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 ...

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

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 ...

2025 DISTRICT FRINGE FESTIVAL Reviews 2025 District Fringe Review: ‘Are You Out of Your Mind?’ by Oren Levine and Barbara Papendorp (4 stars) This delightful, upbeat cabaret-style revue is an ...

Interviews and Features How to soar if one can’t fly: Kaely Michels-Gualtieri on her career switch from trapeze artist to playwright Her bold new play 'Eclipsing Stars' blends circus, Shakespeare, and ...

Reviews Strong acting and lyrical direction deliver a powerful ‘Sweat’ at Keegan Theatre Playwright Lynn Nottage shows in intimate detail what happens in a community when the jobs are gone.

Creative Cauldron announces its 2025/26 season — the first full season in its stunning new home at Broad & Washington. Featuring a dynamic mix of beloved favorites and exciting new musicals, this ...

Reviews A fresh and energetic must-see ‘Music Man’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre Toby’s Dinner Theatre has polished up this vintage cornet and made it shine and sound sweeter than ever.

Community Theater Locations Maryland ‘Tick, Tick… BOOM!’ charms and fascinates at Greenbelt Arts Center Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical musical is a reminder of what we tragically lost too ...

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.

Reviews Haunting and thrilling ‘Paradise Blue’ engulfs you at Studio Theatre Raymond O. Caldwell stages Dominique Morisseau's play with immersive raw urgency and an enthrallingly frenetic current of ...

Joe Papp, the famed founder of New York City’s Public Theater, long believed in the value of theater as a democracy that could bring people together. Back to the Future: The Musical fulfills that ...