By Pamela O’Reilly The weather in Northern Virginia is miserable again; thank goodness for the Sterling Playmakers’ rendition of The Philadelphia Story, Philip Barry’s humorous look at…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26PMBy Andy Arnold Bowie Community Theatre has a hit on its hands with Deborah Brevoort’s The Women of Lockerbie. The play, which opened March 1, explores international affairs, and the depths…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMby Beth Amann, Managing Director, Monumental Theatre Company Do you have a little one that you want to introduce to the magic of theater? We have the perfect show for you! Monumental Theatre…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43AMBy Tracy Danoff The Kreeger Theater inside the Bender JCC of Greater Washington was buzzing with excitement. In the minutes before the show started, adults and children alike were enthusiast…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMReview submitted by Julie Newman of St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School. In Northwood High School’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy For S…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 06:15PMIn a 2008 poll of the world’s leading music critics by Gramophone Magazine, the Amsterdam-based Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) was selected as the greatest in the world. Luckily, the …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PMAt some point in their careers, most concert pianists tackle some, if not all, of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas. Many pianists also commission new music for their instrument by living compo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PMRoll the Dice: Enjoy ACCT’s Production of Guys and Dolls Jr. By Cynthia Westham I hadn’t heard “I love you a bushel and a peck” since my mother sang it to me as a child…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 03:09PMWhen Step Afrika! began performing nearly 25 years ago, founder C. Brian Williams couldn’t have imagined his now-famous dance company would bring the art of step to audiences around the wo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00AMBy Andy Arnold If you fancy a trip to Broadway to see a play, a less expensive offering is the Vagabond Players’ adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. It’s play…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMRaheem Devaughn. Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Erykah Badu: Soul vocalist and Strathmore Artist in Residence Dante’ Pope has performed or shared the stage with them all. Fro…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMby PJ Trautwein There are rare times in life when very special dreams do come true. This happened for me with Agne G’s Christmas Concert at my church, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Ellicott Ci…
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 07:54PMSouth African jazz singer Vuyo Sotashe returns to Strathmore this week on December 14 and 15 to perform holiday standards with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. Follo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AMNow in its sixth year, The DC Center’s DC Queer Theatre Festival delivers on its promise to unleash and celebrate underrepresented voices and diversity. After evaluating over thirty submis…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMBy Julie Janson If you are looking for some holiday merriment that is fun for all ages, dance and sing your way over to Adventure Theatre’s Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas. This music…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMThis November, as Americans prepare for Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season, arts organizations across the Washington area will commemorate a more somber occasion: the 100th ann…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AMBy Ezra Tozian Editor’s note: In Avant Bard’s production of Illyria, or What You Will—freely adapted from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hébert—the cha…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12AMby Ciahna Heck Three Princes Theatre presents the end of things. at the Charm City Fringe Festival, a daring new piece of theater which touches on the termination of multiple relationships …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMBy Kylie Miller Fringe Festivals are a great platform for shows that push boundaries and challenge the norm. 50 Shades of Gay does exactly that. Ike Avelli, a 52-year-old single gay man, is …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PMBy Kylie Miller The play on words of the show’s title, Un-a-parent, perfectly sets up this comedic solo show. The life experiences of Joe Minchik, the writer and performer, are both hilari…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMFor the past 10 seasons, conductor/composer/commentator/author Rob Kapilow has brought his acclaimed series What Makes It Great? to D.C. under the auspices of Washington Performing Arts. Wit…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:14PMCabaret icon Ann Hampton Callaway just released her 16th album, Jazz Goes to the Movies—renditions of songs from classic Hollywood films. On her way to New York to perform at Feinstein…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMBy Sophie Herreid, Caitlin Partridge, Lauren Patton I had so many hopes. I had so many dreams. But I died I died I died along the way. – Chorus of Refugees, ‘Anon[ymous]’ P…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMPUBLIQuartet is not a typical string quartet. Violinists Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth, violist Nick Revel, and cellist Amanda Gookin make up this unique ensemble dedicated to improvisi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMHappy Theater, a theatrical group using object puppetry and physical theatre to heal, unite and inspire, and sorrows&songs, peddling poetry and wonder by way of the stage, will bring the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMApplications are now open for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival! See below for application details. OPTION 1: FRINGE RUN VENUE Participation in the Fringe Festival is an opportunity for you…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMBy Danny Romeo MetroStage is getting the band back together. Rooms: A Rock Romance celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its premiere this year, in the very theatre where the production had…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMWhen asked to picture a lute, the average 21st-century music fan might envision an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, depicting someone in tights, maybe some sort of tunic …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMBy Julie Janson Peace Mountain Theatre Company’s production of Barbara Lebow’s A Shayna Maidel is a piercing, unabashed look at life before and after the Holocaust through the eyes of tw…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMBy Jen Lofquist Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is almost a master class in restrained theatre. His words, like the Nordic landscape, are stark and carved. Ibsen will tolerate no over-acti…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMWashington, DC: The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented six awards Monday night at Signature Theatre, October 8. The award was presented to actors Will Garts…
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