Friday, June 10, 2022
Seeing them both engages you in a conversation about race and art, about white supremacy and inevitable change.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMMonday, May 23, 2022
As the play delves into its subject of life and death, the hearts of the audience are treated with tender and gentle grace.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
In 'The Black Georgetown Cemeteries Project,' a new site-specific work by Alliance for New Music-Theatre, the deceased confront their descendants.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:24AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Called a 'congregational opera' by its creators, Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the performance offered up a benediction of hope and faith.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMThursday, April 28, 2022
He performs candid standup about being Black, Filipino, and Queer, in his 'Crossroads, Detours, and Exits,' premiering May 4.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMFriday, April 1, 2022
Nolan Williams, Jr.'s compassionate new musical about Black family and culture is unstoppably entertaining.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:12PMMonday, March 28, 2022
'America’s Requiem: A Knee on The Neck' presented by The National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale, in partnership with The Washington Chorus, at Strathmore and Capital One Hall.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
From IN Series and Theater Alliance: an introduction to the poem as a weapon we can use to free ourselves.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Interview with Stephen Dest, director of the documentary, and Jeremy Goldman of Silhouette Stages, which is hosting a screening on March 12.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMThe film is a stunning documentary about a young Black man who triumphed as Tybalt on stage and was shot point-blank on his way home.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMSaturday, February 19, 2022
A bold, brazen, and Black engagement with Mozart’s 'Magic Flute' and by extension with the western canon of music.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:39PMSaturday, February 12, 2022
The story of folks who choose to be committed to each other’s well-being, the play is a paean to the possibility of connection.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36PMMonday, December 13, 2021
The show consists of popular R&B songs that featured Aframerican performers and is all about having a good time in a world full of dark, cold nights.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23AMSunday, December 5, 2021
In Artistic Director Timothy Nelson's knowledgeable hands, the device comes off not like a gimmick but as a doorway into discovery.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37PMSaturday, December 4, 2021
The play sings to us about the African American genius for finding a way to make a way out of no way.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
Event November 10 to feature music composed by 19-year-old Duke Ellington grad Ronald Walton.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:16PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
The Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini’s beloved classic opera, performed two nights only at GALA, will be available free on-demand.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01AMMonday, October 25, 2021
Despite aesthetically engaging music and an enthusiastic cast, the production does not work.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
A solo performer's tribute to his maternal grandmother, who raised him and gave him the tools he needed to engage with life.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
The evening encourages us to engage with Dr. Ruth’s memories as well as to contemplate what might be our own.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
The second production from Welders 3.0 is her audioplay horror story, 'Girls’ Night (with Spirits).'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
Terri Weagant juggles accents and body postures to give us five distinctly and flamboyantly desperate people we won’t soon forget.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMSaturday, September 18, 2021
Psalmayene 24 to adapt local history for the stage in unique county-wide anti-racist collaboration.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32AMSaturday, September 11, 2021
In a video they devised, young people show the critical thinking, problem solving, and empathy we need to get us out of the mess we are in.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMTuesday, August 17, 2021
The performances are strong, the script by James Ijames surprises, and the poignant show is so, so satisfying.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39AMFriday, August 6, 2021
Psalmayene 24's graphic novel come to life is delightful in its form and harrowing in its emotional impact.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMFriday, July 16, 2021
The third Welders playwrighting collective launches with a look at Black gay men and beauty.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMMonday, July 5, 2021
George Brant's play lays out in inescapable terms what the inhumane policy of separating children from their parents means for the moral state of Americans.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38PMThursday, June 17, 2021
The solid voices of Adelina Mitchell (as Catherine) and Alex Stone (as Jamie) convey the evening’s exhilaration, hope, and grief.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03PMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Silhouette Stages’ current production of BKLYN the Musical (running online until June 13, 2021) has everything you could want in a musical: an energetic, cute, and enthusiastic cast with s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:13PM 
