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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Outside the Wire’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Outside the Wire is a compelling and moving portrait of the toll war takes on soldiers and their families. Written by Jimi Stanton, who plays Sargent Mark Mercer, the lead, the play follows…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04AM
Sunday, July 14, 2013

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Waiting for Orson’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Waiting for Orson is an engaging and well-acted meditation on mysticism, madness, and the confusion between the two. Camped out in Penn Station, Tristan (played by Christopher Scott Leith) i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36AM
Saturday, February 16, 2013

‘Canterbury’ at Pointless Theatre by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

It is not exactly Chaucer’s England. Here there are moat bears. There is chocolate, too, along with women who want inordinate quantities of it. Instead of passing the daffodils while on ho…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:39PM
Thursday, November 8, 2012

‘Playwright Kurt Hackbarth, in Mexico, Confronts the Man’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Kurt Hackbarth’s new play, El Ostrakon: A Tragedy in Three Acts, which launched Oaxaca’s recent theater festival, examines quotidian forms of oppression: the education system, organize…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM
Monday, July 16, 2012

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Tent of Dreams: An Occuplay’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

The Baldacchino Gypsy Tent, with a loud crowd thronging in the bar next door, is the perfect setting. The crowd will likely be inside, too, standing against the edges of the tent, packed in …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08AM

Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Goddess Diaries’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Having read that The Goddess Diaries sprang from an exercise at playwright Carol Campbell’s church, I must have had in the back of my mind the image of a basement room in an old building, …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AM
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Capital Fringe Review: ‘The New and Improved Stages of Grief’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

The famed Italian novelist Italo Calvino during a 1968 visit to the US noted the following: Americans laugh at death. He had seen a comedy routine at a jazz club and wrote home about it,  s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PM

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Right to Remain…The Life and Mind of Tupac Shakur’ by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Even on a cool night, the heat of the Fort Fringe Bedroom is stifling. You will forget about it within two minutes as you enter Tupac Shakur’s world, shaped and portrayed by Meshaun Labron…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

‘The Bacchae’ at WSC Avant Bard by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Until the drumming began and the guitars wound their gypsy music across the stage and members of the chorus began to gyrate, I didn’t realize how much I was longing to see something new. H…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PM
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

‘Crowns of Shadows: the wake of odysseus’ at Round House Theatre by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus, written by Jason Gray Platt and premiering at Round House Theatre, is witty and surprising. Gray Platt, at twenty-seven, is already quite accomplished…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM
Saturday, April 14, 2012

‘John & Beatrice’ at The Hub Theatre by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

The Hub Theatre’s production of John & Beatrice is riveting. The play is funny, poetic, suspenseful, and deep. A young woman advertises that she is an heiress who has never loved anyon…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM
Monday, March 26, 2012

An Interview with Actress Emily Morrison by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Emily Love Morrison is a Washington, DC actor, who most recently performed in American Century Theater’s  Little Murders, by Jules Feiffer. She offered her perspective on life as an actor…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AM
Sunday, March 25, 2012

An Interview with Constellation Theatre Company’s Allison Stockman by Pat Davis by Pat Davis

Constellation Theatre Company is one of Washington, DC’s under-the-radar wonders. Founded in 2007, the theater company, in its intimate space at Source, has quietly been doing the big thin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards