Monday, 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 12:34AMMonday, October 7, 2013
We have all been to Beertown. That’s the feeling you walk away with from dog & pony dc’s devised theater piece Beertown, which is ostensibly about a few residents gathering to vote o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31AMSunday, September 29, 2013
Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s all-female Riot Grrrls tackle one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays, Titus Andronicus. Director Lise Bruneau has created a streamlined production wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Washington National Opera opens the season with a transformative production of Richard Wagner’s epic tragedy Tristan and Isolde for his bicentennial birthday. He wrote both the music and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMMonday, September 9, 2013
The In Series, DC’s own pocket opera company, has commissioned a new libretto for Mozart’s famous comic opera, Abduction from the Seraglio in an impressive and truly hilarious start to t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Thanks to the Filene Center Orchestra and three choirs, Wolf Trap gave audiences a chance to re-experience cinema history and one of the most stunning compositions of our time in Howard Shor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMMonday, September 2, 2013
toast at dog & pony show DC dog & pony show DC is an ensemble theater company that devises shows instead of writing them and tackles a huge range of genres. They focus especially o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Lyle Lovett wowed loyal crowds at Wolf Trap with a diverse program of his genre-defying hits like “Church” and “That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas).” Over the years, no one’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Three guitar greats, Peter Frampton, B.B. King, and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds wowed the Wolf Trap crowds in a light-hearted, fun concert with some of the most serious guitar playing around.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
On a perfect summer evening, the National Symphony Orchestra took on two Russians – Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff – during their popular NSO@Wolf Trap Summer Series for an explosive eveni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
Writer and performer Randy Ross got laid off and went around the world, came back and wrote a book about it, and now takes to Fringe to perform it. It’s true to the life of a traveller…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
The Sock Puppet Guerilla Theater mounts a truly hilarious production of an ancient satire Lysistrata by setting it in 1969. It doesn’t take much updating. The free love hedonism and prot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
No Sex, Please local storyteller Derek Hills recounts the saga of the 28 years it took to lose his virginity in every hilarious, sometime heartbreaking, mostly humiliating detail. He touc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMFriday, July 12, 2013
Washington Improv Theater goes where they have never gone before with Lore, a long-form improv show that explores the history of story itself by making storytelling the subject of each sk…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AMA Commedia Romeo and Juliet by DC Commedia dell’Arte troupe Faction of Fools Theare Company is Shakespeare like you’ve probably never seen it before performed by this company trained …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Straight No Chaser, the 10-man a cappella phenomenon, put on a great show of top forty hits, enduring classics and crowd favorites on a steamy night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. They r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13PMSunday, June 30, 2013
Silver Spring Stage puts on a 1950’s screwball comedy murder mystery, espionage, romance - about communists and a whole lot of fish in Red Herring to close out their 2013 season. It’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
It’s July in DC, which means it’s hot, it’s humid, and it’s time for Fringe! On the last day of June at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, 21 shows brought their A game for the annual F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18AMSunday, June 23, 2013
The In Series, DC’s premier company for intimate opera and classical concerts, closes their season with a creative pairing of two very different, moving pieces in Pocket Opera: Love and Mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
For the 36th time, college students from Montgomery College and around the nation gather in Rockville for Summer Dinner Theatre. This year, they mount an energetic, hilarious production of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13PMSunday, June 2, 2013
American University staged a very special reading of a very special musical Signs of Life about an important part of our history. It was billed as a drama with music, and that is the simp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMSunday, May 26, 2013
It was a night of flying fingers and familiar classics with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the Music Center at Strathmore for Romeo and Juliet. The three pieces chosen for the evenin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company returns with the Bard to finish the season in a lovely, polished, and powerful production of The Winter’s Tale. This play is filed with his comedies, but so…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Broadway legend and Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and the Washington Choral Arts Society wowed a Mother’s Day crowd with a feel-good repertoire of Broadway and instant classics a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMMonday, May 6, 2013
The stars were out in force for the Kennedy Center’s 21st Annual Spring Gala. On the program was My Fair Lady In Concert sung by some of Broadway and the West End’s biggest names like Jo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PMSunday, May 5, 2013
Once in a lifetime you get the opportunity to see four opera companies, 100 performers, and 50 musicians put on America’s first, most iconic musical, Show Boat. Washington National Opera…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
The people called it Ragtime,” and the cast of the Kensington Arts Theatre’s production of the musical Ragtime makes some truly breathtaking Ragtime. Most of the cast has several dec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMSunday, April 28, 2013
“Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” Spooky Action Theater takes Candide’s satire of life, love, hope and human decency to the extreme in Optimism! Or Vo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PMThursday, April 18, 2013
In its American premiere, Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by Shakespeare Theatre Company is a tour-de-force, surprisingly funny, sharp, and shattering. It’s paired with their ex…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Before there was RENT, there was Puccini’s La bohème, perhaps the most popular and certainly one of the most frequently performed operas in history. The University of Maryland School o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMFriday, 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 06:32PM 
