Burlesque Classique’s mission is to reclaim the meaning of burlesque, not as something sleazy and demoralizing as many people assume, but as an energetic and titillating exaggeration of a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08AMOn my way to see Antigone Reflected performed by The Rude Mechanicals, I got stuck in a traffic jam caused by a Black Lives Matter protest. I could not have known then, how fitting a circums…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34AMParenting seems to be a competitive sport these days. With everyone from well-meaning neighbors to the national media chiming in on what parents are doing wrong and how they are going to rui…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMBryce walks onstage wearing a sequined jacket and spandex jumpsuit. He’s backed by two phenomenal dancers, Nia Calloway and Zhane’ Davis Smith. His first original pop song, Best Diq blas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMAre you searching for a 19th century story set to 21st century hip-hop, but not willing to cough up thousands of dollars for Hamilton tickets? Lil’ Women: a rap musical may be exactly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50AMDecades before Angelina Jolie played Maleficent or Idina Menzel defied gravity in Wicked, lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim was fracturing a whole slew of fairy tales for his witty and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens with a chorus announcing the fate that will befall the title characters in just two hours’ time. Synetic Theatre’s wordless Romeo and Juliet, disti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:09PMOpera Lafayette’s second offering of the season, Emmanuel Chabrier’s Une Education Manquée, is a far cry from the massive spectacle many people assume is synonymous with opera. This lit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMSay the name Carmen Miranda and your mind instantly conjures images of a flashy showgirl, red painted lips, feathers and sequins, and, most of all, bananas. For many, little else exists abou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54AMEven those familiar with the work of Stew and Heidi Rodewald, the duo behind Obie and Tony-award winning musical Passing Strange, might find a description of their newest song cycle Wagner, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:32AMHow did you get to where you are today? Was it with help from your loved ones, or in spite of them? Are you experiencing déjà vu? What is the price of fame? Can you really achieve greatnes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMWhen I was in eighth grade, I wrote a ten-minute play based on Esphyr Siobodkina’s beloved picture book Caps for Sale. It was selected as one of a handful in our class to be performed and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55AMHitch up your wagon, take one last visit to Matt’s General Store, and say hello to your teenage years once again. Flying V is serving up a healthy dose of nostalgia with their current prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18AMYou know that nightmare where it’s opening night of a play and you realize you don’t know any of your lines and you’ve barely had any rehearsal but the curtain is about to go up to a p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMWhat do lion attacks, football fanatics, muppets, dog pee, and Vladimir Putin have in common? According to CJ in her most recent iteration of The Human Algorithm, they all describe the four …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:03PMImagine a pill that could eliminate boredom, stave off writer’s block, inspire the next great masterpiece. In Dr. Freeman’s Motivational Inspirational Pill of a Million Secrets, David Kl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMWhat would you do at the end of the world? Happenstance Theatre’s newest show BrouHaHa answers this and more, as six clowns journey towards the apocalypse. What this means exactly and when…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMThere’s nothing a Fringe audience loves more than remixed Shakespeare. And there’s nothing DC loves more than politics. To Err is Falstaff goes right for the jugular, hitting Capital Fri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMLive Action Theatre more than lives up to its name in its recent production of Hero Complex. The Action starts right away, when aging superhero Eddie Lear (Peter Boyer) accounts his numerous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40PMFrom The Breakfast Club and Mean Girls to High School Musical and Glee, high school stereotypes have been the popular subject of numerous writers. But often this exploration is missing a ver…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29PMRead a description of The Winter’s Tale, and you may think William Shakespeare imbibed a little too much while writing it. The absurdity of events seems outlandish, even for a man whose va…
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