Based on first-hand accounts, this collection of monologues gives voice to the medical staff who helped the wounded and battle-scarred. To the non-military among us, a “dust-off” pilot was a term from ...

The delightfully inventive show is full of physical comedy, music, puppetry, dance, and striking visual imagery that lingers in the mind. It was hard to be alive in the Middle Ages. There were the ...

Writers trace a decades-long shift toward metrics and cost-cutting that has steadily eroded arts coverage at The Washington Post. In 2015, leaders of children’s theaters across DC rose to decry The ...

Studio Theatre forced to cancel planned production of Alaa Shehada’s ‘The Horse of Jenin.’ His solo show to screen on film instead. The solo show was scheduled to run at Studio in late February 2026 ...

In ‘Making the Scene: Theater on 14th Street in the 1980s,’ SCENA Theatre co-founder Amy Schmidt takes us back to a seminal era in Washington theater. During the 1980s, a vibrant community of seven ...

Aurin Squire’s laugh-out-loud play looks at the demise of journalism and the rise of fake news. In Aurin Squire’s My Favorite Sociopath, the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) in ...

The actors bounced off one another brilliantly, as though they had known each other for a lifetime, just like the characters they embodied. Set in Agra, India, in 1648 during the Mughal Empire, the ...

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In a challenging but rewarding show about students stuck in detention, playwright Dave Harris questions which Black Americans are allowed to succeed. In his 1903 essay “Of the Meaning of Progress,” ...

In Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle's contemporary adaptation of J.M. Synge's classic, it's not clear who has more fun, the audience or the ensemble on stage. The year was 1907, and the newish Abbey ...

The performers give every song energy and feeling and hit every comic and emotional moment spot on. Ashley Zielinski Rudy brings joyfulness to Carole King, from writing songs to spending time with her ...

This classic is always a special show, and this production has just the right combination of light and darkness to make it a great experience. All of a sudden, you recognize something that was always ...