Thursday, 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 05:42PMMonday, February 13, 2017
Ready for top-notch singing talent that brings the “blues” to vibrant, spicy full life? Then high tail-it to Creative Cauldron (Falls Church) to take-in a cabaret-like revue called Blues…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
I love being surprised when I go to theater. Recently, I went to a play, MetroStage’s comely The Gin Game, and became totally smitten with the textures of its music design. It was a sound…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
As DC area performing arts companies continue to grapple with advancing issues of social justice into the public realm in these stressful days, DC is certainly not alone. In 2015 the Ford F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMUnder the crafty direction of Alex Levy, 1st Stage’s production of Trevor, penned by Nick Jones, had me in agreement with a recent American Theatre headline calling Jones the “Deadp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
We in DC theater community are constantly on the prowl for new voices with diverse mindsets and new plays on emerging issues to be open to the upcoming generation of possible theater-goers. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Gaye Taylor Upchurch’s appealing direction gives Folger Theatre’s As You Like It a warm flirtatious essence with buffoonery galore masking over Shakespeare’s initial soulful melancholi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38PMThursday, January 26, 2017
A joy for a theater writer is to bring notice to young up-and-coming actors. In the past year I have the good fortune to see Ethan van Slyke perform with several professional theater co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35PMSunday, January 22, 2017
Zestful. Savvy. Crafty. Satisfying — Director Abigail Isaac Fine’s feisty NextStop production of Shakespeare’s battle-of-wits, romantic-comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a stimula…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Scena Theatre’s Someone Is Going to Come is a tightly wound riddle about danger; the lightly concealed danger lurking in a couple’s push-pull of a relationship that is further inflamed w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
How fortunate we are to have the In Series the past 2+ decades presenting a smart set mix of: innovative Pocket Opera, intimate Cabaret, and intriguing Latino programming. [from the compa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
The Barter Theatre, the state theatre of Virginia, might not be as well known in the DC metro area as it once was. The Barter Theatre has had a long and continuing production history that be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMFriday, December 23, 2016
Epic refined splendor comes to mind after seeing and hearing Signature Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic. Director Eric Schaeffer’s vision and implement of s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42AMMonday, December 12, 2016
Tom Story is a knockout in his one-actor, effortlessly frenetic, tour de force performance as 40 different characters who comprise the charming “controlled” frenzy of MetroStage’s Full…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMSleeping Beauty, Synetic Theater’s new dialogue-free production, is gorgeous, entertaining, and illuminating. This Sleeping Beauty is more than a fanciful, “white bread, white washed” …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Well beyond just comfort and joy, The Folger’s production of The Second Shepherds’ Play, a medieval English mystery about the ultimate power of faith to redeem and liberate, is the righ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMSunday, December 4, 2016
“A simple tale of love and hope,” is the way local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi describes her new work, The Magi. That is an understatement. In its premiere at Fairfax’s The Hub The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55AMTuesday, November 29, 2016
The Hub Theatre will present a premiere musical, The Magi by local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi with music by singer/songwriter Eli Pafumi. This is a unique collaboration between them. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMI needed it. A lot. A musical that reminded me that “life is a gift.” A new holiday musical with heart, humor, and great new tunes. A most-welcomed and pleasant swift sleigh ride during …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Even having inklings of what to expect, there was no protecting myself from the shattering production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at the Kennedy Center. I don’t think even …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23PMMonday, November 21, 2016
‘Inspired’ is the word that comes to mind for Adam Immerwahr’s selection of The Christians by Lucas Hnath for this, his first full season as Artistic Director for DC’s Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PMSaturday, November 19, 2016
Audiences can usually expect something distinct, and full of chutzpah, from the folk at DC’s scrappy Faction of Fools theater troupe with its Comedia dell’Arte mission. The recipient of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:50PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
The Edge of the Universe Players 2‘s workshop production of Young Jean Lee’s Pullman, WA was an evening that defies easy categorization. It was charming one moment, annoying the nex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00AMMonday, November 14, 2016
In these jagged days immediately after the election, Studio Theatre’s richly revealing production of Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee is bracing, to say the least. It deserves our att…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:41PMSaturday, November 12, 2016
There has been a wealth of films about Broadway over the decades. Many oft these Broadway-related movies are from a too distant past even if still shown on AMC or Turner Classics. If the o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Audiences of all generations and emerging Millennial-aged playwrights should rejoice at Avant Bard’s production of DC playwright Jonelle Walker’s TAME. Avant Bard took a risky budget…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:19PMThursday, November 3, 2016
With an interest in the stories of refugees and other wandering souls, which I presumed is based upon my own family fables of wanderings to and in America, along with my work as Director, US…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMThis is another of my columns that delves deeper into the technical design aspects of an area live theater production. In this case, it was the intriguing sound design of NextStop’s Eurydi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSunday, October 30, 2016
From the moment Laura Benanti stepped onto the stage at The Barns at Wolf Trap to perform Tales from Soprano Isle she set the buoyant mood for the evening. She charmed and enchanted even a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PMFriday, October 28, 2016
Building top-notch musical theater at George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) continues with its current snappy, sharp, nicely nasty production of Bertolt Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51PMMonday, October 24, 2016
An intellectually manic world, propelled by a charming, whimsical disrupter with an abundance of prickly opinions aimed at the cultural elite, awaits audiences at Spooky Action Theater. It …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06AM 
