Friday, March 22, 2019
In honor of World Puppetry Day celebrated on March 21st, it was time to learn more about the puppetry used in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Kate Hamill's adaptation of Vanity…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
"Watch me close, watch me now!" As I watched Avant Bard's production of Topdog/Underdog, I knew that it is a production for the ages. Under the visceral, athletic direction of DeMone Seraphi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Valerie Leonard's engrossing performance as a powerful matriarch lifts the Theater J premiere of the English-language The Jewish Queen Lear beyond a nostalgia-laden look back to a once highl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2019
Leaving Arena Stage's world premiere of JQA, the fictionalized account of John Quincy Adams as imagined by playwright/director Aaron Posner, I'm feeling this: Adams was a sour, stiff-necked,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2019
Arresting and compelling are two words that come to mind to describe Signature Theatre's fiery production about survival in a society racked by long-term natural disasters and deadly human-m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2019
The musical Daddy Long Legs is coming to the DMV area, thanks to Monumental Theatre Company. Monumental Theatre Company "seeks to connect emerging artists, specifically those of the millenni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01PM[SHARE]Expanding its reach into the Northern Virginia community, the Providence Players of Fairfax are producing a special limited engagement of David Mamet's Oleanna. The production will be at a n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
How does a young artist prepare for the rigors of a professional performing career? For the six talented recipients of Strathmore's Artist in Residence program, that preparation includes a 1…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
True to its founding mission of presenting narrative and storytelling "to provoke or thrill," 4615 Theatre is producing the world premiere of playwright Joe Calarco's Separate Rooms, said…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2019
Taken with his debut as a director for Synetic's touching Cyrano de Bergerac, I took the opportunity to interview Vato Tsikurishvili. It was a chance to delve deeper into the creative mind b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2019
With a singular mission to expand the music universe for diverse audiences, ground-breaking pianist Lara Downes will be gracing DC's Sixth & I Historic Synagogue stage in a live event co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Regional Tony Award recipient Signature Theatre continues its singular Signature in the Schools program with another original production written and directed by Joe Calarco. Calarco is the R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
Shu-Chen Cuff and her Gin Dance Company are returning to perform at the celebrated DC Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival. "We are thrilled to be part of the 10th anniversary of the Atlas INT…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2019
Complex villains are irresistible on stage and screen. They can be so magnetic. They certainly keep my attention even with the awful consequences of their thinking and action. Their restless…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
The upcoming Second Glance at Alexandria's Athenaeum promises to cross artistic boundaries to produce the uniquely dramatic in a highly original venture. So what is Second Glance? It is stri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2019
By all means, go, have a great time at Signature Theatre's grandly jaunty Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show. A musical revue centered upon the prolific composer Fats Waller (19…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
An evening of conversation with Broadway legend Baayork Lee is coming to Reston's CenterStage. Baayork Lee has performed in some of the most far-reaching musical theatre events of the past d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
How any of us deal with the death of a loved one is so very personal. With the passing of her beloved brother Carl, playwright Paula Vogel found her own sui generis way to let the world know…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
Some sixty-five years since its original premiere as a black-and-white teleplay, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men remains timeless; all too intriguingly relevant as ever. In the Ford's Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Go with no preconceived notions to best absorb Scena Theatre's Submission, the American premiere theater adaptation of the 2015 European best-selling novel by French author Michel Houellebec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
A far-reaching cultural exchange production from China by the China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) is making its United States premiere at The Kennedy Center. It is Image China: Xuanzang's…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Zemfira Stage is producing an uncommon sighting in the DC area: a production of the offbeat mid-1950's play, The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson. An unconventional nightmare of a melodrama e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2019
With its premiere of Cartography, The Kennedy Center continues to be a welcoming venue for theatrically devised civic discourse on often fraught issues. Cartography is a unique live document…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2019
DMV area theaters are always a class act. With no end to the government shutdown in sight, many DMV theaters are offering special discounted tickets to federal government workers. DMV theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
A blunt assessment: It's time to move on. It is time to retire Miss Saigon as the seductive, out-of-touch, museum piece that it is. Miss Saigon has little to say about the sorrows of the Vie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Man of La Mancha has long been an icon of mid-20th century American musical theater with its share of 1966 Tony Awards. This show about a man marching forward for "a heavenly cause" is a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
A perfect fit for a convivial concert on a winter's night is coming to the acoustically rich Reston CenterStage. It is a cozy evening of personally selected music and song with critically ac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Just in time for an escape from too many holiday-spiked eggnog toasts for a better tomorrow to come, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) provides an appealing, sugar-coated farce to indulge au…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
Northern Virginia's Alden Theatre, with a long-standing moniker, "small stage, big talent," reopens on Saturday, January 5, 2019, when renovations of the surrounding building complex, the Mc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2018
"Why must every Jew on stage be a paragon?" A key question asked without bombast by one of the fictional characters created by playwright Paula Vogel for Indecent, her daring stage play c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
Northern Virginia's NextStop Theater has announced a very special cabaret event for the Holiday season. It is called A Kosher Christmas Cabaret. The performance is a follow-on to NextStop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:41PM[SHARE] 
