Saturday, May 12, 2018
Seven 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 07:09PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The 2018 Kennedy Center Spring Gala was a dandy one, celebrating the recipients of the third annual Kennedy Center Award for the Human Spirit. The award recipients, Gary Sinise and Eli and E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMIt started with a conversation with Laveen Naidu, artistic director for Northern Virginia’s BalletNova. Naidu said he wanted to change this observation: “ballet is often perceived as bei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMFriday, May 4, 2018
For over three decades, Helen Hayes nominations and awards have represented the pinnacle of professional excellence in Washington, DC area theater. What began as public recognition of a smal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
How important can a wig be to a theater production and an actor’s performance? What better way to answer that question then with a section from the recent book, The Ascent of Angels in Ame…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32PMMonday, April 30, 2018
How does anyone cope with the unthinkable: Whether the unthinkable is The Holocaust, The Killing Fields, chemical bombs dropped on children, slavery or lynchings. How does one survive even s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Girlfriend is a sensitively constructed and gracefully performed coming of age musical about two late teen boys having an unexpected first crush that turns into love between them. Girlfriend…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMThursday, April 26, 2018
Bleak? Nope, not at all. Galway, Ireland-based theater company Druid’s touring production of Samuel Beckett’s warhorse of postwar failure and ennui, Waiting for Godot, at Shakespeare T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMMonday, April 23, 2018
With an astute, quality production of Witch, its latest Bold New Works for Intimate Stages creation, the Creative Cauldron continues to show what a nimble, un-fossilized theater company can …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
The time is most certainly right for the arts to be disruptive; to assert and insert itself in national discussions about social justice and inclusion. Turbulent times call out for the arts&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
Using interviews of real community members wanting to live a full life here in America as her source of inspiration, Jane Franklin and her eponymous dance company have developed an engaging …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:46PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Taking in Annie Baker’s John at Signature Theatre gives me the rare opportunity to use a word I have always wanted to, but haven’t before–the word “anhedonia.” Yes, Bak…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Pipeline Playwrights, the Northern Virginia-based collective of accomplished women playwrights who support productions that explore the variety of women’s experiences, continues its new se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:37PMLife’s a bitch especially for those struggling with the angst of life — in this particular case, the characters of the world premiere opera Florida from UrbanArias. Now please don’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMSunday, April 1, 2018
Aching and raw, sweet and lamenting, Hub Theatre’s production of The Pavilion is a master class of three DC-area actors in command of playwright Craig Wright’s lyrical, melodic language …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Studio Theatre’s take on Translations by Brian Friel (1929-2015) is one crackling fine production. It begins as an intellectually stimulating comedy, then ultimately turns tragic after wea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:06PMSunday, March 25, 2018
For this writer, Grace Gonglewski as Paulina in the Folger Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is one rock solid, indispensable presence. As the bravest truth-telle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Moving into its 18th year of producing exciting and accessible alternative theater to cultivate new and diverse audiences, the Landless Theater will present the world premiere of The Mystery…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Pipeline Playwrights, a Northern Virginia-based collective of accomplished women playwrights who support productions that explore the variety of women’s experiences, is undertaking a n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
It was a haunting, atmospheric triumph. It was an urgent, yet respectfully accomplished multimedia exploration of American cultural issues rarely presented on DC stages about the unknown lab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
By writing Mom Baby God’s central character Destinee Grace Ramsey as a likable, “trying-to-find-her-place-in-the world” young woman speaking her own truths, playwright Madeline…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13PMMonday, March 5, 2018
In turbulent times, escaping into a yarn that is as light and high-flying as a helium-filled balloon can be a welcome respite. So, the Great Performance Series at the Center for the Arts/Geo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
For nearly two decades, the inventive Signature in the Schools education program has exposed Arlington County public high school student actors to highly-charged, real-world issues well beyo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMThursday, March 1, 2018
All too often the work of a theater sound designer can go unnoticed. In fact, not long ago the Tony Awards decided not to even provide an award category for sound design (now reinstated). Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Helmed by a trio of DC’s creative talent royalty, Theater J’s production of Becoming Dr. Ruth, penned by Mark St. Germain, goes beyond just facts and dates to become an engaging explorat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58AMThursday, February 22, 2018
In the DMV area, there are plenty in the political and social elite who can be found clicking away on their social media working hard to make us aware of what we should think. These same fol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
“We all move, we all walk, we all run, we all fall, we all can even dance.” said Artistic Director Jacques Heim of DIAVOLO. With a motto of “architecture in motion” DIAVOLO will be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMFriday, February 16, 2018
How does someone pay honor to a deceased parent whom they loved dearly? How does a son give thanks to his father? And when does a son really come to learn what a father went through, in thos…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41PMThursday, February 15, 2018
West Side Story remains glorious from its opening notes to its incredibly powerful final curtain. The National Symphony Orchestra’s (NSO) Pops concert version adds its own distinctive, int…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:57PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain,” is a quote attributed to the late, and lost-too-soon, singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959). Creative Caul…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29PMThursday, February 8, 2018
For regular theater-goers, we have seen that projection design is not a fad or an eye-popping, one-time visual effect. Projection design has become an integral part of many a production’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:53PM 
