Saturday, June 9, 2018
Whether we grew up in the heart of DC, Manhattan, Evanston, on a midwestern farm, or in the Everglades, we all seemingly arrive at adulthood after spending years on an isolated island, cut o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PMSaturday, June 2, 2018
Tantallon Community Players’ current production of Hairspray is one of those shows where this reviewer wouldn’t mind seeing every performance. It’s just that damn good. I’m sayin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Follow the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole for an enchanting Alice in Wonderland performance. It was a surreal evening on Friday evening, the Opening Night of Chesapeake Shakespeare Compan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMFriday, April 6, 2018
The Improvised Shakespeare Company is a performance that has been performed to sold out, jam-packed houses in its Chicago hometown since 2005, and in New York City, L.A., San Francisco, Mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47PMMonday, March 12, 2018
George! Go see this! George – Don’t Do That!: The Music and Magic of Joyce Grenfell is part two of MetroStage’s three-part Spring Solo Series featuring three artists telling stori…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:21PMDoggone it! This is a fun show! (And, Arf-fully family-friendly). Complete Dogness is about a dog with bad habits, who has the ability to learn new tricks and win hearts. This was a one-time…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AMSunday, March 4, 2018
Five minutes into the start of Every Brilliant Thing, most of the audience had already cried for the first time – and had laughed aloud. By the end of the show, the entire room seeme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:51PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Gypsy, A Musical Fable, a Broadway classic that debuted in 1959, has become intertwined with the DNA of most Baby Boomers, Gen Xs, Gen Ys, and even Millennials. The book by Arthur Laurents …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, March 2, 2018
Catch Happenstance Theater’s Slapstick Jukebox before it scoots away. Only five shows were planned for this weekend, so only the fast and the few will get the opportunity to watch this…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
One of the most amazing things in this eye-popping production happened after the show ended. The audience at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts stood and applauded for more t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMSunday, December 10, 2017
The annual productions throughout this region of Charles Dickens’s nearly 175-year-old tale, A Christmas Carol, are as timeless and an integral part of the holiday experience as nativity s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:37AMThursday, November 9, 2017
The Pajama Game is a classic, a Broadway mega-hit with themes and tunes as timely as today’s news. The show is currently a wonderfully realized, dynamic production at the Fichandler Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:58PMThursday, November 2, 2017
The timing of Vagabond Players’ production of Little Shop of Horrors is fortuitous, opening Halloween weekend when thoughts turn to the spooky and macabre, and running through November 25,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:59PMFriday, October 27, 2017
Just as Fiddler On The Roof, Cabaret, Porgy and Bess, and Hello Dolly! defined their generations, The Book of Mormon mirrors the zeitgeist of the Millennial Generation. It is often vulgar,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Native Gardens is a bloomin’ hysterical comedy at Arena Stage Need something to boost you up? Perhaps something to make you, temporarily, forget the current political and social climate? O…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMSunday, September 10, 2017
Okay, I’ll say it: the production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running is so packed with dynamic performances under the direction of the multi-faceted Fuzz Roark, it threatens to explod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20AMSunday, August 13, 2017
Now in its 58th season, The Nerd is Prince George’s Little Theatre’s 192nd production. Scripted by Larry Shue, the zany comedy is directed by John Degnan, a long-time area director and r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46AMSunday, July 30, 2017
Last night was a miracle of sorts. The heavy rains forecast to wash out the Aretha Franklin concert at The Filene Center of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts didn’t show up.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PMMonday, July 24, 2017
This hot, summery production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (VSMS), a production of Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, is a spicy show you definitely want to… Chekhov… your bucke…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMFriday, June 2, 2017
A show that’s “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” on every level. There has never been a nanny quite so magical – or musical – as Mary Poppins, a character created by author P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:14PMSaturday, May 27, 2017
We all need a good laugh these days – not a snicker or a snarky smile. A series of side-splitting belly laughs that leave you exhausted and smiling. See How They Run aptly named for the nu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
The glammed-up, black tie crowd began arriving at the historic Lincoln Theatre in U Street NW 90 minutes before show time. Most of the men were in tuxedos or dark suits. Some of the suits we…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PMSunday, May 14, 2017
OMG! OMG! Silhouette Stages’ Legally Blonde is a blast! The closed curtains on the stage at Slayton House Theater gave no clue as to what dynamic show the highly regarded Silhouette St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:34AMSaturday, April 22, 2017
This was the first time this reviewer had seen a show with a large, and largely young audience of elementary, middle and high schoolers. Hundreds swarmed into the cavernous Victorian-era bui…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Coming out of the Howard University Department of Theatre Arts production of Ain’t Misbehavin’: The FATS WALLER Musical Show, we checked googlemaps to be absolutely sure we hadn’t acci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Fangs for the Memories The Women by Clare Booth Luce, which opened on Broadway Christmas week in 1936 after its premiere in Philadelphia three weeks earlier, and included an actress named Do…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
2nd Star Productions’ over-the-top presentation of Peter and The Starcatcher is a recent addition to the cannon of lore surrounding the first appearance of that ever-young, pre-tween char…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:05PMSunday, February 5, 2017
Charles Dickens career as a writer, journalist, and editor was well-established when he wrote Great Expectations. He did not disappoint. Originally published in All Year Round, a weekly maga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMMonday, January 30, 2017
An updated classic that rocks! Shakespeare’s comedy, As You Like It, is the icing on the Folger Theatre’s 25th season and its observance of the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s passin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMFriday, November 18, 2016
Five BRASS Stars! Doc Severinsen may have not appeared on your screen since Johnny Carson turned the keys to The Tonight Show over to Jay Leno in 1992, but he hasn’t slowed down. Hired as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Some critics go to music performances as a modern day Shakespearean Brutus: They come to bury the performance, not praise it. And, bury it they do with raised pinky, off-putting, arcane phra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PM 
