A disheveled bedroom in Port of Spain, Trinidad — home to the nearly incapacitated Dinah – is playwright Tony Hall’s incubator for an important and wide-ranging drama about the des…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMIn the art of magic, Andrew Hinderaker has found a vivid metaphor for the dynamics of honesty, trust and control that underpin our most important relationships. His immensely entertaining an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PMAmy Kotkin recently had a chance to interview Michael Bloom about his upcoming production of Lisa Kron’s Well at 1st Stage. Amy: What initially attracted you to this play? Have you d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15AMIn the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland’s newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era of the Celtic Tiger was over; a mass e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12AMJez Butterworth’s The River does not yield itself to easy interpretations. Uncertainty flows through the story, jostling us repeatedly. Its questions about truth and morality are specific…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59AMOn a train rumbling eastward from Los Angeles in 1940, a young man in uniform invites himself to sit down next to a pretty young woman absorbed in her book. As it turns out, they are both fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMNo shrinking violet when it comes to exploring humanity’s most complex questions, playwright Tom Stoppard takes a deep dive into the frontiers of neuroscience, human nature, and the existe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:48PMJohn Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation was widely admired as an ingenious, penetrating look at contemporary society when it premiered in New York back in 1990. Based on a true story, it c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:03PMIf your empathy for straight white men was strained by last week’s elections, go see Young Jean Lee’s 2014 play at The Studio Theatre. You’ll be privy to a rare, funny and poignant loo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PMConor McPherson spins an intricate web of interdependence, horror, and hope among the five damaged, yet intensely human characters in his masterful play, The Night Alive. It takes a hugely t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMKathleen Turner is back at Arena Stage, and that is always good news for Washington theater-goers. Having starred in Mother Courage and her Children, and Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMWhen the cast of St. Mark‘s Players’ new production, Peter and the Starcatcher, charges out from behind deep red curtains for their opening scene, that is your cue. Stop right here and s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMThe enduring popularity of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes offers proof positive that themes of greed, racism, and misogyny continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Though set …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMThe raves never stop pouring in for Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, and humanitarian Angelique Kidjo – nor should they. Called by NPR “Africa’s greatest living diva,” Kidjo�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMTheater folks and fans alike reveled in last night’s Summer Hummer V: Champions – the Washington Theater Community’s annual one-night-only benefit for theatreWashington’s ‘Ta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PMIn this season of our discontent, How to Give Birth to a Rabbit reminds us that bizarre hoaxes and media frenzies are hardly 21st-century inventions. In fact, one of Western history’s mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMThink about your worst family Thanksgiving ever, then amp up its bizarre agonies a thousand fold. Even then, you will not come close to the dysfunction displayed by the Pascal family of McLe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51AMMagic: The Gathering, a trading card game representing epic battles between wizards, has an estimated 20 million active players worldwide. Judging from the enthusiastic reaction of the audie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMOver 17 years, The Rude Mechanicals, a local theater company specializing in classic works, has made its way through nearly all of Shakespeare’s enduring canon. After the current product…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMIf you think we are over-saturated with passionate discussions of race, gender, nationality, and religion during this chaotic election year — think again. There is still much to be p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMAmerica’s fascination with mobile phones, drones, and Fitbits were all parodied in the 2016 Hexagon show, but in this year of unprecedented political rancor, the group’s new revue, adept…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PMThere are good reasons why Bruce Norris’ 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park has been staged no less than five times in the past four years by local companies.First, it …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMWhat better place could there possibly be to mount Sweeney Todd than the magnificent late-Victorian St. Mark’s Church on Capitol Hill? And what more capable or inventive local company cou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:46PMThe Klunch, a newly formed theater company launched by Ian Allen, former artistic director of Cherry Red Productions, inaugurated its first season with the DC premiere of George is Dead, a…
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