Thursday, 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 03:16PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Iowa can seem such a mythical place. That crossed my mind as I took in the Keegan Theatre’s top-notch production of the bittersweet, mystical romance of The Bridges of Madison County. Sure…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:51PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Entertainment and enlightenment are only two of the expectations for the upcoming performance of Coming of Age at the Creative Cauldron as a group of talented teens perform a cabaret with co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
The real news getting you down? Do you have a plentitude of cares and woes hanging over your head? Are you an addicted MSNBC watcher who wants to get off the couch and away from the cell for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Throughout my years covering the arts in the DC area, I have often heard that Fairfax County is a wasteland, a desert, no place for the creative theater artist. A locale with few outlets for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48PMMonday, July 23, 2018
Synetic Theater’s admirable, family-friendly production of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is the premiere mainstage production of Synetic’s New Voice Series. For tho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Where Did We Sit On The Bus? is a solo performance that examines identity in America through the eyes and observations of a Brown young man named Brian Quijada. With his charismatic smile, p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Yes, there is magic done at Monumental Theatre’s nifty production of Pippin. I am not overstating my utter enjoyment of this production. It is spunky, buoyant, and engaging from the moment…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMMonday, July 16, 2018
Set in a non-descript stand-up comedy club, the 1st Stage production of Brahman/I has a clever premise: a solo performer reveals some of a human being’s most intimate details. Brahman/I is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMFriday, July 13, 2018
“The dark side is my beat.” These are some of the first words heard from a New Jersey detective. He is recalling a hate crime from a decade previously that put his small “half-assed”…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
They are likely the unseen in our midst; that is until a particular, probably short-term job needs the informal employment market as the source of a worker. They have their own personal stor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Getting audience attention these days with a title few likely know is no easy task. So know that once again UrbanArias has found a terrific little musical gem: a chamber opera called Why is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMThursday, July 5, 2018
With NextStop Theatre Company celebrating its 30th anniversary, I chatted with Evan Hoffmann, NextStop’s producing artistic director, to learn about the company’s journey. Founded in 198…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57AMSunday, July 1, 2018
Art and activism are long-time partners. What better place than the DC area to meld the two in an effort to stimulate social justice and discover humanity from a progressive perspective. Or …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Motown the Musical is one irresistible playlist of infectious chart-topping music performed by a bevy of fine singers and dancers who have plenty of acting chops as well. While too-sweet no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMMonday, June 25, 2018
With the announcement of its New Voice Series, Synetic Theater is taking its own unique approach to the development of the richly talented pool of emerging theater-makers and budding theater…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers. In this one, Senior Writers and Columnists John Stoltenberg (Magic Time!) and David Siegel …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMMonday, June 18, 2018
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” ― Bertolt Brecht With unsettling powers of persuasion, compelling is the watchwo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMFriday, June 15, 2018
In a special Kennedy Center Millennium Stage performance commemorating World Refugee Day on June 20, 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and The Kennedy Center wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMRound House is the current Promised Land for anyone wanting to get happy. With its divine, illusion rich production of The Legend of Georgia McBride helmed by Tom Story, Round House is a div…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25AMTuesday, June 12, 2018
The summer season of DC’s very own Chamber Dance Project will be in residence this month at the acoustically rich, 450-seat Lansburgh Theater in downtown DC. The contemporary ballet troupe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55PMFriday, June 8, 2018
How does a nimble theater company retool an often produced Shakespeare classic such as The Tempest? Well, Avant Bard found a way under Tom Prewitt’s inviting direction, with gender-swappin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Having been a reader and judge for the past several years for the national Jewish Plays Project, I looked forward to taking in the premiere stage production of Lindsay Joelle’s Trayf at Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PMSpend a one-of-a-kind musical evening with Helen Hayes recipient Tom Teasley at the Workhouse Arts Center, Teasley will add fresh musical life to silent comedy films in a mini-film festival …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMFriday, June 1, 2018
“Strip me naked. Take my name. Make me an animal. So you can kill me. Then forget all about me. Like I never happened. Like I don’t matter.” No, those unsettling words are not reaction…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
It has been a muscular classic read for centuries. It has withstood the test of time, at least up to now. But in these contemporary days, does Homer’s Iliad resonate, or has it lost its t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:11PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Looking for something well-crafted, suspenseful, and with plenty of lingering moments of anxiety? Then head on to Spooky Action Theater’s production of The Small Room at the Top of the Sta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Bedlam’s take on George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan will resonate with many Blue State denizens with its updated, coolness factors and fine acting. Under Eric Tucker’s direction, Bedlam …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13AMWhen we think of non-profit arts and cultural institutions, do we only think of the creative side of the organization, the parts we see and interact with or immerse ourselves in? What about …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMSaturday, May 12, 2018
Synetic Theater’s marvels of silent Shakespeare begin with a superstructure; the adaptation of one of The Bard’s works and his words into audacious silences of the human voice. Over the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PMSeven years ago, Better Said Than Done stepped out onto the theatrical stage as a storytelling organization. The idea behind the establishment of Better Said Than Done was to bring storyte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:09PM 
