Monday, March 20, 2023
One wrote of being enslaved; the other wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' Whose story matters more?
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:06PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Stephen Sondheim once wrote a song titled “I Never Do Anything Twice.” It wasn’t about his career, but it might have been. The subject matter of each of his shows is distinct and singu…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:10PMSunday, March 12, 2023
Set in the Indian-American community in California, Madhuri Shekar's play celebrates romance, misunderstandings, and the power of reconciliation.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:30PMFriday, March 3, 2023
Only rarely in a lifetime of attending theater is there a production that so engages the minds, hearts, and senses of an audience as to leave one nearly breathless with awe. Anchored by Patr…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:52PMSunday, February 26, 2023
The production combines Lorraine Hansberry’s commentary and the feelings of its characters and cannot but affect the minds and hearts of those who view it.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:53PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
In nonlinear short scenes involving multiple characters, the play probes the vagaries and mysteries of the human brain.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:38PMMonday, February 13, 2023
The livewire concoction eggs on the audience to enjoy exceedingly cheesy comedy.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:56PMWednesday, February 8, 2023
On a journey of love and loss, they face forces that make authentic lives unbearably costly.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:03PMMonday, January 30, 2023
An explosive contest between a creative nonfiction writer and a zealous fact-checker at a time when fabrication is politics as usual.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:32AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
The concert performance highlighted the musical, more than the theatrical, virtues of Verdi’s comic masterpiece
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 02:55PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
A deliciously detailed production encompassing the deepest emotions of one of the greatest works of American musical theater.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:45AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
The play’s off-off-Broadway roots are evident in the deliberately dorky dialogue, physical comedy, and over-the-top characters.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:55PMMonday, October 31, 2022
A stunningly effective mixture of all the elements that make opera worth attending.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:14AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Brilliant acting highlights August Wilson’s harrowing, imperfect play.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:01PMSaturday, October 15, 2022
Whether for first-time viewers or longtime Sondheim fans, the singing here is not to be missed.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:19PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Klezmer, folk, and rock styles marry in this powerful musical based on playwright Hanna Moscovitch’s great-grandparents.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:35PMSaturday, July 30, 2022
Inspiring new musical based on Frederick Douglass’ revolutionary speaking and writing evokes his public and private life.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:05AMMonday, July 11, 2022
A grippingly intense experience of theater, and a microcosm of Jim Crow America, set in a mental hospital for Negroes in segregated 1935 Oklahoma.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:04PMSunday, July 10, 2022
She’s Black. He’s white. They are in love. They are police officers. Their acting is as close to perfection as one can expect to find on any stage.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:48PMIn this vision of Antarctica in crisis. two married scienists explore what it means to coexist with the universe and each other.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:47PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
The gender-switched adaptation contains performances and production elements that are energetic and entertaining.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:45AMFriday, June 24, 2022
Aaron Sorkin's reimagining of Harper Lee's novel set in the 1930s is urgent and exhortative about the need to take sides against racism and ignorance now.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Anna Deavere Smith’s exquisite script and January LaVoy's compelling acting capture the truth of, and the contradictions among, all the voices.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMSunday, June 12, 2022
The first portion of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’s play threatens to go full 'Noises Off' at any moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMMonday, June 6, 2022
At the beginning of Pride month, a musical celebration of what has been achieved, often at great cost.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMMonday, May 16, 2022
The playwrights’ skills and vibrant acting provide memorable portraits of two very different women seeking to be more fully together.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:04AMThursday, May 5, 2022
Kimberly Belflower's entertaining new play embeds its feminist message in the very real, sometimes mercurial, emotions of teenagers.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:45AMSunday, May 1, 2022
The comedy of manners spoofs the British class system. Direction, costumes, and set are worthy of Watch Awards.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMSunday, April 24, 2022
In this family of comic eccentrics, they love each other as much because of as despite their oddities.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:47PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Tim J. Lord's brilliantly written play references a tragic event during Russia's war on Chechnya when theatergoers in Moscow were held hostage.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:07AM 
