‘The Gabriels’ — A Fictional Family We Come to Care About
• January 19, 2017

The election-year trilogy runs through Jan. 22 in the Kennedy Center Theater Lab.

‘The Dictator’s Wife’ Shows Lots of Initiative at WNO
• January 16, 2017

It’s a common complaint that you hear about opera, especially from some younger people when they look up from their phones. What’s it to us? It’s old. What does it have to do […]

Spending Election Year With ‘The Gabriels’
• January 13, 2017

Director and playwright Richard Nelson came to town recently for the Kennedy Center’s presentation of his ambitious, intimately epic “The Gabriels Trilogy: Election Year in the Life of One Family.” […]

Kirsten Greenidge on ‘Bud, Not Buddy’: A Boy’s Search for His Father
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Boston playwright and writer Kirsten Greenidge has already compiled a prolific, diverse and often issues-oriented body of work about the way Americans live today, and, according to New Dramatists, “shines […]

An Irresistible ‘Grinch’ at the National
• December 23, 2016

The musical version of Dr. Seuss’s Christmas classic runs through Dec. 31.

Keegan’s Profane, Lyrical ‘Irish Carol’
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Set in a pub, the show runs at the Dupont Circle theater through Dec. 31.

Isabel Keating is Morrible in ‘Wicked’
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The actress, who played Birdie in “The Little Foxes” at Arena, is back in D.C. on her first national tour.

At Shakespeare: A ‘Garden’ Blooming With Hope
• December 19, 2016

The STC co-production of the musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s book runs through Jan. 8.

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.