An Amusing, Then Moving, ‘Into the Woods’

December 15, 2016

Fiasco Theater Company’s at first seemingly casual production of the Sondheim musical is at the Kennedy Center through Jan. 8.

An Airborne ‘Moby Dick’ at Arena

December 12, 2016

The play comes brilliantly alive when it and its actors are in the air, in motion, at sea, pitching and floundering.

Florence Henderson (1934-2016): America’s ’70s Mom

November 29, 2016

Every now and then, we’re reminded that television wasn’t always a world of edgy serial shows on HBO or Netflix, a world of live streaming and binge watching. Usually, it’s […]

This Week: A ‘Nutcracker’ with Poodles

November 28, 2016

Cincinnati Ballet, under Artistic Director and CEO Victoria Morgan, brings its acrobatic version to the Kennedy Center Opera House.

Why We Go to the Theater: Miller’s ‘A View From the Bridge’

November 23, 2016

Watching Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s clean-as-a-stripped-bone production of Arthur Miller’s 1955 play, “A View from the Bridge,” at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater was to experience a fulfillment of […]

‘Carousel’: Honest Pain and Hard-Won Joy

November 21, 2016

The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic continues at Arena Stage through Dec. 24.

Brownlee, Oropesa and Ginsburg in WNO’s ‘Regiment’

November 17, 2016

Donizetti’s operetta-like opera continues at the Kennedy Center through Nov. 20.

Nicholas Rodriguez Is Arena’s Billy Bigelow

November 14, 2016

The Texas native, who won a Helen Hayes Award playing Curly in “Oklahoma,” is appearing in “Carousel” through Dec. 24.

Actor Frederick Weller Takes on Eddie Carbone

November 11, 2016

If you ran into the actor Frederick Weller in the street, you might get the notion, that feeling, “I know this guy.” You’d probably be right, in the sense that […]

Arts Bubble Up Under Baltimore’s Bromo Tower


Artists are starting to flock to the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District, anchored by the Hippodrome Theatre.