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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Review: Source Festival 2016: ‘Crossroads’: Artistic Blind Date by David Siegel

Plunk yourself down upstairs at the Source Theatre to take in a state of mind; one of dreams and dissonance. Let yourself be open to three creative artists who bring forth dream states at th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

In the Moment: An Interview with Workhouse Arts Center’s Ava Spece by David Siegel

The Workhouse Arts Center is a 55-acre cultural arts center located in southern Fairfax County. For the history minded, It was 100 years ago that Suffragettes who had protested the lack of v…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AM
Monday, June 13, 2016

In the Moment: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Signature Theatre: New Meaning in the Midst of the Orlando Massacre and a Spoiled Son by David Siegel

Signature Theatre’s production of La Cage aux Folles under the sure hands of Director/Choreographer Matthew Gardiner is a fabulously fun rendering.  There is simply no way to leave the pr…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AM
Friday, June 10, 2016

In the Moment: ‘Technical Theater Boot Camp’ at Hylton Performing Arts Center. by David Siegel

This summer Hylton Performing Art Center is offering a unique opportunity for “hands-on” learning about what happens backstage during a live theater performance. The Hylton is offering…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11AM
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Source Festival 2016: ‘Buried Cities’ by David Siegel

This year’s edition of the DC Source Festival continues with its central mission to present works fresh to the DC area. The new theater works at Source receive their first full production …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PM
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

In the Moment: Providence Players of Fairfax Honor Their Student Scholarship Awardees: Miryam Mendelson and Blake Phillips by David Siegel

Giving back to the community is an important goal for the Providence Players of Fairfax. The Providence Players (PPF) is known for its work to serve its diverse community, especially with it…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AM
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Review: ‘The Miser’ at Faction of Fools by David Siegel

Faction of Fools is delightfully back with a well-concocted, refreshing, street-fair fare of Moliere’s The Miser. This happy show is one with a pointed, underscored, right-on-the-surface m…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PM
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

In the Moment: ‘The Who & the What’ at Round House Theatre by David Siegel

So here we are in a world class city with ever changing demographics that represent all the world. Those include refugees, immigrants and people who may practice a different faith. Thanks to…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02PM
Saturday, May 28, 2016

In the Moment: Synetic Theater’s ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’ by David Siegel

Synetic Theater’s The Man in the Iron Mask is a good yarn, well told. With the production Synetic continues to expand beyond its original Shakespeare roots and singular “silent” physic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AM
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Review: ‘Titanic The Musical’ at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts by David Siegel

Theatre Lab’s production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Titanic The Musical will easily win you over. Under the direction of Deb Gottesman and musical direction by Joshua Coyn…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PM
Saturday, May 14, 2016

In the Moment: Better Said Than Done’s 5th Anniversary Celebration and Story-telling Contest by David Siegel

Story telling has been part of human history for–well–forever. In recent days story-telling has had a resurgence with digital media, pod casting and, of course, radio. Think Thi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AM
Monday, May 9, 2016

Review: ‘Collected Stories’ at Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions by David Siegel

“You can’t censor your creative impulses because of the danger of hurting someone’s feeling. Write don’t speak it.” This early line of dialogue resonates throughout the emotionally…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55AM
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Review: ‘Coming Home’ at Port City Playhouse by David Siegel

With Eleanore Tapscott’s gentle, affecting, eloquent direction, the Port City Playhouse production of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home (2009) is an exemplary work about love, loss and resilien…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:28PM
Thursday, April 28, 2016

In the Moment: PEN/Faulkner’s Tribute to Robert Stone at the Folger Shakespeare Library by David Siegel

He wrote books that fueled many of his generation.  He was a literary provocateur with a writing style like few others penning works about the Vietnam War’s aftermath, political intrigue,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

In the Moment: ‘William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged)’ at Folger Theatre by David Siegel

The boys from the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) have been a mainstay in the DC area for decades. They never wear out their welcome whether performing at the Folger, The Kennedy Center or…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AM
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Review: Theater Triebewerk’s ‘Moby Dick’ at The Kennedy Center by David Siegel

A big theatrical story created on a small space is no easy matter. For the too-short stay of Moby Dick at the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, it was accurate what the Kennedy Cen…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PM
Friday, April 22, 2016

In the Moment: George Mason’s Center for the Arts Announces it Upcoming 2016-2017 Season by David Siegel

Next season’s Great Performances series at the Center for the Arts was recently announced to hearty applause at a lovely evening event on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Vir…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11AM
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

In the Moment: A Look at ‘The Mystery of Love & Sex’: Jonny I Hardly Know Ye by David Siegel

Revelations are many in the admirable production of Bathsheba Doran’s The Mystery of Love & Sex currently at Signature Theatre. Directed by Stella Powell Jones, The Mystery of Love …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PM
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

In the Moment: ‘The Nether’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by David Siegel

The seeds of Jennifer Haley’s award-winning The Nether now at DC’s Woolly Mammoth and Philly’s InterAct were planted long, long ago. Twenty years ago in fact, The War of Desire and Te…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PM

In the Moment: American Theatre Critics Association Stops in Philly by David Siegel

In the past 25 years or so the theater scene in nearby Philadelphia, the nation’s 5th largest city, has blossomed into 50-plus stage companies that pay their actors designer and creative …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01AM
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

In the Moment: Creative Cauldron Awarded Grants for its Technical Theater Training Project by David Siegel

Theater has a great deal to offer well beyond acting before an enthralled audience. Not only is theater a source of inspiration and entertainment, but it can be a wonderful opportunity to le…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM
Friday, April 1, 2016

In the Moment: ‘Voices From the High School’ at NextStop Theatre Company-Cast Members Chime In by David Siegel

“Dark Nights” You remember that theatre term for when a venue has no shows playing to an audience. Well, NextStop Theatre, located in Herndon is having its April Theatre for Young Audien…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AM
Saturday, March 26, 2016

In the Moment: Hylton Performing Arts Center Announces Their 2016-2017 Schedule by David Siegel

Dance, Music, & Theater Comes to Manassas, VA The Hylton Performing Arts Center announces its 2016-2017 season, a fantastic line-up of music, dance, theater and performing arts. Now ente…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

In the Moment: ‘Falling Out of Time’ at Theatre J by David Siegel

Writing a column about Theater J’s world premiere of Falling Out of Time, based upon the book by David Grossman, about a man whose 20 year-old soldier son who was killed during military h…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PM
Thursday, March 17, 2016

In the Moment: ‘The Flick’ at Signature Theatre by David Siegel

Several years ago, I read Annie Baker’s The Flick. For the life of me, I wondered how such a beautifully written, gutsy play about youth working-class heroes in their own ways could be tur…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PM
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

In the Moment: ‘1984’: A Loud Flash-Bang Grenade of a Theater Experience by David Siegel

Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has a loud flash-bang grenade of a theater experience for audiences. It comes with a chilling take on gloomy lives lived in a world of law and order under t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:37PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016

In the Moment: The Costumes of Synetic Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by David Siegel

Ah, the importance of the costumes actors wears to set the scene for any stage production: the shapes, colors, textures. How the fabric flows, drapes, curves or hugs fast to an actor’s fra…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PM
Monday, March 7, 2016

In the Moment: A Look at Jack Viertel’s “The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built” by David Siegel

Revealing the concealed underpinnings and durable structures of American musicals is no easy undertaking. Let alone covering and analyzing the past seven decades of musical theater history. …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PM

Review: ‘They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!’ at Ambassador Theater by David Siegel

How fortunate we are in the DC area, a locale that seeks status as a world class city, to have the Ambassador Theater in our midst. The Ambassador Theater has a mission to build internationa…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:02AM
Thursday, February 25, 2016

In the Moment: Veronneau and Company Danzante at Atlas’ INTERSECTIONS Festival by David Siegel

Having separately followed two of the DC area’s delightful performing arts groups, one a jazz ensemble and the other a dance troupe, I was intrigued to learn they would be performing toget…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

In the Moment: Gin Dance Company at Atlas’ INTERSECTIONS Festival on March 5th at 5 PM by David Siegel

Gin Dance Company (GDC) is a Metropolitan DC/Northern Virginia based performing arts modern dance company. Founded in Reston, Virginia in 2011 by Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff, GDC perform…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime