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 ...

Tom Lehrer, the brilliant satirist known for the hilariously clever ditties he wrote and performed in the 1950s and 1960s, really did dump all his songs into the public domain. (You can find them here ...

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 ...

Blake Henri as Kent and Angela Iannone as King Lear in ‘King Lear.’ Photo by Alaina Shefelton. King Lear is very much a tragedy for our times: the tale of a monarch who chooses flattery over true ...

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.’ ...

With a Greek Island paradise wedding just around the corner, a young bride-to-be snoops in her mom’s old diary determined to find the father she’s never met, in order to make the day perfect. When all ...

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 ...

Shakespeare Theatre Company has announced the cast of Uncle Vanya, directed by STC Artistic Director Simon Godwin. The production, hailed the “show of the year” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “pure ...

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 ...