Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Like a pride of carnivorous lions, the Lyons family is aggressively on the prowl for laughs (underneath the pain) In playwright Nicky Silver’s The Lyons now playing at Bethesda’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2013
I came away from Lucie Arnaz‘s concert at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre with a blissed-out feeling of elation. An invigorating combination of sheer professionalism and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
It’s good that the Keegan Theatre has not modernized its home on Church Street yet for the musty, slightly decrepit, and highly atmospheric surroundings of this venerable old building …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2013
Tommy Tune’s tall, lanky frame and loquacious manner is a veritable show unto itself. As the iconic Broadway Theatrical legend proved at The Kennedy Center’s Barbara Cook̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Theater J is pulling out all the stops in its current and very polemical production of playwright Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros’ The Argument. Directed with a tight, concise flair by As…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
This is hardly an all-encompassing title to accurately convey the many, myriad machinations at work in Melissa Jane Gilbert’s thought-provoking and complex play-now an outstan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
The incendiary world of moral compromise, selfish justifications, and cut-throat competition where the “winner takes all” and “the end justifies the means” regardless…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2013
Broadway legend Donna McKechnie wowed the crowd at her recent one-woman show Same Place, Another Time at the Olney Theatre Center. This iconic star of such past hits such as Promise…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Playwright Martin McDonagh’s bleak and dour black tragi-comedy The Beauty Queen of Leenane is alive and well in its thrilling current production at Bethesda’s Round House T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The phrase “I Do! I Do!” takes on new meanings in the newly-interpreted version of the classic musicalI Do! I Do! now playing at the The American Century Theater. Sharply dire…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 20, 2013
Synetic Theater weaves a fusion of theatrical elements to bravura and mesmerizing effect in their current production of their acclaimed past Helen Hayes Award-winning hit, A Midsummer Nig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
An audacious attack on the sexually repressed with an emphasis on in-your-face interaction and over-the top musicality are the hallmarks of the current production of The Rocky Horror Show, n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2013
It’s time for hilarity and “high-jinks on the high seas” in The Kennedy Center’s current production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. Possessing equal qualificati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
Signature Theatre has outdone itself with its current production of Stephen Sondheim’s breakthrough musical Company. This musical of a modern man searching for commitment with the cond…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2013
The Little Dog Laughed will make you smile with recognition at the hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in this game of day-to-day survival we call life. This acid-like portrait of the comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
Adam Pascal, Broadway singing and acting sensation of such past hits as Rent, Aida, and Cabaret, walked out on to the stage of The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and held…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
“Art is for Everybody” and this dictum is exemplified superbly by ArtStream, now in its’ 7th year as a 501(c) non-profit. This dynamic and innovative non-profit group…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
The American Century Theater (TACT), under the Artistic Direction of Jack Marshall, pulls it all together with a stunning and audacious production of “that Scottish play” –…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2013
Take a scoop of campy humor, a scoop of Greek Mythology, and a scoop of singing power and you will have the delicious and satisfying current production of Xanadu as performed and su…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Round House Theatre’s current production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross delivers a power-packed punch to the collective gut of the American working man’s psyche. As o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56PM[SHARE]Shakespeare’s R&J, the somewhat hip title ascribed to Joe Calarco’s creative adaptation and intertwining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set in a Catholic al…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2013
Terri White, Broadway musical favorite and recent star of The Kennedy Center’s production of Follies and the recent Broadway production of Finian’s Rainbow, held the audience in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
The American Century Theater’s (TACT) vital and esteemed tradition of producing classic American plays of the 20th Century continues with playwright George Kelly’s venerable ches…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2013
The Studio Theatre’s 2ndStage has produced a very exciting and provocative new play by Mike Bartlett entitled Contractions The message of this play is that we are often paw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 17, 2012
Linda Lavin, the perennial “Broadway Baby” – literally, in her knockout performance in The Kennedy Center’s production of Follies and, figuratively, as a growing B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
Do not let the deceptive simplicity of the stunning set design (by Mark Johnson) – replete with lush greenery, white picket fences and flower boxes – fool you into thinking you a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Center Stage production of Stephen Sondheim’s dark and subversive musical Assassins, now playing at Catholic University, is a valiant attempt but just misses the mark. A Sond…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2012
‘We are all guilty and we are all implicated’ seems to be the collective consensus of the superb chorus ensemble (akin to a very chilling Greek Chorus) as they reproach the audie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Like a dinner with a good friend, Round House Theatre’s production of I Love to Eat is a savory and satisfying addition to their 2012-2013 theatre season. Â Producing Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dirt may be the main scenic component of The Studio Theatre’s World Premiere production of Dirt now playing at their Studio Lab, but Scenic Designer Debra Booth has supplied twinkli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
There are no easy answers in Rajiv Joseph’s terrific play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, but there is a hell of a lot of interesting questions to ponder. Now being given a superlativ…
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