Saturday, 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(Best of the Capital Fringe) Jane Franklin Dance is a Virginia based company known for its innovative works and collaborations; Blue Moon/Red River is a prime example of both. Jane Frankli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Brendan O’Connell creates a memoir after the death of his friend. It’s a surprisingly funny show that nevertheless perfectly captures the permanence of grief. As he says at one point, �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:16PMFringe favorite John Krizel is at it again with his new show The Program Assistant, which he wrote, directed, and produced. It is a polished, fast-paced, painfully funny comedy about two re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMSaturday, May 31, 2014
The In Series, one of DC’s local artistic treasures, mounts an earnest and breezy series of cabaret evenings billed as Carousel Latino. The second evening is Cancionero Latino: A Latino R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMFriday, May 30, 2014
The In Series, one of DC’s local artistic treasures, mounts an earnest and breezy series of cabaret evenings billed as Carousel Latino. The first evening, Lady Of Spain is a collection of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSaturday, April 12, 2014
Maryland Opera Studio revels in the ridiculous with Strauss’s oft-performed comic opera Die Fledermaus. Director Nick Olcott exploits its absurdities to the hilt. He also translated the sp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24PMSunday, March 23, 2014
Washington National Opera harvests the laughs with its production of The Elixir of Love (L’elisir D’amore). After a risk-taking season of world premieres and new American works like Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AMSaturday, March 8, 2014
St. Patrick’s Day came early to the Music Center at Strathmore when six singers, five Irish dancers, and two musicians took the stage for international hit Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMSunday, March 2, 2014
Sweet Honey in the Rock returned home for a stop on their 40th anniversary celebration tour they call Forty & Fierce. The four-woman a cappella group started at the D.C. Black Reparatory…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Myth and metaphor collide in the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ production of Spring Awakening. Three directors create layer upon layer of de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AMSunday, February 23, 2014
Board the Pequod for the East coast premier of Moby-Dick, a new, dynamic opera from composer Jackie Heggie and his frequent collaborator, librettist Gene Scheer. Herman Melville’s classi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
Long before Stephen Schwartz wrote about a wicked witch, he took on the Book of Matthew in the controversial and revolutionary musical Godspell. He and co-creator John-Michael Tebelak update…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMSaturday, February 15, 2014
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, always wanted to be a playwright. La Señorita de Tacna, written in 1981, was his first play. His litera…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
The Broadway classic Stomp stops once more in DC for an explosive celebration of sound, dance, comedy and every day household objects with a fine cast of veterans and new performers. Stomp w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Visit outer Mongolia at The Kennedy Center just in time for the Chinese New Year next Friday for the Wedding of Ordos, which is billed as a dance spectacle by the Ordos Song and Dance Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
The In Series travels to France for a weekend of performances of the very special La Vie En Rose, a program of French chansons, or secular, lyrical songs, sung by a cadre of talented, local …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38PMThursday, January 16, 2014
Sunday at the George Mason University Center for the Arts saw talent from across the Atlantic in the form of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by guest conductor and violinist Pinchas Zuk…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
The Capital City Players tackle a contemporary classic with Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain – about family, love, lies, betrayal and what it means to carry a badge. Ultimately this excepti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AMSaturday, December 21, 2013
Hallelujah’s rings through The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall for the National Symphony Orchestra’s annual Messiah, written by George Frideric Handel in 1742. The orchestra is accom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27AMSunday, December 15, 2013
Washington National Opera has made a small piece of history with the world premier of The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, a work commissioned by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, who also…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AMSaturday, December 14, 2013
The Washington Revels’ 2013 offering Echoes of Thrace is a beautiful, detailed exploration of several ancient cultures of the world that are less known in our usual Christmas celebrati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMSunday, December 1, 2013
A Family Reunion at the In Series is a world premier 20 years in the making by DC Librettist William Moses and Composer Chris Patton. Moses also directed this touching piece about the univer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Matthew Morrison, the TV and theater star with the golden pipes makes his solo debut at the Kennedy Center with his unique take and touching renditions of Broadway standards from My Fair La…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
A shining ensemble carries the second offering in Richard Nelson’s The Apple Family Plays: Sweet and Sad. For this piece in the series, the world event bringing the Apple clan together is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AMSunday, November 24, 2013
The In Series has launched another unique and intimate production of two very different operas, Puccini’s Le Villi [The Spirits] and Heart of Madrid, which explores the zarzuela or li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08PMYoung Artists of America wowed the sold-out crowd with classics from Show Boat for their annual fundraising gala at the beautiful Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. The 85 high-school…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Young Artists of America wowed the sold-out crowd with classics from Show Boat for their annual fundraising gala at the beautiful Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. The 85 high-school…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
The University of Maryland School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies invokes a mastery of comedy in their new production of Molière Impromptu. Molière was a 17th century satirist …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMSunday, November 10, 2013
Iranian playwright Nassim Soliemanpour breaks every expectation an audience might have for his innovative play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. One actor comes onstage and is handed the script, whi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMMonday, October 14, 2013
Washington National Opera has mounted a provocative new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s The Force of Destiny (La Forza Del Destino) directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34AM 
