'Red Velvet' focuses on an 1833 milestone when Ira Aldridge became the first Black actor in history to portray 'Othello.'
An all-star ensemble takes on the Thornton Wilder classic in director Paul's unprecedented production at The Shakespeare Theatre.
Reflecting on the eternal and the ephemeral, Our Town hits every note in Thornton Wilder's classic symphony of Americana.
Plumbing the homoerotic tendencies in the text, Arin Arbus' The Merchant of Venice unearths a fresh take.
In "Once Upon a One More Time" at Shakespeare Theatre, Jon Hartmere offers a Britney Spears-inspired feminist take on fairytale princesses
An unprecedented display of unity among more than a dozen D.C. area theaters is intended to protect performers, staff, and patrons.
A fictional court case drawn from the marital woes in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale."
In "All the Devils Are Here," Patrick Page connects today's popular villains to their roots in Shakespeare's works
Artistic Director Simon Godwin hopes for a "chatty, informed, engaging exploration of why Shakespeare is great"
We celebrate the work of Todd Franson with a stunning array of 126 portraits from 1996 to 2020.
Spend your gold on Simon Godwin’s extraordinary reboot of Timon of Athens, starring the phenomenal Kathryn Hunter.
James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner" feels remarkably fresh, original, and vitally important
With "Peter Pan and Wendy," Alan Paul helps to reshape a treasured classic and reimagines it for a new generation
"The Woman in Black" owes much to old-fashioned stagecraft, but it takes its time getting where it's going
"Everybody" puts amusing, compelling thought at the mercy of randomized casting