Monday, July 22, 2013
With 100 million records sold by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons (worldwide since its inception), this is the first time I was able to appreciate their music in-person. In 2009, I was in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
As Dance of the Wasp and Spider opens, there is a five-minute monologue by the leading actor Tyler Brody who provides a more in-depth analysis as to the play's title. As the wasp dominat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PM[SHARE]As Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to NIBROC opens, it is December 28, 1940 and you hear the sound of train whistles and May (Lena Winter) is sitting on one of two chairs stage right.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:57AM[SHARE]Although Encyclopedia has played throughout the DC area, tonight is my first exposure to the Washington's ABCs of theatrical education. Each show is a vaudevillian extravaganza and focuses o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2013
History 101 is a great place to begin to understand the ramifications of a Perfect Arrangement, which opens in the Spring of 1950.We find ourselves at the play's outset smack in the middl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
"A Fiddler on the Roof, sounds crazy, no?" That quote is the book’s first line of this classic musical which opened on September 22, 1964 on Broadway. One may ask…how could you possi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
You "Open a New Window" at the beautiful and newly renovated historical landmark – Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) in New Hope, PA., and look what happens- a fabulous production of Jer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
Shakespeare's famous quote " "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves" certainly rings true to the Greenspring Players. Within the Greenspring Retirement Community the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2013
I have attended in the past year an American Ballet Theatre Production at The Kennedy Center, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in the Big Apple, a Boshoi Ballet HD Production at a loca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
You didn’t have to take Amtrak to Broadway this past weekend to find "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York."Â All you had to do was to drive out to Vienna,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
The packed Holly Near concert last night  at the Barns at Wolf Trap was a coming home for me. The last time I saw Holly was in the exact same venue about ten years ago. The 90-minute stop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 23, 2013
Back in November 2012, “about 250 student/Signature meetings ago,” playwright Joe Calarco and director and Signature Theatre's Education Department Director Dave Zobell beg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2013
"Joseph he was one of Jacob's favorite sons," are the words of the lead song of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and they were meandering around in my head as I walked up the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
It was a ‘Montgomery County High’ at The Music Center at Strathmore last night as five musicians took to the stage along with John Denver on video shared a heart-rendering evenin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
On December 11th, an article by James Gardiner and his cast of Putting It Together: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim from George Mason University was posted on DCMetroTheaterArts. In it, they t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Last night, Signature Theatre continued the second day of its sixth annual ‘Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret' series with an outstanding solo performance by Will Gartshore (with a surprise).Â�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Last night, Signature Theatre opened its annual ‘Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret’ series with a smashing performance by Matthew and Kristen Scott. This is the first cabaret out of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2012
I was honored to be in the audience last night to catch this last production under the stewardship of Artistic Director Blake Robison. What a way to complete his seven year tenure as Produci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
American Century Theater (ACT) is currently producing a  powerful production of On the Waterfront - about the shenanigans of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31PM[SHARE] 
