Thursday, August 15, 2013
Carol Solomon, daughter of one of the great voice-over (V.O.) artists, Sam Sotto (Fred Melamed), has been getting by as a voice coach, so overshadowed vocally and cowed psychologically by he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
The Fringe is rightly known and celebrated for giving people who may not be regular theater goers a chance to take a few bites of the performing-arts apple, with the hope and expectation tha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMMonday, July 15, 2013
What is the secret of happiness? If we took everybody who claimed to have an answer to that elusive question and laid them end to end, the line would probably stretch from DC to Armenia, w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22PMSunday, July 14, 2013
Looking at the title of this show, you know it’s a metaphor. And even without knowing anything about what the show’s about, you probably feel sure you know what the metaphor’s for. Whi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56PMEntering the theater, we are greeted, and just this side of visually and audibly—threateningly, or unintentionally?—assaulted, by the sight and sounds of a slim, intense young man doing …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMFriday, July 12, 2013
“So different. So alike. Who knew?” Such is the premise of this smash hit show, which has played across not only across the country but across the ocean (of all places—given the them…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42PM“Standard advice for people who are planning a move into a new home is ‘get to know your neighborhood’ before you move in,” writes Ellouise Schoettler. The widow of a Vietnam-era phy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50PMThursday, June 20, 2013
No doubt about it: this is not your father’s (not to mention your English teacher’s) Shakespeare. Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing opens with a close-up of a man’s bare feet inse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PMFriday, May 24, 2013
When Henry James wrote What Maisie Knew in 1897, little did he dream that more than a century later it would form the basis for a screenplay that would speak with equally corrosive authentic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
When HBO and Comedy Central’s Lauren Weedman decided to take her comedic sensibilities to the jailhouse and teach a writing workshop, her good intentions were tinged with a sense of nobles…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
It isn’t often that a production will justify a reviewer’s use of the delightful word “pixilated,” especially as a homonym. That said, if ever there was a time, it is now. In Mic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the magnificent productions on DC theater boards, their elegant sets and colorful costumes either enhancing or competing with the luscious language emana…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Fairy tales and philosophy should make for strange bedfellows, and, at least in theory, even stranger bedtime stories. But in Constellation Theatre Company’s wondrous production of the 18t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AMThursday, April 21, 2011
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. While those ominous words may not hang above Flashpoint’s door, Dante would recognize this place. Cautiously making our way around the darkened room �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:25AMMonday, April 18, 2011
Say the name Samuel Beckett, and most people think: Waiting for Godot, existentialism. Theatre of the absurd, where absurd means meaningless. As we watch Peter Brook and Marie Hélène E…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMTuesday, November 16, 2010
Fresh from winning both Best Overall Show and Audience Choice Best Comedy at this summer’s Pick of the Fringe Awards, Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending is back with both a bang and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AM 
