One of the most exciting parts of this musical is the dancing — the choreography, created by Sergio Trujillo, is fluid, dynamic, and makes you want to jump out of your seat! The actors do an ...

They say it isn’t over until the fat lady sings — but in Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano, the real chaos begins before a single aria is heard. This sharp, gender-swapped reimagining of Ludwig’s farce ...

District Fringe is proud to announce partnerships with Van Ness Main Street and The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to support the inaugural 2025 festival. These partnerships include ...

The Shark is Broken by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon Directed by Gené Fouché September 12 – October 5, 2025 It’s 1974 and the hit movie JAWS is being filmed. Well, it would be, if the prop shark wasn’t a ...

Les Misérables has been a showstopping musical since its pre-Broadway run at the Kennedy Center in 1986. Now it is one of the most well-known and beloved musicals to grace the stage, enthralling ...

The 14-member cast sings beautifully together. It must be because music director Dohm specializes in choirs while pursuing his master’s at Westminster Choir College. As a group, their singing is rich, ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the lineup of its upcoming 2024/25 season. Two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick makes his STC debut in Babbitt, a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the lineup of its upcoming 2025/26 season, celebrating the company’s 40th season exploring classic storytelling in Washington, DC. The season features two ...

Dave Harris. Photo by Izak Rappaport courtesy of the artist. Over the past year and a half, I’ve reviewed the DC productions of Exception to the Rule and Incendiary. Although Dave Harris started as a ...

It’s not often that a burble of laughter dances through the audience when a major character dies onstage in a murder mystery. But on the opening night of Death on the Nile at Arena Stage, that is ...

Capital Fringe announced today that it will no longer produce the annual Fringe Festival. “We are immensely proud of the impact twenty years of an open-access Fringe Festival has had on DC’s arts ...

In Data, Matthew Libby’s cautionary tale of the comprehensive reach of big tech, it is Arena Stage’s technical production that most persuasively tells the tale. The production’s design team is on the ...