At first glance, Amm(i)gone, currently on stage at Woolley Mammoth, might seem like a production for a very particular audience. Adil Mansoor, in a one-person performance, explores his own family tension between his queerness and Muslim faith, all while sharing his experience of translating Sophocles’s Antigone with his mother.
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Fiennes and Varma are no doubt key draws in Macbeth, now being staged by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. But this Simon Godwin-directed production also has some peculiar timing that merits attention. People and politics are in turmoil — inner and outer turmoil. And the “war zone” that it is creating is as much a torture of our minds as Macbeth has in his own restless agony.
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Peter Pan, the high-flying musical that has enthralled audiences of all ages for almost 70 years, has been updated in a new adaptation by celebrated playwright Larissa FastHorse, directed by Emmy Award winner Lonny Price and choreography by Lorin Latarro.
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The Folger Shakespeare Library announced its 2024-2025 Season theme of Whose Democracy?, the first time a theme has been activated across all performances in a season.
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Subscriptions are on sale now for the Washington National Opera’s upcoming 2024/2025 season which pays tribute to the grand tradition of opera, while shaping its future with two new productions, two WNO premieres, and a long-awaited revival.
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Subscriptions are on sale now for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s upcoming 2024/2025 season.
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Broadway at The National has announced its 2024/2025 season, featuring the highly anticipated D.C. premiere of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD among a nine-show lineup of award-winning Broadway hits.
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If you’ve somehow not yet seen it — or you’re craving more Mormon — The Book of Mormon is playing at the National Theatre through March 17, 2024.
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A special screening to mark the release of the documentary Fight for Ukraine: For the Children was held at the Kennedy Center in late February.
Read MoreThough STC succinctly explains that The Lehman Trilogy, on stage now at Shakespeare Theatre’s Harman Hall, is three acts, with three actors, with three ways of looking at the events that unfold… nothing quite prepares audiences for the epic storytelling of this historic drama. It may be one of the best that has yet come to this theater!
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