Theatre-lovers searching for a sequel to Doubt—John Patrick Shanley’s prize-winning (and frequently revived) play about nuns and priests in an Irish-American enclave of New York—will b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57PMSouth African playwright Athol Fugard’s early masterpiece, Blood Knot, has finally returned to DC. And, judging by the roaring ovation on opening night, those who can see this production…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:16PMIf you can imagine a play that captures bits and pieces of The Wizard of Oz and Greek Mytholgy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a Tom and Jerry comic, then you will have some idea of what g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38PMThe How and the Why – Sarah Treem’s celebrated play about science, feminism and generational rivalry – has just made its long-awaited DC debut at Theater J. The two-handed play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47PMUS Premiere of Mexican Classic Now Playing at GALA Hispanic Theatre Some might think of it as a Mexican version of Rashomon—Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1950 film in which each of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PMI first encountered Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies five months ago, when it was presented at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival. Hearing the play at that first public reading …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMChris Stezin is a playwright, actor, and director whose work—on and off the stage—has brightened the marquees of DC theatres for more than two decades. The author of roughly 25 plays in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMIf you think teaching manners to a group of outcast runaways sounds like a joke—ridiculous at best, and irrelevant or possibly dangerous at worst—then think again. Because the idea of of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44PMIf you’re looking for something to laugh at in this wintry political season, then you’d better move fast. That’s because tickets for Twist Your Dickens, Second City’s parody of A Chr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04AMYes, the rumors are true. The Christians—now making its DC debut at Theater J—is amazing. It’s amazing for its sheer audacity—first, in turning the nation’s leading Jewish theater…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23PMThe Second City’s Black Side of the Moon— the Chicago-based comedy troupe’s first foray into post-Obama politics—launched the holiday season this week with an African-American cast a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMIf the idea of “sophisticated family entertainment” sounds like a contradiction in terms—an oxymoron if ever there were one—then Peter and the Starcatcher, which just opened for a qu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMThere’s good news and bad news floating out of GALA Hispanic Theatre this week. First, the bad news. Salvador—the full-length autobiographical dance drama, choreographed by the great Fla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:05PMMilk Like Sugar, the Obie Award-winning play that just opened at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, starts off as badass comedy, the kind where the word “shit”—repeated like an “amen” a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMWhatever your choice in Hallowe’en fare, Witch—an adaptation of a Jacobean melodrama now having its world premiere at The Mead Theatre Lab—has it all. There’s murder, mayhem, and blo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMBilled as “The Second City’s Completely Unbiased Political Revue,” Unelectable You—now in the middle of a four month pre-election national tour—paused in Washington, DC last weeken…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PMThere have been so many plays about dysfunctional families—think about August: Osage County, for example, or The Sisters Rosensweig—that it’s hard to believe that anyone would try to p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMIf you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably never heard of Cervantes. Or you know him only as the creator of Don Quixote, a book you last picked up in high school. But don’t let tha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:45PMMosaic Theater Company of DC Unveils Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies. Full Production Set for World Premiere in January 2017 One of the most highly anticipated new plays of the 2016-17 s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:27AMIt’s poignant and painful, funny and moving. Yet most of all, Satchmo at the Waldorf—the beautifully-wrought one-man show that opened to a packed house Monday night—is vastly entertain…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:48PMPat O’Brien’s solo performance in Underneath the Lintel has been captivating US and Canadian Fringe audiences for eight years now, and it’s not hard to see why. Seeing O’Brien—a lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMThe scene is deceptively simple. It’s winter. Two old men—one shivering in a sweater, the other swaddled in layers of coats and hats—are sitting on a park bench, contemplating the empt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02AMGALA Hispanic Theatre—home of the National Center for Latino Performing Arts—kicked off its 41st season this weekend with the DC premiere of Miss Cuarenta. The dazzling solo performance…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMShe’s been described as a stand-up comic, a multilingual humorist, a playwright, and a director. But mostly CJ, as she likes to be called, is a master storyteller whose ability to laugh at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PMThe idea of matching music to photographs is not new, but in 35MM—now having its DC premiere at the Atlas Performing Arts Center as part of this year’s Capital Fringe—the approach gets…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51AMStephanie Mumford’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story, The Lady With the Little Dog—now at the Quotidian Theatre Company—is a stunning tribute to the literary classic and as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMAnyone looking for a respite from this summer’s sultry heat need look no further than the stage at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where Do Not Disturb—a cross between comic opera and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMSusan Jackson’s new play, Death Be Not Loud—produced by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company and billed as “a contemporary Southern comedy”—is a sweet reflection on love and loss,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39AMIn Ain’t that Rich, California-based writer and comedian Kate Robards delivers a dazzling solo performance, one as mesmerizing and powerful as it is funny. The show is now making its debut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMIs it a coincidence that Another Way Home—which opened at Theater J on Monday night—just happens to coincide with the start of sleepaway camp for kids in the DC area? Not at all. That’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AM‘El Paso Blue’ in long-awaited East Coast Premiere at GALA It took roughly 20 years for Octavio Solis’ El Paso Blue to make it to Washington, DC. But now that it has arrived, th…
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