Saturday, April 16, 2016
There 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. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40PMFriday, April 8, 2016
When you go to see Macbeth, you probably take a few things for granted. You might expect to be impressed by the splendor and beauty of Shakespeare’s language, and you might expect t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMSaturday, April 2, 2016
Jennifer Haley’s The Nether is set partly in the near future and partly in the distant past. And in Haley’s riveting but frequently disturbing play, each of these eras can be equally dan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
If there’s a show that fits the definition of a “cult musical,” it’s probably The Secret Garden. The show was a hit with families on Broadway in the early nineties, winning three T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSunday, March 27, 2016
Among the many traditions at Hedgerow Theatre is a fondness for cozy English mysteries, especially Agatha Christie’s. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is their newest production, and it has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PMMonday, March 21, 2016
How much will you identify with Heathers: The Musical? Well, that may depend on whether you recognize the type of high school students you meet in the opening number. They’re the kind of k…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33AMSunday, March 20, 2016
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is one of the most important American plays of recent decades. It’s also one of the most difficult to get right. Consisting of two three-hour parts, it�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44PMFriday, March 18, 2016
It’s 1969, and we’re in a diner in Pittsburgh. The sweet sounds of soul are on the jukebox, and the harsh sounds of revolution are in the air. It’s a time of change in the city’s Hil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
David Rush’s play Nureyev’s Eyes takes us to the 1970s, when two of America’s greatest artists – Rudolf Nureyev, the Russian-born dancer, and Jamie Wyeth, the Wilmington-born painter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Ever since Rob Becker started performing a one-man comedy show called Defending the Caveman back in the 1980s, its popularity has grown steadily. And in the time since the show played a two-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSunday, February 28, 2016
For more than a decade, Theatre Exile has made pushing the envelope their specialty. They’ve made themselves the city’s go-to company for sexy – and occasionally sexually explicit – …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25AMSaturday, February 27, 2016
There are few artists who have honored the legacy of Nat King Cole into the modern era the way singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli has. Early in his career he recorded two Cole tribute albums, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34PMMonday, February 22, 2016
When we meet Amy in the opening moments of Clara Brennan’s Spine, she’s homeless, bewildered, and defensive. She’s a London teenager with a violent temper and a surly attitude. Over th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AMThursday, February 18, 2016
The new touring production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, now playing at the Academy of Music, doesn’t offer many surprises. But for the show’s devoted fans – and judging from the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMMonday, February 15, 2016
When’s the last time you saw a musical about the competitive world of barbershop quartet singing? I’m not positive, but I think A Wonderful Noise may be the first show of its kind. (Trut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38AMSaturday, February 6, 2016
It’s not every day you see a musical with an all-female cast and a female-led creative team, but Bucks County Playhouse has given us one with their latest offering. A Taste of Things to Co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Clara Bow was nobody’s fool. In 1962, three decades after her reign as the biggest female star in movies, Bow wrote in a letter about the recent death of one of her successors, Marilyn Mon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55AMMonday, February 1, 2016
For its latest production, the Media Theatre has turned to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic story known by millions of readers. The stage adaptation by Christopher Sergel tell…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron told us that the revolution will not be televised. Now, in 2016, Playwright Kristoffer Diaz tells us that the revolution will be webcast. And maybe live tweeted. But…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Oscar Wilde: From the Depths, Charles McMahon’s new play about the darkest period in Wilde’s life, is a play that’s brimming with intelligence and insight, and it’s beautifully perfo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is, on its surface, just a story about a brother and sister who argue over whether to sell a family heirloom. What makes the play so special is that th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37AMSunday, January 17, 2016
There’s no moon in the newest version of A Moon for the Misbegotten. The set, designed by Andrew Thompson, looks great, but because the ceiling of the Independence Studio on the Walnut Str…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
The Three Maries – A Philadelphia Phable is a Philadelphia musical that wears its civic pride on its sleeve. It’s a celebration of some of the things that make this city like no oth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Jeff Coon, a familiar and dependable face on Philadelphia stages for two decades, returned this weekend to the Arden Theatre, a company where he’s played everyone from John Wilkes Booth (i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
For Pig Iron Theatre Company’s 20th Anniversary, the troupe is returning to a show it first presented in 1998 and which they have gone on to perform around the world. It’s Gentlemen Vol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:02PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
As McCarter Theatre’s A Christmas Carol opens, the streets of London are bustling. Snow is falling lightly, and good will is in the air. A group of carolers gathers around a brightly decor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17AMFriday, December 4, 2015
If there’s one thing the recent spate of cinematic and televised incarnations of Sherlock Holmes has proven, it’s that after more than a century, the appeal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMMonday, November 23, 2015
It was when the man dressed as a woman sat on my knee that I knew this wasn’t going to be a typical night in the theater. “What’s your name?” asked Queen Agnes of Malvaria, played wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Becoming Dr. Ruth is a cute little show about a cute little lady. A one-woman show about Ruth Westheimer, the world’s most famous “German-French-Israeli-American” TV sex therapist, Bec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26PMSunday, November 15, 2015
If you don’t know anything about William O. Douglas (1898-1980), the man who served on the United States Supreme Court longer than any other justice, Douglas Scott’s play Mountain: The J…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:55PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Lights Rise on Grace is a play that has a lot to say about race, sexuality and secrecy, but says it sparingly. Chad Beckim’s play depicts three characters who reveal a lot to the audience …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53AM 
