Monday, October 10, 2016
Director Matt Bassett, a faculty member of Montgomery College, in choosing Bat Boy: The Musical to direct, chose to examine, “how someone who doesn’t fit the social norm must struggle fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22AMSunday, October 9, 2016
With Halloween drifting in the cool, autumn air, Zombie Prom, as directed by Unexpected Stage Company Co-Producing Director Christopher Goodrich, and with Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey, is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10PMSaturday, October 8, 2016
DAS BARBECÜ, as directed by Greg Bell, and with Book and Lyrics by Jim Luigs, was a rousing and at times, funny-bone-breaking re-telling of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, reimagined as a Texas fabl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
‘Much Ado About Nothing’ brings amusement, merriment and mirth Appearances can be quite deceiving, especially in the realm of love. Deception, misunderstandings and much merriment were o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Hollywood actors, singers and local talent fuel the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture One-hundred years in the making, the National Museum of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:46PMSunday, September 25, 2016
‘’Night, Mother’ explores depths of depression, family secrets The Highwood Theatre’s Night, Mother, expertly directed by Madison Middleton and wonderfully acted by Melissa B. Robins…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:42PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Culture Club channels the 80s at Strathmore The UK pop-soul music group Culture Club has been grooving for over 30 years with hits like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”, “Time,” “Ka…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30PMSaturday, September 10, 2016
‘All My Sons’ highlights painful secrets from the past Vagabond Players’ All My Sons, expertly directed by Michael Byrne Zemarel, is a masterful staging of a classic work by one of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57AMMonday, September 5, 2016
MetroStage’s Blackberry Daze adapted by novelist Ruth P. Watson and Director/Choreographer/Lyricist Thomas W. Jones II from Watson’s best-selling novel, and with a soulful, beautiful, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMSunday, September 4, 2016
Review: Kraftwerk brings electro-pop and 3D imagery to The Music Center at Strathmore The electro-pop group Kraftwerk has been shredding the envelope of what is possible in electronic instru…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
Radio Golf, expertly directed by Terry Spann, and written by the late, esteemed playwright August Wilson, is a powerful study of Black men with two different approaches to progressing in a c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:44PMSunday, July 31, 2016
Tick, Tick…BOOM!, as directed and choreographed by Jillian Locklear Bauersfeld, and with Book, Music and Lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, was an insightful semi-autobiographical and mus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PMSaturday, July 30, 2016
‘Julius Caesar’ draws political and historical parallels Julius Caesar, directed by Chris Cotterman, in a production by the Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, is an exploration of what mot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMThursday, July 14, 2016
‘Yes, And’ explores the history of improv Yes, And… directed by Jeff Quintana and expertly written and acted by Playwright Zack Myers is a quirky bit of work that questions the nature …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Poe, Times Two directed by DeLisa M. White and expertly written, adapted and acted by Playwright Greg Oliver Bodine, is a haunting double-dose of one-man plays based on two classic tales of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Cake! Directed by Corin Andrade and created by burlesque impresario Ché Monique asks a profound, yet comical question: What happens when a 300 pound woman jumps out of an eight-foot birthda…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Moxie: A Happenstance Vaudeville channels pre-radio\TV entertainment America’s Got Talent, The X Factor, Benny Hill, The Gong Show, and The Ed Sullivan Show are nothing new. The variety s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:05PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
‘Next to Normal’ Confronts Depression, and Anxiety Depression hurts. It deadens and dulls the edge of life and can even kill. With a Tony Award-winning score composed by Tom Kitt with l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMMonday, June 13, 2016
Ten stories, ten plays, ten minutes per play. That was the set up for 10x10x10, a collection of plays by local area playwrights, which played at Fells Point Corner Theatre. The audience got …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMSunday, June 5, 2016
‘Lost in Wonderland’: Journeys Through an Author’s Imagination Have you ever wanted to ask a famous, classic author, say a Mark Twain or an Edgar Allen Poe how and why they shaped th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22PMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Dreamgirls Sizzles with Soul Why is sudden fame so destructive? Can true friendship survive the pressures of show business? Those questions and a whole heaping spoonful of soulful, Motown-i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18PMSunday, May 22, 2016
‘kinK’ explores murder, revenge and justice Director\Writer William Dean Leary produces unsettling, lapel-grabbing work that addresses topical issues. In his previously written and dir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
‘The Foreigner’ Lampoons British\Southern Culture Clash Thank God for actors. They make us feel emotions, make us think, make us identify with their characters, and make us laugh. Ther…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36AMSunday, May 15, 2016
‘The View From The Tunnel’ questions why the good suffer There’s a scene in The View From the Tunnel, directed by Simone Walker, and written by DMV-area playwright Elaine Hutchinson, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06AMSaturday, May 14, 2016
VOICES eschews platitudes for depth There are life-changing events that can hit one’s soul with the ferocity of a hurricane. Mental violence and strife can tear up the psyche to the point …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMMonday, May 9, 2016
The Tempest which played at The Silver Spring Black Box Theatre through May 8th was a delightful tour-de-force of sound, fury, fanfare and color. Directed and adapted by David Minton for Lum…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32AMSaturday, May 7, 2016
‘Tommy’ energizes, brings emotion We’ve all felt misunderstood at times. Ostracized. Criticized. Left out of the community of our peers. But then hopefully things change; we find a hid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PMMonday, May 2, 2016
“The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises,” so it says in the Bible’s Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter One, Verse 5. People, live, people die, life go…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMMonday, April 25, 2016
Review: ‘Black Pearl Sings’ explores the political and the personal Politics, whether personal or political often divides us. These differences come to light when two wom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03PMSunday, April 24, 2016
How should we deal with the storms of life? Should we go through life content and yet oblivious to the suffering of ourselves and others? Or, do we allow ourselves psychic disturbance over t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMSunday, April 17, 2016
Middletown is a series of vignettes powered by a strong ensemble Middletown, which played at The Silver Spring Black Box Theater through April 17th was a glorious, energetic crowd pleaser. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PM 
