Monday, September 23, 2019
Ambiguous loss that binds two people together while pushing them apart. Incompatible paths of grief that alienate each other’s only source of connection. The dominating presence of someone…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Andrew Lloyd Webber catapulted to unprecedented West End and Broadway success with his musical extravaganza Cats, based on a 1939 collection of light verse by the otherwise modernist poet, T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSunday, September 15, 2019
After a highly successful animated film, a long-running Broadway show, a live-action movie version, various spin-offs, and innumerable theme park, cruise ship, and school productions, the Di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
The central character in Best Medicine Rep’s (BMR) DC-area premiere of Cricket Daniel’s Helen on Wheels, Helen Wheeler (Liz Weber), is a 74-year old Oklahoma widow full of vim, vigor, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
In this summer of our discontent – what with unchecked climate change, racist politics, and mass murders – a bit of cheer in the form of a frothy tale of a privileged white girl who, thr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMSunday, July 28, 2019
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s (BSF) production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Tom Delise, delivers the “merry” promised in the title. The wives – Alice Ford (Emily Clas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMMonday, July 15, 2019
The American interior West has long been a favored setting for stories about loneliness. The visual emptiness of vast open spaces – think of your favorite John Ford film – and the emotio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Playwright Sam Hamashima is described in his program bio as working in the “collision between his queer identity and his Japanese-American identity.” In American Spies and Other Homegr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMMonday, July 8, 2019
Eat your heart out, Christmas Carol. Hang up your dancing shoes, Nutcracker. Change the channel on reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s Christmas in July in Shepherdstown, as the Contem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMThe Antonio in question is Antonio Edwards Suarez, the writer (with Dael Orlandersmith) and actor in this one-man autobiographical piece, part of the Contemporary American Theater Festival i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11PMMy Lord, What a Night, a new play by Deborah Brevoort at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, explores the relationship between two 20th-century greats…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMSunday, June 30, 2019
A young hero in her own story who redeems the lives of others around her, the title character in the musical adaptation by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin of Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda uses h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Tennessee Williams famously wrote fragile female leads: Laura, delicate and easily shattered; Blanche, already defeated before she is forced to rely upon the kindness of strangers. Not so wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14PMSunday, June 9, 2019
Princess Ida, now being presented by The Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC), is something of an odd duck in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory. It has three acts, the dialogue is in blank …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
The audience didn’t stop laughing all night. Between Matt Minnicino’s rhyming couplet- filled, witty, knowing, sometimes bawdy adaptation (or, as he would have it, “distillation”) of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMSunday, June 2, 2019
In the midst of Pride season, and in the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall riots that defined the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, Rainbow Theatre Project presents a look at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMMonday, May 27, 2019
All the familiar characters are there: Lizzy Bennet, her sisters and parents; suitors Darcy, Bingley, Collins, and Wickham; the de Bourghs and Charlotte. The basic plot lines and period sett…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PMMonday, May 6, 2019
Rose Hovic is one of the most riveting characters in the history of musical theater, inspiring allusions to the most renowned figures in dramatic literature. Gypsy’s lyricist, Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMSunday, April 28, 2019
Reston Community Players (RCP) serves up a tasty dish of that ultimate Broadway comfort food, Annie. Cooked up by Thomas Meehan (book), Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics) in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMSaturday, April 20, 2019
It is a joyful occasion when a new, vital theater company opens, and the advent of Boundless Theatre in Frederick is a welcome addition to the Western Maryland arts scene. Their inaugural pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Things are getting silly at the Olney Theatre Center these days. Very, very, silly. Very skillfully silly, in the production of Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors. A follow-on to Ludwig’s h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMSunday, April 7, 2019
When we first see the Tate family in Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, now playing at Frederick’s Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), they are already doomed, they just don’t ful…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PMSaturday, March 30, 2019
“She sweeps out,” says George Bernard Shaw of Eliza in a stage direction at the end of Pygmalion, leaving Henry Higgins alone and feeling self-satisfied. As Shaw said emphatically in his…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34PMThursday, March 21, 2019
I have loved Sondheim’s Into the Woods since seeing its original Broadway production. Three decades on, Ford’s Theatre’s current version carries the tradition forward proudly. For anyo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMMonday, March 18, 2019
If there’s could be a single word to describe NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Noel Coward’s 1925 comedy, Fallen Angels, it would be symmetry. Emily Lotz’s delightfully reali…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Christy Escobar’s mesmerizing, compelling, utterly brilliant, performance is the centerpiece of Studio Theatre’s world premiere production of Hilary Bettis’ Queen of Basel. In Bettis�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMSunday, March 10, 2019
Your mother no doubt told you not to discuss religion or politics over dinner. In Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, the exchanges among the characters duri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMSunday, March 3, 2019
There are a few shows – very few – which on first viewing have left me breathless. The original productions of Sweeney Todd and Copenhagen come quickly to mind. To this small list add th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMWednesday, February 27, 2019
The touring company of Finding Neverland (book by James Graham, music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy) is making a mercifully brief stop at Washington’s National Theatre. Spin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMMonday, February 18, 2019
The horrific and – not too strong a word – evil events recounted in Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of D.W. Gregory’s Radium Girls were, as the play underlines, a major, sensa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMThunder, in this case, is one Marvell Thunder, a supernatural, shape-shifting, competitive trickster who has surrendered a good bit of his humanity to act as the spirit of the blues. Played …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PM 
