Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Thaddeus Phillips’ and Steven Dufala’s spectacularly enjoyable, glowing world of far out, fantastical adventure unfolds and forms like theatrical origami within the FringeArts black box …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
Jonathan Tolins’ captivating one-man play Buyer & Cellar is partly factual (or part truth, or partly true), in that there is indeed a mall of shops in the basement of one of Barbra Str…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34PMSaturday, September 16, 2017
I, Peaseblossom, written by Tim Crouch and directed by Dan Hodge, is a fun, magical way to become more familiar with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The dreams of the fairy Peas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Friendship finds its way to the Fringe by way of Mary Tuomanen and Chris Davis in the form of a felicitous memory play, and is heartily welcomed! Mary and Chris have been friends for around …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMMonday, September 11, 2017
All of the characters in Lee Cortopassi’s colorful cartoon-like adaptation of Aesop’s Fables sparkle, and speak, just like the original ones drawn up way back circa 600 B.C. But they als…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
In Appropriate, the 2014–2015 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play, playwright (and Princeton alumnus) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins boldly explores family relations, racism, religious bi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:25PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Madness is unleashed among the stoic marble and stone memorial markers of iconic Laurel Hill Cemetery as REV Theatre Company, directed by Rosey Hay, lends life force to the language of Shake…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMSaturday, July 1, 2017
“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMMonday, June 19, 2017
Anyone who has ever felt any heartfelt connection to another can hear a legendary Patsy Cline song and say “Oh yes, been there, seen, done that.” The lyrics are about much more than truc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Laughter broke out in the jam-packed theatre even before the first pratfall, which then only served to fan the funniness. Watching Beverly Cross’ adaption of Marc Camoletti’s Hap…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” ~ Sherlock Holmes Under the amber glow of gaslight, fog furls forth, a bobby blows his whistle, and conveyance to the world o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Steve Underwood earned his M.A. in Theatre at Villanova University, and holds B.A. in English from Temple University. As an active writer and actor, he completed his oral thesis at Villanova…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMTuesday, March 21, 2017
Quintessence Theatre Group brings William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, as directed by Alexander Burns, vibrantly to life with spectacular staging, scintillating costumes and a sp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02PMSunday, March 5, 2017
“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. “ ~ Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery, as directed by Tony Braithwaite, is a wickedly wonderful celebrati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:19PMSunday, February 5, 2017
Lee Cortopassi’s The Big offers a fun, farcical take on classic film noir, loaded with ludicrous, laugh-out-load moments of sheer, nearly surreal silliness. Set between 1939 and 1942, The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:47PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
A special recipe for a belly full of laughter awaits at the Walnut Street Theatre. Take a bunch of madcap comedy show writers, mix with mayhem and a kooky secretary, add a tinge of McCarthyi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39AMSunday, January 8, 2017
Enter the new year laughing out loud with the cast and crew of Enter Laughing at The Players Club of Swarthmore, directed by Paul Kerrigan! Joseph Stein’s tour de farce, inspired by Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Brightened by a beautiful glittering garden backdrop, several of Oscar Wilde’s fabled fairy tales, smartly adapted and directed by Jeremy Bloom, convey the childlike spirit to an encha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AMMonday, November 28, 2016
A Christmas Carol, written as a novella by Charles Dickens in 1843, has been widely adapted in many forms for television, radio, the big screen, opera and theater. It remains a powerful para…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMFriday, November 18, 2016
A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others. ~ The Wizard of Oz to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz There’s no place like Philadelphia’s Waln…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
“…Worst thing about being sick in America is that you’re booted out of the parade. Americans have no use for sick…” ~ Roy Cohn, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika An outstand…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMSunday, October 23, 2016
Aficionados of the TV hit The Simpsons, in particular, won’t want to miss the Philadelphia area premiere of Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, directed by Bridget R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Hedgerow Theatre captivatingly brings Patrick Hamilton’s Angel Street, directed by Cara Blouin, across the pond, into the year 1924 in Philadelphia where Bella Manningham (Jennifer Sum…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Resounding applause met the awe inspiring, all a capella group, Vocalosity at the newly renovated Bucks County Playhouse opening night for their North American Tour Launch. Ten ultra-talent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMSaturday, September 24, 2016
A comedy collective, referring to themselves as a “polyamorous quad couple” or “Incredible Dreamz” starring The Incredible Shrinking Matt & Jacquie (Matthew Schmi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:29PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Brendan Tetsuo began his evocative Walk to Topazas a solo dance journey to further explore his family’s heritage, developing into a fabulous Fringe offering. Traditional Japanese movem…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:01PMMonday, September 19, 2016
In several dimly lighted rooms within the walls of the brick tower atop the Shiloh Baptist Church, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, adapted by Robert Cousins, are being reborn, as eerie as nev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:22PMSunday, September 11, 2016
“I am not prepared to be isolated” ~ Anna Michael, Lead Artist The Hum’n’Bards, directed by the talent of Jasmine Kojouri, in association with Van.Martin Productions,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Mauckingbird Theatre Company twists the tides a bit while taking the audience on a fun-filled, thoroughly enjoyable trip on the high seas of hilarity, with its rollicking LGBT adaptation of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Take five folks with aviophobia, fear of flying, then multiply that by the individual’s various phobias and anxieties connected to flying, combine that with timely comedy plus intense …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
Hedgerow Theatre revives Marc Camoletti’s farce Boeing Boeing, leaving its audience aloft with laughter! Set in Paris, circa the mod `60’s, Bernard (Andrew Parcell), a swinging …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AM 
