In 1961, Walt Disney Productions released the Oscar-nominated film The Parent Trap, based on the book Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner and starring Hayley Mills as identical ...

Ché Navïn Arrington — a Black, gay, trans artist and writer born in DC — wrote The Hardest Words to Say in 2018 when they were a freshman in college. A one-time reading in the District Fringe festival ...

Reviews Why ‘Wicked’ the movie is better than the Broadway musical Jon M. Chu's new film improves on its source material just as Spielberg’s 2021 film 'West Side Story' improved on the 1961 version.

At the beginning of Western civilization, in ancient Greece, playwrights would produce serious theater works that addressed issues of such importance to the well-being of the state that the ...

Sun Mee Chomet, actor and playwright, longs to see her birth mother’s face “to see someone who looks like me.” As a transracial adoptee from Korea, she has carried this ache to connect with her birth ...

Reviews A spot-on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at American Shakespeare Center The world of the play is filled with vivid characters, and the ensemble wastes no time making them nearly unforgettable.

Opera Reviews 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Review: ‘Tosca’ In the company’s 50th Anniversary season, a production of Puccini's grand opera to die for.

Reviews Feel-good ‘Comedy of Errors’ at STC is Shakespeare at his funniest Mistaken identities lead to hilarity and hijinks in a production directed masterfully by Simon Godwin, Shakespeare Theatre ...

Reviews Love and magic realism in a haunted rental in Theater J’s ‘The Hatmaker’s Wife’ When a young couple move in together, a gloomy tale of prior tenants unspools.

Reviews Locations Virginia A survivor stands in her power in spellbinding ‘hang’ at 1st Stage Set in an imagined legal system where a crime victim can decide a perpetrator’s fate, the production is ...

Peter Marks is gone. Now what? The veteran theater critic leaves the Post as a new generation takes DC theater journalism in new directions. Readers must adjust their habits to find them.

2024 CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Reviews 2024 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ (3 ½ stars) H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror short story adapted for the stage is wonderfully dark but not an ...