Thursday, 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 05:53PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Two powerful, verbally skilled women come together weekly for tea and talk for over a decade. They are locked in a power struggle about politics and cultural norms that affect a nation and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:10AMMonday, February 5, 2018
Brave Spirits Theatre adds its distinctive style to the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival with The Trojan Women Project. It is a singular event. The Trojan Women Project is packed with mome…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:36AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Inspiring generations of theater-goers and music lovers alike is one of the aims of Director Stevie Zimmerman by connecting the talents of the professional Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO) w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
4,380 Nights is a raw, emotionally charged political theater production that makes the movie Zero Dark Thirty look timid. That is my trigger warning about a new play by Annalisa Dias that e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07AMThursday, January 25, 2018
Explore some of the modern culture and 20th-century history, the music and movement, of the world’s most populous country, China. Take in a full-scale epic tale, full of pageantry and a yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
This is the second part of a two-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theatre Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same questions to a number of Women’s Voices Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
As the Great American Songbook America continues to recede from its long-held prominence, productions such as the In Series All the Things You Are: Jerome Kern are priceless for those who wa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The creative, resourceful folk from Synetic Theater have made another date with an old friend and literary powerhouse, well beyond the “silent” Shakespeare for which it is justly known. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMThere’s lots to like about Theresa Rebeck’s The Way of the World just as my DC Metro Theater Arts colleague Sophia Howes points out in her review. The show is the Folger Theater’s Wome…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMSunday, January 21, 2018
This is the first part of a multi-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theater Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same series of questions to a number of Women’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The DC performing arts scene will be losing one of its visionary artistic directors this summer. Hub Theatre’s artistic director Helen Murray will be moving on to become the Executive Dir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Under the masterful, musical code-switching curation of National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Artistic Advisor Ben Folds, the future for new audiences finding their way to the usually buttoned-u…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07AMThursday, January 11, 2018
In the midst of its ninth year producing and presenting live theater and music at its ArtSpace Fall Church venue, the Creative Cauldron has just opened its annual, mid-winter Passport to the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
With its teasing, click-bait provocative subtitling, “an opera without music,” John Shand’s Guilt, having its world premiere by DC’s Scena Theatre, is a meaty, passionately provokin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
As we well know, funding for the arts from all levels of government sources are under assault. Government funding is either static, or in worse cases has been reduced. As government revenue …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AMMonday, January 1, 2018
Ready to un-compartmentalize your music tastes? Open to thinking differently about what some may call stodgy “High Art” for the well-fixed? Ready to have some new musical experie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMThursday, December 28, 2017
One of the questions I often receive from theater-goers surrounds the mystery of what a stage manager does for a live theater production. The stage manager is rarely seen, and doesn’t seem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Brimming with heart, musical numbers to elicit smiles, a unique wit, some audience sing-alongs, and moments that disrupt theatrical norms, MetroStage’s Christmas at the Old Bull and Bush i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Engaging, sophisticated entertainment and education that didn’t talk down to the intended audience; children who may not have been familiar with the grand musical and cultural figure, DC�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMThursday, December 7, 2017
How might one react to finding and reading their mother’s diary after her death? Did she purposely leave the diary so it would be found and read, rather than destroy it? And, how in Heaven…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Tinsel and garlands are festooned about a beautiful 10 foot tall Christmas tree. Easy to be captivated with such an exquisite Christmas touch. But, wait, the tree is standing tall on the E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Want to wish yourself a Merry Little Christmas and a Happy New Year in a new way? Then for those with a bent for the uncommon, consider taking in a contemporary retelling of the Biblical Nat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMFriday, November 17, 2017
What a giddy, joyful afterimage of mouthwatering kinetic alchemy. Under the confident direction and chemistry-setter Mathew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has produced an irresistible The Gersh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
It is a season of thanksgiving and spending time with family and friends. But, untold numbers of D.C. and Baltimore area military families spend the Thanksgiving holiday away from loved one…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMMonday, November 13, 2017
Often, images of a theatrical production help establish the initial interest and expectations for a potential audience. Photographs can draw an audience into a production even before reviews…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
We in the theater community lost a great friend with the passing of Joel Markowitz. As many know, Joel was diagnosed with ALS in March of this year. Since then, he dedicated himself to co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Daniel Kitson is an acquired taste. In the premiere of his newest one-actor creation, A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological Order at Studio’s Metheny Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PMShedding new light on Hamlet by William Shakespeare is what Aquila Theatre aims to do with its upcoming production of at Fairfax’s Center for the Arts. Hamlet has been recognized for centu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMMonday, November 6, 2017
Time has not dimmed the impact or abundant love for the musical works of Jacques Brel; even now, nearly 40 years since his untimely death. That is apparent from the audience response and my …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMThursday, November 2, 2017
Avant Bard’s Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight with Sara Barker in the role of the whip-smart 18th century very real Emilie is a clear knock-out for critics and a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:19AM 
