Sunday, April 17, 2016
Comedienne extraordinaire Carol Burnett brought her distinctive and legendary persona to the Music Center at Strathmore last night and the audience responded with glee and deserved appreciat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35PMFriday, April 8, 2016
Johnny Mathis, iconic and legendary vocalist of love songs, jazz, tin pan alley, Brazilian music, holiday music and the Great American Songbook, celebrated his 60th Anniversary in Show Busi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38AMSunday, April 3, 2016
Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking play The Boys in The Band, now being given a superlative production by Dominion Stage at the Gunston Arts Theatre, is perfectly “on-target” as a study of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58PMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Totally “lopping –the –top” off conventional cabaret concert conventions, Broadway star and musical artist Frances Ruffelle presented a radically deconstructed, immersive and jazz-in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Having reviewed the outstanding Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) many times in the past, it was a delightful diversion to review an evening of country music escapism entitled Boot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AMThursday, March 17, 2016
As the opening song exclaims, “Gonna Be Another Hot Day”- and like a refreshing breeze, the lilting lyrics and melodious music of the prolific theatre songwriting team of Tom Jones and H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Like the seismic shift in the theatrical terrain that I experienced when I saw the Steppenwolf Theater’s production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead off-Broadway, or the excitement I f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
One of Tennessee Williams’ bleaker, darker plays,– the one-act dramatic cry of despair, Suddenly Last Summer (which was expanded beyond its more compressed scope in the famous Elizab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMSunday, February 14, 2016
Yesterday, I was privileged to see the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC’s extremely intimate, engaging and musically creative concert of songs entitled The Way We Were. This stimulati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
In the scorching, emotional and honest opera of man in search of redemption, the opera–now playing as part of the Washington National Opera series at the Kennedy Center —is a sea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMFriday, February 5, 2016
In the daring new play about Washington politics and the halcyon days of genteel social hostesses, The City of Conversation, (now playing at Arena Stage) the word “conversation “ is most…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
Possibly the most lyrical and sentimentally poignant of all the plays written by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie still holds up as one of Williams’ most well-written plays. “deli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Like the popular E.L. Doctorow novel, Ragtime, the Keegan Theatre’s whimsical and bouncy new production of Steve Martin’s play Picasso at the Lapin Agile is an intricate, quasi-historica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47PMSunday, December 6, 2015
The annual Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) holiday concert entitled ReWrapped was a lively holiday treat that combined cutting-edge musical arrangements with a light, breezy a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
The whirlwind of an accomplished entertainer who goes by the name of Billy L’Amour is more than just a drag entertainer but, rather, L’Amour is a powerhouse triple-threat talent who can …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
John Lloyd Young, Tony-Award winner and musical wonder of the Broadway never-ending (and well-deserved to be!) musical hit Jersey Boys, enthralled the crowd at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMSunday, November 15, 2015
Oh, the tears, trauma and travail of the issues brought to the fore in the revised World Premiere of the opera Appomattox at the Kennedy Center Opera House Friday night. This challenging Wo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Broadway, Television, Film and Concert artist Michele Lee beguiled at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater with a disarming and engaging set of songs written by the prolific Broadway compo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:13AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Tony Award-winning (City of Angels) Broadway, concert, and cabaret artist Randy Graff dazzled the crowd Friday night at the Kennedy Center’s intimate Terrace Theater. Graff is utterly uni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19AMSunday, October 18, 2015
The ebullient, sassy, brassy and joyously life-affirming Broadway and cabaret star Terri White (resplendent in a stylish, sharply-edged purple pantsuit) launched into her ninety minute sho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
A trip to the Keegan Theatre is a must for they are now presenting the first collaboration of the dynamic songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul—namely, the musical Dogfight (b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:14PMSaturday, August 8, 2015
At the Strathmore’s new AMP venue last night, musical theater star and singer extraordinaire Emily Skinner, dazzled the crowd-with her always winning combination of a soaring purity of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08PMTuesday, July 28, 2015
An eclectic mix of disparate stylistic elements that conspire to surprise us at every turn and akin to an all-out jam session of improvisation, nothing in the immediacy of the Landless Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMMonday, July 20, 2015
Silence! The Musical is very easy to digest (pun intended), as presented in the tightly directed current production now playing at the creatively configured 2nd Stage space of The Studio Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
The audacious and groundbreaking Landless Theatre Company at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center in NE Washington, DC, performed an exciting “prog-metal “version of Stephen Sondheim’s cl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18AMWednesday, July 1, 2015
The “hothouse,” loquacious and “southern-fried” appeal of Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is very evident in the scorching, white-hot production now inaugurating …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMSunday, May 31, 2015
At the atmospheric Strathmore complex in North Bethesda on a hot Thursday evening, on May 28, 2015, the musical presentation entitled The Music of John Williams was a modest delight with m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Like a torrential, cleansing rain washing away intolerance and hate, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington (GMCW) immersed the audience in flowing torrents of song in their current production…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:11PMFriday, April 24, 2015
Freda Payne, singer “extraordinaire” who was especially prolific during the 1970s, delivered a powerhouse performance Thursday night at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. Embodying…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49PMSaturday, March 28, 2015
The legacy of the brilliant and iconic jazz legend, Billie Holiday, coupled with the cool, classic styling of the very contemporary and experimentally-inclined jazz artistry of Cassandra Wil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMSunday, March 15, 2015
The seeming “spontaneity,” humor, and freshness of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC‘s (GMCW) repertoire and their current concert When You Wish, which is being presente…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24AM 
