Sunday, November 19, 2017
The 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 06:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2017
A 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2017
For anyone who is more than a little unnerved that President Trump might go off half-cocked and trigger a war"which he could do with as little thought as he puts into a tweet"this civic-mind…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2017
“Why am I a stranger in my own land?” the preternaturally talented actor-writer Dan Hoyle asks during his solo excursion into the heartland of America. Having set forth several y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 11, 2017
He might have had an interesting idea for a solo show. He hadn’t written it yet. but he told Studio Theatre, which had booked him, that its title would be A Short Series of Disagree…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
“Even monsters need clothing,” says the bespoke tailor Anselm, an Arab Jew and immigrant, defending why he will sew a vicuña suit for a Republican presidential candidate whom …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2017
The wonder-filled stories that wend their way through In the Red and Brown Water were located by the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney in “the distant present” in a fictional town…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
Having heralded five* Welders productions, I approached Debra Kim Sivigny’s Hello, My Name Is… with both eagerness and wariness. Knowing that Sivigny had chosen as her subject a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 21, 2017
The big laughs in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage come from watching grownups behaving badly, and the big joke is that four parents end up acting more like petulant, belligerent children…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
Strong writing, passionate acting, and a meaningful purpose combined to make Judge Me Not a gem of a show. An assemblage of monologues around a common theme, the show came with a message:…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
Among the revelatory dimensions of this lyrical play is one that caught my attention by surprise. I knew going in that Sotto Voce, by Pulitzer Prize"winning playwright Nilo Cruz, would re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
Rarely have I enjoyed such a perfect union of comic writing, acting, and staging with such non-stop hilarity. Just opened in the intimate Ark theater at Signature. An Act of God, had me d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2017
When two lovers in life or on stage display an intense interaction of attraction, they are said to have “chemistry.” That elusive feeling may be more than a metaphor, according t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 7, 2017
This season for whatever reason"and far be it from me to speculate"three theater companies in the nation’s capital are presenting Stephen Sondheim’s tunefully insolent tribute to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PM[SHARE]Hard to imagine a dramatic work more perfect for undergraduate actors or more pertinent to the racial tensions of our times than Dominique Morisseau’s trenchant Blood at the Root, n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
The great Irish actor Lisa Dwan is in town doing something with the playwright Harold Pinter right now at the Lansburgh Theatre that is utterly amazing. She is both doing Pinter and undoing …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
This is a most peculiar play, but in a very good way. It’s more about its form than its content. And that’s what makes it one of Forum Theatre’s most fascinating offerings.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
Post-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 05:44PM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2017
In a recent satire published on Medium, the San Francisco writer/actor/comedian Alison Page listed five dozen “Honest Theatre Awards.” Among them was one that struck me as an apt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 16, 2017
Winner of five Helen Hayes Awards last season, Theater Alliance’s production of Word Becomes Flesh is now playing at Anacostia Playhouse in an encore presentation that is garnering eve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
I reported on this extraordinary play when it was a staged reading at Theater J last June and said at the end: “Somebody needs to pick this one up and bring it back.” Well, that&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38PM[SHARE]There are times in the theater when the particulars of a play"its people, place, and poetics"pull you in as only an arresting, well-told story can. But then something even more interesting b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 30, 2017
In what is surely the most badass, take-no-prisoners performance by a musical artist on a DC stage in recent memory, Miche Braden brings her sensational star turn as Bessie Smith to H Street…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
Every great play by Shakespeare takes on altered shades of meanings depending on a production’s directing, design, and acting. That’s a theater truism. Also well-known to practit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
The musical Big Fish is by any measure a feel-good show for the whole family, as evidenced by the buoyant and beautiful production now playing at The Keegan Theatre. But the main narrative a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
No sooner did some aerial apparatus drop from the fly space"ropes, straps, silks, hoops, trapezes"but what some artist-athletes would take hold of it and make acts of suspended animation. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
Fans of Synetic Theater’s music-and movement-based works derived from classic texts will find a surprise twist in the company’s latest offering. Typically, s Synetic extravaganza…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
The world of Wig Out! is a glittering fantasia on house ballroom culture. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ingeniously metatheatrical 2006 script sets this play with music in the urban unde…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2017
Among the issues polarizing America (and degrading public discourse) is the hot-button question of what to do about guns. Proponents of positions right and left talk past each other. Both ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
Toni Rae Salmi is an actor seen frequently on DC stages, most recently “enjoyably grand” in Perfect Arrangement at Source Festival. In Help Me, Wanda!, she belts out a r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
The original The Originalist returns to Arena in a much larger house (The Kreeger, not the Kogod Cradle where it debuted in 2015). This is fitting. The play, the performances, and the produc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PM[SHARE] 
