Capitalism. Exploitation. Greed. It’s the holiday season, folks, and your kids shouldn’t lose out on the fun. At Keegan Theatre’s The Elves and the Shoemaker, they won’t. Written by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMThe paradise in Shakespeare’s Arden Forest, a beautiful place where everybody is happy, communal, and fed, doesn’t exist in reality. But if it did, you’d want to be there. And since yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:52AMA giant, wheezing monster, many feet tall and wide, a formless head towering over the audience, bathed in green light, with a voice made of dust and despair. That’s just one of the many fa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMHow To Win a RACE WAR—a whopping 3-hour, 15-minute ordeal—indulges in the world of white supremacy, wheels and deals in astoundingly racist and horrifying caricature, and expects a pat o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AMIn Sucks to be a Grownup, you’ll see every side of CJ. Her funny side, her angry side, and even her emotional side. You’ll see CJ laughing and interacting with her audience, and you’ll…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMWhite men win again — that seems to be the moral of Bartleby, the Magical White Coworker, written by Jeff Reiser and Chinwe Nwosu and directed by Jordyn Nicole. When Bartleby, an incompete…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMIn a perfect world, the actors and actresses of a production get along. In a perfect world, there is no backstage drama. In a perfect world, that drama does not confuse and alter a productio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMA heartfelt story of family loyalty and triumph, The Alliance Theatre’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, directed by Elaine Wilson, starts as the tale of a loving father who tries his hardest to m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMIn this famous, thrilling court-room drama, 12 jurors deliberate over the fate of an alleged murderer. The case seems clear-cut. They open the play with a vote, to see where everybody stands…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AMBeing a student at UC Berkeley, I am all too familiar with how hypocritical and conceited student-activist culture can be. The Altruists, written by Nicky Silver and first performed off-Broa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53AMJesus Christ Superstar is a rock n’ roll opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, and the McLean Community Players cast and crew, directed by Kevin and Pamela McCo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:59PMAlexandra Petri’s Never Never is absolutely brilliant. It explores a heavy topic – pedophilia – without being overbearingly serious and dark. In fact, it was wildly funny. That said, P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21AMThe Girl With Two Belly Buttons, written and directed by Jeryl Parade, is a heartwarming story. A woman, Izzy, suffers from a rare muscular disorder which requires that she use a feeding tub…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AMThe Great Awkward Hope displayed both the good, funny aspects of awkward, and the bad aspects of the word. The play follows a man, Jeff, as he tries to write a play about himself writing a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMWritten and directed by Brian Schwartz and Karen Snyder, Interconnected tells the twisted and complex story of three intertwined families. It is ripe with dramatic turns worthy of the soap …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35PMYou never expect to sympathize with the murderer and rapist. You expect to be repulsed and disgusted by them. That, however, would do a disservice to the complexity of life, particularly in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMIn DC Trash – Recycled!!, the charismatic Ron Litman, star of this two man show, delivers a stirring commentary on the changes this city has gone through since his upbringing as the son of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMAlice was colorful, in every sense of the word. And that was good. Adapted from Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland, Alice, directed by Haley Murphy was an explosive version of the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AMThe Insanity of Mary Girard is a play showing Mary Girard’s descent into insanity as she comes to term with her admittance to an insane asylum by her jealous and hateful husband. This vers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03AMThe Life of King John is a one-of-a-kind interpretation of Shakespeare’s historical play, directed by Alan Duda. The production weaves elements and references from Monty Python’s Spamalo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48AMThere was never a dull moment in Twelfth Night: A Musical Remix directed by Justin Poole. This version of William Shakespeare’s well-known comedy, filled with confused identity, trickery a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11PMThe Little Crane and The Long Journey: A Fable is the all-too-common story of an immigrant family dealing with prejudice in the United States. The story is a representation of the struggles…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMThere’s an old adage that states “time wasted having fun isn’t wasted.” The Aldersgate Community Church Theatre effectively explored this theme with its production of Cheaper by the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMBold, gallant heroes; terrifying, grim monsters; beautiful young love; fear; heroism; nostalgia; excitement: these are just a few of the things you’ll experience at Heroes & Monsters. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40AMDirty Blonde, written by Claudia Shear and directed by Jennifer Lyman, follows two stories: the rise to fame of star Mae West and the blossoming love affair of her two most obsessive fans af…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:40AMBig things do come in small packages. This old adage was proven correctly with the Riverbend Opera Company’s performance of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Casa Italiana Sociocultural Center. Th…
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