Frida Libre, a bilingual world premiere, opened to a packed house at GALA Hispanic Theatre. With book and lyrics by treasured playwright Karen Zacarías and music by Deborah Wicks La Puma, the show ...

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 ...

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 ...

I finally saw Wicked on Broadway in early 2022. I went in blind, and as I left, I was sad to find that I felt underwhelmed. Unmemorable, plotless songs plagued the performance, and the show centers ...

At the beginning of Western civilization, in ancient Greece, playwrights would produce serious theater works that addressed issues of such importance to the well-being of the state that the ...

Something is afoot at the Workhouse Arts Center. They seem to have discovered a magic spell for executing lesser-known comedic texts that have the potential to teeter but that Workhouse turns into ...

Tyler Herman as Gabe and Ashley D. Nguyen as Voice in ‘The Hatmaker’s Wife.’ Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography. Retired from his work as the town’s top hatmaker, Hetchman sits like a lump in a ...

Martín Ruiz as President Perón and Fran Tapia as Eva Perón in ‘Mummy in the Closet: Evita Returns.’ Photo by Daniel Martínez. The following are the background facts upon which the musical is based.

Toby’s Dinner Theatre pulls it off — by putting on a show that is more energetic, better sung, better danced, and simply shinier than any in recent memory. The Music Man is usually thought to need ...

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 ...

A Jewish family in fin-du-siecle Vienna gathers at the precipice of the 20th century — raising a glass to the hopes of a new year and the beauty of their Viennese culture. Having risen above the ...

Avaaz begins the second you round the bank of seats in the Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The set, exquisitely designed by Beowulf Boritt, seems to appear by magic as festive ...