Friday, April 5, 2013
You don’t watch Miriam by writer, choreographer, and dancer Nora Chipaumire so much as you experience it. This one-hour performance piece that explores light and dark and black and white, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
“Welcome to the spoken world.” Thus begins a one of a kind performance piece piece by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an artist, poet, dancer and activist named by the United States Artists Rockef…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56PMSunday, March 17, 2013
Quotidian Theatre Company heats up the Cold War with Lee Blessing’s classic, A Walk in the Woods. Quotidian’s mission is to present theater about real life with “no-frills acting“…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMSunday, March 10, 2013
Washington National Opera mounts a dazzling production of Bellini’s Norma. American soprano Angela Meade makes her debut with WNO. Norma is the role of a lifetime; the Everest of female op…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
There is a fine group of young actors in the cast of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a surrealistic and sometimes confusing play (I wish there were more production notes to help make…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMThe In Series mounts another fabulous production in their stellar 2012-2013 season, tripping through 30 years of superior opera by composer Kurt Weill in his journey from Berlin to Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Split This Rock is a non-profit organization that teaches and performs spoken word poetry or slam poetry. A huge part of the organization is focused on young people and one of their major of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58PMSunday, February 24, 2013
The Real Thing in Silver Spring Stage’s production of the Tom Stoppard’s play of that name refers to love. It is the love of two long-married couples when one partner of each is stra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMSaturday, February 23, 2013
Catholic University spoofs musicals everywhere in a hilarious production of The Drowsy Chaperone, the show-within-a-show that lovingly satires the best and worst in musical theater and the p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Dan Kohler is in the Ensemble of Flashdance-The Musical, playing at The Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD through this Sunday, February 17th. His previous roles include Jesus in Godspell a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company has a quiet hit with Eugene O’Neill’s one-act Hughie. It is a deceptively simple production about an old guy, Erie Smith (Richard Schiff) who returns to h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37AMSunday, February 10, 2013
The Pirate Laureate of Port Town by one-year-old DC Company Flying V Theatre is flat out hilarious and great fun. I love the DC metro area because companies like this can thrive here and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
For the Taffety Punk Company’s latest production of Twelfth Night, calling it by Shakespeare’s complete title makes the best sense, Twelfth Night or What you Will. You know something new…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMSunday, January 27, 2013
The In Series wishes happy birthday to Mozart with a fresh, modern take on his opera La Clemenza de Tito. This classic story of a conspiracy to take down a leader by a woman scorned is set i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMRockville Little Theatre‘s production of Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein‘s last play Third is layered, powerful, and very funny. It’s set the year we went to war in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01AMSunday, January 13, 2013
Dominion Stage’s Avenue Q is hilarious and touching. The musical debuted Off- Broadway in 2003 and the story of a young English major drifting through his first year out of college is ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMMonday, December 17, 2012
The Moscow Ballet delivers a sweet production of this holiday classic for their 20th anniversary tour. They work with over 3,600 children around the U.S. to fill many of the roles of the bal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSunday, December 16, 2012
The Keegan Theatre’s An Irish Carol is destined to become one of the not-to-be missed DC holiday institutions that everyone sees whenever Keegan deigns to put it on. This production, the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMMonday, December 10, 2012
For The Washington Revels 30th anniversary Christmas Revels, the company pulls out all the stops, tripping through the centuries in England from medieval times to the 1920s as they bring …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, December 8, 2012
An impressive gathering of American tap convened at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater for JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance. The Chicago Rhythm Project collected twelve per…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32PMSunday, December 2, 2012
Faction of Fools Theatre Company combines Charles Dickens and Commedia Dell’Arte this Christmas for an inspired production of A Commedia Christmas Carol. The larger than life fable with it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
Eileen Ivers brought down the Barns at Wolf Trap in an evening of blazing fiddles and holiday classics with her fantastic band Immortal Soul. Eileen Ivers is a fiddle player from the Bronx,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PMSunday, November 25, 2012
Six tap dancers brought the house down at The Music Center at Strathmore in a spectacular performance of the Aussie sensation Tap Dogs. It is a surround sound and sight experience as six da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19AMSunday, November 18, 2012
Quotidian Theatre Company’s powerful and moving production of James Joyce’s The Dead is their first musical, or, as Director and company co-founder Jack Sbarbori puts it, a “play w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44AMSunday, November 11, 2012
The In Series mounts a lovely and powerful production of two operas to open their thirtieth consecutive season. Producing Artistic Director Carla Hübner, who founded the Series in 1982 has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMSaturday, November 10, 2012
In the Red and Brown Water is a stunning piece of theater by the School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland at the state of the art Clarice Smith Perf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:36AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Catholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music mounts a fabulous production of Finian’s Rainbow for its fall musical, with additional actors from Howard University and Duke E…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMSaturday, October 20, 2012
Ambassador Theater takes on trespassers and unexpected visitors with two madcap one-acts by Egyptian playwright Alfred Farag. The first, The Visitor, tells the story of an actress and the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01PMFriday, October 19, 2012
American University’s Department of Performing Arts puts on a slick, fast, and fun production of Guys and Dolls to kick off their 2012-2013 season. Karl Kippola is both the director an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
If you find yourself taking this election season as little too seriously, are sick of self-important talking heads on TV, or if you want a few good-natured laughs, POTUS Among Us by the W…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMMonday, October 1, 2012
Vpstart Crow Productions puts the laughs in black comedy, opening their 2012 season with Arsenic and Old Lace. You know you shouldn’t be laughing at people murdering each other – b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22PM 
