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July festival will feature 9 full-run productions and 7 one-night-only shows by local artists, from first-time playwrights to established producers. District Fringe is proud to announce the artists ...
Teo's production at Folger is about the complexity and layers of love and all the ways in which love goes beyond gender. Shakespeare would love it. And audiences will too, once they cotton to the fact ...
'Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!)' — Julia Izumi’s play about Japanese American identity — is powerful. “To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.” ...
Rajiv Joseph's slam-dunk exploration of friendship and fandom runs May 28-June 22 at Round House. “Rajiv Joseph has written a wonderfully funny, heartfelt, and timely love letter to male friendship.
A probing and startling interview with the writer behind DC productions of 'Exception to the Rule' at Studio and 'Incendiary' at Woolly Mammoth. There comes a point in every Dave Harris play when the ...
Whether for first-time viewers or longtime Sondheim fans, the singing here is not to be missed. Based on Smiles of a Summer Night, the great Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman’s only comedy, A ...
A frank conversation with the eminent artist about being 'chased by race' and an exclusive excerpt from his inspiring new memoir, 'My Own Directions.' Sheldon Epps is regarded as one of the most ...
Jon M. Chu's new film improves on its source material just as Spielberg’s 2021 film 'West Side Story' improved on the 1961 version. I finally saw Wicked on Broadway in early 2022. I went in blind, and ...
Inspired by the childhood of Frida Kahlo, this bilingual musical for young audiences sparkles with life. Frida Libre, a bilingual world premiere, opened to a packed house at GALA Hispanic Theatre.
In an unlikely friendship, two apparently different sanitation workers discover common ground. When audience members step into Theater Alliance’s theater space, they are immediately confronted by a ...
Playwright Matthew Libby’s cautionary tale plays out in a harsh, inhuman world. In Data, Matthew Libby’s cautionary tale of the comprehensive reach of big tech, it is Arena Stage’s technical ...
The actors sing with power, capturing both the emotional and the comic moments, and the show is great fun for children of all ages. Compass Rose Theater’s production of The Wizard of Oz is a colorful ...