Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Think that sword swallowing, fire eating, and burlesque are all lost entertainments of a bygone era? Think again. Strange for Hire, presented by Shocked and Amazed! and Ripley’s Believe It…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Sideshow is one of the oldest and most intriguing forms of performance. Think it’s a 19th century relic? Think again. On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Shocked & Amazed Presents: Strange…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Making theatre is hard. Making any kind of art is hard, but the challenges that accompany mounting a live production – logistical, administrative, financial – are far more complicated th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:24PMMonday, January 12, 2015
At the heart of Tarel Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, the new play at Studio Theatre, is the question of what it means to be a man. Actually, it’s less of a question than a command. Set in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMSunday, January 11, 2015
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! There’s even a serious issue (spoiler alert: it’s the Holocaust). Such is the sales pitch that the fictional playwrights Bud Davenport (Ryan Burke) and Doug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
There are times when I savor getting all dressed up, going to an opening night gala at Arena Stage or The Kennedy Center, and mingling with the 0.1% who fund Washington theatre. But sometime…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast and director of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Tempest, meet Director Ethan McSweeny. Michael: I think a lot of people around town …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMMonday, January 5, 2015
Just so we’re clear: Natsu Onoda Power’s new devised performance piece is neither an homage to Ted Cruz nor a biography of Michelle Bachmann. In fact, as mentioned in one of several deli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:48PMThis is Part Three of Three of a discussion with the cast of Terminus at The Studio Theatre: Nanna Ingvarsson, Katie Ryan, and Dylan Myers, and their director Tom Story. Michael: In the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMThursday, January 1, 2015
In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Tempest, meet Rachel Mewbron. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them where the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
This is Part Two of Three of a discussion with the cast of Terminus at The Studio Theatre: Nanna Ingvarsson, Katie Ryan, and Dylan Myers, and their director Tom Story. Michael: What mad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMTuesday, December 23, 2014
In Part Two of a series of interviews with the cast of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Tempest, meet Clifton Duncan. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them where …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AMThis is Part One of Three of a discussion with the cast of Terminus at The Studio Theatre: Nanna Ingvarsson, Katie Ryan, and Dylan Myers, and their director Tom Story. Michael: Please in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:43AMMonday, December 22, 2014
I spoke with Frank Cervarich and Lex Davis talk about how they directed the outrageous A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them where …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Tempest, meet Sofia Jean Gomez. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them where …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02PMFriday, December 12, 2014
It seems DC is on the nice list this year. From classics (See: Olney) to new inventions (See: Pointless), there really is something for everyone on local stages this season. Not to be outdon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:11PMSaturday, December 6, 2014
Strictly speaking, I really shouldn’t like Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. I like theatre that is dark, shocking, provocative… I’m more comfortable at Capital Fringe than Dis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMFriday, December 5, 2014
It’s easy to get sucked into the mad frenzy of American consumerism during the holidays. Black Friday creeps ever earlier, and the Hydra of long lines, long lists, traffic lights, and clea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
In an age of 24 hour cable news and social media saturation, the good ole’ fashioned radio play may seem like an artifact of a simpler time. But for Lean & Hungry Theater, a DC based c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:39PMFriday, November 14, 2014
Had you asked me moments before The Rez Sisters, American University’s tremendous and thought provoking new play, began, I would have told you I didn’t think bingo was all that interesti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:11PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
In the past week, I’ve had the mixed blessing of seeing some very good shows that put the very bad side of human nature on gruesome display. The characters in Scena’s Handbag, a daring p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMSunday, November 9, 2014
Virus Attacks Heart, a new play by Australian playwright Shannon Murdoch, is a romance for people who don’t do romances. It’s a horror story of a relationship that makes you ache for an …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Although it was written in 1938, six years before his breakthrough hit The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales was only produced in 1998, due to the persistence of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMFriday, October 31, 2014
I had the honor of interviewing Director Robert McNamara and cast members Anne Nottage, Amanda Forstrom, and Haely Jardas from Scena Theatre’s Handbag, which begins performances toni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AMMonday, October 27, 2014
“One of the most enduring features of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the sense that both the characters and the audience take a temporary journey into the world of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AMMonday, October 13, 2014
One of my favorite movies of all time is Clue, a mystery comedy (based on the board game) starring Tim Curry that is chock full of over-the-top characters and zany, slapstick farce. As I lau…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Fog was already filling the vast Concert Hall at the George Mason University Center for the Arts when I settled in to watch the first show of Virginia Opera Company’s 2015 season, Sweeney …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:05PMFriday, October 10, 2014
Like the circle of birth, death, and re-birth that is such an integral symbol in the work, Carol Campbell’s The Goddess Diaries is back in a new incarnation at George Mason University. Dir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:08PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
For those theatre-goers wanting a jaunty escape from the daily grind of everyday life, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis may not be for you. This bluntly dark and poetic play, which largely disp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:26AMFriday, October 3, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s tango drenched Evita has achieved an iconic status that rivals that of its own subject, Eva Peron, the social-climbing, deeply flawed, yet popularly belo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMWednesday, 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 07:05PM 
