Friday, February 19, 2021
There are jumping dogs, ninja fights, and double crosses. The story is fast-paced and offers many moments for kids to chime in on how the story should advance (remember Choose Your Own Adven…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMSaturday, February 13, 2021
AmaZing Theatre Company is presenting an original movie/play hybrid that they have dubbed a stage flick: Torn, by local playwright John Becker. The show is based on the momentous event in 19…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08AMMonday, February 8, 2021
Loveday Brooke is generally referred to as “the female Sherlock Holmes.” Author Catherine Louisa Pirkis first published her lady detective story in 1893 and, aside from having created th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMSunday, January 31, 2021
In this ever evolving age of the coronavirus, theaters have been experimenting in ways to keep the arts alive and thriving. We Happy Few has recently been producing audio recordings with ext…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13PMMonday, November 23, 2020
Woolly Mammoth Theatre recently released their mixed media streaming production of The JookJOYnt, A Black in Space Powered by Makers Lab Experience. The video is a funky intergalactic collag…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMSunday, November 8, 2020
We thought the days of drive-in movie theaters, with patrons braving the weather for the sake of a good time, were a thing of the past. But pandemic desperation has brought this back, easing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PMThursday, March 5, 2020
Bandstand, a heart-wrenching musical about a group of veterans returning home from World War II, with music by Richard Oberacker, and book and lyrics by Rob Taylor and Oberacker, is at The N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMSunday, March 1, 2020
There are some pieces of theater that elicit such raw emotion that describing the experience properly is next to impossible. Reston Community Players’ production of The Diary of Anne Frank…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Imagination Stage brings back its Helen Hayes nominated show, Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, written by Psalmayene 24. With the title character, Zomo, inspired by a Nigerian folkt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:40PMThursday, December 19, 2019
The concept of gratitude and sharing can be one of the hardest things for a child to learn. But in a world full of greed, these principles are vital to maintaining a semblance of peace and p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
In what is becoming a delightful Christmas tradition, Creative Cauldron reprises their holiday production of Madeline’s Christmas. The lighthearted musical is based on the beloved books by…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMFriday, November 22, 2019
John Leguizamo is a famously Latino, American, Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, known for numerous roles that defy pigeonholing on the character-genre spectrum. Yet despite the vast ran…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMThursday, November 14, 2019
Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater presents its own adaptation of the popular tale, The Jungle Book. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the show centers around the man-c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Improvisational theater is comprised of different aspects of live performance genres, like stand-up comedy or fully scripted plays. But what defines improv, is how the actors use comments fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Prince William Little Theatre has chosen some heavy material for their recent show. Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Harry Kantrovich, focuses on the international military tribunals that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Encore Stage & Studio has been working with local youth “to build lifelong appreciation for live theatre by involving young people in all aspects of theatre arts — onstage, backstage…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
It’s that time of year again, when there’s a bit of Pumpkin Spice in everything and Halloween themes are taking over. The Workhouse Arts Center is doing its part to add a bit of horror i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMFriday, October 4, 2019
Murder on the Nile is Agatha Christie’s staging of her popular novel, Death on the Nile, published in 1937. Castaways Repertory Theatre has chosen this definitive whodunit for their Fall p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Area Woman is a group of four local DC artists who came together to premiere their “comedydramadance,” Holon!, for the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival. This August at various venues through…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Encore Stage & Studio’s “Theatre by Kids, for Kids!” is currently showing the Disney musical, Newsies. Based on the 1992 movie, and inspired by the real-life newsboy strike in 1899…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMFriday, July 19, 2019
Since 2002, Upper Room Theatre Ministry has presented one musical every summer. This year, they bring the stage adaptation of the Disney classic, Mary Poppins, to Manassas. The story of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Based on the fantastical imaginings of Dr. Seuss, Seussical is a light-hearted musical packed with color, magic, and mischief. McLean Community Players is running their production of this fa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Imagination Stage’s The Ballad of Mu Lan is the funny and poignant tale of a Chinese woman warrior who defies tradition in order to protect her father and be the person she feels she was …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Pointless Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Forest Treás (pronounced ‘Triage’). Written by Navid Azeez, the play is based around the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks and the eff…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Fredericksburg Theatre Ensemble (fte) was established in the Spring of 2011. They’re a nonprofit organization, focusing on guilty pleasures and “celebrating the art of the uncomfortable …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05PMThursday, May 9, 2019
In this age of devices, the continuing evolution of man’s relationship with technology has been the subject of many studies and stories. Madeleine George’s play, The (curious case of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The Full Monty, a musical about a group of unemployed, average Joes who decide to put on a one-night-only strip show to make big money fast, is currently playing at the Workhouse Arts Center…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMFriday, May 3, 2019
TBD Immersive presents their new adventure, Under(world): The Lost & The Found, in Dupont Circle. The Dupont Underground has been transformed into a series of settings representing the i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Vienna Theatre Company has just opened David Lindsay-Abaire’s hilarious play, Ripcord, for the last production of their current season. The show takes place in an assisted living facility,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Many plays try to capture the complexity of the human spirit and the Reston Community Players production of Donald Margulies’, Time Stands Still, does just that. The poignant tale examines…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Encore Stage & Studio was founded in 1967 and produces “theatre by kids, for kids.” Their current show is Robin Hood, the classic tale of the brave archer who steals from the rich to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37PM 
