A longtime theatergoer in the DMV, Eric counts eight Playbill books full of theatrical experiences as one of his prized possessions, and his favorite local productions include Caryl Churchill’s A ...

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 ...

The Arlington Players’ current production of The Play That Goes Wrong is everything you didn’t know you needed to inject some levity and good-old slapstick silliness into an otherwise stressful and ...

Funny Girl is a weird one. It’s a show with a handful of beloved songs and some leading stars who have made Broadway history in its 60-year legacy, Lea Michele included, but a plot that’s a serious ...

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 ...

Tom Lehrer, the brilliant satirist known for the hilariously clever ditties he wrote and performed in the 1950s and 1960s, really did dump all his songs into the public domain. (You can find them here ...

Staging a new musical is no small feat for a regional theater, carrying significant financial and creative risk but also opening the thrilling possibility of putting one’s unique stamp on the American ...

DCTA graphic. The Shakespeare Everywhere Festival will run from October 7, 2023, until the end of the year and include Fat Ham by James Ijames at Studio Theatre, Romeo and Juliet directed by Simon ...

Blake Henri as Kent and Angela Iannone as King Lear in ‘King Lear.’ Photo by Alaina Shefelton. King Lear is very much a tragedy for our times: the tale of a monarch who chooses flattery over true ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a Greek Island paradise wedding just around the corner, a young bride-to-be snoops in her mom’s old diary determined to find the father she’s never met, in order to make the day perfect. When all ...