Thursday, July 13, 2017
There are surprisingly few one-actor musicals. Even rarer: solo musicals where the protagonist juggles razor-sharp daggers. Make your one-actor, dagger-juggling musical about a lesbian circu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
A choose-your-own-adventure review – pick one of the following: a) I have little or no idea what the Burning Man festival is; b) I know about Burning Man, but have never been; c) I am a Bu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMMia Amado, producer and director of Echoes, brings this piece about love and mental illness to the Eastman Theatre at Gallaudet. Echoes is by no means an easy play, in terms of execution…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMThis show is a comedy inspired by a tragedy, Greek playwright Euripides’ The Bacchae. In case it has been a while since you last refreshed your memory on the theatrical offerings of Greec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07AMSatire is a noble pursuit, but it can also be used as an excuse. Regardless of what a would-be satirist puts onstage, if you dislike it, he can say that your negative reaction is the point. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:46AMIf you’ve ever picked up a roommate from an online ad, you know that living with strangers can be, well, strange. In a world premiere from outer space-oriented Nu Puppis collective, that s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Though her name is no longer on the lips of an adoring public, during the height of silent film and then early talkies, Clara Bow was The It Girl, the very personification of the carefree fl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMNot the first, not the second, but the third Joe Charnitski is here from New York to share his story of three lives, two eulogies, and getting out of a small town. Witty, humble, and invitin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Penny Sterling has seen a lot of hardship: abuse, addiction, assault, and fifty years spent trying to live as a man. Her perspective as a trans woman, a mother, and an alcoholic all build in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMAn hour of music—wonderfully moody ballads, bluesy numbers, and almost twangy folk songs—is always an hour well spent. Even if that music largely focuses on supernatural themes. Monsters…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMAt this point, there’s an entire genre of books, TV shows, and films about bad bosses and the bizarre vagaries of corporate workplaces. One of the perhaps lesser-known but extremely effect…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMKukui Kikuyu Productions’ Passing – A Stage Play is a fascinating psychological character study in which secrets revealed inevitably lead to a shockingly tragic end which deserves a lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40AMWhat is truth? It’s a big question to explore in 50 minutes, but Agora Dance’s The Kind of Thing That Would Happen attempts to do exactly that. The result is a beautifully executed, i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59AMAsk yourself: how much do you need to know about the inner workings of local government in Flemington, New Jersey? If the answer is “I’d rather know about Flemington, NJ than what’s go…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55AMHow far are we willing to go to seek happiness? That’s the intriguing premise of Jona Tarlin’s Lost Teeth, a world premiere production from New York City’s Blowout Theatre Company w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35AMSunday, July 9, 2017
By Debra Cope The timeless story of kind and courageous young heroine Sara Crewe comes to life on an Alexandria stage in A Little Princess, a new adaptation of the classic Frances Hodgson Bu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMBy Guest Author Robin Lynch Now playing at the Kentland’s Arts Barn, Dial ‘M’ For Murder by the Sandy Spring Theatre Group has a lot to offer those who enjoy a mystery-thriller. First …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:56PMThe tagline for Larry E. Blossom’s latest Capital Fringe offering, Just Like A Woman, is “Will Trans Trump Fear in These Troubled Times?” Unfortunately, neither the issues of transpho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMWatching a great sex comedy provides some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Watching a bad sex comedy is painfully awkward and embarrassing. The creative team behind Mr. Ta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMMagical realism meets morality play with a dash of sideshow in The Dream Dancer, an entrancing journey through time at this year’s Fringe. If magic, hypnosis, and feminism tickle your fan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMAn autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinberg�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AMFrom the clear and driving melody of Shakespeare’s action-packed hit, MacBheatha pulls out jazzy tangents to the point of what is for some cacophony and others ecstasy. As all good art h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AM8 Bit Circus Sh*t’s two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but vary greatly in excitement and accessibility. Act I …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AMAh, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers in this funny new piece by Emma Choi, herself a senio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:22AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII’s many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMAbortion Road Trip tells the story of three women in a cab headed to New Mexico from Texas for an abortion. In this reviewer’s experience, shows covering the oh-so-taboo topic tend to be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMIt’s winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don’t expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham’s sequence of four monologues from…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33PMThis show is Art with a capital “A”. It is awe-inspiring. It is life-changing. As the actors inform us in the prologue, it may, in fact, be “the most important piece of theatre you wil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PMNevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flickerin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMThere are certain topics that one avoids on first dates. Like race, politics, religion, Moby Dick, your ex. Mixed Blessings is the story of how these topics can make a first date go specta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AM 
