I doubt the Eisenhower Theater was ever more queered than the night Taylor Mac came to town. The outrageously gifted and fabulously attired theater artist brought “a radical fairy real…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMWouldn’t it be fun to be a young urban radical and cohabit with other young revolutionaries—in a cheap walk-up apartment that you all share—eating fast food, having polyamorous sex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32AMThere is a dramatic moment in Hold These Truths that comes as no surprise yet comes as a heart-stopping shock. We know going in that this moment is going to happen. We know that the U.S. Sup…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMMom Baby God—a solo show written and performed by Madeline Joey Rose about the right’s attack on abortion rights—is as playful as it is powerful. The play centers on a fourteen-year-ol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32AMWhen I had a chance ask Michael Urie some questions about his performance as Hamlet, I learned he can hold forth as insightfully as the character he plays. Well, maybe minus the verse and pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMCan social justice happen without militancy? Can ideals of equality become real without resort to violence? These questions gnaw at the mind during Theater Alliance’s powerfully eloque…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PMPuppets, people, props, projections, and sci-fi pop up a lot on DC stages, but not often with the narrative verve, literary cred, and nonstop wit of The Lathe of Heaven. Adapted and directed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMThere’s a lovely scene just before intermission that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is 1833 in agricultural County Donegal Ireland, and two star-crossed lovers—Maire (Sam…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PM“Who here is a feminist?” asked the Ring Announcer (Amelia Hensley). As she signed, wearing a bright red pantsuit and standing on a thick padded mat as used for a contact-sport m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMWhen the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival comes to a close and the hits to emerge from it are tallied, Danai Guria’s comedy Familiar will surely be on the shortlist. Guria…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:31PMThere is something heart-stirring and inspiring about this new one-man musical. In between excerpts from glorious hymns and spirituals, the great African American educator and orator Booker …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMThe reason I asked to interview Katie Kleiger is that after I saw her in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves at Studio Theatre, I realized I had seen her on the same fourth-floor stage in Lucy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PM“What Mary Katheryn Nagle has given us on stage tonight is the history we don’t learn,” said renowned feminist author and organizer Gloria Steinem during one of the most buzzed-about t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMA portrait of George Washington hangs in Ford’s Theater on the presidential box where Abraham Lincoln was shot. When you stop to think about it, this is an odd disconnect. Presumably f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57AMKafka’s nightmare novel about a man named Joseph K—who is arrested, detained, and tried but never told what he has done wrong—would seem perfect for Synetic Theater’s magic t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PMPost-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14AMA young Jewish American writer named Jonathan arrives by train in the Ukraine on a quest to find a woman named Augustine who helped his grandfather Safran escape the Nazis. He has only a fad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PMThornton Wilder’s allegorical paean to humanity’s survival “by the skin of our teeth” has itself become a marvel of endurance. First staged in 1942, when times were d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMSex and guilt were linked in superstition before institutional Christianity came on the scene, but thanks to the medieval Catholic Church they got hooked up with theology too. It was in the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMErika Rose’s performance in Queens Girl in Africa is awesome to behold. She plays the playwright’s teenage self, named Jackie, plus her parents, school friends, and others, with an inca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PMWhen I saw the musical Amazing Grace I praised it to the skies. A blurb being used to promote the show is lifted from my review: “A gorgeous production of a glorious musical! Heart-stoppi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PM“Let’s rethink sex” has suddenly become a thing. Well, not suddenly maybe. But it certainly has new pertinence in this era of full-frontal disclosure. Which made the them…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25PMDan Hoyle’s extraordinary solo show The Real Americans is based on his travels through small-town America and the folks he met, many of them part of Trump’s so-called base. When I review…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PMThe production is lushly beautiful; the pacing, impeccable; the music between scenes, splendid; the acting, a delight in every detail. And the warm, piquant humor in this Jewish family drama…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07AMJustin Weaks was recently named by the Washington Post one of DMV’s 12 “stage dynamos,” one of “the best of an emerging cadre of younger regional talent.” He would have been on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMDraw the Circle is no ordinary one-man show. Nor is it an ordinary autobiographical play. Because Mashuq Mushtaq Deen—its transgender playwright and solo performer—has a singularly fasci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50PMA gorgeous production of a glorious musical in a grand new DC theater. What’s not to love? The new hall for performing arts is the 472-seat World Stage Theater, high up on the fifth fl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AMBy David Siegel and John Stoltenberg Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking ab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMA tour de force performance by Thomas Keegan and masterful stage arts combine to make Solas Nua’s Misterman a jaw-droppingly good show. Directed and choreographed by Artistic Director …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMThe gutsy woman-centric theater company Nu Sass is notable for producing works that feature women in major roles, onstage and off, typically in a tiny second-floor space on F Street that sea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:33AMA play from the 1980s about revenge for a rape, based on an ancient story from Greek mythology, comes alive in a student production as though it was about now. As though everything in it abo…
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