The Motherfucker With the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis' 2011 play about addiction and recovery, is the biggest attraction in the 2012-2013 lineup announced today by The Studio Theatre. more ›

A more humbled Mike Daisey sat before an audience at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company last night in the latest round of handwringing over his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. more ›

The actor Kevin Spacey will appear at the Helen Hayes Awards next month to receive a special award for his theater work and advocacy for public support for the arts. more ›

Mike Daisey, the writer and performer of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, will address the fabrication controversy over his monologue at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company on Tuesday. more ›

Mike Daisey, whose monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was renounced last week by This American Life, attempted to explain himself before a Georgetown University crowd last night. more ›

Mike Daisey, whose last monologue, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was both hilarious and thought-provoking, returns to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in the 2012-2013 season with a new work. more ›

The Book of Mormon, tickets to which go for as much as $636 on Broadway, will anchor the Kennedy Center's 2012-2013 theater season. more ›

In Jason Grote's Civilization (all you can eat), premiering this month at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (after a three-show festival run last summer in New York), U.S. society is boiled down into a bunch of gluttonous, frenzied, sexually frustrated consumers. In other words, just about normal. more ›

Janis Joplin, Eliza Doolittle, Martin Luther King Jr. and a play that had to be bumped from the current season are the big attractions on Arena Stage's schedule for the 2012-2013 season. And the lineup looks pretty enticing. more ›

In Richard Hellesen's Necessary Sacrifices, making its world premiere at Ford's Theatre, the fight to end slavery is boiled down into a dry, declamation-heavy script that rarely jumps off the historic stage. more ›

Take Doug Henning's magic, the goofiness of Wayne's World, add a healthy dose of '70s kitsch, and you have Elephant Room, a charming and funny show currently running at Arena Stage. more ›

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is testing out "tweet seats" for their upcoming production of Civilization (all you can eat). Theater purists beware. more ›

Described as a "comedy about relationships, faith and the fine line between compromise and regret," Theater J's production of The Religion Thing is, in fact, a melodrama that's about as subtle as a sledgehammer. more ›

This month in theater: Red at Arena Stage, Necessary Sacrifices at Ford's Theatre and La Cage aux Folles at the Kennedy Center. more ›

The Shakespeare Theatre Company's beautifully staged production of Much Ado About Nothing entertains and amuses, making for an evening well-spent. more ›

This month's theater is chock full of ongoing productions from November, numerous holiday offerings and some choice openings. more ›

The highly successful reworking of Pride & Prejudice, currently running at the Round House Theatre, respects Jane Austen's rich language and characters while keeping the audience engaged and entertained. more ›

The City Paper reports this afternoon that the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities has announced that it will take control of the Lincoln Theatre, which ran into severe financial troubles in late September. more ›

The month of November brings us some classics, a few early holiday offerings and the Shakespeare to watch while you wait for Joss Whedon's take on the Bard. more ›

As it turns out, Mayor Vince Gray's proposed movie concession tax hike is about a lot more than simply funding an incentive program for a cineplex east of the Anacostia River. In fact, Gray's got one particular Hollywood star he'd like to try and attract to the District. more ›

This month, we highlight shows dealing with the end of the world, life after an earthquake, or life after death, undead-style. Heavy stuff. more ›

Parade is a musical that wreaks havoc on the emotions. more ›

It should be a recipe for a delightfully subversive evening: DC’s own talented commedia dell’arte troupe, Faction of Fools, performing a sly comedy by none other than Machiavelli, reinterpreting his classic satire The Mandrake with commedia characters and big-nosed masks. more ›

Kicking off the Kennedy Center's CHINA: The Art of a Nation series, Two Dogs' Opinions on Life is a laugh riot—if you speak Chinese. Luckily for the rest of us, the actors carry off the difficult task of parodying Chinese life in slapstick, farce, and sound effects everyone can understand. more ›

If you want to see two likable, funny, complicated people being kind of silly about falling in love, then No Rules Theatre Company's production of Stop Kiss should be on your going-out list in the next two weeks. more ›

Sad news to pass along from the world of radio: Joe Barber, the entertainment editor at WTOP who spent 20 years as a film and theater critic for various broadcast and print outlets, was found dead at his Washington home today. According to WTOP, Barber died of natural causes; he was 53. more ›

How can you make a 300-year-old French farce that loses something in translation accessible to a modern English-speaking audience? For the Shakespeare Theatre, the solution is to simply re-write it with that audience in mind, and it works out quite nicely. more ›

When you're buried up to your torso in a huge mound of dirt, unable to escape, you don't have much more than your words. That's where Winnie wakes up at the start of Samuel Beckett's classic Happy Days, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year in this production from the former Washington Shakespeare Company, newly remonikered this season as WSC Avant Bard. more ›

Oh, September. One of the season's most jam-packed months is no exception this year, with more than 20 shows debuting around town. Whether you're into new musicals, edgy Shakespeare or, well, Ray Bradbury, we've got you covered. more ›

A documentarian wants to make a film about the Devil, who has conveniently taken human form. In describing the experience, the documentarian says he expects it "to be confusing and incomplete." So it is with Longacre Lea's Something Past in Front of the Light. more ›