Monday, 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 11:22PMSunday, September 30, 2012
Forum Theatre successfully takes on religion, teenage pregnancy, and Chucky’s slightly milder cousins in Holly Down in Heaven - their new work by Resident Playwright Kara Lee Corthron. Fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:24PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
Zero Cost House is billed as playwright Toshiki Okada’s autobiography but, like Walden, Thoreau’s book that is quoted extensively in the play, this is more of a travelogue through the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08AMFriday, September 28, 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was an extraordinary production with young actors in a partnership between University of Maryland School of Theatre and Dance Performance and the National …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38AMSunday, September 16, 2012
Port City Playhouse steps up with their version of Medea. The Greek tragedy by Euripides starts off their 35th Season with a hit. Port City Playhouse is a community theater based at the Lab …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSaturday, August 25, 2012
The 8 actors in Romeo and Juliet by the National Players, under the direction of Jason King Jones, attack this play like it was written yesterday and no one in the world has seen it before. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMFriday, August 10, 2012
What would you do if the apocalypse arrived tomorrow? Impossible Theater Company answers that question for four characters in their second production [missed connections]. The play is no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
The Play About the Coach tracks the three potentially most important minutes of a man’s life and career. It is also one of the tensest hours of theater I’ve experienced and one of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PMThomas is Titanic could more accurately be called “Stalking Kate Winslet.” Thomas Choinacky wrote and performed this one-man show about his preoccupation with her and her role in Titanic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMBlanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame is something special and unlike most musicals I have seen before. Onalea Gilbertson found a photo album of her Grandmother’s as she mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Burlesque and Belly Laughs provides plenty of both. With a cast of improv actors and burlesque dancers from troupes around DC, the evening alternates between improv sketches and more traditi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMRockville Little Theatre’s production of A Year of Giving is an extraordinary story and it makes for an extraordinary play. Reed Sandridge was laid off in ’09 and decided to give…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18AM Making Love Legal is clearly a labor of love. Sara Schabach, a first-time director, and her cast infused every odd-ball scene with enthusiasm. It is an ambitious and sensitive topic to exp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56AMMonday, July 16, 2012
HeHEE! or “What It’s Not Glee? is a production of The Comedy Academy, Inc., which is a non-profit that teaches middle and high school and college students to write sketch comedy. I know…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMSunday, July 15, 2012
I walked out of Will Rogers’ USA thinking that this guy was the most awesome man on the planet. Everyone should see this play, especially if they have no idea who is. I was intrigued b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PM The Every Fringe Show You Want To See in One Fringe Show Fringe Show is hilarious! I (and most of the audience) was laughing out loud, uncontrollably, every 20 seconds. Why? The show’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMIf you have ever known or happen to be either a 20-something searching for a job in DC or employed in a perpetual entry-level position, In this Economy will be both funny and severely painf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17PMBreaking up with Ed was not written so much as collected by Angela Pitko but from survivors of eating disorders. Five actors – Caroline O’Grady, Rebecca Philips, Anika Harden, Stefanie G…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMHayley Cutler is the choreographer behind this memorable hour of dance called Donna Has a Boyfriend. Her background is in the postmodern style. I was unaware that we have moved on from moder…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Dreams In The Arms of The Binding Lady is a deliciously dark and weird (in a good way!) performance by Izumi Ashizawa and her performers, Izumi production members Nick Horan, Raechel Nolan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:49AMThe Disreputables is a theater company dedicated, as they say, to “giving voice to those people deemed unfit by society.” Lee Mikeska Gardner directs this production about a few …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57AMAmelia Adams, Michael Cavanaugh, and Alex Corby are all well-trained, incredibly gifted performers in the ancient Italian art of Commedia Dell’Arte. They call themselves AlulA, a group…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35AMThe first thing to know about Barter is that it has very little to do with bartering. In 75 fascinating, touching, and amusing minutes, the characters spent roughly 5 minutes bartering. Nor …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Where in the world is Camilla Sanfrancisco? is pure, well-produced fun. Jeff Vonch is both co-writer and producer, with fellow writers Patrick English and J. Adrian Verkourteren. Under the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25AMPericles is not performed very often and local company The Rude Mechanicals from Laurel, MD offers a reason why in this shortened, but, they insist, unedited version of this ShakespeareR…
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