2021

‘Teenage Dick’ at Woolly Mammoth is entertaining and revelatory

A funny, scary adventure rife with incandescent ideas.

Tune in to Kennedy Center’s big 50th birthday party Friday on PBS

Celebrating 50 years of the National Cultural Center, the evening is hosted by six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald.

Getting the 411 on ‘1-2-3 Manhunt’ from Ilene Kristen and Tony DiMurro

On the edge of a tenement rooftop, a smackdown occurs between two vastly different natives of the changing Lower East Side. After things get physical between the middle-aged old-school Italian back...

Final inning for ‘Toni Stone’ is a fans’ outing at Nats Park

Views from the free streaming event courtesy of Arena Stage

Winners of the 2019-20 Tony Awards

Although COVID-19 brought the 2019-20 Broadway season to an early halt, it didn’t stop tonight’s long-awaited 74th annual Tony Awards and their recognition of excellence in theater. Presented by The...

In ‘Prepping for Widowhood,’ it’s ladies night and never too late

Best Medicine Rep channels women of a certain age ready for their next act.

Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’ at Rockville Little Theatre is a delightful romp

For anyone with a funny bone yearning for a few hours of frothy fun.

Washington Stage Guild’s in-person season to spotlight trust

Four plays that show trust being built, being questioned, fraying, and breaking.

Two free streaming picks that will touch your heart

A memorial tribute to Nick Cordero and the latest collaboration from Broadway Inspirational Voices are two free online offerings that will touch your heart and, through voluntary donations, support...

Need to find space for your art? Here’s how, from ArtsFairfax.

Step-by-step instructions that can be used by artists and arts orgs anywhere.

Creative Cauldron plans live 2021–22 season to ‘reignite, reimagine’

The Falls Church company marks its 12th year with six theatrical productions and two concert series.

Four safe, fun shows for fall from NextStop

Revised season programming and rigorous health protocols.

A timely drama of the young immigrant experience in NYTW’s ‘Sanctuary City’ at the Lucille Lortel Theatre

New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Sanctuary City by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living) has returned to the stage at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre with its original...

Adventure Theatre’s ‘Luchadora!’ a fantastic show for the whole family

The tale of a teen tomboy, set in the world of Mexican wrestling.

Woolly Mammoth commits its ‘badass theater’ to accessibility

For the entire season, accessibility will be built into productions from the get-go rather than tacked on at the end.

Film adaptation of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and a live Q&A with the stars in cinemas on Thursday

In celebration of the official theatrical release of the new film adaptation of the Broadway musical sensation Dear Evan Hansen on Friday, September 24, Universal Pictures and Fathom Events will...

ExPats Theatre to stage gut-wrenching war drama Pankrác ’45

In a prison in Prague in 1945, five women stand accused of Nazi collaboration.

Streaming this week: ‘Stupid Kids’ from Broadway’s Best Shows and ‘Do Re #MeToo’ from AAF

While NYC venues are continuing to reopen with live in-person performances, there are still top offerings accessible to theater fans everywhere via the internet. Two picks for the week will make their...

A dazzling solo performance in ‘Bo-Nita’ from 1st Stage

Terri Weagant juggles accents and body postures to give us five distinctly and flamboyantly desperate people we won’t soon forget.

World premiere of ‘F.I.R.E.’ concludes New Normal Rep’s online inaugural season

Founded last year during, and because of, the COVID-19 shutdown of live in-person performances, the online theater company New Normal Rep (NNR) – with a mission of producing new and lesser-known plays...

Emergent Seed to showcase grant winners at Art All Night on Saturday

Free music, spoken word, and visual art in an unmatched setting.

Autobiographical dramedy ‘I Squeezed Really Hard’ makes delectable lemonade out of a childhood full of lemons

California-born NYC-based writer and performer Anthony Misiano (TV’s Awkwafina is Nora from Queens) takes a revealing look back at his relentlessly tortured childhood and dysfunctional family in the...

15 Questions in 15 Minutes with crooner Mark William

This coming weekend, singer, actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and voiceover artist Mark William, who has played such iconic venues as Feinstein’s/54 Below and The McKittrick Hotel, returns to...

An interview with Dr. Ruth, whose story became ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’ at Theater J

‘Naomi Jacobson is perfect for this role,’ said the ‘real’ Dr. Ruth.

A star-studded grand finale to Broadway’s ‘Curtain Up!’ festival

Confetti rained down on Times Square following a weekend of free public events to welcome back Broadway, bringing a spectacular conclusion to a star-studded grand finale of the Curtain Up! festival on...

David Strathairn to star at STC as WWII resistance fighter Jan Karski

October 6–17: A masterful solo performance about the man who tried to warn the Oval Office of the Holocaust.

That goofy guy Patton Oswalt kicks off Kennedy Center comedy season

He slayed the audience for over an hour and got a standing O.

Black resistance to slavery in PG County inspires ‘Freedom Stories’

Psalmayene 24 to adapt local history for the stage in unique county-wide anti-racist collaboration.

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘The Amen Corner’ returns in glory

The acclaimed production of James Baldwin’s classic is back for two weeks only.

Celebrating the return of Broadway with the ‘Curtain Up!’ festival in Times Square

Broadway is back, and to celebrate the long-awaited good news, this weekend’s Curtain Up! festival launched today with a line-up of free outdoor public events in Times Square. We were there, to...

Live showtime returns to Northern Virginia’s Center for the Arts

Celebrate the renewal of ‘Arts Emerging’ September 25. The curtain goes up on ‘Cartography’ October 2.

Release of Off-Broadway’s ‘Marguerite’ and ‘Unknown Soldier’ original cast recordings

The original cast recordings of two acclaimed Off-Broadway musicals with compelling scores and narratives are available in physical and digital formats this month. Recently released on Broadway...

Round House Theatre’s ‘Quixote Nuevo’ is a comedic quest at its best

A man who imagines he’s Don Quixote runs after adventure and tilts the world.

Peter’s Alley returns to the stage with acclaimed drama ‘Proof’

A play about the unknowability of love and the mysteries of mathematics.

Recipients of the 2020-21 NYIT Honorary Awards

Last night, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards – recognizing, honoring, and advocating for individuals, companies, and productions from NYC’s Off-Off-Broadway/Indie theater community for the past...

Shaw and his star actress will drop lines in ‘Dear Liar’ from WSG

Washington Stage Guild presents a free online performance of letters between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the original Eliza Doolittle.

Free outdoor dance performances by General Mischief and Kinesis Project this weekend

As the summer comes to a close this month, two NYC-based dance companies are offering free outdoor performances over the upcoming weekend, while the weather is still agreeable and with COVID-19...

Unabating after-effects of a break-up in ‘The Last of the Love Letters’ at Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company’s world-premiere production of The Last of the Love Letters, written by Ngozi Anyanwu, co-starring the award-winning playwright and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts (Tina:...

A gay history murder mystery is finally solved in ‘Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story’ at the Gene Frankel Theatre

Now playing a world-premiere engagement at Off-Off-Broadway’s Gene Frankel Theatre, Notsew Productions’ Case Closed: The Dorian Corey Story by artistic director, executive producer, and playwright...

Wildly theatrical ‘Swindlers’ opens at Baltimore Center Stage

The actors are all in top form, but we don’t learn enough about their characters to become invested in what happens to them.

Good players make the team in ‘Fences’ at Little Theater of Alexandria

The prominent community theater takes a swing at August Wilson’s big-league drama.

‘Good People’ kicks off Keegan’s 25th season with a blazing success

A play deeply attuned to the ways people from disparate backgrounds interact and feel, it will bring you straight to the essence of what it is to be human.

Lorca’s ‘Doña Rosita the Spinster’ is pure pleasure at GALA

Spanish actress Mabel Del Pozo brilliantly creates a portrait of a woman who struggles with but finally eludes how society would fix her.

Viva ‘The Revolutionists’ at Colonial Players

An affecting, illuminating production of Lauren Gunderson’s comedy about four brazen women during the French Reign of Terror.

A stellar reopening of Broadway with ‘Pass Over’ at the August Wilson Theatre

Under a stark city streetlight, two homeless men, Moses and Kitch, are stuck in the same spot, in the same worn and dirty clothing, repeating the same routine, day after day. While dreaming of the...

‘Concert of Remembrance’ at Kennedy Center for a nation in need of healing

Patriotism and love of country were in the air as a unifying force to heal the past and lend hope to a future of inclusion and equality for all.

Hear how youth feel about the pandemic in ‘Waiting Room’ from Arena Stage

In a video they devised, young people show the critical thinking, problem solving, and empathy we need to get us out of the mess we are in.

A powerful indictment of racism, in updated ‘Rachel’ from Rapid Lemon

An early 20th-century play set against recent murders of Black men.

Thoroughly enjoyable ‘Toni Stone’ gets a hero’s welcome at Arena Stage

You don’t need to be a baseball fan to be inspired by this amazing story.

Electric violinist Marissa Licata makes her debut at Birdland on Monday

Based in NYC and Boston, Honduran-American violinist Marissa Licata is a noted presence on the orchestral and chamber music scenes, with more than fifteen years of classical violin training, and...