Saturday, February 13, 2016
Legacy Street, a new play by Lauren Jane Redmond, an MFA Playwriting candidate at The Catholic University of America, premiered last night at the Callan Theatre. A gritty look at violence in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, provokes its audience with grand flamingo visions, with horrific buckets of blood, with aesthetic debat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Visit the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Sprenger Lang Theatre over the next few week and you’ll find Gaza. “He who looks at the sea does not know the sea, He who sits on the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PMMonday, January 18, 2016
Each year, Shakespeare is the most frequently produced playwright in America, and his A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the Bard’s most frequently produced plays. So if youR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMChocolate Covered Ants, a new play by Steven A. Butler, Jr., and now on stage at the Anacostia Playhouse, is that rarity of theatrical experience in that it explores the psyche of the Africa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
From what I can gather, 4615 Theatre Company consists of actors, directors, and designers who are, by their own declaration, under 25 years old. They select a play, find a space (basement, r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
The theatre critic might well be the focus of the satiric lampoon, now on stage at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre, but it is the entire Theatrical Industry that gets s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMFriday, January 8, 2016
Aaron Davidman’s deeply personal solo performance, Wrestling Jerusalem, the opening gambit in Mosaic Theatre’s Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival, takes its audience dee…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27PMMonday, December 21, 2015
With Sax Appeal, no other “appeal” is necessary. The soul is satisfied. What happens when you bring four world-class saxophone players, a phenomenal pianist, a fingers-flying bas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMFriday, December 18, 2015
Bright Star officially opened last night in its pre-Broadway engagement at the Kennedy Center. And there is plenty for audiences to like and enjoy. Let’s start with that banjo. Steve M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Mosaic Theatre Company’s second offering in its inaugural season is the emotionally rich The Gospel of Lovingkindness by Marcus Gardley. In it Gardley tackles the loss of innocence by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44AMThursday, December 10, 2015
I’m blind. No, actually, during a merciless chanting of “God, God, God, God, God…” in a piece entitled “Two Minutes of Organized Religion,” I put my head …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
Conceptual Art: “the notion that the essence of art is an idea, or concept, and may exist distinct from and in the absence of an object as its representation.” Conceptual Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PMSunday, November 29, 2015
In Opera Lafayette‘s Catone in Utica, which opened last night at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the greats have come out to sing. And Antonin Vivaldi’s opera bursts…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMMonday, November 23, 2015
The rarely performed Pericles by William Shakespeare, now on stage at Folger Theatre, is that even rarer of manuscripts: a folk play with epic plot, with virtuous storytelling and song, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Appomattox, the world premiere opera now playing at The Kennedy Center Opera House in a new production by the Washington National Opera, tackles that most epic of America’s sins, ̶…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52AMMonday, November 16, 2015
Jane Franklin Dance presented three performance pieces last night at Dance Place: “Incidence,” “Nested, and “Wash Over You, Part 1.” As a whole, they are entitl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Dorado Schmitt and the Django Festival All-Stars came to The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater last night. And for a beautiful 80 minutes, the terror of the day vanished, syncopated out…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour came to the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre last night. Four pieces: two short “Fanfares,” a Preludes and Fugues, and a Yowzie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
One of the most frequently read quotes about Richard Nelson’s four play Apple Family Cycle comes from Ben Brantley’s article, “One Man, 10 Shows, Guvnor.” (Dec. 13, 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:29PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Regular Singing, the 4th play in Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Cycle and now playing in repertory with Sorry (the 3rd play) at Studio Theatre, is a 2-hour dirge, a threnody if you will…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMThursday, November 5, 2015
The Mosaic Theater Company has arrived, and Washington’s dense theatrical geography has a different colored star on the horizon. Its inaugural production, the world premiere of Unexplo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:58PMMonday, November 2, 2015
I first saw Johnna Adams’s World Builders this summer, when it premiered at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. I was immediately struck by the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMSunday, November 1, 2015
Silver Spring Stage does it again. With Adam Rapp’s The Metal Children, now playing at the Stage through November 21, they once again venture outside DC’s theatrical “sa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Darius & Twig, now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater, tackles issues confronted by inner city kids throughout the country. And it does so with a mixture of hope and ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Let me be absolutely clear. I loved Constellation Theatre Company’s production of Avenue Q, which opened last night to a packed, laughing audience. Fast paced, precisely choreographed …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Bowen McCauley Dance is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary season with a four-piece retrospective. All choreographed by Lucy Bowen McCauley, the opening number takes the audience bac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMSunday, October 25, 2015
Revolution is in the air. As Arab Spring lies bloodied beneath military dictatorships in Egypt and religious extremists in Libya and the same ol’ same ol’ dictatorship in Syria (…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:48PMSunday, October 4, 2015
As the audience waits for the Washington Stage Guild’s Washington premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Tiny Island to begin, they look curiously at two humongous carbon-arc movie proj…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:55PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, more than fifty world premiere plays written by women — now that’s a happening! I am as excited by the notion that stories from a woman…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Did the one who got away really get away? Does the right match come down to timing, or compatibility, or courage to take a leap? In this tale of a friendship-turned love affair, two friend…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AM 
