Wednesday, April 28, 2021
While our country was taking a collective sigh of relief after the guilty verdicts convicting George Floyd’s murderer last week, systemic racism continued to flaunt itself in our society. …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AMThursday, April 15, 2021
Chekhov is not a feel-good story teller. His plays tell a brutal truth about people: their motivations, their weaknesses, and their duplicity. The Workhouse Arts Center is currently stream…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17AMSunday, April 4, 2021
Playwright Colman Domingo has no time for stereotypes. A Boy and His Soul, his one-man, autobiographical play, is a living, breathing example of real life, real love, and real Black experien…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Award-winning playwright Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out is a beautiful commentary on real life. The struggles of parenting in an age of never enough. An homage to working parents and sta…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21PMFriday, February 19, 2021
There are jumping dogs, ninja fights, and double crosses. The story is fast-paced and offers many moments for kids to chime in on how the story should advance (remember Choose Your Own Adven…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMSaturday, February 13, 2021
AmaZing Theatre Company is presenting an original movie/play hybrid that they have dubbed a stage flick: Torn, by local playwright John Becker. The show is based on the momentous event in 19…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08AMMonday, February 8, 2021
Loveday Brooke is generally referred to as “the female Sherlock Holmes.” Author Catherine Louisa Pirkis first published her lady detective story in 1893 and, aside from having created th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMSunday, January 31, 2021
In this ever evolving age of the coronavirus, theaters have been experimenting in ways to keep the arts alive and thriving. We Happy Few has recently been producing audio recordings with ext…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13PMMonday, November 23, 2020
Woolly Mammoth Theatre recently released their mixed media streaming production of The JookJOYnt, A Black in Space Powered by Makers Lab Experience. The video is a funky intergalactic collag…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMSunday, November 8, 2020
We thought the days of drive-in movie theaters, with patrons braving the weather for the sake of a good time, were a thing of the past. But pandemic desperation has brought this back, easing…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PMThursday, March 5, 2020
Bandstand, a heart-wrenching musical about a group of veterans returning home from World War II, with music by Richard Oberacker, and book and lyrics by Rob Taylor and Oberacker, is at The N…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMSunday, March 1, 2020
There are some pieces of theater that elicit such raw emotion that describing the experience properly is next to impossible. Reston Community Players’ production of The Diary of Anne Frank…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Imagination Stage brings back its Helen Hayes nominated show, Zomo the Rabbit: A Hip-Hop Creation Myth, written by Psalmayene 24. With the title character, Zomo, inspired by a Nigerian folkt…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:40PMThursday, December 19, 2019
The concept of gratitude and sharing can be one of the hardest things for a child to learn. But in a world full of greed, these principles are vital to maintaining a semblance of peace and p…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
In what is becoming a delightful Christmas tradition, Creative Cauldron reprises their holiday production of Madeline’s Christmas. The lighthearted musical is based on the beloved books by…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMFriday, November 22, 2019
John Leguizamo is a famously Latino, American, Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, known for numerous roles that defy pigeonholing on the character-genre spectrum. Yet despite the vast ran…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMThursday, November 14, 2019
Creative Cauldron’s Learning Theater presents its own adaptation of the popular tale, The Jungle Book. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the show centers around the man-c…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Improvisational theater is comprised of different aspects of live performance genres, like stand-up comedy or fully scripted plays. But what defines improv, is how the actors use comments fr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Prince William Little Theatre has chosen some heavy material for their recent show. Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Harry Kantrovich, focuses on the international military tribunals that …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Encore Stage & Studio has been working with local youth “to build lifelong appreciation for live theatre by involving young people in all aspects of theatre arts — onstage, backstage…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
It’s that time of year again, when there’s a bit of Pumpkin Spice in everything and Halloween themes are taking over. The Workhouse Arts Center is doing its part to add a bit of horror i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMFriday, October 4, 2019
Murder on the Nile is Agatha Christie’s staging of her popular novel, Death on the Nile, published in 1937. Castaways Repertory Theatre has chosen this definitive whodunit for their Fall p…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Area Woman is a group of four local DC artists who came together to premiere their “comedydramadance,” Holon!, for the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival. This August at various venues through…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Encore Stage & Studio’s “Theatre by Kids, for Kids!” is currently showing the Disney musical, Newsies. Based on the 1992 movie, and inspired by the real-life newsboy strike in 1899…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMFriday, July 19, 2019
Since 2002, Upper Room Theatre Ministry has presented one musical every summer. This year, they bring the stage adaptation of the Disney classic, Mary Poppins, to Manassas. The story of the …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Based on the fantastical imaginings of Dr. Seuss, Seussical is a light-hearted musical packed with color, magic, and mischief. McLean Community Players is running their production of this fa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Imagination Stage’s The Ballad of Mu Lan is the funny and poignant tale of a Chinese woman warrior who defies tradition in order to protect her father and be the person she feels she was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Pointless Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Forest Treás (pronounced ‘Triage’). Written by Navid Azeez, the play is based around the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks and the eff…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Fredericksburg Theatre Ensemble (fte) was established in the Spring of 2011. They’re a nonprofit organization, focusing on guilty pleasures and “celebrating the art of the uncomfortable …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05PMThursday, May 9, 2019
In this age of devices, the continuing evolution of man’s relationship with technology has been the subject of many studies and stories. Madeleine George’s play, The (curious case of the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The Full Monty, a musical about a group of unemployed, average Joes who decide to put on a one-night-only strip show to make big money fast, is currently playing at the Workhouse Arts Center…
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