She replaces the theater's Founding Artistic Director, Lucinda Merry-Browne, who had led the theater since 2011 and retired in 2024. Compass Rose Theater has appointed Madeline Austin as its new ...

The fast-paced, chaotic farce is full to the brim with laughs, gasps, and grins. Leading the community troupe was the Cornley Drama Society’s director and the production’s Inspector Carter, Chris Bean ...

The roll call of musicals rooted in history is distinguished, to say the least: 1776; Pippin; Titanic; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; Hamilton; Come From Away; and even the current Broadway hit ...

Simon Godwin, Indira Varma, and Ralph Fiennes. Photo by Oliver Rosser. SEE ALSO: Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma to lead cast of Simon Godwin’s ‘Macbeth’ for STC (news story, April 27, 2023) About the ...

Footloose the musical … is not a very good musical.It is campy to the point of cringe. The story shifts wildly between overtly self-serious and goofy. And the book is dated to the extent that, in the ...

Despite its own financial woes, Washington City Paper has bucked the trend of decreasing local arts coverage.City Paper maintains a roster of great arts writers who benefit from the editorial prowess ...

Has anyone not seen The Music Man?. Ever since its 1957 Broadway debut ran for 1,375 performances, followed by major revivals in 1965, 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2022, two movie versions, and countless ...

Now that any unrealistic cinematic expectations have been gently disabused, viewers can thoroughly enjoy Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music, a worthwhile holiday treat.While ...

By Kathryn Willis. In Voices from Vietnam, now premiering at Journey Theater in Warrenton, playwright Dr. Harry J. Kantrovich doesn’t spotlight a particular character.Instead, the production’s true ...

It is rare to see a production turn B+ material into an A+ show, given how difficult it is to build on a shaky foundation. But the Workhouse Arts Center and director Frank Shutts have done it with The ...

Amari Cheatom as Blue and Marty Austin Lamar as Corn in ‘Paradise Blue.’ Photo by DJ Corey Photography. From the physical space where Studio Theatre sits at the historical epicenter of Black culture ...

The crowd-pleasing encore engagement of Six roars into the National Theater giving DC the party we knew we needed but didn’t have an invite to!This Tony-winning musical “histo-remix” — staged as a ...