Nancy Hays was off to the races as soon as she heard Isaac Burns Murphy’s story when she visited the Kentucky Derby Museum in 2019. Murphy, a famous African-American jockey in the late 1800s, had been ...

Several lawmakers took a break from debating legislation on Capitol Hill to instead recite William Shakespeare at Harman Hall on Tuesday evening. The Shakespeare Theatre Company ...

Deen's dystopic comedy set at a predominantly white university overflows with sharp observations at Definition.

Juneteenth is a national day of celebration, but the holiday is too big for just June 19. Around the D.C. region, events take place on the weekends before and after, as well on Juneteenth itself — the ...

Seventeen people were arrested Tuesday night during a protest in Denver, separate from a larger demonstration earlier in the evening near the state Capitol.

When John Lewis first sings about “good trouble” in Theatrical Outfit’s Young John Lewis, his dad scoffs. “That don’t make no ...

I COULD never quite get to grips with Louisa May Alcott’s 19th century novel Little Women, and yet Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation for stage ...

The US and China say they've reached a preliminary agreement aimed at reducing trade tensions between the world's two largest ...

President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests follows a long ...