With the Washington Post’s arts and culture sections gutted what are D.C. theaters doing to foster the local critical ecosystem.

With the Washington Post’s arts and culture sections gutted what are D.C. theaters doing to foster the local critical ecosystem.

On the 50th anniversary of Thornton Wilder's death, Guys and Dolls, Merrily We Roll Along on film, and Hamnet

On ho ho ho ha ha ha ha, Liberation, Beau: The Musical, A Case for the Existence of God, Stephen Fry, In Good Company, and A Man of No Importance

The Sunday Critic is a theatre-first, DC-forward newsletter of cultural criticism from D.R. Lewis. Click to read The Sunday Critic, by D.R. Lewis, a Substack publication.

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

The distance between The Avett Brothers’ upbringing in Concord, North Carolina, and the 19th-century whaling industry of New Bedford, Massachusetts, spans hundreds of miles and several lifetimes. But ...

David Auburn's poignant memory play at Studio Theatre portrays two women's fragile friendship.

Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.