Wednesday, May 2, 2018
The resources of upstart Best Medicine Rep are optimized in this charming production of Robin Rothstein’s new work, Derek Jeter Makes the Play. Tucked in a corner of Lakeforest Mall, Best …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Deb Filler’s love note to the world wends through near-universal musical touchstones, bawdy humor, the joys (or not) of Yiddish, coincidental connections, and the impact of one important m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Bullies in the bathroom, rampant rumors and petty one-upmanship. Whether in Texas, Iowa or Connecticut, the horrors of high school cattiness haunt many into their adult years. Texas Homecomi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMSunday, July 16, 2017
Top notch performers, frequent laughter, applause, audience sing-alongs, and an all-in standing hymn recital characterized a night at Rockville Musical Theatre’s production of Monty Python…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Patsy Cline’s spirit inhabited the theater when Laura Stracko sang some of Cline’s later and best known songs including “Sweet Dreams,” “She’s Got You,” “I Fall to Pieces” …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25PMThursday, May 11, 2017
Two-hundred and fifty artist citizens, teachers, members of arts non-profits, business executives, scientists and technologists from around the world, came together for a full day at the fou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33PMThursday, March 9, 2017
How often are you torn between the demands of a profession and finding a satisfactory work/life balance? James Lapine’s book about George Seurat examines the difficulty of finding a solut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMMonday, December 5, 2016
The cast of Ovations Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening could sing the phone book and still be entrancing. Director Darnell Patrick Morris brought a fresh approach to the Tony Award-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:33PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Urinetown,The Musical, the totally odiferous sounding but truly entertaining musical, comes up smelling like a rose in its production by the students and faculty at Woodrow Wilson High Scho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
To say that 13-year-old jazz pianist Joey Alexander is a child prodigy is an understatement. He is the future of jazz. According to his bio on his website, he has appeared in performance wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PMThe Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) presented a semi-staged concert version of the 1843 opera, The Bohemian Girl. The opera has music by Michael William Balfe and a libretto by Alfred…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMSunday, May 22, 2016
The Sultans of String delight and excite. This is World Music as you’ve never heard it before. The music is, quite simply, a soul satisfying mash-up of European gypsy, classical, punjabi, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42PMSaturday, March 19, 2016
All eyes were on Joshua Bell during the Academy of St Martin in the Fields performance, although only one of the three pieces played by the world-renowned chamber orchestra featured him. Alt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
This show is outstanding! At its heart, Calendar Girls is about the ability of women “of a certain age” to continue to flex and grow for all of the right reasons. The sensitivity of Co-D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMMonday, February 15, 2016
Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Jazz Musical, in its world premiere at The Olney Theatre Center, is worthy of an endless stream of accolades including ‘dazzling,’ ‘amazing,’ &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AMFriday, February 12, 2016
The cast of American University’s Big Love, written by Charles L. Mee and directed by Isaiah M. Wooden, was masterful in communicating the big and complex issues raised in the play. W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
The performance of the student version of Legally Blonde Jr.at Adventure Theatre MTC was a rollicking ride through the highlights of the extended version. The story is one of female empower…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43PMMonday, January 11, 2016
One concern of many parents and grandparents is that their children will lose sight of family history. A Change Gon’ Come, by Kashi-Tara, dramatically ties together the civil rights issu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Lauren Kaplan Holland (Dionne), in all her tranquil beauty, set the mood perfectly for Wilson High School’s production of Hair. Action jumps in as Kellic Dawson (Hud), and Zac Nechbar-Sec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:57PMSaturday, October 3, 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is considered one on the finest books in 20 th century American literature. The production, adapted for the stage by Simon Levy, is a huge project fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMSunday, May 3, 2015
Both Roger Catlin, in his April 24, 2015 article in The Washington Post, and GMU Dance Professor Dan Joyce, during his pre-performance discussion, describe MOMIX as “dancer-illusionists.�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:50PMMonday, April 20, 2015
33 years after they began, The Soul Crackers deliver tight, in-the-pocket covers from all-star soul, Motown and 70’s Funk bands. For over three hours, the band drove from one song directly…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMPrevious positive experiences with the DC Women’s Theatre Group primed me for a touching performance. A Prude’s Guide to Good Sex needs some fine-tuning before it lives up to the expect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMMonday, March 2, 2015
Grounded provides a unique look into one woman’s journey from top-notch fighter pilot, on which her self-image is staked, to a drone pilot sinking daily into the shrouds of PTSD. There…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Menopause The Musical is still hysterical and fresh after 15 years and multiple thousands of performances. I use the word ‘hysterical’ on purpose: for many women who have gone through th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMSunday, February 1, 2015
Many recent productions of The Comedy of Errors set Shakespeare’s language within a more recent environment, and in this case The Arilngton Players have set their production in Chicago i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMMonday, January 26, 2015
Drive, ride, or run down to MetroStage for Bessie’s Blues! Bessie’s Blues is one big shiny bauble-filled with song, dance, and more than a few double entendres, smack downs and hilar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMInspired by the 1923 novel, Cane, by Jean Toomer, and the work of other renaissance artists, this multimedia presentation fronted by Jasmine Guy provided a look into the general trends and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
“Really? A pre-teen wrote this? No way!They did? Wow!” Those were my thoughts as I was drawn into the celebration of “the best of” twenty years of playwriting by elementary and mid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
Into the Woods is magical in two ways: the performance is out of this world, and; some time travel must have been involved to get Yana Madrid (the Witch) and other characters back from their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMFriday, November 21, 2014
The Count Basie Orchestra is a perfect paring with The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club as it rises to its stated goal of being “The Copacabana of the mid-Atlantic.” The packed …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AM 
