Friday, 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 10:10PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Dispatch from the front. “Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States.” For those in the audience of the Boomer generation, Rainbow Theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMAnother unique cabaret evening is arriving at 1st Stage in Tysons. It is a musical performance by the quartet All 4 Bass. The event is entitled Play it LOW…Play it COOL. The All 4 Bass …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMFriday, November 1, 2019
Next week, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage will present a performance keyed to Veteran’s Day–The American Soldier, conceived, written and performed by Douglas Taurel. The Novembe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Electrifying. Awakening. These are words to describe the heart-rending workshop presentation of Stirring the Waters Across America performed at Studio K at The REACH. To call it anything les…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMThursday, October 24, 2019
As DC-area demographics have evolved over the recent decades, so have the missions of some of the area’s nimble performing arts venues so that they are welcoming to those they serve and re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Ingenious. Shakespeare’s venerable, often un-provocatively produced The Tempest has been reconstructed into theater with an invigorating musical arc and an awakening narrative bite. It has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Something’s coming: an exclusive opportunity to take in an award-winning creative team’s new adaptation of Rags, a hidden away musical gem. If you are not familiar with it, “Rags is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25PMARTSFAIRFAX presented its 2019 Emerging Arts Award at its eighth Arts Awards event on October 18, 2019. The award was given to the professional, black box NextStop Theatre Company. The ART…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMThursday, October 17, 2019
A much-needed rabbit hole to explore is opening in the DMV. Let us rejoice. It is the return of She Kills Monsters some five years after making its first appearance, thanks to Rorschach Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
LA Theatre Works is bringing its distinctive radio style, live theater to the DMV with a production of SEVEN. A documentary theater play, SEVEN is based on the lives of seven extraordinary w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMTuesday, October 8, 2019
What a play! Escaped Alone is full of dramatic presentations announcing a coming apocalypse; an end of days. The production at Signature Theatre is receiving rightful praise (read my colleag…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Building on its mission to produce “exciting yet profound theatre in greater Washington, DC” The Edge of the Universe Players 2 is presenting My Barking Dog, a play about “A woman. A m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMMonday, September 30, 2019
What an inspired creative jewel. What a brave new world. What a daring technical and artistic production. That is Synetic’s The Tempest; Shakespeare’s tale of shipwreck and magic, power …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSunday, September 29, 2019
What a charmer is the fringy play Unexpected Turbulence. It’s an engaging, first-class “flight” with personable service provided by flight attendant Crystelle Desjardins (Alexander Bur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
In our world-class DC area, the GALA Hispanic Theatre continues to be a beacon with a mission to produce playwrights and plays often unknown to English-speaking audiences. GALA is a National…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PMMonday, September 16, 2019
It’s true. The DC area has moved into the forefront of the nation’s theater communities. A recent report from Actors’ Equity Association named DC the “fastest-growing theater city.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PM“Sing your song… be someone big on earth” is one of the centering lyrics that Tom Sweitzer sang in his one-actor, cabaret-like performance of Meatballs and Music on September 13 & …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Celebrating the lushness of love without shying away from the moody darkness that might befall lovers, Theater J opens its new season with the East Coast premiere of the musical Love Sick. L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Peter’s Alley Theatre has moved its base of performances to The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Founded in 2012 by Aly B. Ettman, Peter’s Alley is a non-profit professional theatre compan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13AMMonday, August 26, 2019
Let yourself drift back and be carried away to another time–the time when music with its rhythms was the center of a young life. Now with that thought, take yourself to the vibrant, energe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00PMThe splendid, bone-chilling darkness of Signature Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins is lifted into reality by a most unexpected source: the humanity of a 10-year-old c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMThursday, August 22, 2019
With the success of their first pop-up theatrical venture, the Providence Players of Fairfax are ready for a second pop-up production. This time the Providence Players, a Northern Virginia s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Cirque du Soleil’s Volta is a rush of energy and hand-over-mouth gulps of emotions. Currently decamped in Fairfax County, a quick saunter from the raised Metro Silver Line station at Tyso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMThursday, August 1, 2019
Once again, Taffety Punk Theatre Company has succeeded at challenging the theatrical status quo. This time, it was with a mesmerizing Bootleg Shakespeare Richard III. Under the open-eyed, �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Adding to professional theater options for audiences in Northern Virginia, Dark Horse Theatre Company will be mounting its next production at ArtSpace Herndon, as well as in its regular home…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
With a return visit to The Happiest Place on Earth, new gemstones are uncovered, adding complexity and currency to its bittersweet tale about dreams that a heart makes. In its current incarn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMMonday, July 15, 2019
The Things They Carried is a personal people’s history. A sharply conjured chronicle. It is told at the most granular of levels by a platoon of characters. Performed solo by David Sitler, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMSunday, July 14, 2019
Joy Rebel, written and performed by Khanisha Foster, is a moving, deep dive into fluid identity and the fraught experiences of a mixed-race human being on her journey to self-understanding. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59PMFriday, July 12, 2019
“All alone in the quiet /And my ears are thirsty / For your voice, for your voice / Can you answer me.” Those lyrics from The Band’s Visit’s “Answer Me” burrowed into my heart as…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:23PMMonday, July 8, 2019
You may remember James Corden, Sara Bareilles, and Josh Groban singing a parody of the song “Michael in the Bathroom” a few weeks ago on the Tony Awards network television show. The star…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PM 
