Don’t be embarrassed if you’re a lot older than most of the audience of “The Intergalactic Nemesis.” Even though it’s labeled “for young audiences,” the show was...

Telling a story in verse is difficult, especially when the story’s as funny, rambling and conceptually complex as Voltaire’s “Candide,” the French satirical novel publ...

Actors don’t have to like their characters, but they do have to understand them. When it came to his role as a self-centered adulterer in “The Last Five Years,” now at S...

Oh, of course your kid enjoys a night at the symphony, probably preceded by a tasting menu that is emphatically chicken-nugget-free. Getting most kids exposed to music and the...

In a Mike Daisey performance, the monologuist sits at a table with a script in front of him and talks about his life for two hours. So when people find out the man behind “T...

Picture this: The former first lady’s dressmaker and best friend pens a tell-all book about her years in the White House. She reveals intimate details about a revered presid...

A woman wades into the man-made pool. The water reaches her shins. You can see the bottom, you can see her feet — and then she disappears, dropping away beneath the surface,...

Your trashman knows all of your secrets. But don’t worry, writer/actor/trashman Ron Litman won’t spill what he’s learned from your tossed yogurt cups and discarded love ...

Danai Gurira takes no prisoners. Not as zombie-shredding, katana-wielding Michonne on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and not in the plays she writes. She tackled sex slavery ...

Before the lights go down at Studio Theatre for “The Mother[expletive] With the Hat,” audiences will probably be chattering about the language in the title. And, yes, anyo...

“I was born ready. I’m Ron [expletive] Swanson.” With that season 2 quote, Nick Offerman’s character on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” was cemented as a no-nonsens...

There are a lot of Shakespeare-focused companies in D.C. but only 38 Shakespeare plays to go around, so theaters will often overlap, producing the same show in the same season...

A treadmill. A cage. A bar. The visual metaphors on the set of “The Grand Parade (of the 20th Century),” an experimental theater piece at Arena Stage, suggest a grim view ...

Two weeks ago the workroom of the Keegan Theatre, Shadia Hafiz was digging around in a pile of old women’s underwear. No, the 29-year-old costume designer doesn’t have a w...

Attention “West Wing” nerds! (This is D.C.; we know your numbers are legion.) It’s a Toby Ziegler red alert! Bethesda native Richard Schiff, the actor who indelibly port...