Friday, 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 05:38PMThursday, July 2, 2015
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough.” In its DC area premiere, Peter Pan in the ThreeSixty Theatre has plenty of stimulating ingredients providing an exciting, dreams-come-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Camp it up with the comic free-for-all that is the Olney Theatre Center’s take on Mel Brooks’ Tony Award-winning musical The Producers. Become your very own disrupter of your very ow…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:57PMSaturday, June 27, 2015
Density, urbanization and perhaps, someday in the future, “cool” is coming to the new downtown “Tysons” in Fairfax County, Virginia. Over the decades there has been much talk about r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:03AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
“Characters at the edge of life” is how Playwright, Director, and Producer Isa Seyran described his Capital Fringe offering, Brothel. The new play is to be more that a provocative Buzzfe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMMonday, June 22, 2015
Northern Virginia’s Company Danzante will perform at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts on June 26, 2015. Company Danzante will perform repertory by Co-Direc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Be transported to the far-away of the mind. What better place to explore provocative magical realism as a performing art than at this year’s Fringe Festival. Letting one’s mind drift int…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PMThursday, June 11, 2015
A “seemingly guilty mass-murdering white supremacist terrorist” is the phrase dramaturg Alan Katz uses to describe the character at the heart of “The Word and the Wasteland, a full-len…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Under the lively, animated touch of director Christopher Henley, a merry little band of eager Avant Bard players bring The Madwoman of Chaillot, by French playwright Jean Giraudoux (1882-194…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Looking at the upcoming Workhouse (Lorton, VA) Performing Arts Center calendar and the Capital Fringe Festival performance schedule, I spotted a show from Tasty Monster Productions that is c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMFriday, June 5, 2015
Don’t hurry out of town for the summer just yet or you will miss the new summer season of DC’s own Chamber Dance Project in residence at the Lansburgh Theatre at Shakespeare Theatre Com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:49PMMuch has been written about Spooky Action Theater’s premiere production Jarry Inside Out by Richard Henrich. I take this opportunity to connect it to popular culture, in a different manner…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMThursday, June 4, 2015
Ah, the enduring popularity of sophisticated, stylish cabaret entertainment. Now add-in musical artists who easily mix the known American Songbook standards with the less often heard to brin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMThursday, May 21, 2015
Walking into the Folger Theatre, I did a double-take. This clearly was going to be a different visual experience for Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as directed by Aar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMMonday, May 18, 2015
If only Alex Mills was available to tell stories to my now 31 year old daughter when she was a baby. While I read to her aplenty, she would have marveled and communicating happily through gu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PMSignature Theatre’s Cabaret is a formidable musical theater that abundantly succeeds in taking the audience by its collective throat and jolting it into alertness to the rise of evil and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57AMSaturday, May 16, 2015
It’s never too early to begin thinking about summer entertainment plans, both venues and entertainment. Early this summer, the Hylton Center for the Performing Arts, entering its sixth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:14AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
Created and handsomely rendered with boundless love, heart and soul, the short-run Metro Stage/Race and Reconciliation in America (RARIA) production of Anne and Emmett was a production of gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13PMThursday, April 30, 2015
“Optical confusion” is how choreographer Moses Pendleton describes the inventive, arresting illusions he has developed over the past decades for his renowned dance theater company, MOMIX…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Ideas for this column can come from unexpected encounters. This column was sparked over a dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. Let’s call them Rayna and Ed. We were at the neigh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMMonday, April 27, 2015
It is extraordinary that Constellation Theatre Company continues to seek out and present works of artistry that would likely be unknown to us. And Constellation’s willingness to take finan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMSunday, April 26, 2015
Closet Land is certainly haunting. There was no shelter from this play’s unremitting psychological ferocity and physical fierceness of political D/s (Dominance and submission). Over time …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMThursday, April 23, 2015
The inaugural season of the Northern Virginia International Film Festival, at the Angelika Film Center in the vibrant, youthful Mosaic District of Fairfax County, just wrapped up. Fernando A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42AMMonday, April 20, 2015
Let yourself be seduced into a dark reverie as a love triangle, or perhaps a rectangle, goes way wrong. Musical pulp-fiction has come to 14th and P Streets pushed forward by electric guitar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
1st Stage’s production of Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans has opened to high praise from reviewers and audiences alike. After seeing the show I wanted to learn more about something very…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
In early May, Daniel Phoenix Singh and the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company will be premiering a dance theater work at Dance Place and at Reston’s CenterStage. The new work is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMThe world renowned Pilobolus will be bringing their “stunning, evocative and visceral” dance theater to the Alden Theatre, said Sarah N. Schallern, director, performing arts, McLean Comm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AMSunday, April 12, 2015
In this town of powerful out-sized personalities of all persuasions, and the ever-increasing shift to delivery of entertainment through pixels and with headsets on, The Hub Theatre’s satis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Its title beckons with a “come hither” attitude; Off the Wall. Three small intriguing words that are total catnip when strung together. And, then a connection to something called the Vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
The artistry and craft of two masterful choreographers are coming together for a stimulating, one night only performance at the Atlas Performing Arts Center with the tantalizing title, Every…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMMonday, March 30, 2015
There are so many way to demand justice. In 1973 South Africans Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona found their voices to take on South Africa’s apartheid through the words of an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:22PM 
