Sunday, July 22, 2018
By 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 10:07PMBy Shawn Reilly Simmons “I don’t want to sit in front. I don’t want to get picked on,” a woman said to me nervously as we chose our seats, about to experience Unscripted, a two-man i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMBy Rebecca Kurtz If there is one thing to be said for Meet the Glory Wholes, it’s that the creatively minded Joey Maranto has contagious confidence. Sixty minutes alone onstage is no small…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
By Bill Kamberger Ironically enough for a story that is propelled by sibling rivalry and longing for a better life, the stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid has always been a bit of a negl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38PMFriday, July 20, 2018
By Caroline Bock What’s worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are “peddled out,” i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds and doing sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMBy Garinè Isassi Through the Wall is a dance story that sprang from an art experiment put together by Source Festival called the Artistic Blind Date Program. Artists from different discipli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMBy Bill Kamberger Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in a theater seems only natural. There’s a reason, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AMThursday, July 19, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza A woman (IO Browne) climbs out of bed, her lover still fast asleep, unmoved. She lays out on the floor, limber and sensual as she dances like a flower budding through a cr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PMBy Ellie Milewski Four intelligent and gifted female playwrights/directors, three bold female actors and their marvelous male partner in crime, and a wonderful crew, walk into Arena Stage to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMBy Ellie Milewski Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Parkland. These are only a few names from a list of mass shooting in the United States. A list that is painfully and heartbreakingly l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMThe Ferberizing of Coral by Patrick Flynn which debuted at the DC Source Festival in 2016 has been selected from 850 submissions to be a finalist in the Samuel French 43rd Annual Off Off Bro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PM“Quick! We need a word. Any word,” says Travis Charles Ploeger, director and accompanist for iMusical, an improv ensemble out of Washington Improv Theater. He’s standing in a black box…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
By Bill Kamberger Full disclosure: I love The Mikado. I sang in the chorus of the Young Victorian Theatre Company’s 1979 production, a publicity photo from which is being used to advertise…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
by Isabel Echavarria Black Confederates by James F. Bruns and directed by David Allen Schmidt depicts a conversation between Jefferson Davis, played by Larry Levinson, and his wife Varina Da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMMonday, July 16, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza Watching Lindsey Griffith’s one-woman performance Horse People, I can’t help but feel as if I’ve stumbled into a dream. Papier-mâché horse heads, large overhead pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16PMBy Becca Kurtz The pair of plays that make up Paul Handy’s “Hawaii Nei” fit together nicely in a 90-minute, fact-packed commentary on the state – both past and present – of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMBy Christina Kovac On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12PMBy Beatrice Loayza Titus Andronicus is the little-known Shakespeare tragedy most reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. Bloody murder, sex, and violence galore, Andronicus is historically …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AMBy Beatrice Loayza First staged in 1971, The House of Blue Leaves is a descendant of the kitchen sink dramas and average joe tragedies that marked the American and British theater scenes in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AMBy Bill Kamberger Conceived and choreographed by Kristen Brooks Sandler for Harlot Productions, Gilded depicts “a steampunk monarchy in decline,” including two illicit love affai…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AMSunday, July 15, 2018
By Garine Isassi Musical Therapy is a musical comedy for adults by two talents out of Chicago: Joey Katsiroubas (music and lyrics) and Dan Hass (book). The basic storyline of this romantic f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMBy Isabel Echavarria Dive into the world of legendary characters of fairy tales, literature, and history at On the Eve by Amy Frey. This show explores the confusion and desperation that icon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
by Isabel Echavarria Holon!, created and performed by Claire Alrich, Sarah Greenbaum, Sadie Laigh, and Meg Lowey, engages the audience in a dance and music-based performance. Rather than con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMFriday, July 13, 2018
By Ellie Milewski What takes more courage than getting up on a stage by yourself and doing a one-man show? How about getting up on stage and doing an unscripted one-man show about the detail…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMResearched, interviewed, and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee CATF: Why can’t you have your cake and eat it, too? Bekah Brunstetter: In terms of the play, does that phrase mean t…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:42PMResearched, interviewed, and edited by Sharon J. Anderson, CATF Trustee CATF: You first heard the song, Berta, Berta, while watching a production of August Wilson’s, The Piano Lesson. You …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:39PMRiverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to be celebrating 20 years of bringing the best of Broadway in Virginia with the legendary and iconic Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41AMThursday, July 12, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza “So, what are we seeing again?” my friend asks me at dinner prior to the show. Pause. I scrape the corners of my mind for a suitable answer, but the reality is–…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMby Allison Considine Ready for your next summer adventure or weekend getaway? Each July, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, presents new plays in the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMWednesday, July 11, 2018
by Emily Canavan Opinion Since the 2016 election, I am sure you have noticed the term Fascist is being dusted off and nervously applied to our current president. I have banged my head agains…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMMonday, July 9, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza Directed by Patrick Pearson and written by Matthew Capodicasa, The City Of . . . is an ambitious work self-described as inspired by the metaphysical wrestlings of Jorge Lu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PM 
