Friday, June 24, 2016
Some members of the company weren’t even born when lines of dancers with arms at their sides first performed at a Eurovision competition in 1994. I’d say the rest was history but I don�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PMSunday, June 19, 2016
The In Series ends their season with Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, a surprisingly modern tale of faith – particularly between husband and wife. This is their biggest production ever a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMSunday, June 5, 2016
The Ireland 100 closes this weekend with new Irish sensation Ireland 100: The Gloaming who made their Kennedy Center debut with a lovely mix of traditional music, improvisation, and new clas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:38PMFriday, May 20, 2016
All That Fall is quite the most quite unique, powerful, and delightful experiences I’ve had at the theatre. Director Gavin Quinn, the Co-Artistic Director of Pan Pan Theatre, brings this…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMFriday, April 22, 2016
On Queen Elizabeth’s birthday, CUADrama opens one of the most iconic English-language stories in the canon, Pride and Prejudice. Darcy and Elizabeth get a brand new Pop Art twist in this r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38AMSunday, March 20, 2016
Lucy Bowen McCauley celebrates 20 years as a choreographer and artistic director of her own company, with Twenty Years with Love, Bowen McCauley Dance, an evening of three pieces including o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
The In Series wows again with one of their trademark reimaginings: Carmen in Havana, which takes the essential scenes from Bizet’s classic and adds the Latin rhythms of the Caribbean with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Bastian & Bastiana is the In Series’ answer to the usual annual holiday traditions — a charming, little opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written when he was only 12 years-old.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55AMThursday, December 3, 2015
The fourth annual American Opera Initiative launched this month to sold out performances of three new works. It was a heartening look at the future of the art form – from the librettists a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50PMMonday, November 30, 2015
The In Series brings to life some of the funnest and iconic music of the 20th century by George Gershwin with most song lyrics by his brother Ira. They started out on Broadway before making…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has some fun as they tackle Vivaldi as part of their Off the Cuff series. The series includes a smaller gathering of strings, about 35 in all, and an informa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMSaturday, October 24, 2015
It was an evening of American classics – from the pops program the National Symphony Orchestra played under the sure baton of Steve Reineke to the guest of honor himself, Steve Martin, win…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21AMSunday, October 18, 2015
In their Americas season, the In Series tackles the quintessentially American composer Aaron Copland and his only and almost entirely unknown opera The Tender Land. Horace Everett wrote the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
St. Mark’s Players mount a hilarious production of the farce Moon Over Buffalo by local playwright Ken Ludwig. This play marked Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway in the ‘90s, and it i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Princess Margaret, a world premiere by Thelma Theatre, is an intriguing new play about a Catholic school and the universal power struggle between student and teacher, teacher and administrat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMSunday, September 20, 2015
The Washington National Opera launches their 60th season with a visually gorgeous and vocally stunning Carmen. Clémentine Margaine takes on the role of the gypsy seductress – a role that…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMThe In Series “Made in America” season launches in Latin and South America with a special cabaret of the works Latina songwriters as a part of the DC Women’s Voices Festiva…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Iconic rocker Melissa Etheridge has been tearing up the country showcasing her new album and old favorites on her This is M.E. tour. For this leg of the tour, she ventures out solo – j…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Genre-bending artist Lyle Lovett tore up the stage at the Filene Center with his Large Band. It feels like three bands in one – a country band heavy on guitar and fiddle, a blues band with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMSunday, July 26, 2015
The Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) has launched In the Heights, as part of their ‘Director’s Dream Season.’ Frank D. Shutts II has wanted to put this 2008 ony Award-winning…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06PMThursday, July 23, 2015
DancEthos is not your average dance company – filled with identical stick thin dancers sashaying in unison behind a soloist. Company founder and director Tiffany Haughn has a gift for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46PMSunday, July 19, 2015
The music is pulsing; the performers are insanely flexible, and everything from set to costumes to lights is drenched in the fantastical for Synetic’s latest Shakespeare A Midsummer Night�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Ripple of Hope is Karen Sklaire’s contribution to the teacher as hero genre – which can never have too many entries. This one-woman show is funnier and a lot more honest than some of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51PMBortle 8, a one-man show written and performed by Chris Davis is part stand-up routine, part science fair project, part sermon. The title refers to John Bortle’s scale for the number of st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29PMSunday, June 21, 2015
The four women from Ireland who make up Celtic Woman, along with backup singers, dancers, and musicians returned to Wolf Trap for a very special performance, not least because it’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:51PMSunday, June 7, 2015
Playing what has perhaps become the four most famous chords in the western canon, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra tackled Beethoven’s 5th last night at Strathmore, along with Shostakovich…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMSaturday, June 6, 2015
The In Series takes on the music of our Southern neighbors in a concert full of classic hits from Mexico and Cuba, many of which made a climb up the U.S. pop charts. If the tunes feel partic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Faction of Fools does it again with an innovative production of Thornton Wilder’s revolutionary and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, which originally debuted in 1938 about a New Hamps…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMSaturday, May 23, 2015
The Filene Center launched the summer season at Wolf Trap with another visit by Garrison Keillor and the news from . The United States Navy Band joined Keillor and the usual suspects onstage…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMSunday, May 10, 2015
Every spring, the Washington National Opera launches a family friendly show in time for their M&M’S® Opera in the Outfield, and this year they tackle Rossini’s wickedly funny Ci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMSunday, April 19, 2015
The In Series self-described salon-style concert tribute is a celebration of musical mastery – from the two composers featured to the pianists and singers – The Romantics Wagner & Li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37AM 
