She replaces the theater's Founding Artistic Director, Lucinda Merry-Browne, who had led the theater since 2011 and retired in 2024. Compass Rose Theater has appointed Madeline Austin as its new ...

It’s opening night for the Cornley Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor, and the troupe of amateur actors is as ready as they will ever be — which is not very. With hopes high ...

The roll call of musicals rooted in history is distinguished, to say the least: 1776; Pippin; Titanic; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; Hamilton; Come From Away; and even the current Broadway hit ...

Simon Godwin, Indira Varma, and Ralph Fiennes. Photo by Oliver Rosser. SEE ALSO: Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma to lead cast of Simon Godwin’s ‘Macbeth’ for STC (news story, April 27, 2023) About the ...

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 ...

Despite its own financial woes, Washington City Paper has bucked the trend of decreasing local arts coverage.City Paper maintains a roster of great arts writers who benefit from the editorial prowess ...

In keeping with its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to life for a present-day audience, Red Bull Theater’s current Off-Broadway offering at New World Stages is a limited engagement of ...

Has anyone not seen The Music Man?. Ever since its 1957 Broadway debut ran for 1,375 performances, followed by major revivals in 1965, 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2022, two movie versions, and countless ...

WorldPride 2025 is coming to Washington, DC and Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will be the anchor of the arts and culture calendar. In celebration of WorldPride 2025, GMCW will present a two-week ...

The voices are the highlight of this delightful, sold-out holiday treat. It is hard to imagine, especially at this time of year, that anyone hasn’t seen the beloved 1965 movie version of Rodgers and ...

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 ...

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, based on the classic motion picture and adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company.Patrick A’Hearn ...