Friday, August 29, 2014
Last night at The Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA I was privy to one of the most energetic and just all out fun concerts I have ever been to (and I have been to A LOT of them!). One…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
On a Hot Scorching July night, Jennifer Nettles, one half of the Grammy-award winning duo, Sugarland, set the stage on fire! While the night temperature did lower significantly, due to the a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMSunday, July 13, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Point…Blank…Period, created by Tramaine Brathwaite and written along with Ryiesha Simms and Devynne Stevenson is a hilarious, heartwarming, look into that ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have some stellar, successful person be our own personal mentor? That’s what Annie (Catie Carlton) and Tinley (Larissa Kruesi, also one of the two pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) Homeboy Thanksgiving, written by Jose Zarate and directed by Rhiannon Cooper is a story of the healing nature of family and friendship. Ernesto (Silas Gordon Bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:41PMFriday, July 11, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Even before the show starts, Stone Tape Party, written by Danny Rovin and directed by Angela Pirko, immerses the audience in the vivacity that is the house where…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMEverything I Do is a musical, loosely adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman by playwright and composer John Becker. Just as the tagline in the promos for the show say, “You…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Last night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, I got to be in the presence of the amazing, legendary Diana Ross. Ross, named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful femal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Someone once said “revenge is sweet.” In the case of CulturalDC’s Source Festival show Revenge, not only is revenge sweet, but it is hilarious, thought-provoking, and at times a little…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:25AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The music of the ABBA never fails to get toes tapping and listeners dancing. Last night at The National Theater was no different. Mamma Mia! is the ultimate love story written by Catherine …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
The opening number of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical farce A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, “Comedy Tonigh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
I’m sure you’ve heard about the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast incident in the 1930s, where H.G. Wells’ novel was adapted for a radio broadcast read by Orson Welles and cau…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44AMSaturday, August 17, 2013
I can’t think of anything better than a beautiful fall-like night in the middle of the summer, picnicking on the lawn of the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, the company of a good friend, and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44PMThursday, July 18, 2013
There is no doubt that technology is a large part of many of our lives. Have you ever left the house and forgotten your smartphone? I have, and I start having withdrawal symptoms just thinki…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
When you hear that a theater company is performing Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you probably think to yourself “Oh yea…I know Macbeth. How will this be any different from all the other times…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17AMSaturday, June 29, 2013
Just like in The Temptations song “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” I sure did love the way the Temptations and The Four Tops did the things they do last night at the Filene Center at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMThursday, June 27, 2013
It was a scorcher last night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap…and I’m not just referring to the heat. Counting Crows and The Wallflowers put on a hot, hot, hot show! The night started o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMFriday, June 21, 2013
What’s better than the sound of rock and roll music and catchy familiar lyrics? Rock and roll music with a British accent, of course! Last night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap, Billy Id…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
The amazing Melissa Etheridge kicked off her 2013 Summer Tour last night at The Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA with a rousing performance of the free-spirited, rocking and rolling…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMMonday, June 17, 2013
On the Cusp, the series of 10-minute plays inspired by the full length play, Perfect Arrangements, is a batch of amusingly funny stories about beginnings and how they shape us. In A Unicorn …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Its that time of year again! Summer in DC means theater festival time! First up, is CulturalDC’s three-week long Source Festival, now celebrating its sixth year. Afterward, the series of 1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
I am so impressed by the stellar quality of Community Theatre in this area, and I am happy to say that Vienna Theatre Company’s production of The Hallelujah Girls, produced by Bill Mullins…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus is one of his least popular plays—its language lacks the normal Shakespeare smoothness, it’s violent and bloody, it’s long, and there are a lot of sc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Given the current political climate, The Victorian Lyric Opera Company’s performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s political satire Iolanthe seems particularly apropos. The operetta, now pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMFriday, December 21, 2012
On a chilly night in December 1956, kismet brought together four music legends Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley for an incredible jam session that would live on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03AMThursday, December 20, 2012
C.S. Lewis’ classic treatise on Christianity, faith, and the failings of the human race, The Screwtape Letters, has been brought to life on the stage through Jeffrery Friske and Max McLean…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
The world premiere of Young Robin Hood, written by Jon Klein, at Round House Theatre, is a multi-faceted show. At first look, the production, directed by Derek Goldman, seems to be a simple …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27AMSunday, December 2, 2012
When I was first introduced to David Sedaris in college, I was hooked from the first word by his sardonic humor. The Santaland Diaries, chronicles his adventures (or should I say mis-adventu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMSaturday, December 1, 2012
One of my favorite holiday memories as a child was putting on a pretty dress and going to stand in the line at Macy’s in Herald Square with my cousins for our annual visit and photos with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27AMThursday, August 30, 2012
Theater J is starting its 2012-2013 “This is Who We Are” season with the captivating, poignant, and humorous Body Awareness by Annie Baker. Body Awareness, directed by Eleanor Holdridge,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Menopause The Musical (with lyrics and story by Jeanie Linders) playing at The Warner Theatre is an uproariously funny story about four woman who meet one fateful day over the lingerie sale …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35AM 
