Tuesday, 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 01:28PMSunday, December 4, 2016
Productions of Langston Hughes’ holiday classic Black Nativity are numerous in the DC area this holiday season, but the joint production by ANKH Repertory Theatre and The Finest! Performan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is back at Ford’s Theatre in a production that is guaranteed to fill your heart with Yuletide cheer. Michael Wilson’s adaptation tells the classic ta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:26PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Percussion and film enthusiasts, listen up! For five nights only, Constellation Theatre Company presents a unique combination of the silent-film Metropolis set to a new score by renowned per…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50PMThursday, November 17, 2016
For five nights only, world renowned percussionist Tom Teasley is performing an original composition set to Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis. I saw the first performance at Con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Baltimore’s Charm City Players are back with their latest child-friendly production: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and bo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Taylor Hicks became a household name in 2006 when he won the fifth season of American Idol, becoming one of the most beloved winners of that iconic TV program. Over 200 million viewers watch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Rockville Musical Theatre’s Shrek, the Musical is a large-scale, glitzy, theatrical extravaganza. This production has got it all: Belting performers, elaborate sets and eye-catching costum…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMFriday, November 4, 2016
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s Dinner with Friends, meet Director Bob Kleinberg. Joel: Please tell our readers where they may have seen your…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Residents of the DC Metro Region are in for a treat this weekend. For two performances only at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn, Maestro Simeone Tartaglione will be conducting Peter and the Wolf. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:33PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
I’m not ashamed to admit it—I love pirates. In fact, there is a bumper sticker on the back of my car that reads “Always Be Yourself, Unless You Can Be a Pirate. Then Always Be a Pirate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMSaturday, October 29, 2016
In Act One of Cabaret, Cliff Bradshaw tells Sally Bowles that he loves Berlin because it feels like a city full of children behaving badly, getting wilder and wilder because they know that a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMFriday, October 28, 2016
Generous donors and enthusiastic fans enjoyed a night of bountiful music and goodwill at the 6th Annual “An Evening of Unexpected Delights” Fundraiser to decrease homelessness i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Stupid Fucking Bird is Aaron Posner’s inspired and irreverent takeoff on Anton Chekhov’s 19th Century play The Seagull. Stupid Fucking Bird follows the plotline of its predecessor, while…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AMMonday, October 17, 2016
You know him as Aaron Burr, Sir, the damned fool who shot Alexander Hamilton. Now get to know Leslie Odom, Jr., the man behind America’s most notorious villain. I spoke with Odom in advanc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
Kensington Arts Theatre-2nd Stage’s production of The Wizard of Oz Young Performers’ Edition is up and running at the Kentlands Arts Barn. A great way to while away a few hours with your…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23PMMonday, October 10, 2016
Ruthless! The Musical, Creative Cauldron’s season opener, offers a night of supersized camp and comedy. Ruthless! debuted Off-Broadway in 1992 with music by Marvin Laird and book and lyric…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMCornelia Cody’s Volcanes: Cuentos de El Salvador is the latest offering of GALA Hispanic Theatre’s GALita children’s theater. Volcanes centers on a Salvadoran family split between the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10AMFriday, October 7, 2016
Fringe POP [Performance over Projection] is an interesting and laudable new theatrical experiment from the Capital Fringe creative team. Fringe POP, which launched last night at the Logan Fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Happy Birthday, Pulitzer Prize! This weekend only, Olney Theatre Center and Maryland Humanities celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes with Celebrate the Pulitzer Prize: Sta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30PMMonday, September 26, 2016
To the delight of children and children at heart, Adventure Theatre’s 2016/17 season kicked off yesterday with Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. Based on Mo Willem’s first Knuffle Bun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
John Gallagher, Jr. is a Tony-Award winning actor and musician. He won a Tony-Award in 2007 for his portrayal of Mortiz Stiefel in the rock musical Spring Awakening and was recently back on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Olney Theatre Center is on a roll this autumn. Their production of The Diary of Anne Frank, opening on the heels of their recent success with Angels in America (in a joint production with Ro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Imagine a world in which death no longer exists. Rorschach Theatre’s current production of A Bid to Save the World – a new play by California based playwright Erin Bregman – asks audie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Entertaining for children and parents alike, One Gold Coin – Una moneda de oro, is the current family-friendly presentation produced by InterAct Story Theatre. According to their press rel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
In the not too distant future there will be a drought so long and severe that water use will become strictly regulated. So regulated that even your right to pee will be in doubt. How will yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMSunday, September 4, 2016
Following the success of last year’s Sweeney Todd Prog Metal Version, Landless Theatre Company is back with their latest metal adaptation of a Tony® Award-winning musical. This time, the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Everything old really is new again in the The Hypocrites‘ innovative production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado at Olney Theatre Center. When I entered the theater 30 minutes …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Love in Ruins is the third Capital Fringe show written by playwright Paul Handy. Handy’s Cry for the Gods and and Carry a Big Stick appeared at the festival in 2011 and 2013 respectively. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:13PMIn Confederates, a new play by James F. Burns, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is a prescient military tactician who sees a clear path to Southern victory the day after the first Battle of Bu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Jonathan Larson’s sudden death the night before Rent’s off-Broadway premiere is one of theater’s most heart-breaking events. Larson never got to see his only show move to Broadway, win…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PM 
