2024 Helen Hayes Awards Recap
• May 28, 2024

The 40th Annual Helen Hayes Awards took place at The Anthem earlier this month. The celebration of all things theater in D.C. honored productions including “Fela!” which won five awards […]

Onstage, Georgetown: June’s Cool Entertainments
• May 23, 2024

By Mark Edelman Now that summer’s almost here, why not enjoy these plays and musicals in air-conditioned comfort (except for Wolf Trap, of course, which offers its own natural pleasures). […]

Stunning ‘Metamorphoses’ Uses Vignettes of Change for Potent Storytelling
• May 16, 2024

By Hailey Wharram Everything begins with a sound like maracas. A masked figure shakes her bracelets, while gliding wordlessly through the audience’s central aisle. Adorned in a magnificent straw skirt […]

Now Playing: JxJ Festival of Jewish Film and Music
• May 13, 2024

“The power of storytelling is the soul of our culture,” asserts filmmaker Yael Luttwak, who became JxJ’s artistic director in 2022. JxJ stands for the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center’s […]

Last Chance: ‘Unknown Soldier’ at Arena Stage 
• May 2, 2024

“As children, we may only know our parents and other relations through the slim lens of their roles in raising and caring for us,” writes Arena Stage Literary Manager Otis […]

PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
• April 29, 2024

“What on earth would I want with strings?” That quote from Duke Ellington, which appeared in a 1951 issue of “Down Beat,” gives a sense of the deeply rooted, inimitable […]

On Broadway, Georgetown: What’s New and What’s Hot
• April 24, 2024

By Mark Edelman Headed to the Big Apple in the next few weeks? Here’s a rundown of the season’s new shows on Broadway. These titles stood out for me on […]

Onstage, Georgetown: Getting Hot for Plays, Musicals
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By Mark Edelman Summer is on its way. Before it gets too hot in Washington, buy your tickets (and air-conditioned comfort) to these plays and musicals around town. AMM(I)GONE    […]

Review: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Is Swift at Her Most Grown Up, Mature Sound
• April 22, 2024

Taylor Swift has done it again. “The Tortured Poets Department,” was originally supposed to be one album and in typical Swift fashion, she dropped a double “anthology” with 31 songs. […]

Previewed at Mount Zion: ‘DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote’  
• April 10, 2024

A preview of an original work-in-development, the opera “DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote,” was staged in Georgetown at Mount Zion United Methodist Church on March 14. “DC Emancipation […]