Saturday, July 9, 2016
Anyone Can Be President: Secret Honor at the Fringe “Scathing” “lacerating” and “brilliant” were three of the words the late Roger Ebert applied to the 1984 Robert Altman movie o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Freud said, “When a delusion cannot be dissipated by the facts of reality, it probably does not spring from reality.” This is the essence of prejudice. In showing us a more human side o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Roman Holiday: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Theatre Company According to scholar Jonathan Bate, “‘Shakespeare’ may be thought of as a vast collection of games…[some] games …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:11PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
On the stage of the Folger Theatre, with the vestiges of the set of Aaron Posner’s just-closed Midsummer Night’s Dream in the background, well-known director and playwright Aaron Posner …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Like Liza Minnelli’s in Cabaret, the unforgettable image of Marlene Dietrich hovers over Kabarett & Cabaret, a production of the 2015-16 In Series at the Source Theatre. Kabarett &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01PMSaturday, January 16, 2016
At the first press night of The History Boys by Alan Bennett, the cast and creative team were laughing and joking as the audience began to arrive. A fire had started in the flies of the thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Synetic Theater’s As You Like It is what W.H. Auden called an “inverted pastoral”—the outlaw theme of Shakespeare’s play is enhanced by the transformation of the Forest of Arden in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46PMThursday, November 19, 2015
Pericles is a night of wonder, perfect for a romantic evening or a thought-provoking night out with family or friends. Watching it is like lying in the grass watching clouds move over a beau…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMSunday, November 15, 2015
In the wake of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, it is the perfect time for an opera which tells the truth about race in America—Appomattox. Philip Glass, the internationally a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Four lost young people in a deserted beach house, in Dublin, late at night. There is a thunderstorm beating down. This is the evocative opening scene of The Magic Tree, in its American pre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Rembrandt once said, “Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
I asked Playwright Karin Coonrod to talk about her play texts and beheadings/ElizabethR, which ends its run this weekend at Folger Theatre. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMMonday, September 28, 2015
“[I]f I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom,” said the legendary Elizabeth I: wit, scholar, great Queen, and poet. There is no do…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival Launch Party was more than a celebration. It was a defining moment for DC theater. The National Museum of Women in the Arts was a superb setting for the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMMonday, August 17, 2015
The opening of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is a good time to reflect on the state of gender parity in the American theatre, in respect to playwrights. The numbers are, frankly, app…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:32PMMonday, July 20, 2015
Romeo and Juliet has a special place in our popular culture. BBC’s 60 second Shakespeare has a hilarious front page, “Double Teen Death Horror”; “City’s Top Clans Devastated after …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
A woman’s perspective on war is a powerful thing. We are often mothers, and because we can give birth, I think some of us find killing especially terrible. “I didn’t raise my boy to b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:17AMSunday, July 12, 2015
This is a rare opportunity to see the avant-garde Theatre of Self-Loathing, bringing the best of Eastern European theatre to the DC audience. Eddie and Cassilda, winners of the 2003 CAPB Awa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PMThis appealing musical is an engaging discovery, performed by The Class Act Players, a theater company of seniors from Robinson Secondary School and Oakton High School in Fairfax. Toby (Pres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:11PMMonday, June 15, 2015
WSC Avant Bard’s current production of Giraudoux’ The Madwoman of Chaillot, an entertaining tribute to the power of joy over despair, reminds us of the importance of the artist in an ine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
“People do not mind being wicked,” said Moliere, “but they do object to being made ridiculous.” In Moliere’s great play Tartuffe, the merchant Orgon is made ridiculous by his overw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15PMIn Part 2 of our interviews with the actors playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Folger Theatre, meet Romell Witherspoon. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. What are your …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AMWednesday, June 3, 2015
In Part 1 of two interviews with the actors who play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Folger Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, meet Ada…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:14PMSaturday, May 23, 2015
Money Talks The Pallas Theatre Collective’s Major Barbara is a captivating, thought-provoking comedy. The themes of class disparity, the necessity to compromise one’s values to survive, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger Theatre is a sumptuously original production of the breakthrough play of one of England’s greatest living playwrights. “I write plays�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Taffety Punk has given us a passionate Hamlet, whose loneliness, wit, and audacity make him utterly unsuited to the corrupt and deceptive society in which he lives. Go if you like Shakespear…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PMFriday, May 1, 2015
The glittering prizes keep coming for Fun Home, a mainstream musical about a young lesbian and her closeted gay father. Fun Home received 12, that’s right 12, Tony nominations, for Best M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Tea and Entropy: Lettice and Lovage at the Quotidian Theatre Company Lettice and Lovage is crafted with love, a fitting tribute to a playwright, Peter Shaffer, whose passion for words makes …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Hail, Tuna! Greater Tuna will delight you, whether you have ever lived in a small town or whether the closest you have ever been to one is the East Village in New York. As directed by Lucind…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58AMSunday, February 8, 2015
T.S. Eliot’s great poem The Hollow Men is sometimes said to be about the shell-shocked soldiers of the First World War. (“We are the hollow men/We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together /…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.” This nursery rhyme is often said to be about Mary Stuart. The pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35PM 
