Wednesday, October 2, 2013
After seeing Iron Crow Theatre’s grotesquely fascinating piece Apartment 213 about Jeffrey Dahmer and going back to familiarize myself with the Dahmer case, I was not satiated in my thirs…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PM“You need to do your best to say it correctly.” That is the quote that comes to mind when formulating words to describe this evocative, moving piece of theatre that reaches out a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMEverybody raise a glass! Now, raise it up the master’s ass! The cheers go around for the comic relief— the master of the house! Or in this case…masters. Continuing on in my “Behind t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Whatever you do…don’t feed the plants! The advice could not be more crystal clear and once you head down to the playhouse in the woods for 2nd Star Productions’ production …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMMonday, September 30, 2013
A stunning piece of theatrical thriller takes to the stage at Iron Crow Theatre Company to kick start their 2013/2014 season: Myths, Monsters, and Legends. Conceived and written by compan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PMOh what tangled webs we weave when we practice to deceive. Is it truth or is it illusion and can you really tell the difference when it comes to your closest friends? As Olney Theatre Center…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMThursday, September 26, 2013
Groucho. Harpo. Chico. They are best known together as The Marx Brothers and for their madcap comedy, setting the standard by which modern comedy is now compared. This 2013/2014 season at CE…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
I wouldn’t go through that door if I were you! It’s not simply a case of ending up in an adjoining room or storage closet, not at Colonial Players as they open their 65th season with Al…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMIt’s certainly one for the books. Six books in fact, well six plays, anyhow. Fells Point Corner Theatre kicks off the 2013/2014 season with Christopher Durang’s Durang Durang, six of his…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMIt is a common misconception that there are five stages of grief that a person can cycle through when coming to terms with something as severe as a terminal illness. Denial, anger, bargainin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42AMContinuing on in the ‘Behind the Barricade at Toby’s’ interview series, I sat down with veteran actor Jeffrey Shankle to discuss the role of Marius. Find out what it’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03AMFriday, September 20, 2013
True to the company’s namesake, Being Revived is presenting a musical that you definitely may have missed. Having just one run in 1989 and critically acclaimed revival Off-Broadway j…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54AMThursday, September 19, 2013
All it takes is one kiss; a moment that can forever change your life for better or for worse. Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions starts off their season with a very poignant and moving…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
A difference in opinion is nothing to stake a friendship on, and certainly nothing to lose one over, though it would seem that three long-time friends find themselves in exactly such a predi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57AMMonday, September 16, 2013
“A party. I came here for a party. And what happened? Nothing. Not even ice cream.” A calamitous catastrophe of comedy rolls its way into CENTERSTAGE to start off their 2013/2014 season …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21PMSunday, September 15, 2013
Are you able to walk up to your neighbor’s house and borrow a cup of sugar? Does anyone even do that anymore? Or is it just easier to go down to the 24-hour food mart and buy what you need…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMHe is their sign, that rallies the people, that calls them to order, that brings them in line. In the fourth installment of the interview series, Behind the Barricade at Toby’s, weR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
To err is human, to forgive divine, though in this comedy of manners you’ll find very little divinity as no one seems to be in the forgiving mood. The Vagabond Players opens their 98th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMWould you really want to live in a world without words? Take a moment and think about this. A perfect understanding between people; never a miscommunication, no more terrorism or wars. But a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. To take on one of Shakespeare’s epic dramas with only four actors portraying all of the characters; the very definition of insanity, but …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Time is the longest distance between two points; between the beginning of a tale and the end of one, and Everyman Theatre sets out to find a time gone by in The Glass Menagerie as they open …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMFriday, September 6, 2013
Truth and illusion, who knows the difference anyway? That only grazes the surface of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf playing now at the Audrey Herman Spotlighters T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMThursday, September 5, 2013
The heat is on in Saigon! It’s the last night of the world and it’s burning up fast at Signature Theatre as they blast open their 2013/2014 season with the rarely produced Tony A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Concluding the season with a newly created work, Baltimore Annex Theater presents Argonne, a production written and directed by Kaitlin Murphy and Evan Moritz. Set in an undisclosed futuris…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PMAll aboard! Boarding passes ready as you step aboard the Twentieth Century, ready to take you on an uproarious adventure at Prince George’s Little Theatre. A two hour “train trip” will…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:43AMThursday, August 29, 2013
In Part IV of my Behind the Barricade at Toby’s interview series, I’ve gathered together a quartet of the barricade boys for a segment which is appropriately titled “Drink With Me: An …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, and none so strange as those found at the Daydreams and Nightmares Aerial Theatre. Taking to the stage, and perhaps the space above it, is Wil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMMonday, August 26, 2013
The freak flag is flying up at The Milburn Stone Theatre as they present Shrek the Musical to kick off their fall season! Directed and Designed by S. Lee Lewis, the popular fairytale chara…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
You have a good heart, and sometimes it’s enough to see you through life, but mostly it’s not. A riveting urban fantasy from fiction-writer mastermind Neil Gaiman comes to life o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMMonday, August 19, 2013
Never yet have incest and murder so strangely met…that is until The Rude Mechanicals came to town with their production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. Directed by Jaki Demares…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMSunday, August 18, 2013
Lovely ladies so many in this show! Come in and read about them, so you’ll know before you go! Lovely ladies, doubling up their roles, read all of their reactions, hopes and dreams, and he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM 
