Monday, 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 12:06AMMonday, October 17, 2016
A non-traditional, very timely theater experience is arriving at Reston’s CenterStage from the creative risk-taking minds of award-winning Ping Chong + Company. What the Ping Chong + Compa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Celebrating outstanding achievements, leadership, and support to the arts in Fairfax County, the Cities of Fairfax and Falls Church, Virginia, the Arts Council of Fairfax County is presenti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:19AMMonday, October 3, 2016
The roaring wordless “silence” of Synetic’s remount of Dante’s Inferno is potent; it will swiftly suck you into its ferment depicting what sin might look and feel like if in Hell. Do…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Signature’s premiere of The Gulf written by Audrey Cefaly is a daring dark venture about two women entwined with heartache and sadness. It is a scorching two-hander character study that t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Seeking out budget efficiencies with the often limited resources of a non-profit is a constant. Many of us known this from our own experiences as non-profit board members or on staff. In the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16AMSunday, September 25, 2016
One of Northern Virginia’s bright jewel arts events, ARTS by George! returned to the Center for the Arts, George Mason University Fairfax campus with plenty of sharp, crisp, musical style …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Climate change is a sharp pointed object in the current 2016 political season. The language strewn about is often hot and more often than not, ad hominem to say the least But climatic issu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Folger Theatre’s take on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is just gonna charm you with its ingenious high-velocity agility, while depicting the tastefully hide-bound, tart world of go…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMSunday, September 18, 2016
Love is a battlefield in the vivid, high heat of Brave Spirits Theatre’s striking, fencing-match take on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Once again Brave Spirits (BST) is true to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Area non-profit arts organizations continually develop fresh ideas to reach children who may not regularly have access to the wonders of the performing arts. One new such effort is by Northe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Hats off to the totally nifty, quite intense, immersive production of A Dream Within A Dream: Madness at Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Arts Center. Created by Through the 4th Wall Dreams …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52AMThursday, September 8, 2016
What can be more exhilarating and authentic than standing up in front of an audience to tell a true story about yourself? Maybe unnerving at first; to open up to possible ridicule from peop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:03AMFriday, September 2, 2016
Satchmo at the Waldorf, at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, is not timid. Nor should it be. With a script by Wall Street Journal arts critic Terry Teachout, the strong hand of Eleanor Holdrid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AMThursday, September 1, 2016
In these times of increasing emphasis on STEM as the seemingly set future direction for American students; when there is serious discussion that college bound students and their parents be p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMSaturday, August 20, 2016
Many know Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Arts Center (TFAC) as a re-purposed war-time munitions plant now a prominent and beloved non-profit home for artists to create works in a publicly ac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Reaching out to new or underserved audience for audience development is likely a major, on-going activity for any local theater troupe. Given the large number of military families and vetera…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
What a way to blast open the new theater season. So take your seat at Signature’s bold, daring, muscular production of a tale about race and music, Jelly’s Last Jam. The 1992 musical is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
How often do we theater-goers find ourselves totally in disbelief when we witness stage violence or physicality? Do you, as I do, find yourself in complete awe of the unnerving movements and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:31PMMonday, July 25, 2016
With the savvy direction of Anne Donnelly and the industrious labors of 4615 Theatre Company, the 400 year-old Shakespearean comedy, Love’s Labours Lost has taken a fruitful leap into the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMMonday, July 18, 2016
You can’t go wrong. Just go with a light heart and desire to have fun as you easily unleash your connections to current world realities. What is it? Well, the “what” is a wonderfully…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMHungry for inventive choreography? Up for a summer’s night adventure with performance that is unconventional and live? Hungry for inventive dance and movement? Desire a way to escape the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Hand to God at Studio is truly outlandish; a joyfully “blasphemous” production just as The Studio Theatre marketing material shouts out in a bold headline. With immersion staging in its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMThis summer’s Kitchen Sink Fest at Dance Place is showcasing a curated, meant-to-provoke on-lookers, dance and theater technical design elements collaboration. From Kitchen Sink Fest prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Brimming with the naturalness of a contemporary family trying to withstand many a stressor, Redder Blood at The Hub Theatre, is an exceptionally rare tale to witness. Written by local playwr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21PMIt was a stifling hot, totally sticky humid July evening in the DC area. Cooling breezes under the glowing wooden open structure that is Wolf Trap’s Filene Center at first were few and far…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42AMSaturday, June 25, 2016
American epic grandeur will be visible and heard at Wolf Trap when the National Symphony Orchestra presents America the Beautiful in a grand pre-July 4th event. There will be breath-taking …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Rare words indeed to take in and ponder from the preface to the The Brookings Institution’s Creative Communities, Art Works in Economic Development: “Without good data and analysis—muc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:28PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
The Good Devil (In Spite of Himself) is a good and plenty retelling of the classic Faust tale and how art can imitate life. Well, let’s really say it is an entertaining satiric retelling t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Over the past nearly two decades, I have always anticipated what multi-Helen Hayes Award Scenic Designer Tony Cisek will bring forth on the Folger Theatre’s intimate stage space with its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMThursday, June 16, 2016
Plunk yourself down upstairs at the Source Theatre to take in a state of mind; one of dreams and dissonance. Let yourself be open to three creative artists who bring forth dream states at th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PM 
