Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Happy Theater, a theatrical group using object puppetry and physical theatre to heal, unite and inspire, and sorrows&songs, peddling poetry and wonder by way of the stage, will bring the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMApplications are now open for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival! See below for application details. OPTION 1: FRINGE RUN VENUE Participation in the Fringe Festival is an opportunity for you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
By Danny Romeo MetroStage is getting the band back together. Rooms: A Rock Romance celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its premiere this year, in the very theatre where the production had…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
When asked to picture a lute, the average 21st-century music fan might envision an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, depicting someone in tights, maybe some sort of tunic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMSunday, October 14, 2018
By Julie Janson Peace Mountain Theatre Company’s production of Barbara Lebow’s A Shayna Maidel is a piercing, unabashed look at life before and after the Holocaust through the eyes of tw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMFriday, October 12, 2018
By Jen Lofquist Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is almost a master class in restrained theatre. His words, like the Nordic landscape, are stark and carved. Ibsen will tolerate no over-acti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Washington, DC: The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented six awards Monday night at Signature Theatre, October 8. The award was presented to actors Will Garts…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMMonday, October 8, 2018
By Andy Arnold You know you’ll have a bad day at work when the guests at the Hangtown Asylum for Extremely Tense People lock up the staff and take over the business. As it happens, the asy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Adventure Theatre MTC (ATMTC) announces its grand reopening on October 15th in Glen Echo Park after seven months of renovations due to an electrical fire. Executives from Adventure Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
An Alfred Hitchcock-style mystery play unfolds at the Knights of Columbus performance on Friday, October 5, 2018, at 7 p.m. in the St. Leo the Great School Gym. The play is the second origin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMFriday, September 14, 2018
By Brandon Block We’re in a long, dark, monastic chamber. A white marble bust of Putin sits against dark red drop-banners that are just barely not swastikas, instead featuring a black outl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50AMMonday, September 10, 2018
By Cybele Pomeroy “My name is Luther and I’m going to sing every song I know. Come on, y’all, let’s have a party.” — Tamba Giles as Luther Vandross in Luther. It’s a small,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PMThursday, September 6, 2018
After a dramatic auditioning process that lasted the entirety of their 40th season, Washington Bach Consort has selected their new Artistic Director. The premiere Baroque chorus and orchestr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMSunday, September 2, 2018
The final days of summer are here. And you know what that means? It’s time to score some awesome deals during Theatre Week. For the third year, we’re bringing you exclusive prices to som…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17AMThursday, August 30, 2018
The Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Page to Stage Festival offers theatergoers the chance to view and give feedback on works of theater. The free performances feature work by over 60 loca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
The Washington, DC-area premiere of Athol Fugard’s most recent play The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek opens this weekend at MetroStage and will run through September 30. First preview on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PMTheater Alliance launches Season 16 with the Word Becomes Action Festival: Flipping the Script. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural festival, this second annual festival e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, died last night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 91 years ol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMWednesday, August 22, 2018
Rep Stage is pleased to announce that the third annual conference dedicated to women working in the theatre will be held in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PMTuesday, August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC – August 14 – theatreWashington today announced plans for Theatre Week 2018, a three-week celebration that will offer $15 and $35 tickets to over 20 productions, a free…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
By Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical about Alexander Hamilton, “the forgotten founding father,” has become a turning…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod’s Roméo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMTuesday, July 31, 2018
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière newly adapted for now, plus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMMonday, July 30, 2018
By Bill Kamberger King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare’s play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular works; indeed, it hasn’t been performed …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PMFriday, July 27, 2018
From The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts: The Theatre Lab has lost a wonderful friend and an integral member of our family. We mourn the passing of George Grant, who over the past te…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:53PMBy Leandra Lynn Step right up! Feast your eyes on PWLT’s current production, Barnum! The fun started even before I walked into the Hylton Performing Arts Center, with clowns waving at me f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
By Bill Kamberger On September 30, 1975, twenty years to the day after the car crash that took the life of movie legend James Dean, six of his female fans gather at a convenience store in a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19PMMonday, July 23, 2018
by Jill Kyle-Keith Two unconventional beauties take us on a wild ride through sex, politics, and the politics of sex. As the title implies, Chlamydia dell’Arte is a sort-of burlesque, with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMBy Becca Kurtz Raina Greifer’s new play, Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It, produced by Purple Crayon Productions, is a tale of abandonment, friendship, and the teenage mind. It’s fitt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMSunday, July 22, 2018
By Hannah Sternberg Riot Brrrain is a punk-fueled, nonlinear tour through the life of Teddy as they revisit their past relationships after being diagnosed with neurosyphilis. Teddy is bisexu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21PMBy Shawn Reilly Simmons Hold The Tomato is a comedy variety show featuring sketches, songs, and improv, written by Nancy Safavi and David Stauffer, and composed by Wesley Fox. We’re introd…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PM 
