Monday, July 25, 2022
Brad Zimmermann the performer has a flair for improv, and he nails the crowd with his one-liners.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:23PMWednesday, May 11, 2022
After a limited run, the movie-based stage play will return on Memorial Day weekend.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMSaturday, September 18, 2021
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Footloose, the 1984 movie starring everybody’s friend, Kevin Bacon, was a hit for many reasons, but one stood out over the others: dancing means life, and dancing gives meaning to life. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
You know that Hannah Gadsby’s new show, Douglas is different from anything you’ve seen before, even before you enter the theatre, when the ushers inform you that your cell phone must be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44PMThursday, April 18, 2019
You’ve seen ten productions of Hamlet, you’ve seen ‘em all, right? There is nothing new you care to see at this point, because even the innovative approach is becoming tired. But have …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Imagine sitting in your home watching a rerun of “Gilligan’s Island” when suddenly, the characters come through the screen, stand in your living room, and sing about their adventures w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:46PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
The entryway to the Muritz-Gudelsky theater at the Olney Theatre Center is lined with holiday lights and garnish. The cozy lobby is adorned with electric candles and sprigs of holly, creatin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Tap is its own beast. Any dancer can tell you that they can transfer training in ballet to jazz or contemporary, or swing into hip-hop, but they cannot transfer anything to tap. You either d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:56PMMonday, May 28, 2018
A battle between assimilation and affiliation, the personal and historical, Jewish versus Jew-ish. This is Bad Jews, Joshua Harmon’s bitingly witty maiden voyage that put him on the playwr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMMonday, April 16, 2018
Let’s face it: things have been a little stressful lately. Everywhere we turn we see violence, corruption, investigations, allegations. Shear Madness, a long-running (over 13,200 performa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45PMSunday, April 15, 2018
Thematically, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence is simple and relevant: the frightening trend toward rejecting selfless, mutual, unconditional love with a person in favor of a me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AMSunday, February 11, 2018
When attending a show whose premise is a “play within a play,” look around. All of those audience members who are cracking up at things that are going right over your head are theatre pe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Who wants to go see a play about math? That could be a typical dialogue when people are perusing the paper wondering how to spend their Saturday night. In the case of David Auburn’s Tony A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMSunday, May 14, 2017
Just when you thought that scandalous political agendas were restricted to CNN’s 24-hour news cycle, along comes An American Daughter, Wendy Wasserstein’s 1997 play about a woman’s nom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMSunday, September 6, 2015
Noël Coward himself described his breakout hit, Hay Fever as having “no plot at all, and remarkably little action…” The Olney Theatre Center’s production of this part-farce, par…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
Rockville Little Theatre’s To Kill a Mockingbird ends their 2014-15 season on a smooth note. The play, based on the award-winning book by Harper Lee and adapted by Christopher Sergel, is s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PMMonday, November 3, 2014
Earth and Sky by Douglas Post brings Dylan Thomas, cops and robbers, murder and true love to at Silver Spring Stage in an uninterrupted two-hour production. Director David Dieudonne’s sig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14PMMonday, August 25, 2014
There are those who have never heard of Savion Glover, those who have heard his name, and those who fly from England to see him dance at the Howard Theatre in Washington, last night at The H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMThursday, February 20, 2014
Beginning tomorrow night, the Sandy Spring Theatre Group will be hosting another weekend of their original one-man show, Honest Abe: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln at the Rosborough …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMSaturday, November 2, 2013
I discovered something while at opening night of Guys and Dolls - what I thought was my Grandma Grace’s favorite nursery rhyme, “A Bushel and a Peck,” originated as a song from this s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMSunday, September 29, 2013
Nerds: Everyone should have one. Last night, I went to the theater and laughed until my stomach hurt as I watched … Continue re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Sandy Spring Theatre Group (SSTG) and The Gaithersburg Arts Barn present War of the Worlds and When Welles Collide, a two-part radio play Directed by: David Dossey *PERFORMANCES: October 11t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMSunday, August 25, 2013
Auditions for Scrooge, the Musical at Sandy Spring Theatre Group will be held on Saturday and Sunday, September 7th and 8th, from 5:00 – 8:00 PM. Scrooge, the Musical by Leslie Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Jekyll and Hyde is simply miraculous, and chilling, sexy, romantic, ironic, dangerous, tragic, jaded, modern, classic, kinky, edgy, and absolutely spectacular. The musical is based on the ac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:41PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Mistaken identity? Check. Double entendres that would make your grandmother stifle a giggle? Check. Over-the-top characters going in one door and coming out another? Check mate. Ladies and g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28AM 
