Monday, October 26, 2015
A terrific opportunity awaits those of us who enjoy delving deeper to examine the lives of actors that enthralled us over their careers. The upcoming occasion features author William Madiso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:02PMSunday, October 25, 2015
Ha! Ready to visit a Coney Island fun-house with plenty of resounding rock show ambiance? Ready to open up to plenty of utterly blazing showbiz; “tricks and treats”? Well, step right u…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:10PMMonday, October 19, 2015
How fortunate we are to have The In Series. Over the decades it has taken artistic risks for audiences to extend their knowledge and experiences with a creative artist’s more rarely produc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMFriday, October 16, 2015
“I want to get to the point where people say of my work that man feels deeply,” wrote Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. For only a few performances, a DC area, favorite pain…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Turn aside all you think you know about the fabled Salomé and her brief mythic encounter with John the Baptist. Acclaimed Director Yael Farber has boldly and confidently reconstructed th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Signature Theatre’s Cake Off, is an appetizingly savory musical petite-four disguised as a mere head-turning sugary iced cutie. It is a whiz-bang production full of high-flying, screwball …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AMBalletNova Center for Dance will present a Global Dance Showcase, featuring ethnic dance companies from around the DC metro region. The performances will be held in the Fredgren Studio Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07AMFriday, October 9, 2015
Beautiful–The Carole King Musical takes the audience on a ride through songs that in three minutes or so, framed and reflected many a life; especially of the Baby Boomer generation. A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Yes, a high time to be had. All you need to do is follow the simple directions; “eat me”; then “drink me.” And whoosh, with music building into powerful, echoing crescendos, I foun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Playwright Helen Pafumi and the JCCNV/Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia have partnered to develop a staged reading of the world premiere play Redder Blood. The play was written…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:20AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
“The past cannot be cured” is a phrase attributed to Queen Elizabeth I (ElizabethR). But it certainly can be revisited. And that revisit comes some 400 years after her death. It is texts…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Find my place in the world is a major question at the center of Queens Girl in the World now playing at Theater J. It is a beautifully engaging, semi-autobiographical personal and political …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PMSunday, September 20, 2015
Ah, what a night! It was 1963 again, or there abouts. It was a carefree concert to recall a certain period in the ‘60’s full of happy days. A time of AM radio hits, high school and perha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMFriday, September 18, 2015
With the ongoing Women’s Voices Theater Festival, I wondered if other performing arts in the DC area were highlighting the work of women artists. I didn’t have to search far to find that…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Taking the Helm at Workhouse “The selection of Ava Spece to lead the Workhouse was due to her vast, deep appreciation and passion for the Arts as well as her strength, poise and character …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
There are grand political themes and exceptionally intimate granular-level personal matters splendidly illustrated in the Round House Theatre’s stunningly dark, world-premiere production o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:43PMThursday, September 3, 2015
There is lots of ground to cover for gender and demographic parity for playwrights and directors in the multi-cultural world that is the ever-changing DC metropolitan area. Beyond the curren…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Perhaps out of the limelight to those beyond close-in Northern Virginia, the McLean Community Center is not only a “hub” of community activities but includes the wonderfully intimate, we…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMThursday, August 20, 2015
“Public office is a minefield” so you better just “Grit your teeth, sell the lies” though “maybe I’m just too blunt to survive” are lyrics that provide some of the central posi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Ah, the end of August. The August month-long Congressional recess will be ending soon. DC area schools at all levels are opening momentarily. We can only hope that the recent mid-summer-tim…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Having recently returned from some time away in Wyoming from the hustling of DC, my eyes widened when I saw an email from Spooky Action Theatre for several staged readings for a play that ta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51AMFriday, August 14, 2015
In his own singular musical fashion, Tom Teasley skillfully hooked his Constellation Theatre Company audience to take a venture to the long ago and far away but in a most modern manner. Teas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:29PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
"So little to say, so little to do, and the fear so great," says the character Winnie. Yet she finds a way to go on looking ever forward to other Happy Days.
SOURCE: washingtondc.showbizradio.com at 08:00AMUp for something with amusement, silliness, and banter propelled by a lively score and excellent voices? Then head off to Cloak and Dagger at Signature Theatre.
SOURCE: washingtondc.showbizradio.com at 08:00AMSunday, August 9, 2015
It was as good as it gets. A glorious DC area midsummer, low-humidity evening. There was a full house at the Filene Center; with demographically and generationally diverse picnickers filling…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
Northern Virginia’s non-equity, professional theater company, Zemfira Stage, continues to strive to provide ambitious, motivated entertainment with its current production of the much belov…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
So where does a new theater company head after a successful introduction at the recent Capital Fringe Festival with its production of War and Peas? In the case of Pocket Change Theatre, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMSunday, August 2, 2015
Ghost light. Very soon the 20-year run of the The American Century Theater (TACT) will fade into a ghost light -a light that we theater folk know is left lit onstage to protect us from misb…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMMonday, July 27, 2015
“A musical buffet for the audience” is the way Matt Conner, Creative Cauldron Associate Artist and curator of the Cauldron’s 2015 Summer Cabaret Series described what to expect. Laura…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05AMFriday, July 24, 2015
The days may have been dark on the home-front during WWII America for Tom Brokow’s The Greatest Generation, but baseball endured. Baseball was the National Pastime; playing ball, along wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PMFriday, July 3, 2015
The Hub Theatre is opening its world premiere of a work by a woman playwright, directed by a woman and with an all-female cast. It is the Hub’s Leto Legend which opens on July 10, 2015. Hu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:38PM 
