Monday, 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 10:17AMSaturday, April 19, 2014
A group of smart, funny and nice-seeming comedians from the famous Second City improv group of Chicago entertained about 600 appreciative people at the Barns at Wolf Trap last night. Since i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
The delicious aroma of bread fills the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center World Stage Festival as a talented ensemble of deaf-blind actors from Israel bakes bread and dishes up ten short …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18AMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Opera lovers who are blind or have low vision and want to get materials to complement live radio broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera can do so with the National Library Service for the Bl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24AMFriday, March 14, 2014
“The rest is silence” are Hamlet’s last words before he dies, but you won’t hear them in this production because the whole play is conveyed in movement. Not a word is spoken. Syn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMFriday, February 21, 2014
A pair of quintessential absurdist plays–The Bald Soprano and The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco–will lift you from the humdrum and deposit you in a place where language takes on a ref…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performances in February 2014 ______ Tuesday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 15, at 2 p.m. Audio Describer: Richard Collins; Program Notes: Sylvia …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMSunday, January 26, 2014
I knew this was going to be a good performance when I saw the on the Web that it was choreographed by Hélène Blackburn and Pierre Lecours, “with the invaluable collaboration of dancers.�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56AMSaturday, January 11, 2014
Ever wonder what goes on–not behind the scenes–but beneath the surface of the performing arts? Such as what might have led to a Bolshoi Ballet star dancer’s conviction for thro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMSaturday, January 4, 2014
The Angelica Film Center & Cafe at the Mosaic in Virginia’s mod new Merrifield development has audio captioning devices that fit into the drink holders. 2911 District Ave @ Lee Hwy &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01AMThursday, December 26, 2013
Tribes features a deaf protagonist, Billy, whose hearing family forces him to read lips. Billy has been deaf since birth. His sister, brother and parents are smart, cultured and love to argu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
The Christian Life Center was filled with The Christmas Spirit as a group of actors from all walks of life performed A Christmas Carol to benefit homeless shelters in Prince George’s Count…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23AMSaturday, December 14, 2013
In anticipation that A Commedia Christmas Carol is here to stay, I am giving it the most Washington of all things: an acronym (ACCC). ACCC is based on the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:57PMThursday, November 28, 2013
NOVEMBER 2013 ASL Interpreted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 8:00 pm; Saturday December 7 at 8:00 pm; Sunday December 8 at 2:00 pm; and Saturday December 21 at 2:00 pm Open Captioning availab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Is it possible to engage in S&M and appear heartwarming at the same time? The answer is ‘yes’ if you are in the cast of Bondage by Pinky Swear Productions. What an excellent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03PMSaturday, November 2, 2013
“The Graduate was published 50 years ago and it’s still shockingly relevant today,” said actor Darren Richardson. “People graduate from college and they’re lucky to get a job at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23PMFriday, October 25, 2013
DC is now considered the second biggest theater town in the United States, after New York. It also has one of the biggest deaf communities, which means there is a lot of culture: deaf cultur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21AMSaturday, October 19, 2013
Broken Spokes is a complex production with excellent acting that packs an emotional wallop while lending insights about Deaf culture. Says Writer-Director Willy Conley, “My intention was t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:28PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Dani Stoller and Lou Steele should go down in the regional theater history as “Stoller and Steele” for Marry Me a Little. It is one of the top shows I have seen in 25 years. Brilliantly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:31PMFriday, September 27, 2013
The main character of Synetic Theater’s new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on Oscar Wilde’s only novel, is a handsome young man who sits for a portrait by a painter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39PMSunday, August 11, 2013
If a pop singer was ever gutsy and gusty at the same time it is Carrie Manolakos. She can belt out long notes and switch in a nanosecond to a tone that ends with a breathy whisper—or vice …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMFriday, August 9, 2013
The crowd sat back and exhaled a soft “ahhh” at the opening notes of “Un Amor,” or “One Love” at the Gipsy Kings concert Thursday night at Wolf Trap. To see the lead vocalist Nic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMThursday, August 8, 2013
South Carolina, 1949. Fifteen-year-old Alice is about to graduate from high school. When she was 7, her parents had promised her to a man who was old enough to be her grandfather, a little-k…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSunday, August 4, 2013
The Muppets are making fun of us according to a panel of experts at Strathmore. “People don’t really know what to expect with a puppet,” said Molly Ross, founder of Nana Projects, a m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48AMSunday, July 28, 2013
America the Beautiful by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the earnest and lively American conductor Emil de Cou soared at Wolf Trap. First of all, what a great place. It is so ni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:52PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
This is the first in a series of links that will be updated regularly. If you know of any other links on accessible arts, please put them in the comment box below. Accessible: Performances a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMSynesthesia: Sign-Interpreted Performances for July and August by Yvonne French Thursday, July 25th Mandy Harvey Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center Sign-Interpreted and Captioned: Thursd…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39AMMonday, July 22, 2013
General Ulysses S. Grant returned to Washington on Sunday not seven blocks from where he was once turned away from the Willard Hotel when he was in town to visit President Abraham Lincoln. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMSaturday, July 20, 2013
In this 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Washington, D.C., is lucky to have storyteller “Country Joe” Rosier create living histories of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Don’t miss this show when it next comes to town. It is quite an aural and visual experience and the people are great! The National Symphony Orchestra teamed up with video game composers fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
In Ambassador Theater’s The Third Breast you are transported from an idyllic commune into a militaristic cult. The harrowing journey is the hallmark of thought-provoking theater. It w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM 
