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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The bouncy songs are from Alanis Morissette’s 1995 album, and all the voices blend beautifully. I admit I wondered how a small theater company could handle a big rock musical that has generally been ...

The stylish production revives the Tony Award-winning musical with charm, precision, and theatrical flair. It is the rare production that can turn the tips of an actor’s fingers to hilarious account.

Second season curated by Heather Lanza includes a world premiere, a U.S. premiere, and a collaboration with Flying V. NextStop Theatre proudly announces its 2026/27 season, Reimagining Resiliency, the ...

As former Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif exits, starkly different perspectives emerge on what brought instability to DC’s premier regional theater. The night before, a local theater blogger who ...

This jazzy and humorous musical makes a joyful noise about what it means when we dare to dream. Chloe McGinness, Lee Michele Rosenthal (Sister Mary Martin-of-Tours), Judy Lewis (Sister Mary Lazarus), ...

A gaggle of gagsters was on hand to honor the winner of the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “Man waits not for time or tide,” Mark Twain once observed. Men and women do, however, ...

The world-premiere musical transforms a catalog of chart-toppers into a moving story of sisterhood, grief, and resilience. Three women lie motionless onstage, each isolated in her own pool of light as ...