Monday, December 11, 2017
David, the character Cameron Folmar plays in The Santaland Diaries (now at Drafthouse Comedy Theater in DC through December 23), struggles with compartmentalizing his identity as a Macy’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
We learned, shortly after taking our seats, and learned unexpectedly, not having known this before, but how could we, that, apparently, it is traditional to eat sauerkraut, the krautier the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMThursday, November 16, 2017
We learned, shortly after 8 p.m., that half the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was stuck on 495. Traffic unites people with weak social bonds; it gives us something communal to commiserate abo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13AMMonday, November 13, 2017
This year’s Charm City Fringe Festival was packed with exceptional fringe shows for ten days in the heart of Baltimore’s Bromo Arts District. DC Metro Theater Arts was able to ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
DC Metro Theater Arts was excited to speak to Charm City Fringe Festival founders Zach Michel and Michael Brush last week at the Lexington Market. We enjoyed a nice chat over crab cakes and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Barriers, conceived by Trajectory Dance Project, a Baltimore-based dance ensemble, is a beautiful series of five pieces focusing on human connections, and how those connections can break dow…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PM“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.” — Naomi Shihab Nye, “So Much Happiness” If there’s anything other people feel entitled to exp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PM“Everyone has at least one story that can break your heart.” — Claudia Shear, “Blown Sideways Through Life” Fringe festivals offer a bumper crop of one-person …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMSunday, November 5, 2017
“and I mean, though often forget, to give thanks, to faint down by the kitchen table in a prayer of rejoicing” — Anne Sexton, “Welcome Morning” Every day for a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMIt’s best to start with the description in the catalog: Love is scary. And it just might kill you. Stubborn lovers Em and Missy, unable to express their true feelings for one another, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
What do we do when a storm rages? We fold the laundry. We try to understand our daughter. We clean a table that wasn’t dirty to begin with. We don’t think about what’s bein…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMSunday, October 15, 2017
I’ve seen one ghost in my life – a woman in a 1980s housecoat on the veranda of a beach house in North Carolina. She stood with her hands on the rail, looking out at the ocean. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:03PMFriday, October 13, 2017
There’s a lot going on in Sarah Gancher’s I’ll Get You Back Again, now at the Round House Theatre through October 29: A bitter stand-up comedian and her struggles to recon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AMMonday, October 9, 2017
Thornton Wilder’s New Hampshire creation, Grover’s Corners, sits on some of the oldest rock in the world: “a shelf of Devonian basalt” crossed with “vestiges of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Andras Viskey’s I Killed My Mother, now in production at Spooky Action Theater, is a challenging bit of business. Its wordless opening is several minutes of wordless wandering by vari…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMSunday, September 17, 2017
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters, they want to know which tools; They never ask why build. — Anne Sexton, “Wanting to Die” Laura Rocklyn and Ty Hallm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, now in production at 1st Stage, opens while the audience is still finding their seats. On a raised platform, in the round, Angel Cruz…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
We will now consider Amanda Quain’s latest play, Noah: Apocalypse, currently playing through September 18 in a bar in Petworth. “Is it a sequel?” my friend, Jeff, asked, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
In 1582, a village parson heard the deathbed confession of a man named Richard Barley, who had married his butter churn. Barley claimed he had been bewitched into matrimony by a fairy called…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMSunday, August 27, 2017
One-act plays are tricky beasts. Playwrights must balance tension with plot and story. Too little tension, and the audience is left bored, slogging through countably interminable minutes unt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
“My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire.” – Anne Sexton Each performer in Sweet Spot Aerial’s Smoky Mirrors places great faith in materials: fabric, rope, chains, muscle. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMFriday, August 11, 2017
When The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari hit German movie screens in 1920, it baffled and delighted audiences who had primarily been entertaining themselves with annual Film Festivals of Fred Ott’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
Spring Awakening (co-created by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik and now playing at the Arts Barn in The Kentlands) has a circular tragedy to it. Teens, struggling through youth and confusion a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMThursday, August 3, 2017
Atomic Doll Productions Presents: Shocked and Amazed! was inspired by James Taylor’s Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, the world’s leading journal on weirdness in enter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Catching Up With Atomic Doll Productions! Sideshows and carnival acts have always offered normies a safe space to vicariously scratch that thrill itch. It’s equal part “I want to watch a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:22AMSunday, July 23, 2017
In 1850 Oregon, Adam Pontipee (a velvety-voiced Da’Von Moody) has come to town to trade some furs and look for a bride. We know he’s a romantic because his opening song is “Bless Your …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Maybe the only way the play Hamlet could ever make sense is to filter it through a teenaged girl perspective. Watching a 30-year-old man galumph and philosophize his way through Elsinore –…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PMMonday, July 17, 2017
“These are my friends,” Billie Holiday (Anya Nebel) tells her accompanist (LeVar Betts), gesturing at the audience. It is March of 1959, and Holiday will be dead in four months. She’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PM“Games have rules,” Brooklyn-parent Dixon (Zach Brewster-Geisz) tells his wife, Pam (Mindy Shaw). They’re playing Boggle, Dixon has tried to play “Slurpee,” and both are a little w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:07AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Douglas Stafford is a very talented juggler. If that is an interest of yours, if you like juggling, and you’ve got an hour, then you may like this show. Stafford is pretty good as a magici…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29PMThursday, July 13, 2017
Let’s get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil’s Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat Haa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25PM 
