In 2007, playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo, then 21, set out to write something explaining the mindset of his generation. What he came up with was “Really Really,” currently ...

Gritty modern productions of “Romeo and Juliet” are commonplace. Wild emotions, violence, societal repression — how did anyone ever stage this as a stilted classical pie...

Anyone who has ever whirled away a couple of twenties at a Vegas slot machine or gotten mildly addicted to online blackjack knows the chancy appeal of gambling. Eighteenth-cen...

The type of modern art that some people find infuriating is perhaps best exemplified by Mark Rothko’s paintings — smudgy squares writ huge, with no story, no figures and u...

We thought we knew George Hamilton: He has an improbable tan, he was on “Dynasty,” and he played the lawyer in the third “Godfather” movie. When we questioned him abou...

When it’s clear from a character’s first entrance that she can barely use her left leg or her right arm and that she’s covered in shrapnel scars, one might assume the pl...

Holland Taylor can be funny (as Evelyn Harper on “Two and a Half Men”), a little racy (as Judge Roberta Kittleson on “The Practice,” a woman who has sex even though sh...

American theater has excelled at slapstick and spectacle ever since vaudeville showed up at the turn of the 20th century. We haven’t lost our taste for clowning and pageantr...

Teamwork is a recurring theme in “Equivocation,” playwright Bill Cain’s humorous, history-inspired drama at Arena Stage. There’s the uneasy alliance that the plot hing...

There’s a reason there’s no hit TV show called “So You Think You Can Choreograph.” Choreographers are the unsung heroes of the musical stage. They work largely behind ...

It’s hard to keep a touring production of a musical fresh — month after month, city after city, every line and dance step identical every single night. In the case of “B...

“Much Ado About Nothing” is a tale of soldiers at ease — military men stuck on an island outpost with gorgeous young women — so it makes sense that things get a little...

Studio Theatre’s “The Golden Dragon” consists of 48 scenes in 80 minutes. Five actors play 16 roles. For those, each actor assumes three characteristics — gender, age ...

Psst. Hey, buddy. You wanna see a trick? The “Masters of Illusion” tour brings magic to Washington in all of its varied mystical forms. Be dazzled by card tricks! Worry as...

New name, new direction? Not really. The group formerly known as the Washington Shakespeare Company begins its new life as WSC Avant Bard with the same off-the-wall Shakespear...