

Inside ‘Birds of North America’ at Mosaic with its cast and director

Regina Aquino, David Bryan Jackson, and Serge Seiden talk about time and its loss and life’s precious moments.

‘White Christmas’ at Toby’s is a flurry of seasonal magic

A Maryland institution brings a little bit of spice to a beloved Irving Berlin musical, creating a perfect holiday evening out with friends and family.

A captivating, explosive ‘Disgraced’ from Peace Mountain Theatre

The play’s challenging realities come front and center into our hearts and minds.

Olney elevates ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to new and exciting heights

A diverse, unique, and thoughtful recreation of ‘a tale as old as time.’

‘Gotta take the risks’: A Q&A with Wanda Whiteside of Live Garra Theatre

In ‘Dry Bones’ the company tells stories of citizens returning from incarceration.

The Anthropologists skewer sexist state laws in ‘No Pants in Tucson’ at A.R.T./New York

In a series of historically based vignettes, The Anthropologists – creating original ensemble-devised investigative theater centered on women’s experiences and marginalized voices – take a sardonic...

Two women dress down ‘Five Women Wearing the Same Dress’

The comedy now running at Dominion Stage gets a critical look by its director and a cast member.

ZviDance premieres ‘The Art of Fugue’ this weekend at New York Live Arts

Founded by Israeli-born New York-based Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner in 1989, ZviDance – a collaborative alliance among artists dedicated to creating a vision of community through its...

An uplifting lifesaving musical adaptation of ‘Trevor’ at Off-Broadway’s Stage 42

Getting through adolescence can be a challenge, especially when your classmates and teachers think you’re “weird” and your parents and priest don’t really understand you. For Trevor Nelson – a...

Marking the 30th anniversary and 16,000th show of ‘Blue Man Group’ at Off-Broadway’s Astor Place Theatre

This month marks two major milestones in one of Off-Broadway’s longest running and most successful productions since its debut at Astor Place Theatre in 1991. On Sunday, November 7, at 2 pm. the...

Latest COVID-19 protocol and attendance updates from The Broadway League

It was announced by the The Broadway League – the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930, and presently with more than 700 members, including theater owners and...

Plenty of laughs in pinkalicious ‘Five Women Wearing the Same Dress’

From Dominion Stage, a splendid peek into interior lives.

Enjoyable ‘Aesop’s Fables’ from Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater

With the support of a couple of professional actors, the cast treats the audience to an evening of great family entertainment.

A fanciful and delightful ‘Cymbeline’ from Rude Mechanicals

Emphasizing the play’s fairy tale elements, Director Erin Nealer steered actors toward a wry, broadly comic style that regularly drew well-earned laughs.

At Kennedy Center, the WNO has fun being back home

In a concert called ‘Come Home: A Celebration of Return,’ the variety of styles and greatest hits was almost too much for the ear and heart to bear.

Reginald L. Douglas named Mosaic Theater artistic director

Mosaic’s mission to produce transformational art that reflects DC’s diverse voices aligns with Douglas’s vision and hope for theater.

New online Hirschfeld exhibit for the ‘New Season’ of theater

The latest digital exhibition from The Al Hirschfeld Foundation, curated by Creative Director David Leopold to coincide with the reopening of live theater, is Al Hirschfeld’s New Season. It presents a...

4615 Theatre returns to stage with ‘Housewarming Theatre Festival’

Featuring six short plays, a new interactive piece, musical performances, and more, the site-specific event will run four days in December.

Opening night at GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Fuego Flamenco Festival

GALA Hispanic Theatre’s groundbreaking new season was topped off November 5, 2021, by a full-house opening of Salvador performed by Flamenco Aparicio Dance Company as part one of the two-weekend Fuego...

GMCW’s ‘Holiday Show’ to ring in a season celebrating LGBTQ+ grit

Now in its 41st year, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington returns to live performance to sing of the community’s perseverence.

Arena’s ‘Celia and Fidel’ could not be more timely: Heather Velazquez

The deliciously comic young actress, who aspires to be Castro’s comrade (and stand-in for his late mistress), talks about her role in her cousin’s play.

Alliance for New Music-Theatre to preview ‘Black Georgetown Cemeteries Project’

Event November 10 to feature music composed by 19-year-old Duke Ellington grad Ronald Walton.

A meditative mix of object theater, cinema, and music in ‘SHEEP #1’ at NYC’s Japan Society

Without speaking a word, Japanese-born NYC-based creator and performer Sachiyo Takahashi – a three-time grant recipient from The Jim Henson Foundation in 2017, 2018, and 2021, for her innovative work...

Landless Theatre Company’s ‘Doyle and Debbie Show’ returns

This “toe-tapping, hysterical parody” of yesteryear’s country western stars plays one weekend only, November 12 to 14.

Solas Nua to present U.S. premieres of digital theater from Belfast

Streaming November 18–21: four new works from Prime Cut Productions, one of Ireland’s leading theater companies.

The new musical adventure of ‘Winnie the Pooh’ at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row is sweeter than honey

Much to the delight of young (and young-at-heart) audiences, Stage 3 at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row has been transformed into the Hundred Acre Wood and that lovable bear Winnie the Pooh has arrived...

The Broadway debut of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ‘Lackawanna Blues’ offers a heartfelt tribute in a tour-de-force performance

Now in its Broadway debut with MTC at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Lackawanna Blues, masterfully written, performed, and directed by Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, offers a supremely...

A lot of talk and little action in ‘Morning Sun’ at Off-Broadway’s MTC

Commissioned by MTC as part of the Bank of America New Play Program, the world premiere of Morning Sun by Tony Award-winning English playwright Simon Stephens (Sea Wall; Heisenberg; The Curious...

Megan Hilty sparkles in the ‘Diamond Series’ at NYC’s Feinstein’s/54 Below

Feinstein’s/54 Below continues its premiere selection of cabaret concerts in the elite Diamond Series this week with Tony-nominated stage and screen star Megan Hilty, making her debut at the popular...

Joseph Ritsch to perform as his drag persona, Sunrize

For three nights only, a loving satire of contemporary musical theater divas created by the Rep Stage producing artistic director.

Relive a critical time in NYC history with ‘Tammany Hall’ at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse

A combative NYC mayoral election in 1929, with allegations of voter fraud, money laundering, and pay-offs, scandalous affairs and mob connections, provides the inspiration for the all-new fully...

Imagination Stage’s ’10 Seconds’ to debut at MLK Library

Imagination Stage in Bethesda debuts its stage play, 10 Seconds, at a premiere event on November 18 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC. Honorary Chairs for the...

A charming story underbaked in ‘Waitress’ at Capital One Hall

Sara Bareilles’ engaging and emotional score remains a source of joy, but this non-Equity tour is a pale shadow of its Broadway counterpart.

In poetry and song, Theater Alliance’s ‘Chorus Within Her’ centers women

The performance is both a container for this period’s pain and loss and a meditation on what persists and resists.

National Chamber Ensemble gets romantic with a new season

The company’s 2021-2022 season includes masterworks that have rightfully earned their status as highlights of the classical repertoire.

YAA to put on ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’

Featuring over 80 artists, the production kicks off Young Artists of America’s 10th-anniversary season with a return to live theater.