Saturday, April 11, 2020
He takes requests at his online concerts. If he doesn’t know a song, he’ll learn it. And if you want to send him a few bucks through Venmo? Well, that would be cool. Jordan Friend, the 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:33AMSaturday, April 4, 2020
Announcement of Awards: 20th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (THE WATCH AWARDS) The 2019 WATCH Award winners were announced on April 4th, 2020. The ceremony was canceled due …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39PMSunday, March 29, 2020
Arena Stage announced on Saturday, March 28th that it will temporarily furlough the majority of its staff starting on April 13th. 88 employees will be furloughed at that time. Furloughed emp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00AMMonday, March 23, 2020
Welcome to the second installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up local theater artists who are finding ways …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Welcome to the first installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up local theater artists who are finding ways t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:06PMOne by one, theaters announced late last week that they would be closed for the foreseeable future in compliance with Coronavirus recommendations. It is a stunning and unprecedented time in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
There is nothing like a good old-fashioned plague to get you pondering life’s big questions: the Bubonic Plague, the AIDS Crisis, COVID-19, really any epidemic will do. Of course, Jordan H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMWednesday, February 12, 2020
In a particularly poignant scene in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz’s Exquisite Agony, a heart transplant recipient named Amer has an intimate conversation with Romy, the pregn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Football and musicals rarely overlap, but it was eight years ago this month – in the coveted slot right after the 2012 Super Bowl – that Smash, the NBC series about developing a Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Poor Melvin Ferd the Third just can’t catch a break. The ladies shun him, the jocks harass him, and the pretty blind librarian he has a crush on? Well, she thinks he’s a scrawny dweeb. B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Multidisciplinary artist Paige Hernandez is not a fan of boundaries. Whether performing, directing or teaching, the Baltimore native has made a career out of blending artistic forms and reac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
In his five years on DC stages, actor Justin Weaks has played an impressive array of characters written by contemporary African-American playwrights. It is a dream he feared would never beco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PMThursday, December 5, 2019
Oh, that pigeon! Always causing trouble. He never wants to take a bath. He stays up past his bedtime. And now he wants to drive… a bus?! Children’s author Mo Willems continues his tenure…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMMonday, December 2, 2019
When Gunderson agreed to rework 'Peter Pan' for Shakespeare Theatre Company, she had one stipulation: the sexism and racism had to go.
The post Playwright Lauren Gunderson had one stipulatio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55AMTuesday, November 19, 2019
We all want to feel loved, right? And there are times we feel forgotten. Unseen. Disposable. The classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit is a sentimental reminder that a child’s lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
The winter holidays are a great time to see a show with someone you love, so here is our list of best bets in holiday entertainment in and around DC. Whether you are looking for a show to en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Offenbach and Rossini are not names that roll easily off most children’s tongues. Luckily for parents who are looking for a fun way to introduce their children to classical music, the work…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13AMMonday, October 14, 2019
The 2019-2020 Theater and Policy Salon season will start on October 18 at 3 pm with a Salon at New York University’s Washington DC campus at 1307 L Street, NW in downtown DC. The conversat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21PMFriday, September 20, 2019
DC Metro Theater Arts spent a day at rehearsal with the cast of Round House Theatre Company’s season opener: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. Not only is this play a fabulous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMTuesday, September 17, 2019
Imagine a world where pop culture and high culture intersect. A world in which wrestling, comics, and gaming meld seamlessly with the performing arts, allowing people of all backgrounds to e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMThursday, August 29, 2019
Round House Theatre reopened this week after an eight-month renovation that revamped nearly every aspect of the Bethesda, MD theater space. What began as a desire to improve the acoustics in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMThursday, July 25, 2019
LA-based character actor Reggie De Leon brings comedic flair to the beloved Disney character Iago. 'Aladdin' is playing at the Kennedy Center through September 7th.
The post In ‘Aladdin,�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMFriday, July 5, 2019
How does an actor prepare to embody of of the United States’ most famous first ladies? We spoke to Mara Bayewitz about her upcoming solo turn as Dolley Madison playing at Best Medicine Rep…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58AMMonday, June 17, 2019
DC Metro Theater Arts and DC Theatre Scene are pleased to announce that they are joining forces to cover the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. Each online publication will review half of the 89 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMThursday, May 30, 2019
I am through being a lonely theater geek, locking myself in my bedroom and shushing non-interested family members throughout the Tony Awards broadcast! This year, I’ve decided to throw mys…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Free For All, one of the capital’s cherished annual traditions, will return for its 29th annual summer to Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), offering two weeks of free performances of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Visual highlights from the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony. A complete list of recipients can be found here. All photos by Mukul Ranjan. Check out Mukul’s work at or at Mukul Ranja…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
There is something very “meta” about Gala Hispanic Theatre’s production of Fame. See, you’ve got this group of scrappy young artists with talent, so much talent. And they are determi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:24PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Sometimes, true perfection can be found where we least expect it. Whether you know it as a movie or a musical, Shrek has a pretty clear message for audiences: If you keep waiting for a perfe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMThursday, May 9, 2019
The 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards are just around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited! All of DC theater in one room together, wearing fancy duds and celebrating another year of ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The Lab program at Georgetown University occupies an interesting space in the DC performing arts world, existing at the intersection between art and international affairs. Georgetown’s Lab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PM 
