July festival will feature 9 full-run productions and 7 one-night-only shows by local artists, from first-time playwrights to established producers. District Fringe is proud to announce the artists ...

'Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!)' — Julia Izumi’s play about Japanese American identity — is powerful. “To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.” ...

Gender fluidity, kink culture, unconventionality in all its forms — this production, directed by Mei Ann Teo, is a feast for the senses. Twelfth Night at the Folger is so innovative that you might ...

A deep well of tenderness and sensitivity flows through this production, propelled by poetic memories of an adolescent infatuation. In the center of the stage at Teatro de la Luna’s intimate black box ...

Jon M. Chu's new film improves on its source material just as Spielberg’s 2021 film 'West Side Story' improved on the 1961 version. I finally saw Wicked on Broadway in early 2022. I went in blind, and ...

The production leaves no doubt about why the show is among the most beloved musicals of recent decades. Keegan Theatre’s revival of William Finn’s multiple Tony Award—winning Falsettos leaves no doubt ...

Even before The Caretaker officially opened this weekend, the buzz was humming in theater streams. The word is out, the show is a strange and stunning experience. Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker is less ...

Director Kathleen Akerley's gender-bending re-imagining brings fresh twists to the Prince of Denmark and the characters around him. Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about ...

Recognizing work from 165 eligible productions, awards were given in 41 categories. 41st Helen Hayes Awards at The Anthem in Washington, DC, May 19, 2025. DCTA photo. On May 19, 2025, the 41st Helen ...

Who is that fourth woman in the 2006 tabloid photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears, notoriously captioned “The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse”? That’s the question three Gen Z ...

The veteran theater critic leaves the Post as a new generation takes DC theater journalism in new directions. Readers must adjust their habits to find them. Gone are the days when you open a paper ...

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching production full of memorable Sondheim songs. That’s the central question of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, currently in a brilliant, emotionally wrenching ...