DC Mega Hits Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away were honored at last night’s Tony Awards. The shows had sold-out runs at Arena Stage and Ford’s Theatre. Dear Evan Hansen was vic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AM[SHARE]Urgency propels them forward. In a blink there are flashes of precise articulation and rapid fluidity as sweeping curves carry a leg overhead or propel a body high in the air. Dancers merge …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 2017 Helen Hayes Awards Outstanding Choreography, Musical-Hayes Christopher d'Amboise, "Evita," Olney Theatre Center Kelly Devine, "Come From Away," Ford's Theatre Parker…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PM[SHARE]I am very honored to receive the Gary Maker Award, and I want to thank the committee for this incredible Lifetime Award. Gary Maker was such a mensch and he fought a dreadful disease with su…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PM[SHARE]DC Mega-hits Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away, which wowed  audiences  during  their sold out runs at Arena Stage and Ford’s Theatre, will be vying  for Best…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AM[SHARE]I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) 2 months ago. Since then my world has been turned upside down. I have accepted the grim news that this is one battle I might not w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AM[SHARE]Every time I send a reviewer to Howard University to review a show they always have this reaction: “Oh My God!!” And there were many divine moments when I saw the final perfomanc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PM[SHARE]In a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet Roger Stone who plays Alfred Doolittle. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AM[SHARE]Thre’s no doubt in my mind that all of the attendees at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts were there because of the 1977 film version of Saturday Night Fever: and because we …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26AM[SHARE]In part three of a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet Daniel Owen who plays Professor Henry Higgins. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10PM[SHARE]In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet John Allnutt who plays Colonel Pickering. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PM[SHARE]In Part One of a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet Jenn Robinson. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24AM[SHARE]In Part Four of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Christa Kronser (playing Olive Ostrovsky) and Joey Rola…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PM[SHARE]I have lost a mentor and a colleague. Rich Massabny has died and my heart is broken. Opening nights were always a joy for me when Rich Massabny, with his big smile and a strong handshake, wo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00AM[SHARE]A colorful story wowed the kids and their parents at today’s 1:30 PM performance of the Windmill Theatre Company of Australia’s Grug & the Rainbow, directed by Sam Hare…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37PM[SHARE]This is what theater is all about and it was my dream when I started DCMetroTheaterArts 5 years ago-to see a venue filled with parents and kids laughing and clapping and having a great ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:28PM[SHARE]When you have over 200 talented musicians and singers filling the Strathmore stage, you know you are in for some great singing and playing from Young Artists of America. In a world premiere …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PM[SHARE]In a particularly lapel-grabbing scene in Montgomery College's Booty Candy, a preacher tells his congregation that he's tired of hiding from the "what they heard" crowd and shows them who he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PM[SHARE]In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Rachel Pino-Elliot as Schwartzy and John Carter as Leaf Coneyb…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PM[SHARE]In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, meet Rinaldo Martinez who play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PM[SHARE]Well lately it has “sucked to be me” with new health challenges, the political climate ain’t pretty, and you-know-who has moved to DC, so I desperately needed me a dose of�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:28PM[SHARE]In Part Two of a series of interviews with the cast of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, meet Shawn Morris. Please introdu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:26PM[SHARE]In a series of interviews with the cast of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s (GMCW) production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, meet Michael Aylward. Pleas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PM[SHARE]In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Pamela Northrup as Rona Lisa Peretti and Jim Adams as Vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AM[SHARE]In part one of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Director Jeffery Lesniak. Joel: Please introduce yoursel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33PM[SHARE]In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of Sweeney Todd at Olney Theatre Center, meet Frank Viveros. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM[SHARE]Love was in the air as The National Chamber Ensemble presented their Valentine’s Day performance called Vive la France: The Magic of Saint-Saens. The concert was described as: C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:12PM[SHARE]In Part Two of series of interviews with the cast of Sweeney Todd at Olney Theatre Center, meet E. Faye Butler.  Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49PM[SHARE]In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s Two Rooms, meet Sandra Cox True. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have see…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18AM[SHARE]The beloved Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is back at The Kennedy Center for a week-long run. Now 57 years old, the company pulls from a repertoire dating back to 1960. Using a combin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PM[SHARE]In Part One of a series of interviews with the cast of Two Rooms at Kensington Arts Theatre, meet Sean Dynan. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perf…
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