Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Trump Card, an original solo performance by monologist extraordinaire Mike Daisey, is a searing punch in the gut to rival any leaked Access Hollywood tape. The current production, which …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMSunday, October 23, 2016
A funny thing happens on the way out of American University’s fabulous new production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. You find yourself humming along to “Comedy Tonigh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18AMSunday, October 16, 2016
I go to see live theatre for a lot of reasons. I go to laugh and to be moved, to feel excitement or empathy, to be entertained in a way that just isn’t possible with podcasts or Netflix. I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Surprisingly little greets the audience as they enter the intimate black box space at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop where Taffety Punk Theatre Company makes their home. Set, Costume, and Pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMSaturday, October 8, 2016
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMSunday, September 25, 2016
Be Awesome: A Theatrical Mixtape of the 90s is less a stroll down memory lane and more of a flying leap into an exploding memory bomb. Just a few steps into the Writer’s Center, where Flyi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24PMMonday, September 19, 2016
In the program note for Rock the Line, Playwright Kathleen Warnock describes her new play as, “Kind of like Waiting for Godot, if Godot really came and played electric guitar.” As it tur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
The main reason I adore live theatre, in comparison to other art forms like cinema, is that the fiber and ligaments that make up this thing we call life – truth, in other words –…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The new play Garbage Kids by Baltimore-based playwright Jayme Kilburn, now receiving its world premiere at Venus Theatre Company, is a cleverly plotted emotional booby trap. The first act is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds is infamous for having incited a mini UFO panic due to its vivid and realistic descriptions of a fictitious Martian invasion. The i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
There is probably no clearer distillation of classic American courtroom drama than Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men. The classic tale of a seemingly cut-and-dry murder case turned upside d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Exactly one century ago, on Easter Week 1916, Irish nationalists staged uprisings in Dublin and some surrounding areas in defiance of centuries of British rule, and in particular their consc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMMonday, April 25, 2016
The whooshing, passionate ride that is Hugo Ball: a Dada puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!?? – an original piece by DC’s perennial enfant terrible, Pointless Theatre Company – masquerade…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMSunday, April 10, 2016
The Island of Dr. Moreau is kind of like a 19th century Jurassic Park. In fact, it’s more grisly than the latter – Moreau involves the forcible creation of human/animal hybrids ̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:14PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Jersey Boys, the 2005 Broadway smash hit and preeminent “jukebox musical”, is now bringing its signature blend of tough guy brashness and doo-wop dazzle to the National Theatre for a bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
At one point in David Auburn’s multiple award-winning drama Proof, which is currently being given an exceptionally gripping treatment at 1st Stage in Tysons, Hal Dobbs gushes to Catherine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMMonday, April 4, 2016
By the time you realize that you’ve been emotionally captured by in a word, the breathtaking drama now playing at The Hub Theatre in Fairfax, it is too late to escape. Not that you would w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
Venus Theatre’s new tour de force production of Migdalia Cruz’s Fur opens with a characteristically jarring scene: Michael, a white-suited animal lover, wheels a giant industrial strengt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Martin McDonagh, the erstwhile enfant terrible of millennial European drama who is now a staple of contemporary theatres across the globe, is the sort of playwright whose words need little m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
You don’t have to work very hard to find your way from the box office to the theater in Flying V Theatre and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts’ new co-production of You, or Wha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMSunday, February 14, 2016
Few stories have been as revised, re-told and reconstructed as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. But a rendition that is not as performed as it should be is the 19th century opera by French …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Now, in DC theatre, video games are hot. From Rorschach’s She Kills Monsters to Flying V’s The Oregon Trail and Molotov’s Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, audiences (and Artistic D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:34PMMonday, January 18, 2016
Since Peter Shaffer’s Equus made its striking return to the Anglo-American imagination in 2007, when then-17 year old Daniel Radcliffe stirred international controversy by appearing nude i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Once upon a time, dozens of children streamed into the elegant Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center, all of them paragons of excitement and curiosity. Were these holiday tots rushing in to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
I don’t usually go in for all of that holiday crap. If you ask me, ’tis the season for saccharine platitudes and interminable carols that all serve to mask the consumerist orgy that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AMSaturday, December 5, 2015
The National Symphony Orchestra/The Kennedy Center Declassified series, launched on Saturday with its performance of In Motion featuring Ben Folds, is a bold initiative to counter the fundam…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PMMonday, November 16, 2015
As the days get shorter and the weather gets chillier, my favorite antidote to the encroaching winter is a strong dose of theatrical comfort food. Luckily for me, this is exactly what the Ga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Avenue Q is that rarest of Broadway hits that captivates everyone, theatre geek or casual fan, who has blushed at its racy tunes or busted a gut seeing the hilarity firsthand. I am pleased t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMSunday, October 25, 2015
Among other notable experiences I’ve had during the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, I can now say I’ve been admonished by a cow. Please don’t think I’m being derogatory. Because i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Renowned Belgian director Ivo van Hove is famous for his radical re-imagining of classical works, and his rendition Sophocles’ Antigone is no different. Academy Award winner Juliette Bin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
‘Capers, a one-person show performed with stunning virtuosity by Anu Yadav and co-produced with dog & pony dc, is not playing for long at Forum Theatre – three more performances betw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PM 
