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Not only is Maurice Hines tappin’ thru life at the Arena Stage. He’s also talkin’ and singin’.

Woodrow Wilson High School’s production of West Side Story tackled this challenge head on creating an evening full of love, hope, and tragedy that ultimately conjured many tears from the audience.

For those with a taste for the raw power of live theater, and who don’t require a happy ending to be satisfied, Mies Julie by South African writer/director Yael Farbe is a work of art.

With two superb performances by Matthew Keenan and Robert Leembruggen, the haunting light and sound designs by Michael Innocenti and Tony Angelini, respectively, make for a spine-tingling and sometimes whimsical adventure that will leave you begging for more.

So subtle, intricate, and well designed and performed are every detail and nuance of 36 Views that this is one of those rare productions that would reward more than a single viewing. Fascinating, from start to finish. Really.

Its title notwithstanding, Charles Randolph-Wright’s new play, Love in Afghanistan, now playing at Arena Stage, has little in it of the conventional love story.

Learn about Molotov Theatre Group’s current production of William Mastrosimone’s Extremities, an intense psychological drama about the aftermath of an attempted rape when the intended victim turns the tables on her attacker.

In bringing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to view, Helen Hayes Award-winning director Aaron Posner puts his stamp on the plague on both houses showing us a world through a glass darkly.

ShowBizRadio talks with lawyer-turned-producer Larry Kaye, who is the producer of The Velocity of Autumn, currently playing at Arena Stage.

The production is full of well-realized character roles, and the technical side of the production lives up to the Shakespeare Theatre’s typically high standards.