Thursday, 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 12:19AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
It was a festive, most satisfying evening of high-end arts entertainment and education. And it was totally free. What was it? It was a recent Monday evening at The Landsburgh with the Shakes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Challenging theatrical conventions, Hello, My Name Is… by Deb Sivigny, directed by Randy Baker, and produced by The Welders is like no other theater production I have taken in, in recent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMSaturday, October 21, 2017
Folger’s production of Antony and Cleopatra directed by Robert Richmond has garnered its rightful share of critical acclaim. Its lighting design is a critical component of the production�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMFriday, October 20, 2017
Hardy, inspiring community engagement is vital for the continuing health of the performing arts. That is a given. With challenging times for arts funding; the changes in the acceptance of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
I was healed. Aches and pains of the day disappeared. Headaches from paying too close attention to Presidential tweets vanished. I might have been saved. Not sure of that just yet. Will have…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PMFriday, October 13, 2017
As I took in, with a notably racially diverse audience, MetroStage’s top-notch, tense, musically revealing production, Are you now or have you ever been…, so many questions challenged m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Illuminating what has been in the shadows, or usually whispered about, Creative Cauldron has provided a delicately rendered musical about the harsh realities women have faced over the centur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:34AMSunday, October 1, 2017
“There’s just no spot for you” is the terse way that Willy Loman’s “snotnose” boss man Howard tells Loman he is fired. Just go and don’t look back, “cause you gotta admit, bu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMFriday, September 29, 2017
Engaging with warm-hearted humor and disarming in the depth of scenes about lost boys and bitter men with their dreams crushed, the Keegan Theatre production of the Marie Jones’ Stones in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28AMSaturday, September 23, 2017
It was a glorious evening for Leonard Bernstein and musical theater fans at The Kennedy Center. It was the exceptional, one-night-only opening to the worldwide celebration of Leonard Bernste…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
In these days of the end of the brick-and-mortar retail shops, and in these times when new audiences are less likely to purchase subscriptions to the performing arts as Baby Boomers once did…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMMonday, September 18, 2017
In these days of constant bombast and weaponized words, when sounding reasonable and wanting to be open to another person’s point of view sounds almost quaint, Peter’s Alley Theatre has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
What a combustible evening at NextStop’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Under Thembi Duncan’s adroit direction and with fascinating casting, this in-y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AMThursday, September 7, 2017
So here we are in late 2017. And in the past several months, nooses have appeared in the Washington DC area, on the campus of American University, at the University of Maryland, inside the N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Opening in 1973, A Little Night Music was part of the muscular turbulence of those well-remembered primal days of rage. Rage that bred inhaled cynicism like a needed eye-opening drug into th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Yesterday may be far away for some; but a high-spirited comic primer of one male’s vainglorious attempts to be “hip” and his bewilderment at all things relating to women awaits from th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMMonday, August 14, 2017
What a rush. DC area playwright Kathleen Akerley has aced her way through the hottest of “au courant” identity politics in her newest work, the penetrating Whipping, Or the Football Haml…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:43PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Sunny and cheerful is how I felt after an hour or so with Happenstance Theatre’s Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade. The original production, currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46AMThursday, July 13, 2017
Proust may have had his mother’s madeleine, but Juan Francisco Villa has his mother’s empanada to stir up memories of his gritty, hard scrabble childhood in New York’s City’s Lower E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AMMonday, July 10, 2017
What was hidden away as a purposefully invisible sidebar of decades-old history, is brought to well-deserved notice by 1st Stage’s inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performances. With Hick…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:45PMSunday, July 9, 2017
Set in a fictionalized American magical kingdom, The Happiest Place on Earth, now playing at Hub Theatre, is a wonderfully bittersweet family saga that actor Tia Shearer crushes in her solo …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35AMSunday, July 2, 2017
A hearty bro-hug to The Kennedy Center and to the National Symphony Orchestra’s (NSO) new Artistic Adviser, Ben Folds, for having the joint jumping at the recent late night Declassified ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Continuing the conversation we started in Part I of this interview with costume and scenic designer Deb Sivigny, we delve a bit more into Deb’s work as a designer. Maybe even with some rev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PMUnder the leadership of Alex Levy, 1st Stage aims to be a cultural hub for the Northern Virginia community and beyond. Over the past year, 1st Stage has reached outside of theatrical product…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMFriday, June 23, 2017
A new generation of theater-makers are beginning to assert themselves in the DC area. They are the Millennial generation who have made DC their home over the past decade. Many are natives of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:18PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Deb Sivigny is one busy scenic and costumer designer in the DC theater community. Just recently, she developed design elements for the Rorschach Theatre production of Forgotten Kingdoms. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Shards of unseen, but sharply-felt shattered glass, both of a collapsing marriage and the infamous Kristallnacht (Night of Crystal), are fused together in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Reflections of a hard-headed son on the Round House Theatre production of August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned. As a theatrical production, August Wilson’s How I Learned What I L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PMThursday, June 15, 2017
A destination awaits for theater-goers ready for a high-quality evening taking in a marketplace of intriguing 10-minute plays. The destination is DC’s ever-changing 14th Street and this ye…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PMTuesday, June 13, 2017
It was a day for the un-stuffy. I wanted to engage with something new and ambitious. I hoped to be left agog. Well, Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown is an overwhelming succ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM 
