Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Monumental Theatre is providing DC-area audiences with a first look at the jukebox musical comedy Head Over Heels. The production features nearly two dozen musical numbers from The Go-Go’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Highly recommended. An unsettling dance play. The phrase “sorry you’re here” takes on new meaning. It is not typical for me to write “highly recommended” at the top of an article. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
“Isn’t it OK to sometimes be selfish?” asks a character in Anna Ziegler’s cunningly devised The Wanderers. With Amber McGinnis’ discerning, sympathetic direction, Theater J’s pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03AMMonday, February 24, 2020
Trigger warning. Nu Sass’s world premiere of Weep is an arresting, unflinching peek into complicated lives with emotionally charged scenes and character collisions. It is a slowly building…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Who Tells Our Story is the theme of Better Said Than Done’s upcoming, first-of-its-kind, two-day Women’s Storytelling Festival. Audiences can expect stories that have been crafted for a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
The world is so full of intractable political and cultural issues, with deep chasms making understanding, let alone peace, seem so far away. But the venerable Washington Performing Arts (WPA…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMThursday, February 13, 2020
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Raw one moment, richly comic the next. Subtle in one scene, directly challenging the audience the next. The world premiere musical Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre is strikingly effecti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSunday, February 2, 2020
With personality galore and voices full of pizzazz and warmth, The Mason Cabaret in Concert delivered a wonderful evening of Celebrating the Great American Songbook! Under the direction of J…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
Bright and jaunty as a hippie’s tie-dyed shirt, the opening musical number for Folger’s The Merry Wives of Windsor lets the audience know what’s in store. It’s a farce set long ago�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Washington Stage Guild’s Bloomsday is a flower of a production. One to gaze at, listen to, and revel in, enjoying the power of words, terrific acting, connections, and confessions. Written…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMSaturday, January 25, 2020
There was revolution in the air. Decolonization of Africa was taking shape. The world was on fire. And The Kennedy Center’s World Stages will be providing audiences a taste of those times.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Social commentary in a dance performance is not unusual, especially in the modern dance community. But in a week-long residency by The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at George Mason Univer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMSunday, January 19, 2020
The weather outside was surely cold and cranky. But the outside world could be quickly forgotten as the American Pops Orchestra (APO), led by Maestro Luke Frazier, gently took children and a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMMonday, January 13, 2020
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33PMSunday, January 12, 2020
Professional theaters in the DMV have been at the forefront of making diversity a critical watchword and action step. During the past several years, the DMV has hosted two women’s theater …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PMThursday, January 2, 2020
This month, UrbanArias presents composer Tom Cipullo’s chamber opera Glory Denied; the contemporary musical drama based upon the true story of America’s longest-held prisoner of war (POW…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PMWednesday, January 1, 2020
Tumultuous times call out for audacity in the performing arts. And Brave Spirits Theatre (BST) has boldly marked its territory for the next two years. Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Brave S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PMFriday, December 20, 2019
Schools play a pivotal role in cultivating the next generations, and the arts have a key role. Research suggests that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMMonday, December 16, 2019
Dark Horse Theatre Company is the newest member of theatreWashington. As readers of DCMTA are aware, theatreWashington is the organization dedicated to supporting and representing the Washin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Fiddler on the Roof, the quintessentially Jewish musical about keeping one’s balance in changing times, remains ebullient and undiminished in its eternal appeal. At the opening night perfo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
While the Tony Award-winning musical is called Jersey Boys, let’s not forget that so many of the Billboard chart-toppers performed in the show are about the real-life Frankie Valli and the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMA matchless, hypnotic portrait of love. A seductive vision of two lives tangled up in blues with too many tough nights apart as each knows “I have no will of my own.” Are the two people …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSaturday, December 7, 2019
A charming little gem of a ghostly, campfire-ish thriller is here for a short time courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company. Full of expressive acting, way cool whodunit lighting moods and ee…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
Love in Hate Nation is the new musical from Be More Chill’s composer/lyricist, Joe Iconis. Animated with a driving wheel of rock and funk rock tunes, it grapples with the pressing cultural…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMMonday, November 25, 2019
How prescient of the innovative UrbanArias. To be ahead of a major Washington Post Sunday Business section about a modern-day retail apocalypse: the dying of America’s suburban retail mall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMFriday, November 15, 2019
The sensuality and passion of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, Pablo Neruda has become the bones for a contemporary opera, Il Postino by Daniel Catán. Il Postino …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
The Welders, a self-described artists’ collective, burst upon the DMV theatrical landscape in the summer of 2013 with a mission to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play deve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMWhat a great lively yarn about a musical disruptor as a stand-in for the volcanic eruptions of out-and-out revolution in the air throughout Europe and America. Amadeus at Folger Theatre is a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMMonday, November 11, 2019
“A Chorus Line is still one of those musicals you will sing about to your grandchildren,” wrote theater and dance critic Clive Barnes in his 1975 New York Times review for A Chorus Line.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Being a stage manager of a theater production brings challenging, yet too often unheralded responsibilities that begin long before an audience steps into a theater to take a seat. As the pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10PM 
