Thursday, 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[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The Workhouse Arts Center is a 55-acre cultural arts center located in southern Fairfax County. For the history minded, It was 100 years ago that Suffragettes who had protested the lack of v…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Signature Theatre's production of La Cage aux Folles under the sure hands of Director/Choreographer Matthew Gardiner is a fabulously fun rendering. There is simply no way to leave the pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
This summer Hylton Performing Art Center is offering a unique opportunity for "hands-on" learning about what happens backstage during a live theater performance. The Hylton is offering…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
This year's edition of the DC Source Festival continues with its central mission to present works fresh to the DC area. The new theater works at Source receive their first full production at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Giving back to the community is an important goal for the Providence Players of Fairfax. The Providence Players (PPF) is known for its work to serve its diverse community, especially with it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2016
Faction of Fools is delightfully back with a well-concocted, refreshing, street-fair fare of Moliere's The Miser. This happy show is one with a pointed, underscored, right-on-the-surface mes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
So here we are in a world class city with ever changing demographics that represent all the world. Those include refugees, immigrants and people who may practice a different faith. Thanks to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2016
Synetic Theater's The Man in the Iron Mask is a good yarn, well told. With the production Synetic continues to expand beyond its original Shakespeare roots and singular "silent" physical the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
Theatre Lab's production of the multiple Tony Award-winning musical Titanic The Musical will easily win you over. Under the direction of Deb Gottesman and musical direction by Joshua Coyn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2016
Story telling has been part of human history for–well–forever. In recent days story-telling has had a resurgence with digital media, pod casting and, of course, radio. Think T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
"You can't censor your creative impulses because of the danger of hurting someone's feeling. Write don't speak it." This early line of dialogue resonates throughout the emotionally rich, int…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
With Eleanore Tapscott's gentle, affecting, eloquent direction, the Port City Playhouse production of Athol Fugard's Coming Home (2009) is an exemplary work about love, loss and resilience. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
He wrote books that fueled many of his generation. He was a literary provocateur with a writing style like few others penning works about the Vietnam War's aftermath, political intrigue,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The boys from the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) have been a mainstay in the DC area for decades. They never wear out their welcome whether performing at the Folger, The Kennedy Center or…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
A big theatrical story created on a small space is no easy matter. For the too-short stay of Moby Dick at the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, it was accurate what the Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Next season's Great Performances series at the Center for the Arts was recently announced to hearty applause at a lovely evening event on the George Mason University campus in Fairfax, Virgi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Revelations are many in the admirable production of Bathsheba Doran's The Mystery of Love & Sex currently at Signature Theatre. Directed by Stella Powell Jones, The Mystery of Love &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The seeds of Jennifer Haley's award-winning The Nether now at DC's Woolly Mammoth and Philly's InterAct were planted long, long ago. Twenty years ago in fact, The War of Desire and Techno…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PM[SHARE]In the past 25 years or so the theater scene in nearby Philadelphia, the nation's 5th largest city, has blossomed into 50-plus stage companies that pay their actors designer and creative …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Theater has a great deal to offer well beyond acting before an enthralled audience. Not only is theater a source of inspiration and entertainment, but it can be a wonderful opportunity to le…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
"Dark Nights" You remember that theatre term for when a venue has no shows playing to an audience. Well, NextStop Theatre, located in Herndon is having its April Theatre for Young Audiences …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 26, 2016
Dance, Music, & Theater Comes to Manassas, VA The Hylton Performing Arts Center announces its 2016-2017 season, a fantastic line-up of music, dance, theater and performing arts. Now ente…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Writing a column about Theater J's world premiere of Falling Out of Time, based upon the book by David Grossman, about a man whose 20 year-old soldier son who was killed during military h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
Several years ago, I read Annie Baker's The Flick. For the life of me, I wondered how such a beautifully written, gutsy play about youth working-class heroes in their own ways could be turne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has a loud flash-bang grenade of a theater experience for audiences. It comes with a chilling take on gloomy lives lived in a world of law and order under t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Ah, the importance of the costumes actors wears to set the scene for any stage production: the shapes, colors, textures. How the fabric flows, drapes, curves or hugs fast to an actor's frame…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
Revealing the concealed underpinnings and durable structures of American musicals is no easy undertaking. Let alone covering and analyzing the past seven decades of musical theater history. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PM[SHARE]How fortunate we are in the DC area, a locale that seeks status as a world class city, to have the Ambassador Theater in our midst. The Ambassador Theater has a mission to build internationa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Having separately followed two of the DC area's delightful performing arts groups, one a jazz ensemble and the other a dance troupe, I was intrigued to learn they would be performing togethe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Gin Dance Company (GDC) is a Metropolitan DC/Northern Virginia based performing arts modern dance company. Founded in Reston, Virginia in 2011 by Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff, GDC perform…
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