Saturday, July 23, 2016
Musical theater and the country could use a good renegade rock musical inspired by the Occupy Movement. The demonstrations that spread across America spurred by Occupy Wall Street shared a k…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMFriday, July 22, 2016
Fans of Cirque du Soleil know to expect wonder, beauty, and thrills, and Cirque doesn’t disappoint. It’s a brilliantly executed brand that has become a global phenomenon (21 different pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
I sure laughed a lot at the show I saw the other night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Gut-busting funny, it was. And I’d highly recommend you catch it…except it was made up on the spot, neve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMMonday, July 18, 2016
I first saw Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman at the Manhattan Theater Club in 2002, with Orlandersmith herself in the role of the dark-skinned Alma and Howard W. Overshown as the light-ski…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMSunday, July 17, 2016
So this strange thing happened. I was sitting at a table in a church basement that happened to be on the fourth floor of The Studio Theatre, and I was waiting to see a show called Hand to Go…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:55AMFriday, July 15, 2016
As the local go-to theater company for carrying on the Grand Guignol tradition, Molotov Theatre Group mounts some of the most interesting combos of style and substance in town. There are a f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:51AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
I have admired Shirley Serotsky’s work as a director on such shows as Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy at Theater J in 2014 and Rapture, Blister, Burn at Round House Theatre in 2015. Shirley also se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMSunday, July 10, 2016
I wish that recent events had not made this powerful theater experience so necessary. I wish that Capital Fringe would have come along again and this production would have warranted theaterg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
The young actor and rapper Darius McCall fell so much in love with the role of Romeo that he longed to bring the character to life, by himself, alone on stage with but Shakespeare’s wo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:56AMFriday, July 8, 2016
Anna Snapp gives a robust, witty, and protean performance in this genuinely candid and insightful solo theater piece. Self-authored, and based on her own life, I Found That the Sun Will Rise…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40AMMonday, July 4, 2016
The future of the Capital Fringe Festival has been uncertain since its brilliant and brave inception in 2006, but back in July 2013 its fate was especially iffy. The festival’s fabulously …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Studio Theatre’s fourth floor has been turned into an amazing facsimile of a Lutheran church basement, complete with inspirational posters on the walls and seating at folding tables as if …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
You know you’ve just seen a play that hits a nerve about the distress of parents who have a troublesome, troubled son (whom they love but don’t know how to cope with) when you’re rea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54PMMonday, June 27, 2016
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSaturday, June 25, 2016
The very transportable set for this touring production consists of a small enclosure of flimsy, fragile fabric cubes painted to look like stone blocks but really as insubstantial as little l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMThursday, June 23, 2016
There’s an ancient child-custody legend about two women who claim to be the mother of the same infant. In the well-known Hebrew Bible version, their dispute is resolved when King Solomon o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
I have admired Shirley Serotsky’s work as a director on such shows as Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy at Theater J in 2014 and Rapture, Blister, Burn at Round House Theatre in 2015. Shirley also se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMMonday, June 20, 2016
No-No Boy is an extraordinary and essential play. It’s about what happened to innocent people when this country demonized and incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. To witn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:47PMSunday, June 12, 2016
After filming not a few Rotten Tomatoes targets and appearing in too many tabloid headlines, the real Ben Affleck has cleaned up and redeemed himself in the public stargaze, both professiona…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMMonday, June 6, 2016
Whatever your mental picture of heaven, the funny and beautifully moving production of Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are just opened at Theater Alliance may alte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMSunday, June 5, 2016
Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon wears irony on its sleeve with the same effrontery that three of its characters wear red, white, and black greasepaint to dissemble “race.” Just op…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
After I saw When January Feels Like Summer—Cori Thomas’s counter-stereotypical romantic comedy at Mosaic Theater Company—I found myself thinking back to what happens between two partic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMMonday, May 30, 2016
For the 24th year, the African-American Collective Theater marked DC Black Pride Weekend with readings of seven short plays, collectively titled 24/7, all written and directed by Alan Sharp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PMThursday, May 26, 2016
DC audiences last saw Olwen Fouéré in Yaël Farber’s Salomé at the Shakespeare Theatre Company playing the narrator character Nameless Woman. With her striking long white hair, deep voc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMMonday, May 23, 2016
Does a play about an incurable progressive disease not sound like something you’d care to see? Does a character’s long, lone monologue about her mother’s memory loss to Alzheimer’s n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:12PMMosaic Theater Company tops off its prodigious first season with an improbably romantic comedy by Liberian-American playwright Cori Thomas. It’s about people from different cultures who yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Watching Julia Coffey’s feline and feral performance in the title role of Studio Theatre’s sleek and stark staging of Hedda Gabler is to witness the trainwreck that is Ibsen’s enigmati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Martin Luther on Trial, the new play by Chris Cragin-Day and that had its world premier in DC at the Lansburgh Theatre, joins the canon of great theatrical works about major figures in reli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:20AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
We can thank the fickle fates who determine the fluky destinies of local theater programming for Keegan Theatre’s inspired late addition of Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter to it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMThursday, May 5, 2016
On October 31, 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 theses to a cathedral door in Wittenberg, Germany. It was a hammering heard round the world. On the eve of the 500th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMWednesday, May 4, 2016
A true story that begins with the desecration of a dead body becomes, before our eyes and hearts, a living and breathing buddy story. Dan O’Brien’s The Body of an American is an intimat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:48PM 
