Saturday, July 30, 2022
The playwright shares the backstory of 'Wanda's Way,' her one-woman play about a Black police officer.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:58PMWednesday, July 13, 2022
The whimsical comic tale told on an enchanting new stage.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:32PMSaturday, June 4, 2022
A story about a rebellion and a suppression begins a multi-year partnership between Arena Stage and the renowned African American dance company.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58AMSunday, August 22, 2021
In her solo performance outdoors, supreme storyteller Lori Brown Mirabal reveals the fun in opera for both children and adults.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PMMonday, March 9, 2020
‘Here Be Sirens’ is the phrase cartographers used for many centuries to warn sailors of marine dangers. Composer Kate Soper borrowed the name for her musically complex, theatrically rich…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMSunday, February 9, 2020
Playwright Nilo Cruz labels his latest work, Exquisita Agonía, a “family drama.” Actually, the show that is currently playing at GALA Theatre is two family dramas that converge. The fir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMMonday, February 3, 2020
Known internationally as a visionary man of the theater, Bill T. Jones has built a reputation over the past 38 years for his ability to visualize the human condition through choreography and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMSaturday, January 18, 2020
If your parents taught you that opera is the ultimate blend of words and music, where both elements are dependent on the other and that the end result is far more than the sum of its parts, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18AMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Alix Sobler’s play Sheltered, based on real-life characters, is a rarity. It is a history play that doesn’t fall into the trap of portraying a period in history in such detail that it fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Every September 11, America mourns the tragic events that astonished and saddened people around the globe in 2001: the attack on New York’s Twin Towers and Washington, D.C.’s Pentagon. E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Think back to when you were in high school. You went to classes all day and came home and did homework, right? And maybe you took piano lessons once a week or played a sport. Seventeen-year-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMMonday, November 11, 2019
If you attend Studio Theatre’s current production of the brilliantly acerbic White Pearl and feel in the first ten minutes that you’re not sure you know what’s happening, don’t worry…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:26PMFriday, October 25, 2019
In partnership with the Embassy of the Czech Republic’s Mutual Inspirations Festival, and in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, the Alliance …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
If you’re not ready to give in to an autumnal chill in the air, one of the hottest place to be right now is decidedly Teatro de la Luna. In its Friday night series, Noche de Luna: Tango Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AMThursday, October 17, 2019
Gerald C. Wood is an author and expert on the brilliant Irish playwright and filmmaker Conor McPherson. Wood is Professor and Chair of English at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Ten…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29PMMonday, October 7, 2019
British playwright Caryl Churchill is a revolutionary playwright. In her career, she has upset theatrical expectations many times over. She plays with gender and fools with time. She invents…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMMonday, September 30, 2019
George Bernard Shaw published Candida in 1898. Though it was not performed in London until it was a hit in New York in 1903, where it inspired what Shaw called “Candidamania,” the play�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:56PMMonday, September 23, 2019
You could approach Trying at 1st Stage as a realistic, two-character play about a real-life character, Judge Francis Biddle, and his new secretary, Sarah Schorr. Born to a life of wealth and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMMonday, September 9, 2019
In 2003, John Patrick Shanley started writing a play about an America full of opinionated people, people who were certain they were right, people who shunned intellectual debate. From Shanle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMMonday, August 26, 2019
He has had major stage roles in everything from The Crucible to Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow. He has appeared in films as different as “Isn’t It Romantic?” and “S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Nucky Walder and Mario Marcel are household names to many Spanish-speaking residents of Washington, DC. For more than 60 years, Marcel, who is from Argentina, has dedicated himself to acting…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:08AMThursday, July 18, 2019
If you are a fan of Ann Richards, the straight-talking, liberal Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995, or alternatively, if you were living on the opposite side of the globe and somehow missed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40PMMonday, July 15, 2019
If you’re in the mood for a drawing-room comedy exploring the social habits of the British upper class in the Edwardian era, Bethesda’s Quotidian Theatre Company should be on your list. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54AMFriday, June 21, 2019
When Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe planned to tackle the subject of depression, they decided to avoid more familiar approaches: plays about self-destructive superstars who are too far r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
To theater historians, dramaturgs, and lovers of all things Greek, the promise of a production of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is enough to drive one mad with joy. To begin with, of all the Gre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Lucky Plush Productions is a dance/theater company currently performing at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. But this is no conventional company. Compared to dance troupes, they are at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Actor, director, and administrator Vivienne Benesch has many credits to her name. She is the Producing Artistic Director of the Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:23PMSunday, April 14, 2019
If you are not from the great sub-continent of India or do not have any Indian friends, you might be forgiven for not knowing that there is a healthy culture of Indian classical dance in the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:29PMJaBen Early is a Washingtonian through and through. His father worked at the Smithsonian, and his mother was a teacher in DC. He went to Morehouse College and Sarah Lawrence University, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Don’t be put off by the deliberately opaque, long title of the current world premiere at Studio Theatre’s experimental space. P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle is a very slic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMThere is a mystery at the heart of Ghost-Writer, currently being presented by the Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Not that Michael Hollinger’s drama is a li…
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