On 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 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50AMFor those who are familiar with Richard Nelson’s 4-play cycle, The Apple Family Plays, his The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, now on stage at the Kennedy CenterR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMPhilip Dawkins’ Charm takes on a high order: it wants to charm you. And to do that its lead character, Mama, has to be more than charming. She has to charm your disbelief, your cynical…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53AMMessiah is perhaps the best known of the German-born but London-settled composer George Frideric Handel. Profoundly religious, the three-part Oratorio moves from the prophecy of Christ to h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PMIronically, and full of unintended consequences, while watching Pointless Theatre’s production of Alfred Jarry’s King Ubu (yes, that’s who wrote this play, translated afresh by G…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:29AMThe Greatest Holiday Special (N)ever, by Silver Spring Stage in collaboration with The Coil Project (a local company that writes and produces original work), is the perfect Christmas show fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:13PMPicnic comes to Catholic. And by the time it’s over, lives are overturned, dreams are rekindled, and who knows what will happen next. William Inge, master playwright of the heartland, cap…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AM“Jonah,” I said to myself as soon as I laid eyes upon the set of Lookingglass Theatre Company’s Moby Dick. Large, curved rib-bones thrusting upward, form a cradle: “I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PM“We are not a monolith! We are not a monolith! We are not a monolith!” chanted the six-member cast at the start of Woolly Mammoth’s Second City’s Black Side of the Moon. And,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMYoung Jean Lee’s theatre, entitled Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (2003-2016), was dedicated to producing “shows written and directed by Young Jean Lee.” The compan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMAmerica is but an expensive iPhone. If you’ve got that, and its Pink with a sexy ringtone, then you’re in, as in the “in” crowd. Now, all you need is a baby. Or so se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04PMSheila Jordan loves jazz. Sheila Jordan loves singing. Sheila Jordan really loves jazz singing. And we feel truly blessed to have spent an evening in the presence of that love. For those who…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMThe 18th century French playwright and philosopher Denis Diderot is known best among theatre folk for his theoretical writings: on the actor, the 4th Wall, and the emergence of scenography…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMThe 1989 musical City of Angels opened last night at Catholic University’s Hartke Theatre, offering its appreciative audience a glimpse into the past through its double filtered lens. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36PMFive actors, a stage manager, an audience, and a lot of blood. Nu Sass Productions has remounted its 2013 Capital Fringe hit, complete with gags and cornball and puppets. The pace might not …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMOliver Sacks’ non-fiction book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, consists of a series of neurological case studies. Each study examines one of Sacks’ patients, each of who…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMThere is nothing quite like “a vast morsel.” When Jane Ira Bloom plays her soprano saxophone, her wiry body jutting and jagging to the notes popping out of her horn, vastness of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMThe KC Jazz Club opened its 14th season last Friday with a soul-tossing river of jazz. Gary Bartz starts the evening with a prayer: “Sadness must leave this room,” as Paul Bollen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PMPart II of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America opened last weekend at the Round House Theatre. A joint production with the Olney Theatre Center, the restaging of Kushner’s modern da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMSynetic Theatre, which gave Washington a Silent Hamlet, now brings audiences a wordless Dante’s Inferno. And a silent 100 minutes never sounded so good. Created by Paata Tsikurishvili …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18AMTheresa Rebeck’s sharp-knuckled comedy, What We’re Up Against, received its regional premiere at Keegan Theatre this week, and the laughs abound. An architectural firm hires a yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35AMOh, what a difference 200 years make! Jane Austin’s novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published anonymously in 1811. Folger’s Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Kate Hamill and di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMRound House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center have teamed up for a truly remarkable Washington event: Parts 1 & 2 of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Angels in America. On Mond…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMCaryl Churchill’s Cloud 9, now playing at Studio Theatre, is a fabulous, funny, smart, and ever more relevant vision of a world in the midst of upheaval. Director Michael Kahn, always …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31PMThe 4615 Theatre Company returns to Woolly Mammoth’s classroom theatre with its DC premiere of Saviana Stanescu’s Aliens with Extraordinary Skills. With its touching story, enth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35PMNot long ago, Washington was the Murder-Capital of the USA. Crack Wars. Drive-Bys. Domestic Violence. Police Brutality. And all on a daily basis. The Murder-Capital of Europe in 1993 was app…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMLet’s say a wealthy patron approaches an ensemble theatre company with a proposition: “Shakespeare? Why so much Shakespeare? Why so revered? Surely, other playwrights deserve ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33PMAct Like a Grrrl! by the Actors Bridge Ensemble opened at the Martin Luther King Library this Thursday. More paratheatre than straight performance, this rendition of Act Like a Grrrl! repres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PMAct 3 of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) is entitled, “Exorcism” and, indeed, the infamous Martha and George exorcise their demons, as well as th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PMWe Know How You Die, the Upright Citizens Brigade’s improvised, audience participation exploration of the Oracle, its predictive methodology, and its impact on the American political&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PMI’ll be frank: for much of 8 Stops, Deb Margolin’s newest solo performance piece, now at Unexpected Stage Company, I was bored. I didn’t necessarily want to commit suicide,…
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