Thursday, September 6, 2018
Kennedy Center’s annual Page to Stage Festival is always chock full of tempting offerings, and the challenge of deciding what to see is daunting. It’s like an all-you-can-eat buf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
“You have everything you need within you to be human,” says an unseen guru on the god mic. He is speaking in a sonorous voice to six seekers who now sit rapt in a row facing us t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:40PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
Kennedy Center’s annual Page to Stage Festival is always chock full of tempting offerings, and the challenge of deciding what to see is daunting. It’s like an all-you-can-eat buf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
I could well make this a one-word review: Wow. After the sensational opening of Marie and Rosetta at Mosaic last night, wow was first word I heard from everyone I talked to, and wow was the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMThursday, August 23, 2018
Here’s an idea for a grad lit student in search of a dissertation topic: “Bewilderment and Brilliance in the Theater of Kathleen Akerley.” That thought flipped through my…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:48PMMonday, August 20, 2018
“It gets better” is the premise and promise of a multimedia campaign that since 2010 has tried to offer hope and encouragement to LGBTQ+ youth. The message can be life-saving. Ne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04AMSunday, August 12, 2018
Happy Ending is a one-act satirical comedy written in the 1960s by Douglas Turner Ward, co-founder of the Negro Ensemble Company. He had written an op-ed for the New York Times called “…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:29PMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Mike Daisey’s monolog The Story of the Gun is a show both hilarious and sobering, and he begins it with a wry riff on who we are who have come to see it. As he joshingly reminds us, we…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:16PMMonday, July 30, 2018
You know those big live TV versions of blockbuster musicals that get broadcast decades after the show was a hit on the stage? Like, not until generations have come and gone? Well in the case…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29AMSunday, July 29, 2018
The prodigiously imaginative performance artist Holly Bass belongs to the first generation of her family not to pick cotton for a living. I learned that startling fact as I passed through an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
This comedy about bad theater and inappropriate backstage behavior is just gobsmacking good. Laugh-a-minute is an underestimation. Don’t miss it. Perfecting the Kiss, a production fro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMMonday, July 23, 2018
Masterful monologuist Mike Daisey returns to DC to skewer with humor another burning issue of the day. This time it’s America’s thing about guns. What’s that all about, any…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMSaturday, July 21, 2018
On July 6, 2018, six girls ages 13 to 17 came together and began composing poetry and choreography and a little music about their just-starting-out lives. Two weeks later they performed the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Race relations in the Deep South might not leap to mind as a promising topic for a laugh-out-loud comedy. But in Shopworn, premiering at Fringe, Playwright-Producer Derek Hills (who is whit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19AMMonday, July 16, 2018
I went to see O Monsters, the radically abstract production created by Philadelphia’s New Paradise Laboratories, now playing in the Kogod Cradle at Arena as one of five curated productions…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PMSunday, July 15, 2018
The theater students at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD, are a plucky bunch. When the school had no funds for production, they organized as a club and got a budget from the Stud…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Actor-Writer-Revolutionary Meshaun Labrone has done it again. Two years ago he brought back Power! to Fringe. That drama about Stokely Carmichael I called “one of the best-written, b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMFriday, July 13, 2018
The all-volunteer organization Hexagon, “DC’s only original political satirical musical comedy troupe,” has been around since 1955 and has long been a Fringe fan fave. Its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Count Shaun Michael Johnson among the stunning new talents to be discovered at Capital Fringe. His solo show, Sobriety of Fear, is a tour-de-force of empathic acting. With breathtaking emoti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Happenstance Theater, the much-lauded purveyors of cheekily sophisticated whimsy, have brought another original devised work to Fringe, and if it doesn’t tickle your funny bone, you mi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13AMFriday, July 6, 2018
The boarding house play is a staple in theater. Assorted folks who might otherwise never cross paths are thrown together by a playwright who then grips us with their backstories, intertwined…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Community engagement is a noble aspiration for a lot of theaters around town. The challenge is to make theater matter to folks who live in the nabe. To connect the institution to the communi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMSunday, July 1, 2018
The murderous race hate that killed young Emmett Till in 1955 is alive and well. The impunity with which white assailants get away with it is still much with us. And the irony is that the ic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
I went to see Other Life Forms, the new comedy at Keegan Theatre, not expecting to write about it. But the play changed my mind. I wasn’t even home yet when on an impulse I tweeted th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers. In this one, Senior Writers and Columnists John Stoltenberg (Magic Time!) and David Siegel …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMMonday, June 18, 2018
The Emperor of Atlantis—an operatic takedown of autocracy—is relevant to our times in freaky and haunting ways. And its backstory is chilling. Near the end of World War II, the Czech com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMThursday, June 14, 2018
The gender-flip trope has been a staple on stage for much of theater history, and just when you thought it had been trotted out every which way imaginable, along comes a delightful surprise.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
The vagrant of the title is a Palestinian scholar named Adham who, while on a trip to London as a grad student, must decide, when war breaks out in his homeland, whether to stay or go. Will …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Jon Hudson Odom’s performance in Botticelli in the Fire just blew me away. And it wasn’t the first time that had happened. I’ve been following his work for several years, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMSaturday, June 9, 2018
Step Afrika!, the acclaimed African American dance company, launched this powerful multisensory dance-theater work eight years ago. Since then the spectacular show has toured the world and h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:53PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
At a historical moment when appalling new waves of gender fundamentalism sweep our nation, leaving bigotry and violence in their wake, it was beyond refreshing to hear the Gay Men’s Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11PM 
