Wednesday, October 1, 2014
It’s time to bring out the sweet tea and church crowns, because Ford’s Theatre has brought a taste of the South to Washington with its spectacular production of Driving Miss Daisy. Authe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:05PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect as I shuffled past elegantly dressed opera-goers in the cavernous Lisner Auditorium Sunday evening. My experience with opera is mostly limited to Bugs Bu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Who says lighting never strikes the same place twice? All MetroStage has to do is keep bringing back Three Sistahs, the foot-tapping, gut-busting and tear-jerking family drama now back in it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Just over ten years old, Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out has already been widely accepted into the canon of Great American Plays. This is for good reason, as Greenberg’s tale of a baseba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:54PMMonday, September 8, 2014
Experiencing Venus Theatre’s production of Daria Miyeko Marinelli’s We Are Samurai feels something like when your dad threw you into the deep end so you could learn to swim. At first, it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Scena has gone green, and I’m not talking about reusable grocery bags. Concurrent with their production of Conor McPherson’s Shining City, Scena is mounting the world premiere of Molly, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
I knew that Qui Nguyen’s fantastical comedy She Kills Monsters had something to do with the famous (or infamous) role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. But when I was confronted by the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29PMSunday, August 17, 2014
It is difficult to overstate the impact that Disney’s 2006 original movie, High School Musical had on the drama geeks of the day. As a fourteen year old theatre kid, the tale of an entire …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMSunday, August 10, 2014
A Gothic horror story that’s dense with symbolism, light on plot, and written in 1839 may not seem like ideal source material for a contemporary musical. But then again, few people saw Car…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
I was first introduced to Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s psychedelic masterpiece, some three decades after the album’s initial release. But the passage of time has done nothing to d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
I started out with the cream of crab soup, and moved on to a buttermilk fried chicken sandwich, with a side of French Farce; it is difficult to say which of the two was more delicious… Suc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:09PMSunday, August 3, 2014
As one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” which is neither comedy nor tragedy, Measure for Measure is populated by morally ambiguous characters and includes a story that ends well… for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06AMSunday, July 27, 2014
There is nothing more wickedly fun than biting the hand that feeds. Prince William Little Theatre does just this in their crowd-pleasing production of The Musical Of Musicals (The Musical!).…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44AMMonday, July 21, 2014
There’s no question: puberty can be a bitch. Or, more to the point, a beast… It is the latter metaphor that is explored extensively in The Hub Theatre’s intriguing new play, Abominable…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38AMSunday, July 20, 2014
After a week of cramped and un air conditioned Fringey-ness, it was a pleasure to step into the cavernous Filene Center at Wolf Trap last night. The massive open air space, illuminated by st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMMonday, July 14, 2014
There are countless plays (and movies, songs, paintings, stories….) about people falling in love with other people. But what about loving yourself? If you can’t love yourself, are you ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50AMSunday, July 13, 2014
Before the show even begins, four dancers in full-body spandex suits float and twirl across the stage of the Lang Theatre. Vast and sparse, the set (designed by Thomas Carter II) for Mary St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15PMFriday, July 11, 2014
With their tight jeans, high heeled boots, and well endowed means of transport, cowboys have always been pretty gay. But the homo western vibe is taken to new and outrageous heights in LaGoD…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:03PM(Best of the Capital Fringe) Fringe is well known for exposing audiences to exciting new works, but the festival can be equally exciting when it presents a fresh take on a theatre classic. S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMThursday, July 3, 2014
Were Betty Friedan and H.P. Lovecraft to have a baby, Pallas Theatre Collective’s new musical, might be their demented offspring. The show (with music by Sarah Taylor Ellis, book and lyric…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57AMSunday, June 29, 2014
Pat Benatar never could have seen this coming. That her signature hit from yesteryear, “Love is a Battlefield” would be utilized so forcefully and literally in Flying V Theatre’s wonde…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09AMMonday, June 23, 2014
There is a ton of great theatre to see at this year’s Source Festival. But amidst the three full length and 18 ten minute plays running through this weekend, make time to see Facebook in M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMSunday, June 22, 2014
The madness and subsequent suicide of Ophelia is one of the most famous scenes from one of the most famous Shakespearean tragedies. It is this aspect of Hamlet that Taffety Punk Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PMSunday, June 8, 2014
An American, Italian, and German stewardess walk into an apartment in Paris… sound like a classic joke? Well, almost – in fact, it’s the basis for No Rules Theatre Company’s spectacu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, May 30, 2014
In Washington, D.C., there is probably no more sensitive and emotionally laden topic than gentrification. So it is refreshingly relevant that the new company Nameless chose to premiere the f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMSunday, May 25, 2014
Since Judy Garland first went over the technicolor rainbow in 1939, audiences across America have been captivated by the story of Dorothy, Munchinland, and the Wicked Witch of the West. The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22AMSunday, May 18, 2014
Prince George’s Little Theatre Delivers the Laughs in The Fox on the Fairway A country club golf tournament would seem to be the perfect setting for a modern day farce. There are snobby me…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44AM 
