Saturday, October 16, 2021
Pop quiz: If you set out to train young musical theater artists, whose canon would you sample? A) Rodgers and Hammerstein B) Stephen Sondheim C) Jerry Herman D) Andrew Lloyd Webber E) Kander…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:18PMSunday, October 3, 2021
A revue of beloved showtunes makes for a giddy reunion of artists and audience.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Best Medicine Rep channels women of a certain age ready for their next act.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMSunday, August 22, 2021
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
The LA-based performance artist—now appearing as Romeo at the Frederick Shakespeare Festival—talks about being labeled and falling in love.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AMSunday, August 8, 2021
Too many Shakespeare reinventions hang on costume overhauls or time travel. But Endangered Species (theatre) Project’s Romeo and Juliet is not your garden-variety redo. This ambitious gend…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32AMThursday, August 5, 2021
Broadway veteran Joshua Castille (Deaf West's 'Spring Awakening') comes to Frederick Shakespeare Festival and a classic gets a rethink.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38AMMonday, August 2, 2021
Played out in a basement bunker, this uplifting virtual show spins on nostalgia and desire.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMSunday, July 25, 2021
A solid reason to return to live theater for an outlandish peek at the ups and downs of married life.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMSaturday, July 17, 2021
In an era of TikTok attention spans, 21st Century Players' new audio play is a refreshing dive into storied traditions that came before.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22AMSunday, June 11, 2017
America’s beloved franchise The Wizard of Oz gets a sprightly and spectacular makeover at Creative Cauldron this month. The musical — with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harbu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMSunday, June 4, 2017
The title alone is fair warning. Red, White, and Tuna is irreverently reverse-patriotic. Let’s break it down: red state (Texas), mixed with a dash of white supremacy and a tangy, Southern …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMSunday, May 7, 2017
Some plays are like peeping through your eye doctor’s phoropter — layer upon layer of filters. Say, a playwright of the Roaring Twenties borrows a style of the 1660s English Restoration …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMSunday, November 13, 2016
As self-conscious plays go, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound is both a self-fulfilling prophesy and a cross-examination of the creative process. The play, which was nominated for a Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PMFriday, November 4, 2016
Stephen Schwartz’s often treacly Godspell, conceived by book writer John-Michael Tebelak, is a parade of parables borrowed from the New Testament’s Matthew and Luke set to a hippie-chic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMFriday, October 14, 2016
Like The Nutcracker at Christmastime, Cirque Spooktacular, the NSO Pops’ Cirque de la Symphonie Halloween Extravaganza, is bound to become a seasonal tradition at The John F. Kennedy Cente…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:44PMFriday, July 15, 2016
Think commissioned plays are a thing of the Elizabethan past? Nu Sass Productions’ 22 Boom! is concierge theater at its nimblest. Written by Miranda Rose Hall and directed by Renana Fox, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMMonday, July 11, 2016
What better setting for black-box theater than a figurative black box — a stalled elevator — with two discordant strangers trapped inside? Luigi Laraia’s Too Close is definitely too c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMMonday, June 13, 2016
Don’t feel like committing to a two-hour show in development? Secrets & Sound: Six 10-Minute Plays is your ticket to theatrical speed-dating. You’re bound to fall in love with one of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30PMFriday, April 1, 2016
A Little Night Music might be classified as a gateway drug to Stephen Sondheim. Whether a fan or a skeptic, once you get a whiff of this vigorous (and tuneful!) exposé on humankind’s mati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
The Keegan Theatre’s American Idiot speaks to collective genius. Hardly a no-brainer to mount this explosive, war-weary work, weaned in the Bush II era, at the height of today’s media-hi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMFriday, February 26, 2016
Rob from the rich, give to the poor ̶ a theme with universal and enduring appeal, at least among 99% of us. The centuries-old legend of benevolent British outlaw Robin Hood has pranced a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMFriday, February 19, 2016
Long before singles misrepresented themselves in their Tindr profiles or cribbed others’ memes online, there was Cyrano de Bergerac— the man who would be Romeo, if not for that monstrous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59PMMonday, September 7, 2015
Simplicity is the key to director Scott Edmiston’s passionate vision for this musical.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Somebody get Eddie Lounge a cocktail — and maybe a ream of cocktail napkins to wipe his beady, bald head. What’s a guy gotta do to get a drink around here?! The Lord of Loungeolo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Memo to Star Johnson, mastermind of OpenStage’s How to Quit Your Day Job: Quit your day job. It’ll be OK. Johnson’s merry musical comedy — staged bohemian-style in the Eastern Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41AMThursday, July 9, 2015
A critic is not supposed to be part of the show. A critic is not supposed to get up on the stage and “get down,” wiggling her fat belly/butt under the bright lights. But BellyFun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMMonday, June 15, 2015
Area performers will be performing a good deed on June 27th to help a theater family in need. On June 1, Kelly Hennessa, a social studies teacher for children with special needs at Centrevil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Who knew metro Washington was also the nation’s nerd capital? A sold-out crowd — many ectomorphs in geeky garb, monk/Jedi robes, foil caps, riotous colors, vintage tour shirts, and even …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:29PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
For a good time, call (703) 425-6782. That gets you the Providence Players of Fairfax’s reservations line, and this bedrock company of major-league players never disappoints. The Glass Men…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Fitting that If All the Sky Were Paper — a dramatization of war correspondence lovingly presented by archivist Andrew Carroll — would unfold at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Perform…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:49PM 
