Sunday, 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 12:37AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Eileen Ivers returned to the Barns at Wolf Trap for a rollicking good show filled with her unique brand of Celtic fiddle and traditional roots music like bluegrass, Cajun, French Canadian, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSunday, March 15, 2015
The In Series takes Mozart to a 1920s bible belt Revival in a creative and fun reimagining of Don Giovanni. Artistic Director Carla Hübner commissioned a new English language libretto by Ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:18PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Altan played a high-energy show of jigs and reels and American bluegrass at the Barns at Wolf Trap. They may have also invented a new genre of music called “Greengrass.” For their latest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:53PMSunday, March 8, 2015
The Washington National Opera takes to the seas for Richard Wagner’s first major work, The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer). WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello has staged…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Altan played a high-energy show of jigs and reels and American bluegrass at the Barns at Wolf Trap. They may have also invented a new genre of music called “Greengrass.” For their latest…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:51AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Kensington Arts Theatre mounts a fun, funny, and intense production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This one-act musical premiered on Broadway in 2005 with book by Rachel She…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
The Mage Knights of the Eternal Light is a smart, funny play by M.F.A. playwriting candidate Amanda Zeitler. This is her senior thesis project in Catholic University’s Department of Dram…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04AMSaturday, January 24, 2015
The world premier for the Washington National Opera’s newest American Opera Initiative takes a new look at the power of music in the touching, engrossing drama Penny, which follows an auti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
What I Wanted to Sing When I Grew Up is pure indulgence for audience and singer Fleta Hylton, a soprano powerhouse and DC institution. Billed as a lounge-opera-cabaret, Hylton basically pick…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59AMMonday, December 15, 2014
The Kennedy Center Hall is decked in evergreen, but The Washington Chorus brings the candles as they file into to the solemn song of “Once in Royal David’s City” to begin A Candlelight…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:32AMSunday, December 7, 2014
The Washington Revels takes to the sea for their 2014 production and explores the music, dance, and stories of Irish immigrants. It is a rollicking good time and a poignant exploration at t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AMSaturday, December 6, 2014
The Little Theatre of Alexandria sticks close to Charles Dickens’ classic text in their charming production of this holiday favorite filled with opulent costumes, cute children, and re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PMMonday, December 1, 2014
‘Tis the season, literally, at the Music Center at Strathmore where George Winston played his “Winter Concert” in a masterful performance of beautiful songs dedicated to fall, wint…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
Catholic University’s new opera production Susannah more than does justice to this American classic with a world premier of a new chamber version of the music by CUA alum Brian Rice. He ad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMMonday, November 3, 2014
How We Got On, a brilliant new play from Forum Theatre by playwright Idris Goodwin, tells the story of three kids in 1988 who fall in love with rap and hip hop and set out to make a record t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMSunday, November 2, 2014
Young love is in the air, lifted there by a host of young performers in the Washington National Opera’s new production of La bohème. Most of the cast and crew are making their WNO debut. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Have you ever seen a show and heard something you know you’ve heard before and thought, “That’s from an opera?” So it was with La Vida Breve, the In Series charming production of thi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s favorite musical and Catholic University returns it to its glory days with a full orchestra, a big cast, and talented stars. It’s one of the reason…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMSunday, September 28, 2014
A relatively new opera company UrbanArias stages the touching, beautiful opera Three Decembers by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer based on a play by Terrence McNally. Robert Wood founded UrbanAr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMMonday, September 15, 2014
After a two-year incubation period, local company dog & pony dc brings their new devised theater piece Toast to the stage. It is billed as an exploration of innovation and scientific dis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMThursday, September 11, 2014
The In Series continues the launch of the 2014-2015 season with the hilarious Fatal Song: The Great Opera Murders. Kathleen Cahill wrote a comic English language libretto and stitched togeth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMSaturday, August 23, 2014
Lyle Lovett returned to Wolf Trap with his Large Band for a night of classic hits, crazy improvisation, and sheer fun for a perfect summer night. He repeatedly thanked the packed house for t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMSunday, July 20, 2014
Wildwood Summer Theatre conquers Sondheim for their 49th annual summer season with Into the Woods. Wildwood is a youth-run summer theatre; everyone from the chair of the board to the set de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08AMSaturday, July 19, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) This is a review of the July 18, 2014 performance. DC Institution, The Capital City Showcase will make five stops at Fringe this year, all organized and emceed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMThe Quattro Gatti Theatre Company is down from Brooklyn for DC Fringe this year. Andy Hopper writes, directs and stars in DATELINE: Macbeth, a fast-paced, funny, genre-defying reimagining of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMMonday, July 14, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Longtime DC theater company GuillotiNe Theatre mounts a new play by Monique LaForce that is a crazy mash-up between Egyptian gods, the fathers of psychology, and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17AMSunday, July 13, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Letters To Me and From Me is an extraordinary hour of spoken word, story telling, singing, and dancing from the Wild Women Theatre company. The piece explores s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) Did you know Bethesda means House of Mercy? In Jennie Berman Eng’s new play , the city may be anything but merciful. She also directs and produces this tig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58AMNot Every Card is a 50′s style caper in an occupied country which may or may not exist when the underground resistance conceives to win a card game and thus the war. It was written an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
Eddy Roger Parker both wrote and produced About A Girl, his debut play. The byline is “Drugs, Sex, and Texas.” It takes place in 80’s and is indeed a drama about a girl, her …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PM 
