A Source Festival Artistic Blind Date brings together three area artists of different disciplines for an adventure in performance art. In five months they need to create and perform a perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMStepping back 45 years, America is in the midst of a social revolution, and feminist consciousness-raising sessions are underway. Radical feminists, cultural feminists, and political feminis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMMosaic Theatre Company of DC concluded their 2017 season with a riveting, deeply provocative examination of a State’s National Security apparatus on dissident individuals living and lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PMOne of the elements of the Source Festival 2017 is two Artistic Blind Dates. These collective creations bring together area artists from different disciplines to devise an original performan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:10PMLast night, Gilad Evron’s Ulysses on Bottles opened the Mosaic Theater Company’s 2017 Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival. Described as an allegory, Evron’s Ulysses…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMJoe in Michael Milligan’s one-man show Mercy Killers is, indeed, your average Joe: he listens to Rush Limbaugh, he works on cars as a mechanic, he has no college degree, and (yes) he p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31AMSome plays are more difficult to watch than others; some plays activate your imagination and pull you into their stories whole-body: those plays pull you into the psychological realities the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMThe spectacle of movement has always been Synetic’s star attraction. When those primal, emotional moments fuse with a strong narrative throughline, Synetic’s brilliance shines br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14PMOne Thousand and One Nights, the collection of classic Islamic tales upon which Mary Zimmerman built The Arabian Nights, now playing at Constellation Theatre Company, could not have a more v…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMI didn’t know that Laura Bush had killed a guy. It really had never crossed my mind. Well, after seeing Ian Allen’s Laura Bush Killed a Guy, now playing at the Klunch at Caos on…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMWith the Maly Drama Theatre’s Three Sisters, playing through April 30 at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre, theatre lovers will feast on every slow motion wonderment, every…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMAs soon as the lights come up on Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, now playing at Arena’s Kreeger Theater, the focus is clear. Or is it? Are four really “smart” people…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39PMFirst of all, for theatre lovers, there is nothing as delightful as watching three top notch actors have fun on stage, and with Holly Twyford, Gregory Linington, and Erin Weaver you’ll…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMAs soon as the Trio finished Thelonius Monk’s “Brilliant Corners”, the KC Jazz Club exploded in applause. Some music is not listened to: it is experienced, your body vibr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMAbout midway through Mosaic Theater’s A Human Being Died That Night, Eugene de Kock, serving two life sentences for murder and assassination, turns to his interviewer, Pumla Gobodo-M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38AMGeorge Bernard Shaw loves words. Even his stage directions are wordy. He also loved ideas, philosophy, aesthetics, politics… In Back to Methuselah Part 3: As Far as Thought Can Reach, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMIn The Empty Space Peter Brook declared that the stage has “two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.” In Battlefield, his collaboration with Marie-Hélène Estie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMSometimes a story is so unique it needs no explanation. Sometimes a story dares you to disbelieve. Sometimes a story… Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali? is such a story. And as wr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMAs the audience gathers in the Eisenhower, antique footage rolls on the screen: people gathering, moving, marching. José Martí, Cuban national hero, poet, and revolutionary flashes on the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMOne hundred years separate the young women in What Every Girl Should Know and Dry Land, now playing in rep at Forum Theatre. In Monica Byrne’s What Every Girl Should Know, the fou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMSometimes the viewer of a theatrical experience can only sit in wonder at the spectacle, not because elephants dance on soccer balls or trapeze artists spiral on silken threads, but becaus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMThe Elevator Repair Service’s production of The Select (The Sun also Rises) opened at the Lansburgh Theatre Monday, and I’m certain that Earnest Hemingway’s 1926 debut nove…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMRegina Carter and her violin: a human voice has never sounded so true. If you get a chance to experience Regina Carter: Simply Ella, the jazz quintet composed of Regina Carter (violin), Marv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11PMSome plays survive the test of time. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is such a play. And the production mounted by The George Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMThey sure don’t make kings like they used to. And maybe that’s a good thing. Mike Bartlett’s historical fantasy, King Charles III, based loosely (very loosely) on the curr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMTo understand the voice of Jazzmeia Horn — whether it’s embodying her own ballad, the cleverly romantic, soft “Legs and Arms,” or taking on the role of an instrumenta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:23PMLillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine came to DC for a command performance on January 25, 1942. The occasion: Franklin Roosevelt’s 60th birthday. America had just entered World Wa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMNow playing at the Folger Theater, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and produced in association with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festiva…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMMack, Beth by Chris Stezin, now playing at The Keegan Theatre, is a Macbeth for the Cyber Age. Set in a world where death by dagger is replaced by death by fake news, Mack, Beth makes a pers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:41AMTom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem isn’t so much about consciousness and the existence of subjectivity, “the hard problem” elucidated by contemporary Australian philosop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PMOn occasion, a play comes along with a bit of history, a bit of uncovered history, and that history changes the nature of the universe. Silent Sky is that sort of play. Lauren Gunderson’s …
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