Despite its hip title, JQA at the Arena Stage Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for American Theater is not Hamilton 2.0 – the John Quincy Adams Story (1767-1848). Playwright and director Aaron Posner’s world premiere has the freshness of Lin Manuel Miranda,… Read More
The largest environmental film festival in the world is taking place in DC this weekend. Since 1993, the Environmental Film Fest has been celebrating the Earth and encouraging stewardship of the environment through the media of film. With over 100 films to enjoy at venues… Read More
On March 4, 2019, Audra McDonald received Signature Theatre’s Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie Gala Benefit at the Embassy of Italy. The award, established in 2009 in honor of America’s most influential musical theater writer and composer, benefits Signature’s artistic, education and community programs. “Three of… Read More
One summer years ago, she and her college friends piled in a car to take a great American roadtrip to see the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit when it was here. Now, Kaywin Feldman and her family have done a similar trip… though they’ll stay longer and… Read More
If you go to Queen of Basel looking for a humorous send-up of of arty-farty snobs in the world of curators and collectors, you’ll be disappointed. But if you’re up for a searing flagellation of the Latin monolith, you’ll be rewarded with this audacious and unflinching… Read More
Métis interdisciplinary artist Jaime Black presents her “The REDress Project” for the first time in the U.S. at the Riverwalk of the National Museum of the American Indian’s landscape this month (March). The outdoor art installation of hanging lifeless red dresses evokes a presence… through… Read More
The Shakespeare Theater Company’s farcical pageant Vanity Fair is a hyperactive love affair between a morality play and a burlesque musical review, appropriately meta-set on a stage within a stage. Unapologetically slapstick, the play nonetheless bares the pathos of women of limited options simply seeking a better… Read More
The Heiress is a classic play, based on the Henry James novel Washington Square. It’s not the type of play we’ve typically seen from Arena Stage lately, so even its melodrama is refreshing, while still offering a strong message to modern audiences. Seema Sueko directs an… Read More
Finding Neverland is a delightful romp through an active and unstifled imagination. Audiences can expect the fictional story of Wendy, Peter, Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys to be performed at another theatre in DC next season, but what they’re getting on stage at the National… Read More
Villainy sells. In Shakespeare Theater Company’s Richard III, the titular character, played with oily evil by Matthew Rauch, holds spellbinding sway, unspooling audience fantasies of shrugging societal shackles to indulge in our every narcissistic whim with impunity, nay, reward. Titillation eventually sours but it’s an irresistible… Read More
