The showstopping musical is a timeless testament to the idea that real change requires addressing the root causes of inequality and injustice. Les Misérables has been a showstopping musical since its ...

The play’s brilliant satire gets a phenomenal production with uniquely excellent performers. It’s even harder to make a story about “bad people” both enlightening and entertaining when the story in ...

Much more than spectacle, the show is an enthralling sensory experience rooted in history and packed full of joy. Only after I caught my breath, only after the music stopped, only after my joy coma ...

Superb casting enlivens the family-friendly show, and showstoppers abound. Some musicals, stories, and characters just never get old, and you can’t get enough seeing new versions of them. Aladdin is ...

Another production in the DC area of the beloved Kimberly Belflower play is a triumphant one. It’s a tall order to tackle this play after local young artists may have seen the 2022 Studio Theatre ...

The two leading lights worked together on 'At the Wedding' at Studio Theatre — he as director, she as mother of the bride — and they had a lot to say about it. Holly Twyford and Tom Story have been ...

The cool musical comedy of savage high school politics, friendship, and social missteps returns for one week only. Leaving the wilds of Africa for the jungles of a Chicagoland high school, transfer ...

The Champions go beyond the magic of spectacle and deliver the theater of magical storytelling. One element they missed, although present throughout their high-energy, flashy, and dazzling performance ...

The hope-filled production is unapologetic in its celebration of self, choice, and sisterhood. On the run after witnessing a murder, singer and aspiring disco queen Deloris Van Cartier finds herself ...

It’s a homecoming for these four artists as the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical plays the National Theatre this month. Many of these DMV artists are making their DC debuts after growing up as young ...

Felicia Curry, Oneika Phillips, and Lance Coadie Williams lead the cast as Jocelyn Bioh's adaptation reimagines Shakespeare's farce in modern Harlem. “I’m thrilled to have visionary director Taylor ...

The opera festival's 50th season honors designer legend John Conklin with a Sondheim feast and a world premiere coming-of-age story about a young Chicana. Robert Ainsley began his tenure as Artistic ...