DCTA Interactive Calendar This calendar is intended to help you plan your District Fringe Festival experience. The calendar is interactive – scroll to see the shows playing each day. Hover over the ...

For the last twelve weeks of 2023, six Washington, DC, arts institutions from the worlds of theater, music, and dance will explore Shakespeare’s works through seven unique productions under the ...

Fabiolla De Silva (Mistress Meg Page), Shaquille Stewart (Sir John Falstaff), and Emily Zinski (Mistress Alice Ford) appearing in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.’ ...

It is hard to imagine, especially at this time of year, that anyone hasn’t seen the beloved 1965 movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which opens with the iconic helicopter ...

Yesenia Iglesias (Marlowe) and Chris Genebach (Danny) in ‘The Garbologists.’ Photo courtesy of Theater Alliance. The regional debut of The Garbologists uses an expertly designed set and strong acting ...

Tiger, tiger, burning bright… In the touring production of Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti from Yann Martel’s novel, and now playing at the Kennedy Center, it is a Bengal tiger named Richard ...

Sitting in the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia, you know you’re in for one kickass evening of theater the minute Brandon Carter, the American Shakespeare Center’s charismatic artistic ...

Footloose the musical … is not a very good musical. It is campy to the point of cringe. The story shifts wildly between overtly self-serious and goofy. And the book is dated to the extent that, in the ...

In September, The Shawshank Redemption celebrated its 30th anniversary, having been famously dismissed at the box office before earning seven Oscar nominations and being enshrined on the American Film ...

Jackie Madejski as the Narrator in ‘Every Brilliant Thing.’ Photo by Kayla Garcia Photography. Every Brilliant Thing is a one-person play, chronicled by a nameless Narrator who chooses audience ...

MetroStage, Alexandria’s only professional theater, is inching closer to reopening in a new, exciting space, but funding is still needed. The new theater sits on the waterfront in the Old Town North ...

Scene from ‘Prince Caspian.’ Photo courtesy of The Logos Theatre. All of this is preface to my assessment of Prince Caspian, now running at the World Stage Theater on the fifth floor of the Museum of ...