Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Written in 1998, Book of Days is one of the final writings from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. The play is set in a fictional rural Missouri town of 4,500 or so residents,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41AMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Looking for and evening non-stop fun? Well look no further than the Wootton High School’s performance of Legally Blonde: The Musical. Based on the novel by Amanda Brown and movie adaptatio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of the American classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson. That is right – Charlie, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
What’s the buzz you ask? Well Jesus Christ Superstar now playing at the Kensington Arts Theatre of course! Arising out of the tumultuous 1960’s the era of the Rock Opera gave to way for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMMonday, August 10, 2015
Opening almost a half a century ago, in 1974, The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is a fun evening based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum. Featuring …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
It is that time of year again – yep you guessed it – Montgomery Playhouse’s 14thAnnual One Act Festival is here! This is a chance to show off lesser produced one-act plays, and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Ready to have some fun? Well look no further than comedian Adam Ruben’s new one man show I Feel Funny: True Misadventures in Stand-Up Comedy at this year’s Capital Fringe festival. As a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35AMPromising themes abound at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival. Andrea’s Schell’s From Seven Layers to a Bikini Top in Less Than Five Hours is no different, intending to explore the li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
If you are not quite aware of what you are getting into before watching Uncle Funsy’s production of Wombat Drool, you may be a bit confused as the retired Zookeeper David S. Kessler begins…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Many times, and perhaps too often, theater is used as a vehicle to escape life, to tell a story that is far from the reality of the world we live in and come from. I respect the artists who …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PMSunday, May 10, 2015
Rock musicals have engaged audiences in the US and abroad for over 50 years. Coming to prominence in the late 60’s the genre hit its stride in the 70’s and 80’s with classics like the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
What is not fun about a good ol’ fashioned gender swap? Well, that is exactly what you will be in for at the Little Theatre of Alexandria this month with their production of The Odd Couple…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Alan Ayckbourn is a renowned British playwright and director well known for his flair for the bedroom farce. One of the more successful of his works is How the Other Half Loves which premier…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape, a new work written and directed by renowned Japanese visual artist Miwa Yanagi, made a brief Washington D.C. premier this past weekend at The Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
First performed in 1594, William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is one of his earliest and most farcical of his comedic works. With adaptations on stage, film and television, its story…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06AMMonday, January 19, 2015
What is more exciting to watch than a story based on Murder? Intrigue? Romance? Seduction? Well look no further than Rockville Little Theatre’s production of Agatha Christie’s Go Back fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
The Good Doctor is a play written by famed playwright Neil Simon. First produced on Broadway in November of 1973, this show is not widely produced by Community Theatre. Undaunted, Upcounty T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49AMSunday, January 4, 2015
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a definitive hit in the spirited rock musical genre. First performed in 2009, with Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman and book by Alex Timbers, Bloody Blood…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Imagination Stage is renowned for its inventive children’s theater, their very popular interactive theatrical experience for youngsters, Wake up Brother Bear is no different. First produce…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Written in 1999, the play Touch by award-winning playwright Toni Press-Coffman, is sure to tug at the heartstrings of any who watch. The earnest drama about a young scientist and the death o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Up for a twisted trip into the macabre world of the famed, now modernized, Addams Family this Halloween season? Well look no further than the Kensington Arts Theatre (KAT) and their current …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMOpening on Broadway in 1971, with music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, Grease became one of the most successful musicals of its time with an original run of 3,388 perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AMMonday, October 27, 2014
“It’s just a jump to the left . . . and then a step to the riiiight!” That iconic quote from the song “Time Warp” of The Rocky Horror Show is what I caught myself signing a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is a play written by Ntozake Shange in choreopoem, or a piece combining dance, music, and poetry. This form of artist…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Want to see typical southern gentility conquered by raw human desire? Well, look no further. Rockville Little Theater with Director Seth Ghitelmen deliver with their season opener, Cat on a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMMonday, October 6, 2014
There are very few of us who are unfamiliar to the story Of Mice and Men. The classic novella by American Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck is a prevalent choice for high school Engl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMMonday, September 22, 2014
God of Carnage, originally Le Dieu du Carnage, was written by famed Art playwright Yasmina Reza (ART), and was first produced in 2006. After critical success in Europe it opened with a new…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been pleasing the ears of its patrons for almost a century. Established in 1816, the Orchestra is the first and only orchestra in the United States to ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PMSunday, September 14, 2014
“I don’t want realism, I want magic!” exclaims Blanche DuBois in the distinguished Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. Well, Director Kristina Friedgen and The Little The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Poignant. Sophisticated. Elevating. Witty. These are just some of the adjectives to describe Breast in Show, now appearing at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. First conceived in 2009 by Executive…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMSunday, September 7, 2014
Crime fiction is a literary genre that has spanned the test of time. First appearing in the early 1800’s, crime novelists and playwrights have gripped audiences for centuries. Agatha Chris…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:12AM 
