Saturday, May 4, 2013
Jimmie Walker, well known for his claim to be “Dyn-o-mite” moderated the 26th Annual Evening of Comedy at The Barns of Wolf Trap on Friday night. He is most famous for TV series…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMMonday, April 29, 2013
The Acting Company presented a powerful and heartbreaking production of John Steinbeck’s 1937 play Of Mice and Men at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on Sunday, Ap…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
John Guare’s award-winning Six Degrees of Separation was a tremendously successful Broadway play, eventually made into a movie, which played out the notion that all people are connect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMMonday, March 11, 2013
Gretchen Parlato, winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, has toured internationally with her own band and as a guest of many world-renowned artists; nota…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award-winning Carousel is one of the most celebrated and longest running musicals in history. The production by Act Two@Levine was a good choice, providi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31PMSunday, February 24, 2013
Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio brought audiences at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts a fast-paced adaptation of Jules Verne’s masterpiece Around the World…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:57PMMonday, January 21, 2013
Saturday night at The Music Center at Strathmore, Brian Ganz continued his quest to play, and to record, “every single note Chopin composed.” The Ganz Project, of which this is t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:20PMFriday, January 18, 2013
The Nomadic Theater’s production of The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesca is a very funny play and a wonderful production. Lorrie Damerau’s surrealistic set consists of a frieze of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMMonday, January 7, 2013
On Sunday, January 6, 2013, The Music Center at Strathmore presented the second of two concerts by the National Philharmonic, conducted by Piotr Gajewski. Featured were violist Victoria Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSunday, December 16, 2012
The KC Jazz Club featured Nnenna Freelon in their cabaret style venue last night. Those of you who attended the Thelonius Monk Competion in September, also at The Kennedy Center, surely r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSunday, December 9, 2012
The Hub Theatre should be the first stop in a long run for How I Paid for College – a ‘monologsical’ written by Marc Acito, based on his award-winning novel of the same na…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05PMSaturday, November 24, 2012
One can never have too much Joie de Vie. Further proof was Luck Be a Lady: Megan Hilty Sings Sinatra and More, featuring Broadway’s Megan Hilty and Aaron Lazar. Megan has starred in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMMonday, November 19, 2012
Friday night, The Barns at Wolf Trap hosted multiple Grammy Award winner, an acknowledged master of the diatonic harmonica. The man is a superb pianist, innovative composer, recording artist…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Nobel Prize-winning playwright Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author opened WSC Avant Bard’s new season. The theatre is located in the Arisphere, in downtown Roslyn &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Violinist Midori celebrated thirty years in music at The Kennedy Center by performing Beethoven Sonatas and works by Webern and Crumb. She was expertly accompanied by pianist Özgür Aydin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMMonday, October 29, 2012
McLean Community Players’ production of A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer is beautifully directed by Adriana Hardy, and is a showpiece for young actors whose ability to inhab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMFriday, October 12, 2012
‘War and Peace’ and it’s many manifestations has proven a fertile subject for film and theater. Far Away, a dystopian fable written by the famed British playwright Caryl Ch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMFriday, September 28, 2012
Davis & Elkins College presented British pianist Jack Gibbons in a “Gershwin Gala” concert in honor of the composer’s 114th birthday. The Sept 26, 2012 celebration, at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
The sold out 2012 Thelonius Monk International Drum Competition, sponsored by Cadillac, United Airlines, Northrup Grumman and Centric TV, took place Sunday night at The Kennedy Center. Wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11AMMonday, September 17, 2012
The American Century Theater’s (TACT) entertaining and colorful production of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning and 1959 Tony Award-winning Best Play J.B. by Archibald MacLeish is ̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
On Friday night, I had fun at the Victorian Lyric Opera Company, where I have previously enjoyed several Gilbert and Sullivan performances. VLOC is a ambitious repetoire company specializing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Stone Age Recreation is an operetta developed by The Apron Theatre Company. It is a “physical comedy” by DC-area writer/producer Tyler Budde and director Maria Benson which min…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Madame: Helena Rubinstein in America is a production of the Fourpence Theater. Their mission is to present works that explore the lives of “unique, female American icons.” Accord…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury is a satire of the British legal system. It is a fun little farce, an appertif only 45 minutes long that was their first major hit. Plaintiff brin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PM 
