Thursday, August 24, 2017
Luke Frazier, American Pops Orchestra founder and Music Director, kicked off the Orchestra’s third season with a delightful concert featuring acclaimed jazz legend, Marilyn Maye. Maye was …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
The Rainbow Theatre Project premiered a new work, Historias, on Monday night, a show crafted from the experiences of its remarkably talented cast members. Director Tony Koehler led his actor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PMSunday, April 9, 2017
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with being formulaic when the formula mixes crowd-pleasing song selections, fresh and stylish musical arrangements, and knock-out performances. That…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Happiness is a theatrical adaptation that successfully reinvents the original. The In Series’ production of Gabriel Donizetti’s 1843 comic opera Don Pasquale now playing at GALA …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMMonday, January 16, 2017
8-track tape: It’s the only medium of Barbra Streisand recordings that I do not own. LP, cassette, VHS, CD, DVD, mp3, mp4 … I have purchased some of Streisand’s work in two…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Jumpstart your holiday spirit with Naughty & Nice, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s warmhearted, sassy and sexy extravaganza. For traditionalists, there’s Irving Berlin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
I can’t vouch for the truth of the confessions, at Let’s Misbehave! True Confessions of GMCW (The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC), but having each performer bare a bit of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23AMSunday, November 13, 2016
I’ll Be Seeing You is a delightful portrait of the love and sacrifices of a newlywed couple separated by military service during World War II. The letters between Spark and Charley whi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43PMMonday, August 15, 2016
In 2003, Massachusetts fired a shot heard ’round the world when it became the first state to legalize gay marriage. For Mark (Thomas-Robert Irvin), the central character in Andrew Marv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Something joyously funny is happening at Tropicalia Lounge. How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman: A New Musical, produced by Golden Ginger Productions, is a romantic musical comedy with a fresh t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:45PMThursday, July 7, 2016
The Tragedy of Mario and Juliet, presented by Dead Cat Productions/Wayne Nicolosi (as well as written and directed by Nicolosi), reinvents well-known Shakespearean characters and plots to ex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PMFriday, July 1, 2016
The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic, sexy, and unapologetically sentimental musical. Most likely you know The Bridges of Madison County from either Robert James Waller’s 1992 n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:01PMMonday, May 23, 2016
The Merry Death of Robin Hood, written by Paul Resiman, (based on the stories by Howard Pyle), is my first experience of LiveArtDC and it was choice. I hadn’t thought of Robin Hood si…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31PMMonday, May 9, 2016
For 90 minutes last Friday night (May 6, 2016), orchestra founder and Music Director Luke Frazier, Director Nathan Brewer, and Choreographer Kelly d’Amboise transformed Lisner Auditorium i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
It is intriguing to see a work in progress that has real merit. Sandra Kamman’s Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway, a play with music, straddles time and space to metaphysically inter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
American Pops Orchestra presented Stairway to Paradise: A Gershwin Spectacular, starring Christine Ebersole, directed by Nathan Brewer, at George Washington University’s Lisner Audit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMFriday, October 16, 2015
An exuberant troupe of seven players (and some ad-libbing stage hands) fabricated a screwball, madcap adventure of star-crossed lovers and lost fortunes, vagabonds, soldiers, bandits, hired …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46PMSunday, May 31, 2015
Raconteur. A word seldom used nowadays. In the era of Twitter and short attention spans, good luck finding “a person who excels in telling anecdotes.” But flip open the Merriam-W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMSaturday, July 2, 2011
Out on a limb, up on a tightwire, off the high dive — Brian Yorkey (librettist and lyricist) and Tom Kitt (composer) took a bold challenge in constructing a musical around an otherwise…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PMTuesday, November 23, 2010
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the old chestnuts of the holiday season without a doubt, as evidenced by the scads of adaptations whether radio play, film, movie musical…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:48PM 
