Sunday, May 3, 2015
If you’ve ever wanted to applaud Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers of the Land of Liberty, here’s an opportunity. All of them come out for well-de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMDominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby is social realism with snap. It knows how to “unlock all that attitude,” as one of the play’s three characters puts it, and audiences attending the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Spring Awakening always makes a strong impression on audiences. But it is a particularly bold choice for the season-opener at Red Branch Theatre Company. The 2007 Tony-winning musical, adapt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMThursday, March 19, 2015
No matter how low your spirits these days, Angela Lansbury will raise them. That’s the professional promise now drawing people into Washington, D.C. from all over the Mid-Atlantic region t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
The 2009 Obie-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation is like a five-finger exercise minus a digit or two. In its well-mounted area debut at Rep Stage in Howard County, it makes for a plea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PMThursday, March 5, 2015
For a show with more moving parts than a clock museum, it’s surprising how often Glenelg Country School’s Hot Mikado is in the groove. Revivals of this 1986 Ford’s Theatre staging are …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre is having its hottest season ever. Indeed, if you shovel out of your snow and ice fast enough, you will find its current offering of Chicago making things ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:43PMSunday, March 1, 2015
Baltimore’s vibrant and growing Chesapeake Shakespeare Company looks comfortable indeed inside its gorgeous new digs on South Calvert Street. If only it looked as comfortable inhabitin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMSaturday, February 14, 2015
If there is any theater role that Lawrence B. Munsey cannot master, he certainly keeps it hidden. The musical star drew huge laughs playing a cross-dressing ham in La Cage aux Folles then sw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:47PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Forget about “Tomorrow.” In Baltimore the sun came out the minute the latest road tour of Annie unpacked its bags. From its elaborate sets by Beowulf Boritt, Suzy Benzinger’s costu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMSunday, January 18, 2015
A jammed parking lot at the normally quiet Drama Learning Center says all you need to know about the new production going on inside. The TYA Teen Professionals troupe has a genuine hit on it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMA man who refuses to budge often makes for fine drama. Does the same go for a man who cannot budge because he weighs 600 pounds? That’s the first question posed by Samuel D. Hunter’s The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Have yourself a little “Mary” Christmas this year, courtesy of Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia. Mary Poppins—The Broadway Musical borrows a “little” here, a “little” there,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
You know you’re in for a special evening of theater when half the audience arrives in pajamas. But the comfy-cozy opening night of A Year With Frog and Toad at the Red Branch Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMThursday, October 16, 2014
If it has been gnawing at you since 1953 that you missed your big chance to go to the CBS Desilu Studios in Hollywood and watch a live taping of I Love Lucy, take heart: Baltimore’s Hippod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMSunday, October 5, 2014
Don’t go to Columbia’s Drama Learning Center just now looking for children’s theater. Triumph of Love, the new Red Branch Theatre Co. production playing there through October 18, is b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:03PMSaturday, October 4, 2014
Rep Stage returns from a busy summer makeover with a new production team and a five-star season-opener, Venus in Fur. David Ives’s 2010 comedy-drama scores big points with its fresh, two-p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMSunday, September 21, 2014
Musical theater doesn’t get more challenging than Stephen Sondheim — for audiences and performers alike. So hurrah for Columbia’s fearless Red Branch Theatre Co. for bringing us the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Memphis—The Musical may have won the 2010 Tony on Broadway but it seems made-to-order for Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Here is a show that dazzles with performers rather than spectacle, and re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre unfurls a fresh season with a rowdy millennial musical about star-crossed lovers set in the big, blue-collar heart of Ireland. Once is the 2012 Tony Award-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Columbia’s Red Branch Theatre Company is out to test just how spare and lean a musical can get and still hold an audience in a magical spell. The company’s new staging of the off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Miss The Last Five Years at your peril. If you fail to catch this season-opener by the Red Branch Theatre Company, you’ll never know exactly when this hard-working Columbia playhouse made …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Fans of Spamalot may want to hop to and check out a similar boatload of zaniness known as Moby Dick! The Musical, with book by Robert Longden, and music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMMonday, January 20, 2014
If you somehow missed the first 24 annual Putnam County spelling bees, can you spell u-n-l-u-c-k-y? Well, you still have a chance to catch The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in a won…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PMFriday, December 27, 2013
In the Flashdance smackdown between fresh new show tunes and nostalgia-laden 1980s soundtrack hits, the title decision at The Kennedy Center isn’t even close. Showtunes lose the match,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:40AMThursday, October 24, 2013
Can a single character carry an entire feature-length movie with success? Arguments for both sides of that issue will be found in All Is Lost, the lean but brutal, one-person survival-at-sea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PMSaturday, September 28, 2013
With Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote one of the seminal musicals of the modern age — though he didn’t live long enough to savor his triumph nor to give the world a chance to know him better.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Director Jonathan Munby has set his fabulous new staging of Measure for Measure in a fanciful 1930s, pre-war Vienna. But it could as well be taking place in any society where the prevailin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
The VisArts Center in Rockville is a rather respectable venue for a program titled Pasties & Popcorn. But there you are, amid a nearly full house in the upstairs convention room on Frid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMFriday, June 21, 2013
George Plimpton was called a pioneer of “new journalism” by no less a literary master of the art than Tom Wolfe. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Plimpton traveled in cele…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Sometimes the biggest talents come in the youngest packages, and there are plenty of both in the new staging of Songs for a New World by TYA (Teaching Young Artists) at the Drama Learning …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AM 
