Say what you will about Barbra Streisand – whether you love her massive talent or ego, or not, you have to admit there’s no one else like her. And few people can say that with as much au…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMWorking isn’t a typical musical. There’s no plot, no resolution, no love story. Yet the tale it tells is an absorbing one. By using words and music to examine the relationship of people …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04AMLeslie Ayvazian’s comedy Out of the City opens in the lobby of a Bed and Breakfast in the Poconos. Carol and her husband Matt are there for the weekend to celebrate Carol’s sixtieth birt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AMDouglas Williams’ Breathe Smoke, a world premiere being presented by the Orbiter 3 Collective, tells the story of four people whose public lives and private lives are markedly different. I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PMPromises, Promises opened on Broadway in 1968, and while the world it depicts seemed relevant back then, today that world has largely vanished. It’s set in the Manhattan skyscraper home of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PMWhen you take your seat at Bucks County Playhouse and find a paper bag on your seat filled with props – including a baggie full of rice to throw at the stage during a wedding scene – you…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMRosanne Cash admitted on Thursday night that she looks at the world through a “peculiar prism.” In one of the songs she performed that night, “Modern Blue,” she sang of visiting Barc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMJanis Dardaris is a force to be reckoned with. As Mother Courage, standing firm with her hands on her hips and wearing a white, shapeless frock covered by a blue sweater, she is a tower of s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMWhen you think of The Birds, you probably think of Tippi Hedren running for her life through the streets of a California town – a town inexplicably under attack by every winged creature wi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AMThe Other Place seems at first like a straightforward drama: Juliana, a brilliant and highly esteemed 59-year-old scientist, is beginning to suffer from memory loss. This brings her into con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PMThe Mountaintop is a fantasia rooted in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century. Set on the final night in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Katori Hall’s play takes …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMA Closer Walk with Patsy Cline marks the second time in two years that Bristol Riverside Theatre has staged a show about the life of Cline, one of country music’s greatest stars. (Always�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AMKing John, one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known history plays, is filled with intrigue, betrayal, and a pair of kings who are constantly threatening to go to war. In other words, it’s perfe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PMIt was just two and a half years ago that the Arden Theatre presented a version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters that used a fresh, slangy translation. It took a musty classic and made it …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AMThe Elementary Spacetime Show is an unusual musical about a subject you don’t often see onstage: teenage suicide. With music, book and lyrics by César Alvarez, the show treads the line be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMBill Forchion is an accomplished circus performer, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers. He’s also a real charmer, with a smile the size of a big top and the stage persona …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PMIn Surface Tension, the Philadelphia-based circus arts company Tangle Movement Arts spotlights the skills of six female performers. They use ropes, swings, bungee cords, and aerial silks in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMA wordy drama from the 19th century about capitalism, duplicity, and women’s role in English society. Sounds like it might be rather tough to get through, doesn’t it? Well, don’t be fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AMThe Berserker Residents, a Philadelphia-based troupe, has been writing and performing inspired comedy for years. Their irreverent 2010 offering The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12AM“This isn’t the Ken Burns musical documentary on James Baldwin,” said Stew about two-thirds of the way through his latest show, Notes of a Native Song. He was right. Notes of a Native …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27AMThe title tells you all you need to know about Chris Davis’ new show at the Fringe Festival. When you enter the performance space – a small room inside a Southwest Philly warehouse that�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMGreg Kennedy bills himself as an “Innovative Juggler,” and he lives up to that billing in Spherus, his show now running as part of the 201 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Kennedy’s style…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMAnimal Farm to Table isn’t like any other show in the Fringe Festival. The show, conceived and directed by Mike Durkin for The Renegade Company, is performed on an actual (but small) worki…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29PMWho would have thought that 2016 would be the year we saw not one, but two musicals about… food preparation? Just six months ago, Bucks County Playhouse premiered A Taste of Things to Come…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMAbout halfway through Ray Didinger’s new play Tommy and Me, one of the characters mentions Joe Kuharich. On the night I attended the play, the audience responded with a round of derisive l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28PMFool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn’t especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet to battle again in a seedy motel room in the Mojave De…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMThe new production of Love’s Labour’s Lost at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival continues a tradition the festival began several summers ago of creating a production in a fashion similar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48AMFor its eleventh annual summer offering, Shakespeare in Clark Park is offering a take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona that feels light and airy as the summer breeze wafting across the park. I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMLife is a banquet, and most poor suckers haven’t even said grace. So says the Mother Superior of St. Veronica’s Convent School, the lead character in the new play at the Bucks County Pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AMI Am Not My Motherland, the latest play from the Orbiter 3 playwriting collective, is about a medical operation that has complications, and about a relationship between two surgeons that als…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42AMScholars, 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…
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