Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Watching young artists perform carries its own level of excitement beyond the entertainment itself. There’s the shared love of arts which compels people to participate and support learning…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMSunday, June 24, 2018
In 2012, Hannah Todd and Raven Bonniwell founded a small theater company, We Happy Few, with the desire to revive classic texts and find new ways to interpret and present the material. While…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMFriday, June 1, 2018
For the fourth year in a row, Monumental Theatre Company has hosted their annual event, featuring millennial top talent from the DC area. Flip Flop: A Miscast Cabaret is the latest presenta…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Rock of Ages is more of a rock concert than a musical. The musical comedy, created by Chris D’Arienzo, is currently running at the Workhouse in Lorton to sold-out audiences, and with good …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
With today’s political climate, discussions of race and privilege between those who share opposite views has become near to impossible. Our battles of conflicting perspectives, opinions, a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Reston Community Players is currently showing the amusing and energetic Thoroughly Modern Millie, with original book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlon, new music by Jeanine Tesori, and new …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
One would not expect a tale full of heartbreak, betrayal, abandonment, and death to be labeled as a comedy. But that is exactly what Folger Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s The Wint…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
The Big Apple Circus has come to the DC area for their 40th Anniversary Celebration. Original founders, Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, established the BAC in 1977. Their European style…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
NextStop Theatre is reaching the end of their July 2017 to June 2018 “Point and Counterpoint” season. Their third and final show pairing explores the contrasting effects that religious t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
In 1920, a fourteen-year-old boy in Idaho, named Philo Farnsworth, asked his science teacher for advice on a design he was working on for an electronic television system. Seven years later, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Have you ever had a day where absolutely every little thing goes wrong? Well, Alexander has. In the musical version of Judith Viorst’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMThursday, February 1, 2018
Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy presented their student production of Hairspray over the weekend. Young artists, ranging from grades four through twelve, hit the stage with all the energ…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Convergence Theatre, as a part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, has produced a new play by Olivia Haller called This Is All Just Temporary. The original work focuses on college grad…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Bravo Productions had their first of two productions in 2018 this past weekend. Fiddler on the Roof JR ran for four shows in two days to completely packed houses. The Junior musical is a con…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days is a classic novel that has stood the test of time–one hundred and forty-five years, to be exact–and been adapted into multiple media …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMSunday, December 24, 2017
If you have yet to experience a Faction of Fools Theatre Company production, then you are missing out on something truly brilliant and one-of-a-kind. With a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:37AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Classic holiday productions, like Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, always show up around the theater circuit this time of year. But there are also …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMThursday, December 7, 2017
It’s that time of year again. Signature Theatre opened their annual Holiday Follies this week. The seasonal cabaret is packed with a set of over twenty songs including Christmas classics, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
It was a match made in heaven: Rebecca Traister, author and commentator on feminism and politics; and Samantha Bee, Canadian-American writer, comedian, producer, and (according to TIME) one …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMThursday, November 23, 2017
The story of Jane Goodall – primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist – has been told numerous times in various media forms. The British born naturalist is said to be the leading…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theatre has put on an original version of Francis Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess. Ellen Selby, who co-directed the show, wrote the book, with music by M…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMThursday, November 2, 2017
The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s most recent production, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, is an interesting look at family dynamics and the lingering effects t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42AMThursday, October 26, 2017
NextStop opened their production of Assassins over the weekend and (all the cheesy pun intended) absolutely killed it. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMSunday, October 22, 2017
Life is full of unanswered questions. But in Lauren Gunderson’s play, Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, the title character is given a second chance. Avant Bard is…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMThursday, October 19, 2017
The Kennedy Center recently presented En Garde Arts’ touring production of Wilderness, a multimedia show that discusses the real-life accounts of young teens who struggle with mental healt…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:26AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
The Arlington Players are entering the last weekend of their production of Pippin, a show that promises magic and fantastic feats, with book by Roger Hirson and music and lyrics by Stephen S…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:37PMFriday, September 29, 2017
In 1928, Joseph Moncure March wrote a racy narrative poem that was received quite successfully, despite a ban resulting from its controversial content, called “The Wild Party.” A…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Anne and Emmett, by Janet Langhart Cohen, is a play about an imagined conversation between two figures from history – teenagers, who were the victims of institutional terrorism. MetroS…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II have been called the greatest writing partnership of the 20th century. Their work spans from 1943 to 1959 and includes some of the …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PMMonday, July 24, 2017
The history of Bonnie and Clyde is well-known. Lovers, living a life of crime. Since their infamous streak of robberies and murders, which ended with the two being killed in an ambush on May…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Oh the years of awkward adolescence. Who doesn’t look back on that time and cringe? No one! Which is why The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is the perfect combination of hilarity a…
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