Saturday, July 9, 2016
Get ready for a distinctly American piece of multi-media artistry told in choreography, text and video projections by Artistic Director Jane Franklin of Jane Franklin Dance in Arlington, Va.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08AMFriday, September 25, 2015
DC playwright Karen Zacarías’ world-premiere musical comedy Destiny of Desire is a delightfully soapy mix of magic realism and situation comedy – so sit back in this bubble b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:47PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
Metropolitan Youth Theatre’s production of RENT is a 100% student-run show from the director to the 17 actors who are making this flashback to the turn-of-the-century HIV/AIDS epidemic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
A huge, multi-generational cast tells the story of integrating a 1962 Baltimore TV dance show in a musical directed by Tara Taylor that is all heart—and soul. With book by Mark O’Donnel …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Just off her success for McLean High School with Big Fish, which rose to local and national prominence, Director Amy E. Poe is leading a cast of young adults in American Idiot. The rock musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Valerie Fenton leads an all-woman cast as a super mom, super employee, and superhero in Leto Legend by Kristen LePine. Depicting the dual character of Charlie/Leto, Fenton, a founding member…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMMonday, May 4, 2015
The McLean Community Players are performing an enjoyable production of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon’s play about a mismatched couple, directed by Jerry Bonnes. One of the longest-runni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47AMFriday, April 10, 2015
A well-cast and convincing docudrama directed by Amy Poe is giving audiences a lot to talk about, opening a few minds, and lending high school students with fluid gender identities a degree …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Three accomplished performers are singing their hearts out in a real crowd-pleaser at Signature Theatre’s Gone Country cabaret, a short engagement conceived and directed by Walter Ware II…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMMonday, March 30, 2015
I attended the Russian National Ballet Theatre’s enchanting Cinderella on Friday night at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Cinderella moves to George Mason University’s Center for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:55AMFriday, March 27, 2015
Just as the cherry blossoms come out, pure romance is in the air with Cinderella at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is performing this three-act…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Two-or three-mil plastic tube sheeting cut into a single thickness can be taped together with clear packing tape or two-sided carpet tape to make huge, bubble-like structures, some 200 set …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMSaturday, March 21, 2015
There is a lot of free software available to theaters to design everything from sets to lighting, sound, and projections. If you have the processing speed and RAM on your computer, you can e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMFriday, March 20, 2015
Have you wanted to break the fourth wall but don’t know how to immerse your audience into a performance? About 200 members of the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14AMThursday, March 19, 2015
Does your theater company have an untapped wealth of supplies that you could loan out in order to make money on your inventory of costumes, props or lighting? Perhaps you just want to loan o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51AMSunday, March 15, 2015
Olivia Laurine’s fantastic performance as Mowgli, plus original music and artful masks, make for an absolutely mesmerizing rendition of The Jungle Book at Creative Cauldron in Falls Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:14PMFriday, March 13, 2015
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Nunsense at Wolf Pack Theatre Company, meet Linda Whiting. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us where local theatregoers may h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMStay tuned next Wednesday, March 18, 2015, as DCMetroTheaterArts technology reporter Yvonne French travels to Cincinnati to cover the U.S. Institute of Theater Technology’s 55th Annu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36AMSunday, February 15, 2015
This confection of a girl’s-night-out show deserves six stars, one for each of the five actresses, who depict 29 characters in 28 vignettes about fashion, plus one for Director Lorrain…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMSunday, January 11, 2015
Billed as Crime and Punishment in America this pairing of one-act plays (Cops and Hello Out There) are must-sees for several reasons. First, they are well-written, gritty crime dramas from…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:35PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Director Jennifer Lambert has coached two casts of 13 talented youngsters—plus a baby who plays Woodstock–to their natural best and the simplicity of A Charlie Brown Christmas’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AMSaturday, November 29, 2014
The Great One-Man Commedia Epic is a one-man show that is so endearing that I felt like my Dad had just told me a bed-time story. Like my Dad, Matthew R. Wilson pretended to have an argumen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18AMMonday, November 24, 2014
1st Stage, One Man, Two Guvnors, Five Stars. Uproariously directed by Matthew R. Wilson, the madcap British farce, One Man, Two Guvnors, by Richard Bean, with songs by Grant Olding, is about…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Alex Stone and Rachel Lawhead showed so much chemistry that you would have thought that their roles were written for them. in Act Two @ Levine’s stunning production of Sweeney Todd: Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMMonday, October 20, 2014
Reston Community Players’ You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is a sweet and serious show that will warm the cockles of your heart. This delightful 1967 musical comedy has music a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AMSunday, August 3, 2014
The Little Theatre of Alexandria has a smash it on its hands with The Monty Python’s Spamalot. The opening night audience bellowed and clapped and roared at the puns and gave a standin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PMFriday, July 11, 2014
In his play Interrogation, John Feffer, a foreign policy analyst who writes widely on privacy issues, pokes gentle fun at U.S. intelligence agencies as if to say, “I love my country but I …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AMFriday, June 27, 2014
This contemporary ballet with the string quartet performing onstage fuses sound and movement in four contemporary dances featuring two world premieres, including the tango-inspired “Sur”…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMMonday, June 9, 2014
If you like great acting and want to know what it must be like to be mentally ill and to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, go see The Wonderful World of Dissocia, directed by C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09AMFriday, May 30, 2014
The McLean High Choral Society is putting on a magical performance of The Secret Garden even as it weathers budget cuts that did away with a formal class for a 50-year-old Renaissance-style …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AMMonday, April 21, 2014
I know a lot of librarians who would love Underneath the Lintel (and non-librarians too like those in the audience last night who were having a great time). First, it includes variety of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AM 
