Friday, July 14, 2017
A light night of theater Repentance is not. In one uninterrupted dialogue that unfolds over the course of 90 minutes, Repentance tells a story of mental anguish, power games and abuse. Willi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMThursday, July 13, 2017
“My employer is an asshole.” Shakespeare said that. Ok, not exactly. But the Rude Mechanicals somehow fit the line seamlessly into Arden Now, their abbreviated and modified – yet s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMSunday, July 2, 2017
The great thing about fairy tales is their malleability. Fairy tales have been around for millennia and are often transported from country to country, morphing with each region and time that…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
When I was about eight-years-old, I saw an irresistible set of Hello, Kitty pencils while shopping with my mom. She told me I couldn’t have them, so I slipped them into my pocket. Once hom…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Now in its fifteenth year as a fundraiser for the educational programs of Shakespeare Theater Company, Will on the Hill joins a few celebrity actors with a gaggle of professional politicians…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Noche de Estrellas benefit was a brilliant success, raising money for GALA’s youth education programs and offering inspired performances and speeches from diverse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMSunday, June 4, 2017
There’s something special about outdoor summer concerts: the light breeze, the chirping crickets, the enjoyment of good music in summer. But when you have all that and the performer is Bro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMFriday, June 2, 2017
Ok, I admit it. I’ve become slightly obsessed with the CW show Jane the Virgin this week. The love triangles, the mysteries, the heartwarming family moments, what’s not to love? In prepa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Memorial Day this year coincided to the day with the 100th anniversary of the birth of President John F. Kennedy. To commemorate the occasion, The Kennedy Center put on a full weekend of eve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PMFriday, May 19, 2017
This Saturday, at 2:15pm, noted Broadway Producer Jack Viertel will appear at the Gaithersburg Book Festival in conversation with Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director Jason Loewith to disc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AMMonday, May 15, 2017
Morgan James has one versatile voice. It is a voice that that can slip effortlessly from light lyric coloratura to Broadway belting, to Soul singing. Take a look at her career: James earned…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:15AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Folks looking for a good cause and a night of show-stopping entertainment need look no further than CityDance’s annual DREAMscape Gala. This Saturday, May 6, donors can expect performance…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Rent fans are in for a treat as Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp team up for a one-night-only concert event at Strathmore this Friday, April 28th at 8 PM. Pascal and Rapp are forever joined in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMSunday, April 23, 2017
Ovations Theatre hits another one out of the park with their production of Hairspray, Jr. performed entirely by 3rd through 9th graders. With a book by Marc O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, mu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMSaturday, April 22, 2017
Those looking to add “a little bit of cinnamon” to their theatergoing should head to GALA Hispanic Theatre’s current production of In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Tony Awar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMFriday, April 21, 2017
¡No pare, sigue, sigue! Hamilton lovers rejoice! Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights premieres tonight at GALA Hispanic Theatre in the show’s first�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
If you are like me, you would have given your right arm for an invitation to “Club Cumming,” the nightly party Alan Cumming held in his dressing room at Studio 54 after performances of C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:06AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
A native Midwesterner myself, I was eager to see Midwestern Gothic, Signature Theatre’s new show that is being touted as Misery meets Fargo, a thriller musical in the vein of Sweeney Todd …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
For a day of family fun, it doesn’t get much better than Charm City Players. Charm City’s current production, Mary Poppins, continues their tradition of affordable family entertainment h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:49AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Full disclosure – I’ve known Jonathan Leaf for a long time. We hung out in New York City in the early 200’s when he was a budding playwright and I was finishing up grad school. Since t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMTake the Stage Performance Company’s latest production, Connected: A Musical Review of the Best Broadway & Movie Musicals, took place last weekend at the Bender JCC of Greater Washingt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMSaturday, February 18, 2017
International diplomacy is like a game of chess, full of strategy, maneuvering and calculation. You take risks you hope won’t prove fatal and you never want to be the pawn. Two Rooms, by p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
Pop-rock musicals are having a moment. With Dear Evan Hanson ruling on Broadway and Freaky Friday recently debuting at Signature Theatre, fun, upbeat musicals are all the rage. While lesser …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
A new professional theater company is coming to Montgomery County, Maryland. Best Medicine Rep, helmed by playwright John Morogiello, will focus on new comedies. This year, Best Medicine Rep…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMMonday, February 6, 2017
Friendships between fat girls and gay boys really are a thing, practically a cliché actually—or a trope, as Playwright Morgan Gould dignifies them when referring to just such a queer pair…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12PMSunday, February 5, 2017
Revenge is sweet as pie in Olney Theatre Center’s Sweeney Todd. Director Jason Loewith serves up a grisly production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Tony Award-winning musical that captures t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMMonday, January 23, 2017
There are very few things that could get me to uproot and move to Texas. Actually, there is just one thing, and his name is Lyle Lovett. Luckily, this long tall Texan graced the stage of Mar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMFriday, January 20, 2017
In part four of a series of interviews with the cast of Loves and Hours, meet Taylor Duvall. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform on the stage …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29PMSunday, January 15, 2017
I have often heard Pippin described as a frivolous musical with silly little songs and a thin plot, but to me, Pippin has always told a remarkable story, an essential story, perhaps, the onl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Allegiance, the 2015 Broadway musical based on the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II, will be shown in movie theaters around the count…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre’s 28th annual production of The Nutcracker is a veritable feast for the senses. With a gorgeous array of costumes, a set that will evoke contented sighs from an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PM 
