When the audience enters the performance space at Joe’s Movement Emporium, they are confronted by three women in period clothing (costumes designed by Julie Cray Leong, assisted by Kyla Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMChristopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013, is a comedy about neurotic, middle-aged, well-off white people whining about thei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMTo transmogrify Seuss, What a difficult task! Just how do they do it? And well might you ask! This master of mayhem Who leaps from the page, How could he possibly be Put on the stage? In dra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMIt’s June, a time for anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations. Where can you simultaneously look back with fond nostalgia at British pluck and cheek, and party for Pride month? How …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMThe question when reviving a classic musical is always how much to preserve and how much to adapt. Audiences can often have fond memories of famous original productions, but times change, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:56PMAs much as modern culture claims to worship novelty, innovation and even disruption, there is a lot to be said for the tried and true. From an imaginative rendition of a beloved Shakespeare …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMSilver Spring Stage is known for producing professional-level community theater, garnering more WATCH nominations and awards than any other company in Maryland. The Obie-award winner Appropr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMFarce is a classic form of comedy, based on ludicrous characters, silly situations, mistaken identities, sex, slapstick, and many slamming doors. After centuries of development (refinement w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMAnnapolis Shakespeare Company’s Pride and Prejudice is an impeccable dance, an elegant minuet from start to finish. Every element works gracefully with every other, producing a pleasing, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMNoises Off is the Mount Everest of farce. Numerous critics have called Michael Frayn’s 1982 masterwork the greatest farce ever written, and its second act may well be the most difficult to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMHeathers: the Musical is an intense roller-coaster of a show, careening from biting satire and dark comedy to touching and intense emotion to hope. In the 2013 Off-Broadway debut, based on t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMNote before you begin: Confection is a unique, multimedia, multisensory, ambulatory, audience-interactive, site-specific theatrical experience — “a rollicking rumination on teeny-tiny d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PMThose who aspire to great heights of theatrical art tend to look down on comedy. They don’t take it seriously, which is understandable, since it is, by definition, not serious. Famed c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMOne of the things Best Medicine Rep does best is comedies about historical and literary figures, such as last year’s Engaging Shaw. They are now presenting another, Philosophus, by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMWhen you go to see The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Rockville Little Theatre — and you should — prepare to be confused. This is not a bug, it’s a feature. The comedy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMThere are certain things that start popping up everywhere to mark the Holiday season. Carols on the radio. Decorations on houses and main streets. (Objecting to the fact that both of these a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMIt is a truth universally acknowledged in the modern era that everything must be novel, revolutionary, and exciting. People will (apparently) stand in line for the newest iPhone (whether the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22PMIt seems particularly appropriate that the National Players should be mounting a production about an imperturbable, peripatetic gambler who takes every mishap in stride while journeying as f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMThere is an engaging sub-genre of theater, that one might call the battle of wits or the comedy of intellect, that takes some of the greatest minds in history and brings them to life, with a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMFirst, to avoid any confusion, let me state what this Frankenstein is not: It is not the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein, with “Abby Normal” brains and creator and creation donning…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMI came to Zemfira Stage’s production of Legally Blonde as a virtual newbie, having seen neither the musical nor the 2001 Reese Witherspoon comedy film on which it was based. I knew to expe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMAs we know from the recent Royal Wedding, the British know how to throw a party. The most recent example was the top-notch afternoon when the British Players hosted the leading lights of Was…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMMarx in Soho is a one-man show written in 1999 by the late historian Howard Zinn. It was re-mounted by Iron Age Theatre for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2004, produced and directed b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMMasterMimes: The Show, created and performed by Gabe Simms and Julianne Nogar, presents a series of … what to call them — vignettes? Scenes? Dances? — without words, accompanie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07PMWhy don’t community theater companies do more revues? They are entertaining for audiences, fun for actors, and although permissions to use the songs are needed, they don’t carry …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMSick of cynicism, vitriol, and vulgarity? The British Players has an antidote: their 53rd Old Time Music Hall (directed by Malcolm Edwards and produced by Sue Edwards). The latest installmen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMHow do you make a stage musical from a movie that was “Practically Perfect in Every Way”? A movie that won five Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects for cinematic magic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34AMOne might not be surprised to hear Johann Strauss Jr’s The Gypsy Baron described as delightful and charming, as that is what a late 19th century Viennese operetta aspires to be, but fresh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMOur Lady of Good Counsel Theatre Company’s Les Misérables is a stellar production. In fact, it’s hard to believe this is a high school production; the singing, music, acting, and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMArlen & Berlin Occupy the Fringe! tries to gain Fringe-worthy edginess for its loving review of classic songs from the 30s and 40s by setting it in Freedom Plaza and linking it to the Oc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMIt is no mere flattery to say that Triptych Productions’ The Confines of Flattery provides a delightful and intriguing hour at the theater. A trio of short plays from three quite differe…
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