Monday, February 18, 2019
Thunder, in this case, is one Marvell Thunder, a supernatural, shape-shifting, competitive trickster who has surrendered a good bit of his humanity to act as the spirit of the blues. Played …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Did ever a villain so enjoy his murderously evil ways as Shakespeare’s Richard III? In the Shakespeare Theatre’s production, Matthew Rauch’s Richard teaches a master class in duplicity…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMMonday, February 4, 2019
The title of Topher Payne’s play is, of course, ironic. Set during the early 1950s “Lavender Scare,” a purge of gay and lesbian Federal employees coinciding with the Red Scare of that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMThursday, January 31, 2019
Outside, the Polar Vortex reigned. Inside, the jazz was hot and smoky and funny and sexy. Ain’t Misbehavin’, celebrating the work of Fats Waller, brought his music and the feel of his l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PMSaturday, January 26, 2019
Human beings are mysterious creatures: how deeply can we know even those closest to us, or ourselves? What’s the cost of knowing? In Bathsheba Doran’s 2015 play, The Mystery of Love and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMSaturday, January 19, 2019
People staying when they need to go; people going when they long to stay. People hanging on to bits of myth and legend, or a bit of land, in the face of overwhelming forces of economic logic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMWednesday, December 26, 2018
There is some uncanny and rather dismaying contemporary resonance in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, now playing at Baltimore’s Green Globe Theatre. The virginal Isabella (Grace O’K…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33AMSunday, December 16, 2018
British comedies considerably older than Noel Coward’s 1941 Blithe Spirit enjoy frequent, high-spiritedly successful revivals. Think The Importance of Being Earnest or Charley’s Aunt (a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PMWhen the pre-show features an audience participation orgasm contest, can things possibly get any wilder? Yes indeed, as Iron Crow Theatre’s Rocky Horror Show readily proves. Rocky has alwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMFriday, December 14, 2018
Striking 12 is a striking exception to the mandatory Christmas sappiness occupying most entertainment venues this time of year. It’s set at holiday time, but the holiday in question is New…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:43PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Love is unique. It is an intense bond of emotion, desire, and care between two people, deeply special to one another, that for them cannot be duplicated anywhere on Earth. Bureaucracy must r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
At 126 years old and still going strong, Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas has lost none of its power to tickle an audience’s funny bone. Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production keeps…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
For people seeking holiday entertainment in the Frederick area who might seek an alternative to A Christmas Carol, or The Nutcracker, or It’s a Wonderful Life, or one of the endless cavalc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMMonday, November 19, 2018
Cynthia Cooper’s Running on Glass, playing at Laurel’s Venus Theatre, celebrates six pioneering female athletes, all of whom had to overcome barriers not only of gender but of race, clas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32PMThursday, November 15, 2018
“De-Lovely” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Arena Stage’s production Anything Goes is as close to musical theater heaven as you can get. Cole Porter’s classic melodies and innuendo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29PMSunday, November 4, 2018
The small, low-ceilinged theater at the Greenbelt Arts Center, with intimate seating arrangements and limited space for sets, is a natural habitat for The Toxic Avenger, a quintessential sma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMMonday, October 29, 2018
Moved by an impulse analogous to the original instruments movement in early music, Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (BSF) is dedicated to mounting the Bard’s plays and those of his contempora…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Illyria is fabulous, darlings. The clothes are to die for. The décor is out of its 1980s mind. The music is as eclectic as it is electric. And plot elements and characters drawn from Twelft…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
A current exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library explores Winston Churchill’s admiration for Shakespeare, above all the World War II-era patriotic inspiration of Laurence Olivier’s fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Hurt people hurt people: a cliché, yes, but one that helps understand many of the characters in Steven A. Butler, Jr.’s Chocolate Covered Ants, revived in Restoration Stage’s gorgeous n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:54PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
The passionate purity, the incandescence of engaged young people whose hearts are touched with fire, contending against oppressive institutions burns bright in the 2015 South Africa depicted…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMSunday, October 14, 2018
It’s all together ooky, The Addams Family. That’s a good thing, of course. Save for one chronic, annoying flaw, Silhouette Stages’ production of the show is a comic delight, well sung …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMMonday, October 8, 2018
Kurt Weill’s varied score, Langston Hughes’ eloquent lyrics, a powerful book by playwright Elmer Rice, and a quality ensemble cast combine in Virginia Opera’s production of Street Scen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMSaturday, September 29, 2018
Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg, now playing at Signature Theatre, begins with two souls in hiding. Georgie Burns (Rachel Zampelli) hides whatever pains and losses she has suffered behind her f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
The Emcee is worth the price of admission, and then some. In The Fredericktowne Players’ production of the Kander/Ebb hit, Cabaret, Lenore Mionette Florez is spectacular as the impresario…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58PMSunday, September 9, 2018
So what sort of play is Hand to God? Dysfunctional family drama? Teen coping with angst saga? Angry satire on a particular style of Christianity? Scenario for a horror movie? Raunchy sex …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
No one is from there. They come from France, Vietnam, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Little Rock, and a host of unnamed American cities. Espiritu Santo, the main island setting of Rodgers and Hamm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, now playing at Signature Theatre, has two of the greatest songs in the composer’s brilliant portfolio – “I Wish I Could Forget You” and “Loving You”…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PMTuesday, August 14, 2018
In Jonathan Dahm Robertson’s set for Constellation Theatre Company’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Melancholy Play: A Contemporary Farce, a collection of two-dimensional doors is depicted…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PMSunday, August 5, 2018
Chicago, now running at Other Voices Theatre in Frederick, has a long and winding history. In 1924, Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins covered the sensational trials of Belva Gaertner and Beu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
“All you have to do is move your little finger, move your little finger, and you can change the world.” That line from Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins could well serve as an epigraph for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32PM 
