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  • Kathleen Turner and Margaret Engel discuss Red Hot Patriot

    On August 23, Kathleen Turner will take to the stage at Arena Stage playing late, legendary, liberal newspaper columnist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot:...

  • Arena Stage’s Piano Bar

    Cast members from the two shows currently playing the Arena Stage complex — The Music Man and The Normal Heart, will stick around after performances...

  • Heartfelt

    Playing Ned and Felix, the two lovers at the center of The Normal Heart, Patrick Breen and Luke Macfarlane have come to D.C.'s Arena Stage...

  • Heartache: 'The Normal Heart'

    The power of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart lies not only in its incisive, witty and emotionally honest account of the birthing pains of New...

  • Concept Man

    Beloved for more than half a century since its Broadway debut, The Music Man is certainly a musical comedy that's earned the label ''timeless.'' Yet...

  • Dance to the Music

    ''I played Harold Hill in high school,'' laughs Parker Esse, when asked how familiar he is with The Music Man. Of course, his starring role...

  • In previews: The Music Man

    Arena Stage’s Molly Smith picks up where she left off with last year’s stunning revamp of Oklahoma!, this time reviving Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey’s...

  • Arena venture’s into O’Neill’s Wilderness

    Kyle Donnelly directs Eugene O’Neill’s sweet-tempered, romantic comedy Ah, Wilderness!. The show stars Rick Foucheux, Nancy Robinette and June Schreiner as the Connecticut-based Miller clan....

  • Review: The Elephant Room

    Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness, The Elephant Room is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your...

  • Review: Red

    Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...

  • Red at Arena Stage

    It’s become so difficult to get tickets to Arena Stage’s production of the Tony-winning Red, the theater has already extended the run an extra week...

  • Get your tickets to Red at Arena Stage now!

    It’s become so difficult to get tickets to Arena Stage’s production of the Tony-winning play Red, the theater has already extended its run an extra...

  • Big Hair

    After six years on Broadway, national tours and a splashy big-screen adaptation, how much charm could be left in the Charm City of the musical...

  • Fiddling with History

    What would Julie do? Danny Scheie asks himself that periodically, referring to Julie Andrews. ''She's a good barometer. She always behaves really, really well.'' So...

  • The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012

    Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...