Sunday, 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 01:00PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Shakespeare’s Shrew is always a challenge. Misogynistic in sentiment, slapstickishly machismo in design, its story of how to tame a headstrong, stubborn woman couldn’t be more et…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53AMFriday, October 17, 2014
The American musical does not lend itself well to big ideas, particularly if they possess any degree of complexity. Keep the ideas as simple and melodramatic as the plots that drive them. In…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
In Luigi Pirandelo’s most famous play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the frustrated theatrical director demands that the father of the wandering character-clan stop his endles…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:22PMFriday, October 10, 2014
Oedipus the King has long been considered the archetypical tragedy. Jam packed with irony, Sophocles lays bare the heartbreak of the human condition. People and especially the ruling elites…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PMSunday, September 28, 2014
In Margaret Atwood’s futuristic novel Oryx and Crake, the cutting-edge of modern science creates the Crakes, genetically modified human beings whose beauty is only matched by the heal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSunday, September 21, 2014
In Woolly Mammoth’s Marie Antoinette the doomed, dark-shades donning Queen of France enters with two ladies-in-waiting. She slips off her robe, revealing an oh-so-modern two-piece ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AMFriday, September 19, 2014
The under-affluent of this country find small change on America’s stages: under-represented more often than not, they are the butt of jokes and edgy satires and, on DC stages, are pres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Round House Theatre has opened its 2014 season with Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (1983), one of his many scripts–Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Buried Child (1979), True W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMMonday, September 8, 2014
The power of Shakespeare’s tragedies lies in their ability to speak to both the political and the personal. King Lear is an exemplar in this regard. Not only does the empire collapse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre has a new theatrical home, a new artistic director, and a new season with a brand new series of contemporary plays. Shawn Reddy’s White Suit Sci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19PMSunday, August 31, 2014
Are you sick and tired of yet another big-budget Hollywood action-adventure film with angry tornados, humongous sharks, or killer asteroids? Are you sick and tired of yet another celebrity p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34PMFriday, August 1, 2014
Stupid Fucking Bird, Aaron Posner’s 2013 adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s late 19th century The Seagull, returns like the phoenix to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company with its stellar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33AMThursday, July 24, 2014
Women in uniform in the military. Women in uniform in the foxholes. Women in uniform. Sexual assault. Of both men and women. Charles Fuller’s new play, One Night, tackles head on one…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
We are definitely a culture acraze with technology. I-Phones are only on the lower end of the spectrum: we have virtual realities, simulated sports, robotic housecleaners, robotic warehous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:45PMSunday, July 20, 2014
Despite the deus ex machina that ends the show—the miracle that I don’t mind mentioning because playwrights that resort to miracles as conclusions should have their audiences warned in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, July 19, 2014
North of the Boulevard is not for the faint of heart; neither is it for the prudish or the overly sensitive; nor is it for those who require anything close to political correctness. North o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12AMHow does one create a social movement? How does one create a community? How does one create a mecca for a movement and a community? New play The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Anderson…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Song of Myself: The Whitman Project, a One-Man Show that Contains Multitudes I’ve had a love affair with poetry that reaches back over 40 years, years before my career as an educator and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11PMSunday, June 1, 2014
“When will the cold Christ Quit breathing twice” Robert Hazel, American Poet Apparently never, or at least not until a new god, Christ’s child perhaps, takes his place on Mount New Yor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32AMSunday, May 11, 2014
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats–the English Romantic Poets, believers in love, nature, passion, instinct, revoluti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMFriday, May 9, 2014
Cultish musical enthusiasts have The Rocky Horror Show, movie-goers have Night of the Living Dead, 60′s rockers had The Grateful Dead, and literary enthusiasts have Three Men in a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:19PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
I recently experienced Motti Lerner’s The Admission, Theatre J’s production remounted by Busboys & Poets at Studio Theatre (my review is here). The controversy that the play …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18PMSunday, April 27, 2014
With today’s article, we welcome Robert Michael Oliver as he inaugurates his new column SPINE: Theatre, Culture, and History in the Belly of the Beast on DCMetroTheaterArts. Anacosti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PMThursday, March 27, 2014
1. ‘Hair’ at Keegan Theatre When Hair first came to Washington in 1971, a dead downtown burst into life. The anti-war counterculture was at its height, hungering for recognition by …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:10PMMonday, March 24, 2014
Lust. War. Sadism. Love. And Unicorns. What do you get when you gently push a hand grenade, with the pin yet pulled, into a…vulnerable body part? Some might call that a modern…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:09PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
When Hair first came to Washington in 1971, a dead downtown burst into life. The anti-war counterculture was at its height, hungering for recognition by mainstream America, hankering to …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:13PMMonday, March 17, 2014
The National Theatre of Iceland produces roughly 30 shows a year. Of those 30, about 10 are new plays. One of those new plays, Harmsaga, by Icelander Mikael Torfason, has come to Washingt…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:56AMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Ariel Dorfman’s powerful La Muerte y La Doncella (Death and the Maiden), now playing at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre as part of their 2014 International Theatre Festival,…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:34PMThursday, March 13, 2014
We love the theatre. We love going out to dinner at a nice restaurant. We love going on vacation, to the beach, to the mountains, to a foreign country. We love the pleasure of life a…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:01PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
1. ‘The Suit’ by France’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the Kennedy Center 2014 International Theater Festival Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high l…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:52PM 
