Four black men in their forties sit around a chess game in Dupont Circle park in 1980. They open the show singing barbershop-quartet style, an upbeat song about themselves: They are the 1342…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AMNo way around it, this is a dark, harsh, and gritty domestic drama. For some, it may be too dark, too harsh, too gritty, perhaps a partner violence trigger. A fun, frothy, feel-good frolic t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02PMThe unofficial rules for crafting a successful play also tend to apply to compiling the perfect mixtape: tell a compelling story, know your audience but keep them guessing, set a tone, stick…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMAgainst a backdrop of trendy dramedies and raunchy musicals, the Wheel Theatre Company’s The Blind leads its audience to a cold, dark forest a century old. Your experience depends on how…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMThe notion that medical technology will one day enable human beings to live indefinitely is not just science fiction. Preventing the aging process (or “ending aging”) is an actua…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMWas ever a jailed sex offender more self-righteous and self-pitying than Rabbi Barry Freundel in this brilliantly disturbing new play by A. J. Campbell? Were ever such a predator’sR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:46PMStories of war wounded told from the point of view of military medics—those who try to save lives and bag the bodies of the ones they can’t—give glimpses into the bravery and heroi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:56AMThe two media companies combine writing strength to review 70 openings in 6 days The editors and publishers of DC’s two major theater websites—DC Theatre Scene and DCMetroTheaterArts—t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AMWhen Jonathan David Martin came from New York to DC to be Theater J’s new associate producer in March of last year, he brought with him a backstory as co-artistic director and produ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMArthur Miller’s 1994 Broken Glass does not rise to the stature of his greatest works (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, The Price, and others). But even lesser Miller can be arresting…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04PMFifteen of the 80-plus shows in the 12th Annual Captial Fringe Festival presented five-minute teaser scenes to a packed house Thursday night at Logan Fringe Arts Space. Act after act, the ho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMOn the top floor of The Keegan Theatre is a cork board labeled “What Does Feminism Mean to You?” Pushpins, pens, and slips of paper are provided so that patrons can have their sa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PMInside this taut and provocative two-character play—which vividly evokes the political tension between the Israeli state and its Palestinian citizens—there is a startling sex scene, one …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMStill Life With Rocket is greater than the sum of its arts. The diverse forms of installation, choreography, and character-driven drama come together in this collaboratively devised experien…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53AMThe set that we see is a towering eyeful, The interior decorator spared nary a trifle, For decked all about are amusing objets d’art On loan from museums with tastes tres bizarre. Claes Ol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMPerfect Arrangement by Topher Payne was a smash hit at Source Festival when it debuted there four years ago, and the comedy’s return to Source on the occasion of the festival’s t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMGay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, concerts never lack for inspired high concepts and ingenious themes. Whether featuring love songs, cowboy songs, nostalgia songs, or who-knows-what-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMThe young performer, playwright, and self-described gender warrior Malic White is in town from Chicago making a singularly significant debut on a DC stage playing Max, a whip-smart radica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47PMThe absurdity and grim reality of gender get a scathing going-over in this extraordinary play by Taylor Mac. Inside the hilarity of Hir (pronounced “here”) is a tragedy howling t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:49PMThere’s an extraordinarily tender and touching moment in Signature Theatre’s ebullient Jesus Christ Superstar when Mary Magdalene (Natascia Diaz), after singing her gorgeous ball…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMNear the beginning of this transporting play, the actor Sarah Marshall, wearing a man-tailored white suit, unrolls a map of Gaza and lays it on the floor. She then dumps onto it 150 tiny pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27PMMegan Dominy’s The Wedding Party was a huge hit in Capital Fringe 2015 (the DCMetroTheater Arts review called it a “delightful comedic romp”). Now in her new play, Sioux…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45PMThere are reasons aplenty not to miss The Father now playing at The Studio Theatre, and Ted van Griethuysen’s performance in the title role is foremost among them. Recently the recipie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMCurious questions tease the brain during this peculiarly provocative production. One is: Is this theater? Another is: What are we to make of it? The Man Who, just opened at the estimably idi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17PMHow does a play that starts out about real estate for gosh sake—adjacent farms in rural Ireland—become a heart-wrenching story of adjacent lost souls who fall in love late in life? How d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04AMDC site-specific theater of resistance reached a new height last night—also a new low—as Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s arresting staging of Vaclav Havel’s Protest became t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PMMuch to my tickled surprise, last night I found myself shouting out that I am a lesbian—I along with an entire audience in Lab One at The Atlas Performing Arts Center! Really, all of us, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMWho’da thunk that our current administration’s dysfunction would prompt nostalgia for our eight years worth of W.? But that indeed is the curious takeaway from watching Lisa Hods…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMI remember thinking after I first saw Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People at Arena that the character Jaysen Wright plays, Jackson Moore, has an important and particular role in how whole th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27PMThe dystopia delineated in Building the Wall is predicted by the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, to happen in America very soon. By the time the play is set, in the year 2019, the two charac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMThere are mysteries of belief and faith beneath this fascinating parable of a play, roiling like the seawater that churns below the wooden house where its action takes place. This house is b…
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