Sunday, November 16, 2014
Love and song go together so well they’re a compound noun. Who doesn’t love a love song? But what about love that is disappointing, unreciprocated, wounding—all the loves that dare not…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMSaturday, November 15, 2014
Hit Musical Visible Language to Livestream on HowlRound TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 16, 2014 AT 2 PM WSC Avant Bard and the Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program announce today that their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:36AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
The Rainbow Theatre Project, Metro DC’s very own LGBTQ theatre company, has just begun its second season. If that sounds intriguing but you’ve never heard of it, small wonder. As H. Lee …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Bad Jews beggars genre naming. “Comedy of ideas” doesn’t hold a Shabbat candle to it. Bad Jews is so over-the-top funny, so razor-sharp smart, and so plumb-the-depths profound that it …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Washington Stage Guild starts off its 29th season with a smart production of David Marshall Grant’s Pen, a curious play that is by turns provocative and perplexing. The company’s tagline…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PMSunday, November 2, 2014
There is a shortlist of great American plays about hopes and dreams, wrenching and emotionally exacting dramas exposing the anguish when righteous aspiration is tragically not enough. Arthur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
This is what Jon Fosse’s words sound like. When he writes it sounds like this. His characters talk in short statements. They talk and they seem to say something ordinary. They seem to. One…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
I last partook of this tasty audience-integration treat from dog&pony dc last December when I saw Toast as a workshop production in the Kogod Cradle Series. The immersive experience was …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56PMTuesday, September 16, 2014
A Conversation With ‘Yentl’ Playwright Leah Napolin Leah Napolin’s Yentl would have to be on any short list of best plays about religion and gender—and the production now at Theater …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20AMFriday, September 12, 2014
As a short story by Franz Kafka awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, it found itself onstage transformed into a live action graphic novel. Wait, what? Translation: The adventurous Alliance …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMMonday, September 8, 2014
I’ve been crazy about Amy Herzog’s writing since I saw 4000 Miles last year at Studio Theatre. When I saw After the Revolution at Theater J last season, I just flipped. Herzog is, as I s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
In Theater J’s beautiful, eloquent, and thrilling new production of Yentl, such profound new life has been breathed into Isaac Bashevis Singer’s beloved novella that at its heart this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14AMMonday, September 1, 2014
The distinctive work of playwright Alan Sharpe returned to the Page-to-Stage Festival Saturday night with a reading of six short plays collectively titled Hand Jobs, presented by the Afri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMSunday, August 31, 2014
After the entertaining staged reading at last year’s Page-to-Stage Festival of Mario Baldessari’s comedy The Good Devil, In Spite of Himself (coauthored with Tyler Herman), I called it i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMTuesday, August 26, 2014
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is a play I’d never seen or read or even known a thing about. So the experience of discovering it via The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s smashi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMSaturday, August 23, 2014
What a kick to see this Capital Fringe hit back at it, better and badder. When 1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera tore up the sweltering Baldacchino Tent in the summer of 2013, DCMetroTheat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMMonday, August 11, 2014
This is a cunning conundrum of a play. It moves back and forth in time, sudden lighting changes signal shifts from realistic to magical, the characters speak like superliterate savants, one-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PM(Editor’s note: This column represents the views of its author only and does not reflect the views of myself or the staff of DCMTA.) A new book about the Matthew Shepard murder challen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00AMFriday, August 1, 2014
Ardent fans of Cirque du Soleil attending the spectacular new Amaluna will recognize this as one of Cirque’s best tent shows ever. Now in its 30th year with a track record of more than …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
At the core of this inexorable and engrossing drama by Johnna Adams is a disturbing enigma: A fifth-grade boy named Gidion, suspended from school under suspicious circumstances, has shot him…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19AMMonday, July 14, 2014
About an hour into The Other Day as performed at The Shop, a Dutch airport clerk named Steven (played by a very dashing Dash King), shows a young American named Mark (a puppy-dog-sweet Mat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) What a pleasure to happen upon this gem of a show. Featuring three exceptionally truthful and touching performances on a plain platform with next-to-no productio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:56PMSunday, July 13, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Giant Box of Porn opened in the big Warehouse black box before a standing-room-only audience Saturday, and once the show got going I knew why: This humdinger is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMKing’s Players, a young company in DC, named after Artistic Director and Founder Timothy R. King, has presented well-received original shows at the last two Capital Fringe festivals. Its 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
In cases of sexual contact between teachers and minor students, the perpetrator is usually assumed to be male. But there are cases of such inappropriate and criminal behavior by female teach…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) A widowed father in his late 50s lies in bed on a morphine drip, his body rife with cancer. Beside him is his thirty-something gay son, who has traveled to his c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMFriday, July 11, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) First-time playwright John Bavoso’s inventive and appealing script for Olizzia would make a terrific indie rom-com caper that would be a hit on the lesbian-a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) If one way to tell whether a rock musical is really good is that it makes you want to come back and see it again, The Landless Theatre Company’s Rock Bottom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMThursday, July 10, 2014
If ever there was an Inadvertent American Hero, it’s Rodney King, the black construction worker whose brutal beating in 1991 by white cops in LA, caught on videotape, appalled the world, i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMMonday, June 30, 2014
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10AM 
