Wednesday, August 1, 2018
“All you have to do is move your little finger, move your little finger, and you can change the world.” That line from Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins could well serve as an epigraph for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32PMFriday, July 20, 2018
Once upon a time, Gilbert and Sullivan staging was – there is no other word for it – stodgy. The D’Oyly Carte opera company dominated G&S performance from the late 19th century unt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37PMMonday, July 16, 2018
In The Lives Left Behind, the Silver Finch Arts Collective presents four short, one-act, chamber operas, each by a different composer and librettist. The instrumental music for all four piec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AMMonica Dionysiou gives audiences a bravura hour of solo storytelling in her Aphrodite’s Refugees, which is based on the experiences of her family during the warfare that consumed Cyprus in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
What becomes of the children of famous (or notorious) people later in their lives is fertile ground for fiction as well as documentary storytellers. One of the best of the genre is E.L. Doct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
Sunday morning, before I drove from my home in Western Maryland to see Convergence Theatre’s production of A New Nation, I noted the following in a letter to the editor of my local newspap…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMMonday, July 9, 2018
A main point of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow is that the oppression of people of color in the U.S. cannot be explained as a matter of mean-spirited bigots lashing out at African-A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Andromeda Breaks, written by Stephen Spotswood and directed by Nick Martin, takes the initial form of a police interrogation. At the outset, Andromeda (Billie Krishawn) sits handcuffed to a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04PMSecrets of the Universe (And Other Songs), a new play by Marc Acito having its world premiere at the Hub Theatre in Fairfax, explores the friendship between two 20th century greats in very d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMSunday, June 24, 2018
D.C.–area audiences are notorious for their too-free-and-easy awarding of standing ovations. But last night’s prolonged, enthusiastic, standing, whooping, hollering, response to Olney Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMFriday, June 8, 2018
The Kennedy Center advertises its Broadway Center Stage series as presenting shows in a “semi-staged concert format.” For Frank Loesser’s 1961 satire of mid-20th century New York corpo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMSunday, May 27, 2018
What must their mothers have been like? Certainly, cousins Daphna and Liam (Sophie Schulman and Noah Schaefer), the antagonists in Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews, now playing at Herndon’s Next…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
The 1950s Brooklyn waterfront setting of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge has long since disappeared. The container revolution, beginning in the 1970s, ended forever the traditional …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57PMSunday, May 13, 2018
World’s Fairs – those gaudy showcases of civic and national pride, corporate promotion, new technology, consumerism, over-the-top temporary architecture, sideshow entertainment, and an o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:43PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
The original full title of the show now playing at the Cumberland Theatre was Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Emphasize that final word. Gypsy Rose Lee was none too particular about the facts of he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Fanaticism grows in a society fractured along fault lines of political and religious authority, property, status, gender, generational change, and belief, creating a fertile climate for pers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21AMSunday, April 15, 2018
Recipe for a vexing evening of musical theater: combine cuteness, sweetness, quirkiness, clever and funny dialogue, and a sprinkling of amusing and melodic songs. Add a heavy dose of sentime…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
Stephen Sondheim himself felt some uncertainty in categorizing Sweeney Todd, the 1979 show that many regard as the masterpiece of his long and spectacular career. In his annotated book of ly…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
There are few perfect things in life, let alone in theater. But Providence Players’ The Front Page comes darn close. Every aspect of the production is first-rate. The newspaper world creat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Fierce. No word short of that can fairly describe the characters’ commitment to their consuming passions, and the actors’ commitment to their roles, in Theater J’s harrowing production…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMSaturday, April 7, 2018
There are potholes in the road not taken. So discover many of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, now being presented by the Maryland Ensemble Theater (MET) in Fred…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMSunday, March 11, 2018
“There is nothing whatever beneath my exterior.” So proclaims a character in Death by Design, now playing at the Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT) in Alexandria. How right he is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMSaturday, March 10, 2018
Frederick’s Other Voices Theatre puts a very large cast and a complex technical scheme to excellent use in its production of the 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock operetta Jesus Chris…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMSunday, March 4, 2018
The theme of a man and a woman who can’t live without each other and can’t live with each other is as old as theater. Often enough it has been played for comedy, as in the couples in Noe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMThe audience for Workhouse Theater’s production of Avenue Q (music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Mark, book by Jeff Whitty), loved every minute. And what’s not to love? The 2003 To…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMFriday, March 2, 2018
An apt subtitle for Of Mice and Men, adapted from the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, might be “the futility of hope.” In the small, corrosively lonely, universe of a California ranch du…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Attention Anglophiles: If you loved The Queen, and if you avidly follow The Crown on Netflix, then by all means, join the audience for The Audience at the Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA).…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
The current Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) production in Rockville is a very lively effort both the musical and staging aspects of which succeed delightfully.
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