Friday, May 27, 2022
The Broadway actor and singer—known for her roles as Ma Rainey and Ella Fitzgerald—on the most sophisticated play she's ever been in.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PMSunday, May 15, 2022
The world premiere comedy about small town life in the South came and went in a flash, leaving laughter, applause, and hopes for a revival in its wake.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:51PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Terrance McNally’s 1960s-style musical comedy is now in its final week. Two powerful dramas are coming next—‘Drumfolk’ and ‘American Prophet.’
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMThursday, March 31, 2022
The story behind a witty rewrite of an 18th-century classic by Adapter Michael Bloom, with Director Adam Immerwahr
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMFriday, March 11, 2022
Washington Stage Guild draws out the humor and the horror in George Bernard Shaw’s classic take on hypocrisy and deceit.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMFriday, February 11, 2022
The director points to the role of antisemitism in the whitewashing of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMThursday, January 27, 2022
Shaped by memory and imagination, the autobiographical play by the award-winning writer and performer premieres next week at Mosaic
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMThursday, December 23, 2021
'Oy Vey in a Manger,' their adults-only holiday special, is not for the pious or prudish—let alone right-wing fanatics—but it’s hilarious for everyone else.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AMSaturday, November 13, 2021
Regina Aquino, David Bryan Jackson, and Serge Seiden talk about time and its loss and life's precious moments.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
The deliciously comic young actress, who aspires to be Castro’s comrade (and stand-in for his late mistress), talks about her role in her cousin's play.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
The incisive and inspiring play filmed at Ford’s Theatre is now streaming through November 4.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39AMWednesday, August 18, 2021
A landmark acting school settles into a former church—home of the long-lost Black Last Supper—and welcomes the return of in-person classes.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
Theater grande dame Jane Squier Bruns, starring in 'The Day Emily Married,' talks about the challenge of playing 'the mother from hell.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMThursday, February 11, 2021
When I interviewed Ken Ludwig about his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which opened at Arena Stage more than a year ago, I was curious about his parents—the Jack and Louise of the ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMThursday, September 24, 2020
Screens will be lighting up all over Metro DC as theater lovers, supporters, and luminaries gather online for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards Friday, September 25. The red carpet unrolls at 6 pm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
When COVID-19 first struck last winter, most of us in the theater world—audiences as well as those on or off stage—thought the crisis would end in a couple of weeks. No such luck. Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMSunday, May 24, 2020
When Joy Zinoman—the doyenne of DC theater and founder of Studio Acting Conservatory—describes the training center’s new home as a “sacred place,” she’s not exaggerating. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
When Jordan Friend, the highly inventive founder of 4615 Theatre Company, invited me to attend a rehearsal of Museum 2040 a few weeks ago, I jumped at the opportunity. The show, billed as an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
“I’ve never laughed so hard in rehearsal,” said Nick Olcott, describing some of the antics performed by a tiny but talented cast — four actors in 48 roles — in the wickedly funny s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMSunday, February 9, 2020
When Laura C. Harris bursts onto the stage in Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre, she is Henrietta Leavitt—hoop skirt and all—fresh out of college, brimming with confidence, and determined t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
You don’t have to read Ulysses—or, for that matter, know anything about James Joyce, its author, or Leopold Bloom, its hapless hero—to love Bloomsday. The play, a gentle romance now bl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39PMThursday, January 30, 2020
“Read the book. But see the play first!” That’s what Hend Ayoub—the actor who plays Mariam, the empowered first wife of A Thousand Splendid Suns—told me about the show, now in its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World—the award-winning play now enjoying its DC debut at Mosaic Theater—is as delicious a romp as any that’s come along in a while. Billed as a roma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56PMThursday, December 26, 2019
There’s no doubt about it. Eureka Day is a very funny play. The show, now having its DC debut at Mosaic Theater, features five perfectly-attuned actors, a director who understands comedy, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
There’s a lovely new play at Arena Stage, but you’ll have to rush if you want to see it. That’s because the play—Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise—will be off and running befor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
If the notion of compressing 900 years of Irish mythology into a single two-hour show sounds like a lot to take on, that’s because it is. In fact, tackling the entire pantheon of Irish leg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMSunday, December 8, 2019
When Fiddler on the Roof opens at the National Theatre next week, the village of Anatevka—the fictional setting for one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history—will not be th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
When Susan Rome bats her eyelashes—as she often does in Edward Albee’s Occupant, now at Theater J—she becomes Louise Nevelson, the iconic sculptor whose life and work were inseparable.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Villainy takes many forms. And Ian Merrill Peakes – now plotting revenge against a gifted rival in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Amadeus – has played more than a few. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMThursday, October 31, 2019
Storytelling is a gift. And Conor McPherson—the Irish playwright, screenwriter and long-time ‘bad boy’ of the British stage–is one of the most gifted tale-tellers ever known. His Por…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Henry IV Part I, which opened at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre last week, is superb. (Click here for DCMTA’s review.) This production, starring Ed Gero, is equal to any I’ve seen. In fa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM 
