Tuesday, 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 12:51PMSaturday, June 3, 2017
What was once a Richard Rodgers Award finalist the new musical, Crazy Mary Lincoln, receives an appealing, open-hearted, ardent regional premiere production from Pallas Theatre Collective. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else. King Lear, Act 3, scenes 4–5. Avant Bard’s King Lear is a bracing, piercing production of a family and realm in height…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01AMFriday, May 26, 2017
With monikers like, Become Awesome and The Theatre for People Who Don’t Think They Like Theatre, Flying V burst onto the DC-metro area theater scene. In 2015, Flying V received the Helen H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMThursday, May 25, 2017
It was an evening like few others in the company of of hundreds at The Kennedy Center on a recent evening. What took place was a performance meant to strike a hot chord for cultural and poli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMCreative Cauldron continues to dazzle critics and audiences with its “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” – a series of premier musicals. It is certainly rare when a smaller prof…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:28PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Signature Theatre’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar is an impressive beauty of a rock musical. It successfully takes a Biblical phrase such as, “Let us lift up our heart with our ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
The Arts Council of Fairfax County announced a $5,000 Strauss Artist Grant award to Falls Church-based theater designer Margaret (Margie) Jervis. Jervis, a Falls Church native, is the reside…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMMonday, May 15, 2017
Undone by his own goodness? Ha! That is not what I took away as director Robert Richmond succeeded masterfully with his contemporary, blasting grenade of an interpretation for Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMSunday, May 14, 2017
Haunting is the word that quickly came to mind as I sat, mesmerized, rediscovering a classic of literature I thought I knew from reading print on a page and from the movies. But, oh my, Syne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:36PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Launching an anthology of stories entitled Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors to benefit the National Network to End Domestic Violence, the professional story-telling group, Better Said Than…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMSunday, April 23, 2017
New theater voices, heard in their own language and accessible to a wide audience. In a world-class area full of strivers like the DC metro area, it is about time. This admiring column is ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
The revolution will not be televised. Nope, it is on stage at Round House Theatre with a playful, headlong charge of a wild comedy. The comedy is called OR, a fictionalized account of free-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMSunday, April 16, 2017
Once again, Artistic Director Helen Murray and The Hub Theatre are producing a seductive play meant to kindle sparks for adventurous theater-goers. The Hub is constantly on the hunt for smal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Oh, what fine comic talent and an attuned director can do to bring pleasure. Under the sure hands of NextStop’s Evan Hoffmann and a talented six-member ensemble, there is enjoyable life to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
The premise seems full of possibilities. With its moody Twin Peaks-like, arched eyebrow attitude, Midwestern Gothic tackles wasted lives, a randy adolescent woman who is questioning the “w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. ― Homer, The Iliad, ‘Book 22’ (Tr. R. Fagl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
This is the second installment of In the Moment columns focusing on the Pipeline Playwrights. Pipeline Playwrights is a small collective of accomplished Northern Virginia women playwrights. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Another superior night with Irish playwright Connor McPherson, this time at Scena Theatre under Robert McNamara’s illuminating, layered direction of McPherson’s earthy, sideward glance a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Glorious! Dazzling! Verve! Bursting at the seams with voices and stories of America’s humanity and originating dreams. These are the words I felt as Ragtime, now at Ford’s Theatre, unfol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMWednesday, March 15, 2017
At a comfortable table at Alexandria’s Extra Perks Coffee Shop and Café, I had the happy opportunity to spend some delightful one-on-one time with The Gin Game‘s playwright D. L. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06AMSunday, March 12, 2017
An ensemble is very key to the success of a theatrical production. Whenever I go to a theater performance, I make sure to take in those who, while not in the spotlight, still pack a visual…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMNu Sass’ latest Small Batch production is Howard Zinn’s one-actor Marx in Soho. It is another highly successfully, nervy production by Nu Sass with it mantra, “strong women, great thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:14AMThursday, March 9, 2017
With gentleness and clear affection for an unexpected heroine, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine has written and directed with a disarming touch an endearing new play “with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Avant Bard’s The Gospel of Colonus is a gorgeous, rapturous musical. Taking a phrase from the Bible, specifically Psalm 100, I found The Gospel of Colonus a “joyful noise” to witness a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Come April 7th, it will be a full century since the United Stated entered World War I or The Great War as it was known until WW II came along. The Air and Space Museum here in DC is having a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:47PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Synetic’s The Taming of the Shrew is disarming, decadent and a great visual rush. It is also great, dialogue-free storytelling with its own edge and outlook. The Synetic production simply …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMMonday, February 20, 2017
This year’s Atlas Intersections Festival has a theme of “where the art world and the real world intersect. The Festival aims to “engage audiences and artists alike by sparking convers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMSunday, February 19, 2017
Northern Virginia is very much alive and supporting original play development by local playwrights. The diversity of the Northern Virginia demographic provides for fresh experiences to base …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
George Mason University (GMU) launched its Year of Gilbert and Sullivan Celebration with a clever, bright, joyfully sung musical homage to the masterful Gilbert and Sullivan team and its in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s (STC) production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III is a stunner. It is a clever look into a usually unseen political hall-of-mirrors. It is also a mos…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PM 
