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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Part Gen X nostalgia trip, part angsty teen drama, this musical comedy can’t find its soul. Astronomers can’t predict when Betelgeuse will go supernova. The celestial giant dimmed in 2019, was ...

Mixing humor and heart, the performers hit every moment perfectly and sing with energy and passion. Tommy Malek plays Nathan Detroit, a gangster looking for a new place to host his long-running craps ...

Baltimore’s best little playfest runs through July 26. Go and be surprised. Rapid Lemon Productions once again presents the Variations Project, a bill of 12 ten-minute plays on a common theme. This ...

Kicking off District Fringe year two, the winner of the 2023 Capital Fringe Festival is a sure bet for a good time. No, it’s not Miss Scarlett in the ballroom with the lead pipe, but it’s not far off!

An apartment sidewalk in New York serves as a microcosm of a troubled America. “Harm reduction.” That’s the purpose of smoking, according to the title character in The Smoker, a world premiere by Lisa ...

The musical returns to DC’s National Theatre, where it debuted eight years ago. A lot has changed. One of the rewards is seeing how the show continues to be received. I’ve worked on it since 2016 in ...

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