Monday, 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 08:22PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop. In her Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather she also wrote, “Where there is grea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32AMSearching out the unusual or off the regular trail is one of the joys of having this column with DCMetroTheaterArts. Recently I attended the unveiling of the 29th volume of the Northern Vir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Illusions and dreams are often enough the stuff needed to help us keep on truckin’ through life. Certainly Prospero in The Tempest and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon suggested it was so. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06PMSunday, March 22, 2015
Under the assured, skillful touch of Director Matthew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has delivered a smart, engaging, delightfully personal-sized production of Soon, a new musical by Nick Blaem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PMFriday, March 20, 2015
Arena’s resident playwright John Strand has developed an affectionate, quite delightfully complex, fictionalized account about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Strand’s The Original…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
We caught up with NextStop Theatre Company to learn more about its upcoming production of the musical The Secret Garden. The Secret Garden premiered on Broadway in 1991 and received multipl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMSunday, March 15, 2015
With its Small Batch Audience Series created for an especially limited number of patrons per performance, Nu Sass Productions is out to transform the way DC theater audiences experience the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMThursday, March 12, 2015
The Pointless Theatre Company troupe has taken on a major “dare” in adapting a landmark silent expressionist cult film into to a live stage production. Doctor Caligari from Pointless evo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
“We expect that our Mason Dance Company will leave strong impressions,” said Susan Shields, director, George Mason University School of Dance. She was describing the multi-performance S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMFriday, February 27, 2015
Synetic Theater’s terrific “silent” production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing had me wondering about the many technical design element decisions made long before an audience…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Over the past several years, Shu-Chen Cuff and the Gin Dance Company have been making impressions on the DC area dance scene. Established in Reston, Virginia, the award-winning Gin Dance Com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Escape the constraints of the everyday world to swagger and carry-on with some entertaining steampunk pirates of the Caribbean. All you need to do is take in the world premiere of The Pirate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Zowie! Pop! Slap! Holy Cow. Karabonga! I write to highly praise Metromaniacs as a wild, wonderful, built-for-speed, audaciously performed game-of-deception, fantasyland comedy based upon a m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMFriday, February 6, 2015
There is a “minor” character who has a key role in the terrific Mary Stuart production currently at the Folger Theatre. He has only a few moments of visibility. But, I want to ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Who wouldn’t find it fascinating to listen to a performing artist describe a path to creativity to “put myself in a box as a way to take on a task or a new problem. Then to force…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:33AMSaturday, January 31, 2015
America’s oldest theatre, Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, PA, also has a touring company component. The touring company is a regular presence at the George Mason University Ce…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMThursday, January 29, 2015
What is the arts role as a means to spark creativity for the American workforce in the post-recession world? Much is being said about keeping the competitive edge of the United States throug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMSunday, January 25, 2015
The touring Aquila Theatre production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest opened winningly. An older man we come to know as Prospero, is sitting alone at the lip of center stage. The curtain …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMFriday, January 23, 2015
A small, merry band of actors is taking audiences on a lively, cheery, clever lark of an evening’s entertainment. What is it? It is a sharply produced production of local playwright an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:57PMThursday, January 22, 2015
On horror’s head horrors accumulate. (Othello Act 3, Scene 3) So why did Othello do what he did? Why did he take the life of Desdemona, the woman he loved? Why did he take his own life…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Excuse Me is a high-energy, subversive, conspiracy theory-infused, paranoid, mash-up zombie comedy. It is madcap built upon zinger lines such as “don’t make any rational moves.&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMIt’s been a long time coming. But the time is right. The multi-Helen Hayes Award production, Bessie’s Blues is returning twenty years after it first appeared on The Studio Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Red Knight Productions met its goal to design and perform Smellin’ Up the Den! as “a silly show” enabling audiences to “laugh at how ridiculous the world is,” …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04AMSaturday, January 17, 2015
Bringing “the greatest works to the greatest number,” the nationally recognized Aquila Theatre, will bring its touring stage production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:47AMFriday, January 16, 2015
Well, this was an attention grabbing, eye-catching headline; “Surprising Findings in Three New NEA Reports on the Arts.” I found it on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36AMMonday, January 12, 2015
“You should be wilder. You are no fun at all.” says a character in the No Rules Theatre Company production of In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar. Worry not, these are not to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
DC Metro Theater Arts is constantly on the look-out to learn about ways local theater companies make their venues available for community activities beyond presenting plays and musicals. We …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSunday, December 28, 2014
Music easily helps us drift back to another time and place, one that is fading away even as we try to keep it alive within us. It takes only the initial notes and musical measures of oldies …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Ready for some comic puppet anarchy? Ready for some situational, very visual humor within nearly two dozen short puppet-driven skits? Ready to indulge into, of all things, existential takes …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Syneticn Theater has brought forth an earthy, musically rich, sophisticated retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. At its heart, this appealing production harks back to the darker…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM 
