Developed out of a conversation playwright and lead actor Lowell Byers had with his cousin Lou Fowler – a Sergeant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II – upon their firs…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39AMFounded in 1981, the mission of the League of Professional Theatre Women, a non-profit advocacy organization headquartered in New York City, is to promote increased opportunities, greater vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMReligion, gun control, and the impact of social media are the hot-button issues addressed by playwright Jason Odell Williams in Church & State, a political dramedy now making its New Yor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMIt’s not always easy to decide who you are and what you want to be when you grow up, especially if your father, ex-boyfriend, new date, and society at large, in both Canada and the US, are…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PMIn commemoration of Women’s History Month, Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion’s Victorian Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Tribulation Periwinkle: Civil War Nurse. Adapted and direct…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMScheduled to coincide on the calendar with the days historically associated with the last week in the life of Christ, Bristol Riverside Theatre’s spring production of the groundbreaking 19…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:56PMThe original cast and design team of 2011 return for The Assembly’s powerhouse revival of its critically-acclaimed hit Home/Sick. Presented at Brooklyn’s JACK, and directed by Jess Chaye…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PMFollowing a year of critical acclaim in Philadelphia, which culminated in nominations for both for the Barrymore Award for Best Ensemble, the talented young couple Anna Zaida Szapiro (nomina…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PM“Who are you?” That is the philosophical question and moral issue raised in playwright Jonathan Leaf’s Deconstruction, a world-premiere three-hander (presented in conjunction with Chri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32PMExpletives, insults, and accusations fly, when an unhappy wife, alcoholic daughter, and gay son gather in the hospital room of their dying husband and father for a farewell verbal slug-fest.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04PMAn original prequel based on James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, Cirque du Soleil’s touring production of Toruk – The First Flight, now in Philadelphia for a five-day stop at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMIt’s 2 a.m. His mind is racing, overwrought with memories of situations, conversations, and images of her. Music and film merge with poetry, rap, and movement to explore one half-hour insi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMAdapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee’s 1960 classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the Deep South in the 1930s, still sounds a resonant call for integrity,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33PMJust in advance of St. Patrick’s Day, Manayunk Theatre Company brings its tradition of Irish pub entertainment to Roxborough’s Tavern on Ridge with Irish-ish: A Trio of Irish Tales. Show…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:26PMIt’s hard to accept the realization that your BFFs aren’t really F, especially if you’re the single, and more-than-somewhat-neurotic, Jordan Berman. Feeling increasingly alone and aban…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMMaking the transition from high-school graduation into adulthood can be a challenge, especially for teens who haven’t quite yet found themselves. Ken Urban’s Nibbler, a world-premiere pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMWhen seventeen-year-old Luke returns home to small-town Kansas after being missing for a year, he must come to terms with what transpired and face the aftermath with his family, church, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:10PMAn effervescent all-star ensemble of fourteen actors and two musicians under the ebullient direction of Abigail Adams bring to life the eccentric characters, madcap situations, and old-fashi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33AMThe goal of Inis Nua Theatre Company is to “tell the story.” In its American premiere of Irish playwright Lee Coffey’s Leper + Chip we get not only the story, but the big picture. As w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMFollowing her Barrymore Award for Best Actress as Martha in Theatre Exile’s 2014 production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was preceded by two Barrymore Nominations for Best A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10PMFollowing its development in 2015 at PlayPenn — the respected thirteen-year-old Philadelphia-based artist-driven organization dedicated to supporting and fostering new work — pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMA company premiere and part of its Opera at the Academy series presented in the historic Academy of Music, Opera Philadelphia’s production of Tancredi, from Opéra de Lausanne and Teatro M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMA colorful clearing outside a provincial French village is visited by the spirit of a murderer who enthralls Isabel, an innocent young schoolteacher obsessed with the enigma of death. Aided …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMAs an avid collector of art, antiques, and memorabilia, with a PhD in Art History, I have spent a lot of time around objects, studying, explaining, and appreciating them. And I’ve always k…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01PMNow in its American premiere after performing in London and Edinburgh, Love for Sale takes us to Paris, 1934, for a “cabaret-play” woven around the music of Kurt Weill and contemporary s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMWell-known to audiences for his offbeat 1972 novelty song “Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)” and his appearances as the singing guitar-playing Captain Calvin Spalding on the popula…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PM“How could people be so bad that make me feel so good?” That is the rhetorical question posed by white DJ Huey Calhoun, a 9th-grade dropout with an eccentric style, a profound passion fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMIt’s back to the ‘80s at Hammonton’s Eagle Theatre, for an absolutely hilarious revisiting of the decade of big hair, tacky fashions, and bad-ass music–or just bad, if you’re n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42AMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker is unsurpassed in her modern-day observations on the human condition and how we respond to it: the afflictions that impact us; the troubled rela…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMWhacked-out psycho-killer or falsely-accused innocent? We’ll never know the truth about Lizzie Borden, but 11th Hour Theatre Company’s production of the rock musical Lizzie, by Steven Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMFor Allens Lane Theater’s production of And Then There Were None, director Josh Hitchens not only presents the mystery, but also heightens the mood and highlights the message inherent in A…
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