Read by strong and compelling casts, the plays explore the intersection of faith with some of humanity’s darkest and most desperate moments.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMLively and brilliant letters between George Bernard Shaw and the original Eliza Doolittle from before there was Zoom.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:49PMWashington Stage Guild continues its run of online performances with a one-act comedy from George Bernard Shaw, whose works they perform so frequently that he’s affectionately known as the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:09AMDear Elizabeth, performed by a two-person cast and streamed online by Vienna Theatre Company, is a feast for fans of 20th-century literature, or even just those interested in stories of frie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMWhen J’Nai Bridges made her triumphant debut in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah Sunday night, it was the fulfillment of a dream. The young mezzo-soprano’s star has been rapid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AMHollywood, 1939. The production of Gone with the Wind — arguably the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade — is in chaos. Producer David O. Selznick (Griffin Voltmann) has just fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMLove is a game—or deadly serious—or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Pride and Prejudice. The game motif is evident early …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMEternal questions are being hotly debated in the back room of the Italian Café in Falls Church, where the Providence Players of Fairfax have once again set up shop for a “pop-up productio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMOne doesn’t generally think of Beauty and the Beast as a dance show first and foremost. But in this lively production by The City of Fairfax Theatre Company and Truro Anglican Church, feat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMHow do you replicate perfection—especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin’ in the Rain, the beloved movie m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMIf you never thought the words “theological comedy” could go together, think again. The Savannah Disputation, playing now at The Little Theater of Alexandria, bills itself as just such a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMIn 2017, the Broadway musical Amazing Grace opened its national tour with a stint at the World Stage Theater at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible. (DC Metro Theatre Arts’ review of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMTom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks had a legendary 42-year Off-Broadway run (and then an 11-year revival), suggesting that there’s something strangely captivating about this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52AMRyan Speedo Green is a man with a story. Many opera fans first learned his name through Daniel Bergner’s 2016 book Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family. The New York Time…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMGiacomo Puccini never met a foreign culture that he didn’t try to set to music. His operas set in Japan (Madama Butterfly) and China (Turandot) are celebrated as masterpieces. Less celebra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMI have a perpetual soft spot for Crazy for You, which was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. What with George and Ira Gershwin songs, Tony-winning choreography by Susan Stroman, and the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMThe story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., was first brought to America’s attention in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. It gained a new lease on life in 2011 with the Broadway mu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40AMWith a wealthy aristocratic family that refuses to acknowledge him, and a money-hungry girlfriend who refuses to marry him, what’s an impoverished young man to do? The unfortunate relative…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36AMProbably no other cast in the D.C. metro area works harder for a laugh, or enjoys it more when it comes, than the cast of A Broadway Christmas Carol, now playing its sixth consecutive season…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25AMFrom its opening number, Arena Stage’s innovative new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! is bursting with excitement and emotion. Director Molly Smith has stripped the classic musical b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43AMPut 1630s Spain and 1920s America into a cocktail shaker, shake well, and you get WSC Avant Bard’s sparkling update of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s 1632 play Friendship Betrayed. Transl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52AMForget everything you learned from the recent PBS miniseries Wolf Hall. Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, currently playing at Herndon’s NextStop Theatre, tells a very different tale …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMIt’s not always easy to figure out what view of life George Bernard Shaw is trying to express in Major Barbara. Though he was a freethinker, he gives us a witty, tolerant, idealistic heroi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AM“Golf is not a game, but a way of life. A religion, if you will,” intones Henry Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club, in Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway, playing now…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AMHaving successfully adapted C. S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters into a two-character play, Max McLean and his group Fellowship for Performing Arts have gone for an even bigger chall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12PMCharles Dickens left his novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished when he died in 1870. Over a hundred years later, Rupert Holmes took advantage of that ambiguity to create a unique music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59PMAward-winning bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent explained onstage at the Hylton Performing Arts Center Saturday night that they usually model themselves after The Statler Brothers (a member…
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