If the production is more challenging than what one might expect, it is also more emotional and charming and intoxicating.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:17AMThe show is overflowing with compassion and heart. It reminds us what the world could be.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:25AMR. Eric Thomas's world-premiere comedy is an homage to and sendup of TV shows that have shaped our collective memory.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50AMWith clever wordplay and brilliant sight gags, the laughs come fast and furious.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PMThe actors are all in top form, but we don’t learn enough about their characters to become invested in what happens to them.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMNo gift comes without a cost. And that lesson courses through every moment of Proof, David Auburn’s very fine Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which is being given a thrilling revival at Every…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PMSometimes you find a gem in an unlikely place. That happened to me recently at a small state-of-the-art black-box theatre on the campus of a boarding school on a quiet street in Arlington, V…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMMiss Saigon is all grown up. Sort of. It’s been almost 30 years since Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s blockbuster opened in London’s West End and took the world by storm.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:36AM“You don’t have use? You don’t have power? They will erase you from your own story.” -Larry Yee Lauren Yee has a problem. And it’s kind of a big one. Not Lauren Yee the writer, wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMRobert O’Hara’s Bootycandy opens on June 9, 2017, at Baltimore’s Iron Crow Theatre. This production, a Baltimore premiere and the official show of Baltimore Pride 2017, closes out the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34PMI recently came back from London, where I saw the National Theatre’s 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner’s epic, Angels in America. I thought a lot about that play after seeing W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMWhen it comes to musical theatre, there are two types of people: those who hate it and those who are obsessed with it. There is no in-between. And those obsessives, those for whom musicals a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMIt may be more by chance, rather than design, that Everyman Theatre’s production of Los Otros, with book and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh and music by Michael John LaChiusa, takes on an urgen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PMSinister things are lurking just below the surface at the “2018 Students for Life Conference” in Washington, DC, which is where Madeline Burrows’ disturbing solo show Mom Baby God, abo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMWhen Una, the 27 year-old British woman at the center of David Harrower’s startling and complex play Blackbird, tells a man named Ray, 15 years her senior, that he made her into a ghost, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08AM“Are you a virgin?” You may be asked this by one of the cast members as you enter the theatre at The Motor House to see Iron Crow Theatre’s raucous and riotous production of The Rocky…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMQueenie was a blonde and her age stood still, And she danced twice a day in vaudeville. So begins Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem “The Wild Party” about a group…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24AMLet’s just get this out of the way. Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops (its full title is Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops; In Essence a Queer and Occasionally Ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMNestled in the northwestern part of the island of Newfoundland, lies the small town of Gander. In 2001, the population of Gander was 9,651. On September 11, 2001, that population increased …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMHere’s a tip, the most exclusive performance venue in Baltimore isn’t the Hippodrome or the Power Plant. It’s not Centerstage or Everyman. If you’re able to get in, and I suggest you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25PMIt is not easy to reinvent the wheel let alone attempt it, but that is exactly what the ambitious Annapolis Shakespeare Company has done, with generally fine results, in its fully staged rea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMSometimes, what you think you don’t want, is exactly what you need. And sometimes, comfort and joy are found in the unlikeliest of places. After a week which sent shockwaves through the co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06AMWelcome to playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ world. You’re just living in it. Or, is it, welcome to 19th Century playwright Dion Boucicault’s world and Branden Jacobs- Jenkins is livi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:42PMAs I was leaving Round House Theatre on opening night of Ayad Akhtar’s The Who and the What, I heard one patron say to another, “Wasn’t that fabulous?” And the response was, “Yes.�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMThe weather, like the five characters in Cori Thomas’ tender romantic comedy When January Feels Like Summer, is in crisis. Attribute the unpredictable climate to global warming, but it’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMDramaturgical notes in the program tell us that Time Stands Still is “essentially a love story.” But it’s also a play about war. And art. And economics. And politics. And publishing. A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PMAs the centerpiece of its 25th Anniversary Season, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has taken on the daunting task of mounting what are arguably the two greatest American plays ever written, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PMImagine a place where you could be anything you ever dreamed of and do anything you desired in total anonymity and without fear of reprisal or consequence. Imagine the retreat you crave, tha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMLiterally, an “aphorism” is a short phrase that expresses a truth or astute observation. In Alice Stanley’s brief, but powerful, meditation on gender, they [1] have structured the pie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:46PMAlthough it is never seen, not even a glimpse of one of its four minarets or gleaming domes, the Taj Mahal looms large as a monument of beauty and death as it haunts Rajiv Joseph’s poetic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AMIt is said that, “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” Well, the latter is doubly, no, triply, no, quadruply, no, well… you get the idea in Fells Point Corner Theatre and The Collaborativ…
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