Thursday, September 28, 2023
Playwright Pearl Cleage meditates on Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black mayor, in a fascinating depiction of the citizens who voted for him. By AMY KOTKIN
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:47AMSaturday, July 1, 2023
The deeper we get into the show, the less it seems to matter whether we are seeing men or women in the roles.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:12AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
The searing story of a young Jewish man and a mixed-race woman whose relationship is ruptured by antisemitism and racial bias.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:47PMMonday, May 22, 2023
The ensemble is uniformly splendid. They imbue every song with rich and nuanced meaning.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:24AMFriday, April 7, 2023
In August 2017, 63-year-old Mélisande (Méli) Short-Colomb packed her bags and moved to Washington, DC, to begin her freshman year at Georgetown University. It was the start of a new life f…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:40AMSunday, April 2, 2023
Shakespeare Theatre Company and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company have collaborated to bring to DC an electrifying drama about forced dislocation.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:21PMSaturday, February 25, 2023
Nathan Alan Davis' engaging new two-hander revisits the trauma of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:38AMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The most satisfying aspect of this play is how deftly it navigates between two cantankerous men's funny, petty squabbling and overwhelming despair.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:20PMSunday, December 18, 2022
The characters in Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play exude a charisma and a life force that transcend time.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:53PMFriday, December 9, 2022
A daughter recounts her mother's escape from Nazis and exalts the sustaining power of music.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:04PMThursday, November 17, 2022
Shakespeare Theatre Company whips up a high-spirited new take on the beloved comedy.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:17PMThursday, October 27, 2022
A vivid glimpse into the personal costs of living in limbo as a Dreamer.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:26PMSunday, July 10, 2022
The Tony-winning musical tells a story of all that makes us human — love, loss, loneliness, and connection.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:46AMMonday, June 20, 2022
In a dusty old antiques and repair shop, the setting for Keith Powell’s new drama, a mother and son confront hope and change, loyalty and betrayal.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMMonday, April 11, 2022
The show dazzles with stellar singing, great choreography, amazing stagecraft.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMMonday, April 4, 2022
Dramatic renovations — vivid murals, a ground-level café, the wholly redesigned Victor Shargai Theatre — extend welcome to everyone.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
The play set in the 1990s shows just how delicate African American advancement continues to be.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Washington Stage Guild revives the extraordinary play written just before the end of apartheid in South Africa.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMThursday, May 13, 2021
Mosaic presents a provocative play in seven episodes about how we are fragmented and separated from each other.
The post A Palestinian playwright sees allegory in occupation, in ‘Keffiyeh/…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theater Center, concludes its festival of works by celebrated playwright Adrienne Kennedy with the world premiere of Etta and Ella on the Up…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMMonday, December 7, 2020
When Ohio State University invites the distinguished author Suzanne Alexander back to her alma mater, she is asked specifically to lecture on the theme of violence in her works. Brace yourse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
Twenty-nine years before George Floyd was murdered on camera and 18 years before Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested for “breaking and entering” into his own home, Ant…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMTuesday, November 17, 2020
Round House Theatre, in association with McCarter Theatre Center, has launched its digital series of works by Adrienne Kennedy with the enigmatic He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, directed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMSunday, September 27, 2020
When was the last time you enjoyed a funny, edgy Woolly Mammoth production while digging up stubborn weeds from your garden or taking a stroll through Rock Creek Park? Just when we thought o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMSunday, September 13, 2020
Olney Theatre Center’s virtual production of The Humans offers proof positive of the old adage: Necessity is the mother of invention. Just see how they have turned the pandemic’s crushin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Brian Feldman puts a lot of faith in his virtual audience. His production #txtshow (on the internet), which he creates and performs, is based on the texts he receives in real time from his a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
History always has lessons to teach during times of enormous tumult. How did past societies struggle through similar cataclysms and emerge with their spirits intact? Many of us are newly awa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMSaturday, February 29, 2020
Marian’s cheery Florida home – an over-decorated retirement nest she shares with second hubby Richard – has become a tropical haven for two adolescents in crisis. Richard’s pregnant …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMThursday, January 30, 2020
Two generations before the African American space scientists immortalized in the film Hidden Figures propped up America’s nascent space program, another group of pioneering female “compu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PMSunday, January 26, 2020
On September 12, 2001, after a stunning halt to nearly all normal activity, life resumed for most Americans. And yet, we knew that everything had changed. Our sense of security was shattered…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSunday, December 8, 2019
The good news? The Second City’s sharp-witted She The People: The Resistance Continues is back at Woolly Mammoth for another rollicking production of top-notch sketches and witty songs. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AM 
