CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY - WARD HALL

by Jennifer Muscato - March 10, 2025

What did our critic think of DRAGONS LOVE TACOS at Adventure Theatre MTC?...

by Emily Berger - March 10, 2025

Saturday evening’s performance of Mulan: A Legend Reimagined at Capital One Hall was a ninety-minute retelling of the classic Chinese folk story of the young woman who impersonates a soldier and ends up successfully defending her country. This dance-based version presented by Greater Washington Chin...

by Audrey Cahak - March 09, 2025

What did our critic think of RIVERDANCE 30: THE NEW GENERATION at The Kennedy Center Opera House?...

by Mary Lincer - March 07, 2025

Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence was published about a week before she was able to vote for the first time in 1920.  The following year, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.  Now, playwright Karen Zacarías has adapted Wharton's complex tragedy of manners into Arena's elegant...

by David Friscic - March 05, 2025

The play The Scenarios successfully proves the fact that it is impossible to fit the messiness and vagaries of life into the role-playing scenarios (that are well-intentioned) that society often employs to help with remediation and beneficial effects. This World Premiere that is being presented by S...

by Audrey Cahak - March 07, 2025

Contemporary dance choreographer and company founder Dana Tai Soon Burgess produced the dance concert “An Asian American Dance Journey” for a three-day run at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. While it is the company’s 32nd year in production, it was their first year collaborating with and dancing...

by Michela Dwyer - March 01, 2025

What did our critic think of PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center?...

by Andrew White - March 01, 2025

Working from a series of oral history recordings, playwright Psalmayene 24 has assembled a truly moving piece of theatre that brings the many voices of Prince Georges’ past and present to bear witness, and bring to light struggles that we (or I, at least) knew nothing about. Director Tony Thomas ha...

by Tavish Young - February 27, 2025

A real treat, and going soon, Shucked is a conventional but still fresh musical riding into town from Broadway on a tractor....

by Elliot Lanes - February 27, 2025

I first came to know the talents of Ellie Holcomb when my wife and I were on vacation in Nashville and saw her blow a hole in the roof at Ryman Auditorium. Her pixie like quality, superb vocals and true musicianship introduced me to a true talent in contemporary Christian music and beyond. Her singe...