Monday, January 6, 2020
Located just 47 miles away from Washington, DC in The Plains, Virginia, Dark Horse Theatre Company creates some of the best theater in the DC area. Director Natasha Parnian continues a strea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2019
Prince William Little Theatre's A Charlie Brown Christmas feels as comfortable and warm as snuggling up on the couch and watching classic Christmas movies with a mug of cocoa. Supported by t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2019
One Man, Two Guvnors, written by Richard Bean and directed at Vienna Theatre Company by Eric Storck, is aggressively funny stuff. Played as big as possible, each character pays homage to Com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2019
Isn't It Romantic, written by Wendy Wasserstein and directed by Arielle Katz, follows Janie Blumberg (Elizabeth A. Weiss) and Harriet Cornwall (Betsy Ryan), both in their late 20s and both t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Dark Horse Theatre Company knocks it out of the park again with this atmospheric trip to the afterlife. No Exit, written by Jean-Paul Sartre and directed by Natasha Parnian, is weird and dar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2019
From toe-tapping numbers, to adorable orphans, there are few things as purely wonderful for the soul as a production of Annie, and Prince William Little Theatre delivers a production like no…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2019
Arcade is unlike anything you will experience at Fringe. Equal parts art installation, gaming experience, and nostalgia, Arcade perfectly encapsulates the feeling of walking into a 1980s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, written by James Kirkwood, Jr. and directed by Michael Page, is a great look at different manifestations of schadenfreude (pleasure derived by someone from another pe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
I really enjoy going to Dark Horse Theatre Company productions because troupe founder Natasha Parnian takes every opportunity to bring the audience into the story. The Value of Moscow, writt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
Rooftop Productions has wowed me yet again, this time with its current production, Godspell. I have a hard time describing Godspell because there isn't exactly a plot; there are several incr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2019
Ask just about anyone Gen-X and younger and they can (and will, gladly) tell you which House they would be sorted into, if we had the chance to attend a certain school of magic. For those of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2019
Some people remember their high school fondly as formative years where lifelong friendships formed. However, just under that superficial gloss, there sometimes lies a painful, broken world o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2019
Craving for Travel, written by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, and directed by Natasha Parnian immediately piqued my interest from the first time I read the tagline used in promotional mater…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2018
Prince William Little Theatre's production of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, directed by Caroline Scarborough, presents the well-known story of George Bailey (Michael Clendenin) d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 1, 2018
I never feel like I'm fully in the Christmas spirit until I've donned an ugly sweater, had a gingerbread cookie and watched a production of A Christmas Carol. Little Theatre of Alexandria's …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Sterling Playmakers and produced by Shanna Christian, is an intense musical experience with just enough blood, murder, mischief, and mayhem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
Children's theatre is almost always adorable but not necessarily a place where you will see fantastic performances. Peter Pan and Wendy at Creative Cauldron succeeds in telling the classic s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2018
It can be hard sometimes for a musical adapted from a well-loved movie to meet expectations. Prince William Little Theater's production of 9 to 5: The Musical was a fantastic and energy-fill…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
Some people believe that the Christmas season should begin the Friday after Thanksgiving. Other people start celebrating Christmas earlier, in some cases, much earlier. If the turning of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2018
When a story is so well-known and well-loved by many people, audience members tend to have high expectations and Aldersgate Church Community Theater's production of The Count of Monte Cristo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2018
Tape is not a play with perfect characters or comfortable resolution. What makes Tape uncomfortable to watch is that the characters all feel like people we know. We all went to school with V…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:27PM[SHARE] 
