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 12:38AMI 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 pu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMIt’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 03:59PMTommy 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 Cook’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMTheater 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 02:14AMThis 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 outstanding a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMThe 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 11:18PMBroadway 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 Promises, Pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMPlaywright 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 Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58AMThe 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 direct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMSynetic 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 Night…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMAn 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 04:29AMIt’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 11:46AMSignature 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 09:45AMThe 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 09:51AMAdam 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 the aud…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15PM“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 has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AMThe 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 09:55PMTake 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 sung by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:52PMRound 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 09:56PMShakespeare’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 all-male…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21AMTerri 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 01:16AMThe 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 10:52PMThe 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 pawns of un…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12AMLinda Lavin, the perennial “Broadway Baby” – literally, in her knockout performance in The Kennedy Center’s production of Follies and, figuratively, as a growing Bro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMDo 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 01:12PMThe 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 Sondheim…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AM‘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 01:07PMLike 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. Producing Artistic Director…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38AMDirt 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 twinkling…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08AMThere 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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