Monday, February 27, 2023
It's the perfect show for grappling with life's big questions while laughing, crying, and cheering for the fairy tale characters of your childhood.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:11AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2019
From the moment you enter Arena Stage's Fichandler Stage, an intimate theater-in-the-round where everyone has a seat close to the action, you'll be transported to turn-of-the-19th-century Ne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2019
In the theater world, a performer who is a true triple threat " one with the ability to perform at the highest levels as an actor, singer, and dancer all at the same time " is rare. Luckily,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
Some musicals are all about the entertainment. You expect to see some awesome dancing, amazing singing, and leave the theater smiling (see my review of Disney's Aladdin, also currently playi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
How do you spell "talented"? This summer it's spelled W-I-L-D-W-O-O-D. Wildwood Summer Theater is the DC area's only all-youth musical theater company. Everyone associated with the group, fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Ever since The Lion King took the Broadway world by storm back in 1997, Disney has been recreating its beloved animated films for the stage, with successful runs by The Little Mermaid, Beaut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2019
Summer and Shakespeare are two very different things that somehow seem to go perfectly together. Every summer, theater companies all over the country dust off their British accents and take …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
Thumbelina, the story of a miniature girl who grows from a seed, is kidnapped by a toad, tormented by beetles, and eventually marries the fairy prince, is not one of Hans Christian Andersen'…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
If you've never heard of the musical Once, written by Edna Walsh, with music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, you aren't alone. Despite receiving eleven 2012 Tony Award no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52PM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2018
Even before the curtain officially goes up on The Play That Goes Wrong, you can tell you are in for a laugh riot. The show's "Director" Chris Bean (played by Evan Alexander Smith), "Stage Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2018
I doubt there was one person in the entire Carl Freeman Auditorium who hadn't seen some version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (either the original animated film from 1991, the live-action…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
The Last Five Years is a modern musical that follows the 5-year romantic relationship between Catherine, an aspiring actress, and Jamie, an aspiring writer, from their first date to the fina…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
Anything Goes is one of those old-timey musicals where even if you've never seen the show before, you somehow discover you know the words to every one of the songs. Filled with exciting danc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
With book, music, and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, Heathers the Musical is a faithful rock musical adaptation of the 1988 hit film Heathers, a dark comedy complete with a con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
Alice in Wonderland, the whimsical, magical story of a girl named Alice who follows a mysterious White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and into a mystifying dream world, strikes me as a difficult …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 18, 2017
The musical Annie is 40 years old this year, and thanks to the Olney Theatre Center's cheerful new production, a whole new generation of theater goers will get the chance to travel back in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2017
The production company known as How Do You Like Me Now Productions and its sister organization Erase Hate Through Art were founded with the specific intention of provoking dialogue and actio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 18, 2017
Dreamgirls, with book and lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger, was one of the very first shows I saw on Broadway, back in the 1980s. It was memorable then and it remains memorable …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
If you've thought to yourself "I will never see another rip-off of the Peter Pan story ever again", I totally understand where you are coming from. And I definitely urge you to reconsider an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
From the Mouths of Monsters, a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin, directed by Dougie Irvine, is a gripping, intense glimpse into the mind of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
I loved the book and hated the movie, so I was really curious to see how The Giver, Lois Lowry's Newbery award-winning story about a dystopian society where everything has gone to "sameness"…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 25, 2017
As a novice opera aficionado, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from Masterpieces of Russian Vocal Music: Famous Contemporaries, the Russian Chamber Art Society's most recent offering at La…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
I did not listen to my much-loved soundtrack of Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's classic fairy tale mash-up before heading off to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PM[SHARE] 
