Monday, January 16, 2017
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 11:50AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
For 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 12:53AMSunday, December 18, 2016
Messiah 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 10:29AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
The 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 11:13PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Picnic 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 11:30AMSunday, November 27, 2016
“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 09:47PMFriday, November 18, 2016
“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 03:36PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Young 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 10:49AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
America 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 12:04PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Sheila 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 10:04PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
The 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 09:59AMSaturday, October 29, 2016
The 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 05:36PMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Five 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 02:42PMMonday, October 17, 2016
Oliver 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 04:39PMSunday, October 16, 2016
There 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 10:45AMSunday, October 9, 2016
The 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 11:16PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Part 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 10:59AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Synetic 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 11:18AMThursday, September 29, 2016
Theresa 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 12:35AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Oh, 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 04:29PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Round 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 03:34PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Caryl 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 12:31PMSunday, August 21, 2016
The 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 03:35PMThursday, August 11, 2016
Not 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 12:53PMMonday, August 8, 2016
Let’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 03:33PMThursday, July 21, 2016
Act 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 04:22PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
We 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 02:57PMMonday, July 18, 2016
I’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,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15AM 
