Over the 400-plus years of its existence, Shakespeare’s most youthful tragedy has been adapted to a wide range of settings and circumstances. Most familiar, perhaps, is the blockbuster musical West ...

A day in the life of Korean convenience store owner Appa begins at the crack of dawn with the tedious task of pricing the newest energy drink and opening the cash register drawer. But this day would ...

Dave Harris. Photo by Izak Rappaport courtesy of the artist. Over the past year and a half, I’ve reviewed the DC productions of Exception to the Rule and Incendiary. Although Dave Harris started as a ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the lineup of its upcoming 2024/25 season. Two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick makes his STC debut in Babbitt, a new adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s ...

At the beginning of Western civilization, in ancient Greece, playwrights would produce serious theater works that addressed issues of such importance to the well-being of the state that the ...

Yesenia Iglesias (Marlowe) and Chris Genebach (Danny) in ‘The Garbologists.’ Photo courtesy of Theater Alliance. The regional debut of The Garbologists uses an expertly designed set and strong acting ...

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 ...

Ben Allen, Indira Varma, Rose Riley, Richard Pepper, Steffan Rhodri, and Levi Brown in ‘Macbeth.’ Photo by Marc Brenner. Elsewhere, too, Godwin directs with a deft touch. The visual composition of ...

Jackie Madejski as the Narrator in ‘Every Brilliant Thing.’ Photo by Kayla Garcia Photography. Every Brilliant Thing is a one-person play, chronicled by a nameless Narrator who chooses audience ...

Fabiolla De Silva (Mistress Meg Page), Shaquille Stewart (Sir John Falstaff), and Emily Zinski (Mistress Alice Ford) appearing in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.’ ...

In Data, Matthew Libby’s cautionary tale of the comprehensive reach of big tech, it is Arena Stage’s technical production that most persuasively tells the tale. The production’s design team is on the ...

Avaaz begins the second you round the bank of seats in the Olney Theatre Center’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. The set, exquisitely designed by Beowulf Boritt, seems to appear by magic as festive ...