Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Big Apple Circus has come to the DC area for their 40th Anniversary Celebration. Original founders, Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, established the BAC in 1977. Their European style…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
NextStop Theatre is reaching the end of their July 2017 to June 2018 “Point and Counterpoint” season. Their third and final show pairing explores the contrasting effects that religious t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
In 1920, a fourteen-year-old boy in Idaho, named Philo Farnsworth, asked his science teacher for advice on a design he was working on for an electronic television system. Seven years later, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Have you ever had a day where absolutely every little thing goes wrong? Well, Alexander has. In the musical version of Judith Viorst’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMThursday, February 1, 2018
Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy presented their student production of Hairspray over the weekend. Young artists, ranging from grades four through twelve, hit the stage with all the energ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Convergence Theatre, as a part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, has produced a new play by Olivia Haller called This Is All Just Temporary. The original work focuses on college grad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Bravo Productions had their first of two productions in 2018 this past weekend. Fiddler on the Roof JR ran for four shows in two days to completely packed houses. The Junior musical is a con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days is a classic novel that has stood the test of time–one hundred and forty-five years, to be exact–and been adapted into multiple media …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMSunday, December 24, 2017
If you have yet to experience a Faction of Fools Theatre Company production, then you are missing out on something truly brilliant and one-of-a-kind. With a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:37AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Classic holiday productions, like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, always show up around the theater circuit this time of year. But there are also …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMThursday, December 7, 2017
It’s that time of year again. Signature Theatre opened their annual Holiday Follies this week. The seasonal cabaret is packed with a set of over twenty songs including Christmas classics, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
It was a match made in heaven: Rebecca Traister, author and commentator on feminism and politics; and Samantha Bee, Canadian-American writer, comedian, producer, and (according to TIME) one …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMThursday, November 23, 2017
The story of Jane Goodall – primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist – has been told numerous times in various media forms. The British born naturalist is said to be the leading…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theatre has put on an original version of Francis Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Ellen Selby, who co-directed the show, wrote the book, with music by M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMThursday, November 2, 2017
The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s most recent production, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, is an interesting look at family dynamics and the lingering effects t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42AMThursday, October 26, 2017
NextStop opened their production of Assassins over the weekend and (all the cheesy pun intended) absolutely killed it. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMSunday, October 22, 2017
Life is full of unanswered questions. But in Lauren Gunderson’s play, Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, the title character is given a second chance. Avant Bard is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMThursday, October 19, 2017
The Kennedy Center recently presented En Garde Arts’ touring production of Wilderness, a multimedia show that discusses the real-life accounts of young teens who struggle with mental healt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
The Arlington Players are entering the last weekend of their production of Pippin, a show that promises magic and fantastic feats, with book by Roger Hirson and music and lyrics by Stephen S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37PMFriday, September 29, 2017
In 1928, Joseph Moncure March wrote a racy narrative poem that was received quite successfully, despite a ban resulting from its controversial content, called “The Wild Party.” A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Anne and Emmett, by Janet Langhart Cohen, is a play about an imagined conversation between two figures from history – teenagers, who were the victims of institutional terrorism. MetroS…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II have been called the greatest writing partnership of the 20th century. Their work spans from 1943 to 1959 and includes some of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PMMonday, July 24, 2017
The history of Bonnie and Clyde is well-known. Lovers, living a life of crime. Since their infamous streak of robberies and murders, which ended with the two being killed in an ambush on May…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Oh the years of awkward adolescence. Who doesn’t look back on that time and cringe? No one! Which is why The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is the perfect combination of hilarity a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Theater is a vital part of our culture. Imagination is discovered. History revealed. New ideas expressed. And the limitless lessons to be garnered from our fundamentally flawed human selves …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
BRAVO Productions Theatre for Young Artists strives to nurture young, local talent and offers the opportunity for those budding entertainers to perform both mainstream and classic shows on t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:14AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Encore Stage and Studio closed their most recent production, Shakespeare’s comedy The Tempest, this past weekend. As the self-proclaimed “Theatre for kids, by kids,” Encore works with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:22PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Brave Spirits Theatre (BST) has recently opened two productions, performing in tandem, to present what they refer to in their press release as “Theatre for the Game of Thrones fan.” Call…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Arguments have been made that the theater is supposed to be a “safe place” where patrons can go to be entertained, away from the harshness of the world. Yet there is a large(r) number …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38PMMonday, February 20, 2017
The feminist movement has been on the rise for decades, but with our current political and social climate, saturated with patriarchal overreach into women’s lives (and even their bodies), …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Howard University presented the powerful new play, Eclipsed, in their black box theater this past weekend. Eclipsed was written in 2015 by Danai Gurira (well-known for her role as Michonne o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PM 
