In 1961, Walt Disney Productions released the Oscar-nominated film The Parent Trap, based on the book Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner and starring Hayley Mills as identical ...

The rip-roaring cast, under the imaginative direction of Shanara Gabrielle, captures the audience right away and never lets go. STC Academy’s The Taming of the Shrew, or, Petruchio Is Kated, is ...

Ché Navïn Arrington — a Black, gay, trans artist and writer born in DC — wrote The Hardest Words to Say in 2018 when they were a freshman in college. A one-time reading in the District Fringe festival ...

Opera Reviews 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Review: ‘Tosca’ In the company’s 50th Anniversary season, a production of Puccini's grand opera to die for.

Creative Cauldron announces its 2025/26 season — the first full season in its stunning new home at Broad & Washington. Featuring a dynamic mix of beloved favorites and exciting new musicals, this ...

Reviews Haunting and thrilling ‘Paradise Blue’ engulfs you at Studio Theatre Raymond O. Caldwell stages Dominique Morisseau's play with immersive raw urgency and an enthrallingly frenetic current of ...

Reviews Why ‘Wicked’ the movie is better than the Broadway musical 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.

Children's Theater Reviews Fun-filled family-friendly ‘Frida Libre’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre Inspired by the childhood of Frida Kahlo, this bilingual musical for young audiences sparkles with life.

Sun Mee Chomet, actor and playwright, longs to see her birth mother’s face “to see someone who looks like me.” As a transracial adoptee from Korea, she has carried this ache to connect with her birth ...

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater revealed the highly-anticipated title, partial cast, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity attached to Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney ’s new play ...

The last play of the year at 1st Stage, Laughs in Spanish, directed by Elena Velasco (she/ella), is a rollicking, code-switching, witchy, and wonderful 90 minutes of fun. Over-the-top diva matriarch ...

One of the myriad things Lin-Manuel Miranda does so beautifully in Hamilton: An American Musical is his portrayal of the profound symbiosis among the Schuyler Sisters: Angelica, Eliza, AND Peggy. The ...