Monday, 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 03:15PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
Wonder what parents think of their children taking on a role in a theater production; one that is not school-based? With that in mind, I went to NextStop Theatre Company which is producing A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMSunday, November 30, 2014
The photo just jumped out at me. It had a joyful, playful performing arts feeling. But it was a photograph from a century ago by an artist I did not know. And I wanted to know more. So with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17AMMonday, November 17, 2014
There is a cheerful insouciance to the Brave Spirits Theatre production of that war-horse of Shakespeare comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chalk it up to youthful, well-rehearsed nonc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMSunday, November 16, 2014
Just this past weekend, a sunny, very talented Bayla Whitten held the audience enthralled making her solo cabaret debut covering singer, song writer Carole King’s many hit tunes. She p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01PMThursday, November 13, 2014
Fiddler on the Roof remains a musical theater audience pleaser, as it has been for five decades. The Arena Stage production is handsome and solid. Under Molly Smith’s direction, the A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
The Hub Theatre recently announced its full 2014-15 season. The season includes several mainstage productions and the annual Hub Playfest, along with developmental play readings. There will …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Green Porn. Now that’s a show title to bring interest. Add that it was a adapted from a well-viewed Web series aired on the Sundance Channel and your reviewer wondered how it would be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AMSaturday, November 8, 2014
There is one howl of a good time at There is a Happiness that Morning Is at WSC Avant Bard. The production is a masterly feat of acting prowess full of precise, adroit comic work and squint…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:56PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Let’s be provocative in this column. Let’s imagine a world where the debates within Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar are not between ambitious political people like Brutus, Mark…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
There was a cool visiting professor in town the other evening. You know the one, in his 60’s, an ex-hippie, still in the prime of life. He came with a vibrant presentation of a topic o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Ah, theatrical heaven! Being in the midst of the usually unseen controlled chaos of a rehearsal, especially with a large cast. Such a delight, so much infectious, intense energy pervading a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24AMSunday, October 19, 2014
Let’s get this out of the way. Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason (at Signature Theater) is a slam-dunk champ. It is an easy crowd-pleaser on its polished comic surface, but, oh what a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:36PMFriday, October 17, 2014
The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance is presenting the world premiere of Vanishing Point. This production has a clear purpose well beyond providing students the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
“I invite you to participate in a merging of sight, sound, drama and fantasy. For fifty minutes I will take your imagination on a fantasy journey and return you safely to your seats!&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21AMMonday, October 6, 2014
Synetic continues to plumb classic literature to find new sources of inspiration for its physical theater productions. Opening its new season, Paata Tsikurishvili and his team of artistic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:40PMFriday, September 26, 2014
Enduring works of live theater continue to be performed; even in this fast-changing digital age, with disruption to so much long-held, accepted wisdom. Classic works of literature and theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:11AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
A place to create is critical to the performing arts and artist. In Northern Virginia available space for emerging performing arts companies can be both difficult to locate and costly. So wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PMMonday, September 22, 2014
ARTS by George, a signature event gala that supports scholarships and the Great Performance series at George Mason University, has raised more than $1 million. The co-chairs of this year…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMSunday, September 21, 2014
Cue the bright lights. Quick witted, theatrically smart, and skillful improv artistry took to the stage of the gleaming Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas bringing good cheer to t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMSunday, September 14, 2014
Under the affecting direction of Michele Shay, No Rules Theatre Company’s production of August Wilson‘s Seven Guitars raises an intimate, open-eyed awareness of lives withou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33AMThursday, September 11, 2014
Ah, September has come; with it the nights grow longer. Soon enough a cooler nip in the evening air. And then, could it be, really be, Halloween with all its fun and frolic. But there is als…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Burnished to an earthy golden, Director Ryan Rilette’s absorbing, sensually deep, measured take on Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love(1983) is full of the stickiness of love and repulsi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Ah, September has come; with it the nights grow longer. Soon enough a cooler nip in the evening air. And then, could it be, really be, Halloween with all its fun and frolic. But there is als…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMThursday, August 28, 2014
What a fabulous immersion into the dazzling world of the Peking Opera as The Kennedy Center hosted two performances to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of the birth Mei Lanfang, a Jingju (…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMFriday, August 22, 2014
The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) has been performing in the DC area for well over two decades, thanks to the folk at the Reston Community Center’s CenterStage and The Kennedy Cent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24AMSunday, August 17, 2014
The inner friskiness of the 20-member cast, many making their Zemfira Stage debuts, took over after intermission, to make the opening night of Monty Python’s Spamalot ultimately a liv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AMFriday, August 15, 2014
I have been intrigued by the partnerships and reaching-out that the one-year old NextStop Theatre company has been developing. The company, performing in Herndon, Virginia and drawing audien…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMThursday, August 7, 2014
The singular voice of 2013 Obie Award-winning playwright Julia Jarcho is coming to the area. Wait, you haven’t heard of her? Well, she hasn’t yet been produced in the DC area, no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
DCMetroTheaterArts (“DCMTA”) is interested in highlighting community performing arts events that focus on emerging musical theater talent and fresh voices. With well over 100 pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Hub Theater is producing the world premier of Abominable written by Playwright and Hub Artistic Director Helen Pafumi. The director is multi-Helen Hayes Award nominee Kirsten Kelly. The Hub…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AM 
