Stage productions of “A Christmas Carol”: a holiday tradition that never changes. That can be comforting — or incredibly boring. Branch out a little (or not) with D.C.'s...

William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a tricky play to impose a concept on, because it consists of distinct stories taking place in three overlapping wo...

Most of us will die in run-of-the-mill ways. Try out some gruesome alternatives at “A Killing Game,” the latest interactive theater piece from Dog & Pony. Throughout t...

Nothing ventured, nothing gained is the take-home lesson of “The Hobbit,” which will premiere in the first of three live-action movies this weekend. We suspect that nothin...

The characters in Annie Baker’s play “The Aliens” take a lot of time to think before they speak. This makes Studio Theatre’s production a bad choice for the sick or th...

Who keeps us sane in troubled times? It’s Calvin Trillin, pundit poet. He reformats the news in rhymes, Which sounds so tough to us — although it Makes some old jokes newl...

When a North Korean woman in “You for Me for You” frets about “ruthless Americans,” the audience at a recent Woolly Mammoth performance tittered. Her seemingly comical...

Trojan created quite a buzz this summer when the company set up “Pleasure Carts” — modeled after traditional hot dog carts — on New York City street corners and starte...

It seems as though we’ve been talking about the presidential election (with minor diversions such as the London Olympics and TomKat’s divorce) for two years now. The wait ...

Whether you vote in swingy Virginia, solidly blue Maryland or die-hard Democratic D.C., the run-up to Election Day is exhausting — and in D.C. and Maryland, your vote doesn'...

If you think you’ve cracked the code of “The Conference of the Birds” the minute you figure out that the birds represent people, you’ve got a ways to go. In his 12th-c...

Zadie Smith, one of the western world’s most prominent young novelists, has a new book out: “NW.” There’s no way you’ll have time to finish it before her reading Thu...

When playwright Bryony Lavery, whose play “Frozen” was nominated for a Tony Award in 2004, set out to write “Dirt” for the Studio Theatre’s Studio Lab, she hit on a ...

Some actors find two-character plays especially brutal, because they rarely get emotional or physical breaks during the show. Thomas Keegan is way more hard-core than those pe...

Though the epithet “People of the Book” refers to Jews’ devotion to the Torah, we feel it can be more inclusive during the Jewish Literary Festival. People of the Biogra...