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 07:41PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
With the holiday season upon us- whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s- the performing arts calendar is full of productions that help connect an audience to the larger,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMSunday, November 25, 2018
Can love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua’s upcoming production of How to Keep an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMCan love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua’s upcoming production of How to Keep an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51PMMonday, November 19, 2018
It was another time. It was a time of high anxiety. Even private lives were far from private in the treacherous, early 1950’s with the likes of Senator Joseph McCarthy and columnist Hedda …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Taunt and remarkable is the production of Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic play Machinal (1928), performed by George Mason University School of Theater and Mason Players. A student p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PMThursday, November 15, 2018
With its title, The Accident Bear, and its performance location, a laundromat in Annapolis, I was most intrigued to learn more about local playwright Bob Bartlett’s new work. The productio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
It has been 100 years since suffrage pickets began in front of the White House for women to have the legal ability to vote in the United States. Over 70 of the suffrage picketers were arrest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Signature’s Billy Elliot the Musical soars with expressive, youthful dance energy and a liberating message of doing what you need to do to be who you want to be. Directed and choreographed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMThursday, November 8, 2018
Folger’s rendering of the seldom-produced King John is more than impressive Shakespearean rhetoric and the checking off on a bucket list of plays to produce. With a deft touch, director Aa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMSunday, October 28, 2018
Words have lethal consequences in the clear-eyed, unflinching production of The Duchess of Malfi from Brave Spirits Theater. Under the sure-handed direction of Casey Kaleba, The Duchess of M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
There was a significant “first” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) 2018-19 ReDiscovery Reading Series at the Lansburgh Theatre this week. It was a reading of the enthralling, fearl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Sex, sin, retribution, and vengeance are only starting points for the simmering cauldron that is Brave Spirit’s amped production of The Changeling, a four centuries old Jacobean drama by T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
The latest data from the Child Welfare League of America indicate that in Maryland in 2015, there were over 51,000 referrals for child abuse and neglect. Of those, nearly 21,000 reports were…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMMonday, October 15, 2018
It is mid-April, 1945. The war in Europe is nearly over. However, neither a proper armistice nor formal surrender has been signed by the Allies with the former Nazi regime. It is an unsettle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32PMThursday, October 11, 2018
As if inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or even Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, Synetic’s highly original production of Sleepy Hollow, performed without dialogue, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Washington, DC has had a long love affair with Shakespeare. In our midst are institutions like the world-renowned Folger Shakespeare Library, and many DC-area theater companies that celebrat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMMonday, October 8, 2018
With the addition of original music from composer/lyricist Michael Dansicker, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s (STC) The Comedy of Errors is abandonment into farce. Whatever may be outside th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMFriday, October 5, 2018
With notes at the top of his work Heisenberg, playwright Simon Stephens gives undecorated, clear direction to theater companies for his expectations when producing the play: The present day.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10PMMonday, October 1, 2018
What began as a mundane two-hander focused on stiff argumentative males in an investigative procedural play, develops into something pleasingly complicated, intense and raises contemporary i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMThursday, September 27, 2018
What a sparkling production of Born Yesterday at Ford’s Theatre. Written in 1946 as the United States was standing powerful after the carnage of WWII, Garson Kanin’s script is delightful…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:03PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Separating a theater company’s production from the playwright’s script is crucial when evaluating a performance. After all, an engaging full production can do the old razzle-dazzle to co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Love new plays? Then THE ROSE THEATRE CO’s Reading Series|FIRST DRAFT has great news to report. The series will begin its 2018-19 season of new play readings with a new Northern Virgi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Continuing to expand their regular offerings of performance events, the Workhouse Arts Center now has an official dance company-in-residence, Next Reflex Dance Collective. Stepping out to fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PMMonday, September 17, 2018
When I grew up in a small New Jersey shore town with a single synagogue to serve many surrounding communities, I recall a particular question uttered within my family and my own Jewish tribe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44PMSunday, August 26, 2018
Creative Cauldron is celebrating its 10th season performing at its ArtSpace venue in Falls Church. Creative Cauldron is one of the area’s small theater gems, with a consistently high quali…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Leaving Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, directed by Matthew Gardiner, I found one word to describe my reaction: Believable. Yes, believable. This Signature Theatre production of Passion took …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
In a recent telephone interview, Matt Bassett, Hub Theatre’s new artistic director discussed the company’s upcoming season. In shaping the season, his first as Hub artistic director, Bas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
Over its 30 seasons, MetroStage has had several homes, including 17 years in a cozy venue in Alexandria’s West End. Now, redevelopment of the area will lead MetroStage to another location …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMSunday, August 19, 2018
It’s that time of the theater season for those of us with a taste for the offbeat and original. It’s time to accept the invitation for the yearly production from Longacre Lea displaying …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Washington, D.C. is no longer just a tourist city with iconic national monuments and fabled museums. Over the past decades, a distinguished cadre of small and medium-sized cultural instituti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PM 
