Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Russian-born, Israeli-raised, and now-Canadian resident Vitaly Beckman, known to US audiences from his successful appearance on the hit TV show "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" (he did!), …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
The latest incarnation of Alan Govenar and Akin Babatundé's evolving musical tribute to Blind Lemon Jefferson, following their award-winning productions of Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Bl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
With its all-too familiar themes of ambition and power, sexual misconduct and attempted cover-up, disclosure, remorse, and ultimate retribution, the plot of Francis Beaumont and John Fletche…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
For nineteen seasons, New York Classical Theatre has delivered free performances of more than 40 revered masterworks to sites throughout the city, enjoyed to date by nearly a quarter-million…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
From the opening number by hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles to the big winners of the 2017-18 Broadway season, the 72nd Annual Tony Awards presentation, held at Radio City Music Hall and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
The statistics are in for the 2017-18 Broadway season, and according to The Broadway League (Broadway.org) " the national trade association for the Broadway industry, founded in 1930 " it's …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
An imaginative, lyrical, and bittersweet stage adaptation of Henry James' heartbreaking novella of 1903, The Beast in the Jungle reunites the celebrated team of John Kander (music), David Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2018
Marking its first production of a work by the internationally-lauded Dublin-born playwright Marina Carr, Irish Repertory Theatre's New York premiere of Woman and Scarecrow, potently directed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2018
Though gynocentric themes featuring lead roles for women are a welcome new trend in contemporary theater, there's little new or unexpected in Unexpected Joy, an original musical by Bill Russ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Mid-century aficionados and other interested earthlings can take a time-traveling trip back to the '50s at St. Luke's Theatre with the Off-Broadway premiere of It Came from Beyond, a silly m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2018
Amazing bursts of magic that dazzle in the darkness, distinctive characterizations of a host of eccentric, endearing, and evil personalities by an enthralling cast, a complex and compelling …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
As with all of the shows in its genre, the latest offering in the surge of biographical jukebox musicals on Broadway, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, holds appeal for a built-in audience o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Mystic realism and metaphor meet the Irish gift of gab and a dire predilection for alcohol in Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, a disturbingly dark and devilish comedy about lost souls, drunke…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM[SHARE]Brilliant. Extraordinary. Ingenious. Superb. The best. Yet all adjectives and superlatives pale in comparison with the truly unsurpassed quality of the script, performances, direction, desig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
As part of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center's Rough Draft Festival, IRT Theater and TGF 12 Productions have teamed up for a workshop presentation of Stepchild, A New Musical, inspired by the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
When Mark Medoff's award-winning play Children of a Lesser God premiered on Broadway in 1980, followed by the highly-lauded film adaptation in 1986, it provided groundbreaking insights into …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
If you've ever witnessed (or worse yet, experienced, encouraged, or participated in) the "girl-on-girl crime" of high-school cliques, malicious gossip, fierce competitiveness, and vicious ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM[SHARE]What do you get when you cross the super-popular hits Wicked and Frozen with a Boston accent? The laugh-out-loud musical parody Wicked Frozen, presented by John Lant and making its Off-Broad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
In the current American climate of daily accusations of "fake news," public denials of misdeeds, not-so-secret cover-ups of illegal activities, and arbitrary job terminations of public offic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2018
A mash-up of classical music with classic rock, Rocktopia, co-created by vocalist Rob Evan (of New York stage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra fame) and Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer (a not…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
London's blockbuster National Theatre production of Angels in America – Tony Kushner's sweeping two-part eight-hour epic about AIDS, politics, and gay life in America in the 1980s " ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2018
In Dogs of Rwanda, now making its Off-Broadway debut at Urban Stages, playwright Sean Christopher Lewis revisits the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and the scars they left – both…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
If you're in the mood for a fun-filled island vacation, look no further than Manhattan Island and the Broadway premiere of Escape to Margaritaville at the Marquis Theatre. With music and lyr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
A new twist on the old adage attributed to former Philadelphia Police Chief and Mayor Frank Rizzo, "A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet," Lincoln Center Theater's producti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
If you love the New York stage and its stars, but can't make it to the theater in person to see a live performance, Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon and the world's largest purveyor of audiob…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, March 2, 2018
Do you ever wonder about the nature of awareness and the mechanics of perception? Luckily for us, Baba Brinkman does, and returns to SoHo Playhouse with his well-conceived and brilliantly en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Just concluding his comic roles in the Walnut Street Theatre's national touring production of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, with its final performances this week in Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
The latest work by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Jordan Harrison, The Amateurs, now making its world premiere at Vineyard Theatre, is a profound and witty meta-theatrical meditation on the purpose…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
Through the hand of fate, two lonely and damaged strangers have been brought together in an isolated cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, each suffering the effects of familial trauma, the devas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Marking the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel of 1818, Frankenstein, a new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Eric B. Sirota, focuses less on the monster and mor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
Whether you love the works of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov or hate them, you can't help but enjoy The Chekhov Dreams, a dark and witty world-premiere rom-com by John McKinney. Presented …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PM[SHARE] 
