Friday, July 7, 2017
There 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 11:23AMI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17AMThursday, July 6, 2017
Between Hebrew classes and surviving middle school, best friends Jared “J-Swizzle” and Daniel “D-Man” dream of becoming the biggest rap stars in the universe. It will take a magica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMSunday, July 2, 2017
AnyStage Theater presents I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is! After premiering their sci-fi comedy Amelia Earhart In Space at last year’s Capital Fringe Festival, AnyStage is thrilled to brin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, July 1, 2017
NTC goes viral. What happens next will Blow. Your. Mind. We’re baa-aack! Naked Theatre Company returns to the Capital Fringe Festival with a world premiere production, ClickB@it. Insp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13PMFriday, June 30, 2017
First of all, I don’t remember where I was on November 22, 1963 at 12:40 pm, CST when CBS News interrupted, As the World Turns to announce “In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMChoreographed by Olivia Sabee with original sound design by DeLesslin George-Warren. Performed by Hannah Joo, Melissa Lineburg, Catherine Roth, Robert Rubama, and Meredith Stapleton. In a po…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMThursday, June 29, 2017
A young man and woman build a low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PMA teacher and a student argue over a remark in class. Or was it a remark about class? Or was it really about race? Or gender? My new play Paper brings the explosive confrontations on cam…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PM“I sell life, secondhand”: Unstrung Harpist Productions’ Lazarus at the 2017 Capital Fringe Festival What does immortality mean to you? Is it the hope that modern medicine will disco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Mr. Taken — it’s a sex comedy with an emotional heart. The sex comedies of late 20th century – such as Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw or Foote and Marriott’s No Sex Please, W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMListen, I can’t even get my dog to stay down. Do I look to you like someone who could overthrow the government?—During an FBI interrogation at her apartment in 1952. Claudia Baumgart…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PMLast Ditch Playlist is about two men, Aaron and Wes. They’re probably just broken up. So we flash backwards and forwards in a whirlwind of Aaron’s memories to figure out exactly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Unless you’re an heiress or robber baron, a room of one’s own in DC is hard to come by. Enter the group house scene – where the young, cash-strapped, and slightly desperate commit to l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMTheater Alliance announces its 15th Season with an impressive lineup, including the return of its Helen Hayes Award–winning production Word Becomes Flesh, presented with two regional pre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AMMonday, June 26, 2017
The night I went to see the opera Les Mamelles de Tiresias, I was not expecting to hear a duet about bacon. I’d gone to the dress rehearsal of the Wolf Trap Opera Company’s production kn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PMSunday, June 25, 2017
Imagine you are lost and alone in the forest. You have never been here before and you cannot see to find your way out. You don’t know if anyone knows you are missing or if they will be abl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PMExit Carolyn “Best Friends Forever?” Written by Jennie Eng Directed by Bridget Grace Sheaff Featuring Alison Donnelly, Hilary Kelly, Jasmine Jones, and Torin Lusebrink. About Exi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PMHave you ever wanted to be inside a video game? Now is your chance. 8 Bit Circus S*it will bring video games to life through two games of fire and circus art. In Game I, our cast will use a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
It was 2012 when King’s Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the Marqui…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMFriday, June 23, 2017
What is it like for a young Israeli soldier to have to enforce the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza? What is life like for Palestinians living under that occupation, subject to martial l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMWhen the National Orchestral Institute and Festival (NOI+F) began in 1987, its first director appealed to student musicians across the country by telling them that “participants will have …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
The Board of Directors of Baltimore Center Stage and Kwame Kwei-Armah have jointly announced that Kwei-Armah will leave his position as artistic director at the end of his contract on June 3…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Thunderous Productions’ Murder on the Nile is not your parents’ or grandparents’ version of Agatha Christie. Opening Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Greenbelt Arts Center …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17AMFriday, June 16, 2017
In response to continued demand for tickets, Single Carrot Theatre will be extending the sold-out Promenade: Baltimore for three performances. The production, which is already the highest-gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AMSunday, June 11, 2017
Review submitted by Julian Perez-Garcia of Montgomery Blair High School. It’s the classic tale everyone knows by heart: a beautiful girl, ridiculed and mistreated by her own stepmoth…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:22PMReview submitted by Lina Snyder-Romero of South Lakes High School. When a Dominican shop owner living in New York has a chance to leave his hood and go back to his island, he hesitates to …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:07PMThursday, June 8, 2017
It was an informal gathering. Barefoot. Casual attire. Just a handful of women standing in a semi-circle, reciting words from a page. They were from a variety of South and Central American c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PMThe two media companies combine writing strength to review 70 openings in 6 days Washington, DC, June 9, 2017—The editors and publishers of DC’s two major theater websites—DC Theatre S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMSunday, June 4, 2017
SeeNoSun OnStage will open a four-week run of Doubt: A Parable, John Patrick Shanley’s controversial Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama. The play examines the Catholic Church a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMSaturday, June 3, 2017
Man’s desire to know the ways of the jungle and its creatures has been captured in Encore Stage & Studio’s adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The story of Mowgli’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39PM 
