She replaces the theater's Founding Artistic Director, Lucinda Merry-Browne, who had led the theater since 2011 and retired in 2024. Compass Rose Theater has appointed Madeline Austin as its new ...

Les Misérables has been a showstopping musical since its pre-Broadway run at the Kennedy Center in 1986. Now it is one of the most well-known and beloved musicals to grace the stage, enthralling ...

In this era when friends connect through Netflix-and-chill and group chat, does anyone have real company anymore? In my parents’ and grandparents’ generations, there used to be formal invitations, a ...

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 ...

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Heartbreak Hotel, written by Sean Cercone and David Abbinanti, with musical arrangements and orchestrations by David Abbinanti.Based on a concept by ...

Olney Theatre Center announced an ambitious, premiere-forward lineup for its 2025-26 Season that includes two world premiere musicals, one world premiere play, and one U.S. premiere drama.The season ...

Even before The Caretaker officially opened this weekend, the buzz was humming in theater streams. The word is out, the show is a strange and stunning experience. Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker is less ...

Now that any unrealistic cinematic expectations have been gently disabused, viewers can thoroughly enjoy Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of The Sound of Music, a worthwhile holiday treat.While ...

In keeping with its mission of bringing rarely seen classic plays to life for a present-day audience, Red Bull Theater’s current Off-Broadway offering at New World Stages is a limited engagement of ...

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 ...

The crowd-pleasing encore engagement of Six roars into the National Theater giving DC the party we knew we needed but didn’t have an invite to!This Tony-winning musical “histo-remix” — staged as a ...

By LeeAnét Noble and Lauretta Malloy (guided by love, ancestors, and the thoughts of many). Mkurugenzi. Swahili for the director. T he stage is dimly lit with only the ghost light flickering in space.