Scholars, theatergoers and activists have been debating The Taming of the Shrew for about four centuries. Just what was Shakespeare, with his tale of the warring lovers Katherina and Petruch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12AMSpoiler Alert: The two main characters in this play die. Well, you probably figured that out, given that the play they’re in is called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Or maybe you f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50AMRoseburg examines two incidents that took place a few miles, and several decades, apart. Yet they’re connected in a tragic way, through America’s fixation on guns. And while the show is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:06AMIf there’s one thing the Old Academy Players are known for, it’s traditions. The venerable troupe was founded in 1923, and has been performing for most of its existence in a building com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34AMAs Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage opens, two couples meet for a civilized discussion. Their sons have just had a violent playground encounter that cost one of the boys a couple teeth, and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PMA droll and inventive take on moviemaking, The Jaws Project mixes fact, fantasy and some show biz speculation to make a highly enjoyable comedy. Today, most people remember Jaws as one of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMWith its production of Euripides’ The Bacchae: A Ritual Blood Sacrifice, The Phenomenal Animals presents a feminist spin on one of the classic works of Greek theatre. Seven of the cast’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMIn one of the collections of his theatre lyrics, Stephen Sondheim writes that while most people regard West Side Story as being about “racial prejudice and urban violence,” its actual pu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AMIt was in the opening moments of The Servant of Two Masters, as one of the performers stood in front of the curtain to introduce the show, that I realized this wasn’t your standard 18th c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMAssassins is about people who lived out their dream – but it’s not the dream we ordinarily think of as “The American Dream.” This audacious musical by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMAt one point on opening night of his latest show, Tony Braithwaite asked if any of his fellow Georgetown University graduates were in the audience. One woman sitting up front announced that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:55PMIn many ways, it’s startling to learn that Trouble in Mind was first performed in 1955. Alice Childress’ play was decades ahead of its time: it’s a satire of racial stereotypes in Amer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10PMAll dolled up in her fanciest dress, she’s smiling and chipper. It’s a sunny day, and Winnie is not going to let a little thing like the gigantic mound of dirt she’s buried in up to he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39PMThere’s a song in the Broadway musical Hamilton that asks “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” That question is at the heart of Time Is On Our Side, R. Eric Thomas’ new play.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMOn the surface, Naomi Iizuka’s 36 Views is a straightforward story set against the backdrop of the art world. It’s about an art dealer with a shady reputation, an art scholar who gets dr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMIt’s Christmastime at the Norton house. The three Norton boys – well, they’re in their forties, but they sure act like boys most of the time – are spending the holiday with their wid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMChinquapin, Louisiana, the fictional setting of Steel Magnolias, is one enchanting place. You don’t see much of it in Robert Harling’s play – the whole show takes place in the town bea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:41PMThere are few actresses more familiar, or more beloved, than Susan Sullivan. For four decades she’s been a regular, dependable presence on television, most notably in eight seasons as kind…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMEven if you haven’t seen the musical version of Sister Act, you might think you know what it’s going to be like. After all, it’s a musical based on a familiar hit movie. It’s about a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMFully Committed, Becky Mode’s frenetic 1999 comedy that spoofs the unpleasant underbelly of the restaurant business, is being given a highly enjoyable production at Theatre Horizon in Norr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMWhen we meet Nick Bright, his life has never looked bleaker. A midlevel Citibank employee, he’s been kidnapped in Pakistan by a group of Islamic militants, the followers of a local Imam. H…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51PMThe Great American Trailer Park Musical is a terrific title for a show. When you hear it, you know exactly where it takes place – and you can probably guess what the story and the characte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00PMRay is a man living in two worlds. A white, middle-aged financial analyst with a spacious house in an upscale Philadelphia suburb, he spends his free time attending parties, discussing socia…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:09PMRuth Zweigman is not a pleasant person to be around. She’s so negative that when she says “I’m in a bad mood,” her sister responds, “How can you tell?” After making a typically h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20AMInis Nua Theatre Company has made a specialty of performing plays written in, and set in, the British Isles. So it may seem odd that Inis Nua is doing a play about Bradley Manning, the Ameri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is one of Tennessee Williams’ lesser-known plays. First staged in 1978, a few decades after his biggest successes, Creve Coeur has echoes of Williams’ bes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMBack in the eighties and nineties, there was no rock star edgier or more electrifying than Sierra Mist. (No, she’s no relation to the soda.) But that was a long time ago. Now it’s 2016, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:48PMThe 2016 Oscar Hammerstein Festival, being held this weekend at the Bucks County Playhouse, brings together a wide array of musical theatre artists, scholars, and enthusiasts to explore the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58AMYou’d probably expect a play with a title like Sex with Strangers to be provocative, entertaining and, well, sexy. And Laura Eason’s play is all that and then some. It’s not a perfect …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38AMWe all know that the Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents ever written. But have you ever actually tried to read it? Pretty boring, right? Who would expect such…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48AMThere are few plays in the Shakespearean canon as beloved as Twelfth Night. It’s a comedy that uses mistaken identities, trickery, and a healthy dose of romance to captivate its audience. …
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