Tuesday, 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 11:03AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Anacostia Playhouse hosts “dog days of summer theater festival” this August 2015 and for its mid-August show they have Solomon and Marion, Lara Foot Newton’s touching drama…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:11PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
A mother has lost her child to a cult; its leader has taken her as his divine bride. A de-programmer, whose own child died mysteriously, has come to the mother’s aid, for a kidnapping …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40PMPussy Riot, punk truth tellers and guitar playing agitators and feminist rabble rousers who stood up to the Russian State and its Church affiliates under Vladimir Putin. They went into Mosco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMFriday, July 31, 2015
We are all populated by the images of main stream culture. Whether you’re 80 and still want Sam to play it again, or 50 and still believe in the Force or 30 and still imagine yourself at�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:56PMBeauty culture is a mess; fashion culture is the messiest, starving the human body, while forcing it into impossibly harsh postures, all in the name of aesthetics: ribs might not be damaged …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06PMMichael Weller’s The Full Catastrophe, based on a novel by David Carkeet, is a comedy, a comedy about marriage and those longing for marriage. It is light-hearted and fun, well acted and d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Journey of a Bombshell: The Ina Ray Hutton Story offers audiences a rare glimpse into the big band culture of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s — from a female bandleader’s perspective. Wr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
On Monday, July 20, at 7:00 p.m., The Playwrights Forum will present a public reading of Robert Michael Oliver‘s new play, The Loathing. Iona Senior Services will host the reading. The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Beech Tree Puppets The Giant Turnip is a gentle retelling of an old Ukrainian folk tale, presented by two classically trained singers with a flare for lyrics and miniature sets. Using rod pu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40PMFriday, June 26, 2015
The Source Festival is a showcase of new works; not world premieres but workshops of 3 full-length works in progress (the 12 ten-minute plays are icing on the cake, so to speak). For example…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Mónica López-González’s new play, In Session, now playing at Johns Hopkins’ Swirnow Theatre, ripples with ideas — rich ideas, fascinating ideas on such subjects as art…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Mallery Avidon’s Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, now playing at Studio’s Milton Theatre, is many things. It is a poetically funny exposé on 21st century culture. It is a lyrical lan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMMichael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire (later turned into a PBS documentary of the same name) explored the world from the point of view of four plants: apple, tulip, marijuana, and po…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Youthful energy is bursting out all over at Source Theatre Festival 2015, which began last night with its first round of six 10-minute plays, roaring in under the banner Mistakes & Media…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40PMSunday, May 31, 2015
The author of the infamous Ubu Roi, the play which proudly proclaims high culture as but “pshit” sculpted into attractive façades, Alfred Jarry is now the subject of a new scrip…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
“Only dead men tell the truth,” said Mark Twain. And Zombies. Robert O’Hara’s Zombie: The American opened last night at Woolly Mammoth and, save for one errant scene&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
I first read Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead back in 1974. It was but one of many plays I devoured as part of my thirst for the absurdist perspective. It’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Life’s endless struggles — from the daily variety, like getting your mates to behave appropriately, to the emotionally cataclysmic, like the death of a loved one — such is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PMSaturday, May 9, 2015
In 1949, Pulitzer Prize winning author and film critic James Agee wrote a screenplay treatment for Charlie Chaplin, that has since been titled Tramp’s New World. Four years following…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMFriday, May 8, 2015
America used to be defined by its communities. Communities of ethnic and national identity, of urban migration, of rural affiliation, of blood and toil. Today, America is defined by its late…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMThursday, May 7, 2015
Lovers of 20th century literature know Kafka and his darkly dangerous worlds of angst and hopelessness. And they know Metamorphosis, it’s tale of the demise of the man-turned-bug frequ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMSunday, April 26, 2015
Radha Bharadwaj’s Closet Land is not for the faint of heart. At least, not how it is done by Rick Hammerly of Factory 449 at the Anacostia Arts Center, where audience members walk into…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:27PMFriday, April 24, 2015
The coming revolution will truly be remarkable. True equality for all men … and women; in fact, the woman’s revolution, when that barbarous testosterone is finally put in its pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
There’s nothing like hot sex to get the blood pumping. There’s nothing like lasting love to swoon the heart. There’s nothing like a child to turn the world upside down. And there’s n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg saw and wrote about the same opening night performance of Lights Rise on Grace at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, but they seem not to have seen th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMSunday, April 5, 2015
David Skeele’s The Margins opened this Saturday at Adams Morgan’s DCAC with its own brand of intimate terror. Take the small theatre — and I mean 45-person tiny; put 4 psyc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMSaturday, April 4, 2015
Lights Rise on Grace, the world premiere by Chad Beckim, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, has all the elements of a compelling drama. The play takes us into the dynamics of an intricat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution (Paul Cezanne).” Today, that carrot is Charles Mee’s Utopia Parkway. On his website, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMMonday, March 23, 2015
During the Roman times, theatre was a savage sport: need a crucifixion, grab a slave. During the Dark Ages, theatre disappeared under the cloak of Catholicism: better to have no fun, if havi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PMSaturday, March 21, 2015
Lovers of poetry! Lovers of the long line! From his deck on The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre, Diogo Infante calls, “Ahoy!” And the spirit of Alvaro de Campos, aka Ferna…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PM 
