King Charles Is Robert Joy’s Role of a Lifetime

February 23, 2017

The highly recognizable Canadian actor is starring in “King Charles III” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company through March 18.

Today’s Royals, Shakespeare Style, in ‘King Charles III’

February 21, 2017

The Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Mike Bartlett’s play runs through March 12.

Lillian Hellman: Speaking to Perilous Times

February 16, 2017

Hellman’s “Watch on the Rhine,” which opened on Broadway in 1941, is at Arena Stage through March 5.

At Ford’s, George and Martha Can Still Shock

February 2, 2017

Directed by Aaron Posner, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” leaps out of its bounds of time snarling and swinging.

Yasiin Bey’s Light Will Not Dim


The hip-hop artist formerly known as Mos Def bid farewell to music and film with three shows at the Kennedy Center.

Albee’s ‘Woolf’ Comes to Ford’s at Last

January 30, 2017

The production, directed by Aaron Posner, will run through Feb. 19.

The Oscars, Not Quite So White


This year, there was actually something newsworthy about the Academy Award nominations.

‘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.” […]