Saturday, 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 02:21PMFriday, March 20, 2015
Over 2500 years ago, Aristophanes put “living” contemporary power-brokers into his comic masterpieces and then skewered them with their own foibles. The results were scandalous a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMMonday, March 16, 2015
To be sure, name a play Laugh and the gauntlet is thrown. Laugh or die trying. The Studio Theatre’s world premiere production of Beth Henley’s new play, based on the antics of si…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:27PMSunday, March 15, 2015
Sex. Love. God. Truth. People risk everything for them. They are eaten by lions. They are burned at the stake. They die on crosses. And did I mention politics, the arena where such quest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Last night the audience at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall was blessed with Buika. If being blessed by Buika wasn’t more than enough for a single evening, the audience at the Concert H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMSunday, March 8, 2015
The Mundo Perfeito (Perfect World) has arrived in DC’s America. As part of the Iberian Suite. At The Kennedy Center. Presenting a full evening of theatre, Mundo Perfeito offers two pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMSunday, March 1, 2015
The Creation of Art. The Wrestle with Death. 33 Variations, Moisés Kauffman’s Tony nominated play, juxtaposes those two turbulences. In one — circa 1820 in Vienna, Austria …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMFriday, February 27, 2015
George Bernard Shaw wrote Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) during World War I, with its assassination, its trench warfare, its chemical attacks, its all-too-human brutality u…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:07PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Strathmore brings a wide variety of performances to its spacious Music Center each month, from the Tango Buenos Aires: Song of Eva Perón, which performs there tomorrow, to the Annapolis Sym…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about t’ expound this dream.” Bottom, A Midsummer …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:20PMFriday, February 13, 2015
Make no mistake about it. August Wilson is one of America’s greatest dramatists. Authentic, historically rich, and dramatically insightful — few playwrights have the gifts and th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:49PMSunday, February 8, 2015
In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell writes: “The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.” And, to be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Fifty years ago this coming Thanksgiving, Arlo Guthrie and company take a truck load of garbage out of a friend’s house near Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Finding the local dump closed f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMWednesday, February 4, 2015
As the guerilla war in Dunsinane intensifies, Siward, the English commander sent to Scotland to bring peace to the warring clans, admits to burning to death a village’s captured adult …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:37PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Frederic Schiller’s historical drama, Mary Stuart (1800), gives us two potent, yet vulnerable women, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It gives us religious fanaticism — no, n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:14PMSaturday, January 24, 2015
I write about theatre because I know theatre, intimately and over many years. I’m writing about Jazz because I love Jazz, the way a man might love a goddess, fleetingly and in hot purs…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMMonday, January 12, 2015
In the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Howard, Leonard, and Rajesh regularly play the on-line fantasy role playing game World of Warcraft. They also like to play dress up in the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
The great Chinese poet-philosopher Zhūangzi (370-287 BC) wrote: “Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PMSunday, January 4, 2015
You may not have heard of Terence Rattigan, British playwright whose heyday soared in the late 1940s and early 1950s; but whose more conventional fare was then swamped by the British bad boy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMSunday, December 28, 2014
In 1982, when Barry Levinson’s Diner (the film) opened nationwide to positive reviews, the Reagan Revolution had just begun, the Vietnam Syndrome was about to be dispelled with the inv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:03PMMonday, December 15, 2014
No one should ever accuse The Studio Theatre of bowing to the pressure of getting into the holiday spirit. In this time of Islamic State and relentless “drones,” torture reports…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMFriday, December 12, 2014
Gordon Craig, one of the early giants of modern theatre, provocatively wrote: “There is only one actor – nay one man – who has the soul of the dramatic poet, and who has ever serve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Are you tired of Christmas shows that urge you to give turkeys to the poor, or lumps of coal to bad children, or sweets to your beloved nutcracker? Are you tired of listening to news about t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSunday, November 23, 2014
A man staggers onto the stage at Arena’s Kreeger Theater. Nomax, played with deep loss by Kevin McAllister, has offended his girl with yet another drunken night. He sings “Early …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
To be sure, some of Lisner’s audience came for the sex–explicit, diverse, and environmentally conscious. Some came for the celebrity–a noted model and film actress (Blue V…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe is an adaptation of four of Poe’s better known tales of horror: The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Tell-Tale He…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMFriday, November 7, 2014
When I think of Hip-Hop my imagination immediately flies to urban America, to a gritty, “tougher than leather” New York City filled with N.W.A, LL Cool J, and of course Public En…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Shakespeare, the humanist; Shakespeare, the poet; Shakespeare, the political playwright; Shakespeare, the fatalist. Before he passed away, my 87-year-old father used to quiz members of the y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
This weekend at Gallaudet’s Eastman Studio Theatre WSC Avant Bard and Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program opened their world premiere, historically based musical, Visible La…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:22PMThe National Civil War Project presents the work of “a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing arts organizations to commemorate the 150th a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13AMSunday, October 26, 2014
Michele Rimi’s Rage made its US premiere this week at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab. A production of Ambassador Theater, directed by Joe Banno, Rage explores the dynamics of adol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PM 
