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Do you know the D.C. breakdancer in this painting?

California taught Rachel Bicknell how to moonwalk. It was the early ’80s and he was her dance instructor at the Russell School of Ballet in Fairfax. He didn’t go by any other name — it was just...

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Notable playwrights pen works on gun control for Saturday reading

Days after the details of the new, proposed assault weapons ban were unveiled, members of the D.C. and national theatrical community will come together for a reading of plays about guns and mass...

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Mike Tyson’s ‘Undisputed Truth’ at the Warner: Should you go?

World-class boxer/reprobate Mike Tyson has a one-man, autobiographical show bound for the Warner Theatre tonight and Saturday. If you’re flashing back to Charlie Sheen’s ego-fueled money-grab at DAR...

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Expect the unexpected at the first District Improv Festival, kicking off Tuesday

The city has the Capital Fringe Festival, with its mix of one-man shows, oddballs and physical theater, and the e(merge) art fair, effectively a showcase for performance art. But this week will be the...

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Curtains up on new theater in Washington

Over the next month in local theaters, there will be numerous opportunities to see shows that have never been staged in the area.

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Jasmine Guy: Embracing the outlets of the past

Jasmine Guy had a flair for acting before she even understood what it was. As a 4-year-old, she would playfully pretend to faint in front of the teenage son of her babysitter, who would sigh, "Oh,...

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Expect the unexpected on stage at the 2015 Capital Fringe Festival

The Capital Fringe Festival, in all its sprawling, unjuried creative chaos, is about life and death, and love and sex, and sorrow. It’s Shakespeare and fairy tales, burlesque and belly dancing, and...

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Capital Fringe 2015: From dating at Dance Place to Jacobean revenge in Anacostia

The 2015 Capital Fringe Festival frugs on throughout eastern D.C. with some 1960s moves at Dance Place, classical carnage in Anacostia and a homelessness monologue at the Tree House Lounge. "The...

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Capital Fringe latest: dancing and singing about the environment

Messages for the planet as the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival rolls on: Celia Wren reviews "Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet" and the two-person drama "Too Close," while Nelson Pressley listens to a...

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