Friday, 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 12:58PMSunday, October 30, 2016
The Music Center at Strathmore was filled with nary an empty seat. The crowd was there to see – and listen to – their favorite National Public Radio star, 73 year-old 6 foot 3 inch Garri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05AMFriday, October 21, 2016
Chris Botti and his Band know how to rock a house. “There are a few things that make us different from other bands,” announced popular trumpeter Chris Botti from the stage in the conce…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
Silhouette Stages has a remarkable production of Young Frankenstein that is so dynamic, audience members kept checking the program to make sure they weren’t teleported back to 2008 when th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Get Thee to This Beer Fest – er – Show! Love’s LaBEERS Lost is a production in danger of becoming a hot, must-see show that will bring the fire department roaring down on DC Reynolds t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:22PMSaturday, April 16, 2016
Macbeth: A Bloody Good Show In his time, Macbeth was a successful, lauded warrior. He owned a castle and had an attractive wife whose ravenous ambitions, drive and ego matched his own. Neith…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant, who conceived Look Through My Eyes, is the Assistant Director for Quest Visual Theatre, a group of deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing performers/teaching artists�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57AMSunday, March 13, 2016
Fells Point Corner Theatre’s Venus in Fur will knock you over. Whew! It is amazing! The dynamic talents of actors Andrew Porter and Anne Shoemaker fill the Fells Point Corner Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00AMMonday, February 15, 2016
The sign in the Strathmore ticket booth said a lot about Alan Cumming’s appeal. “SHOW SOLD OUT!” it blared. An hour before the show, the place was filling up with people eager f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Laughs and tears, cheers and sizzlers or Learning to love the “C” word Vagina. Vagina. Vagina. Cunt. Pussy. Twat. Snatch. There. I said it. The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play abou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Fifty years later, audiences can still get anything they want – but Alice is still not part of the package. Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Concert with Arlo Guthrie played to a pa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
A Thriller! Grab your hoverboard and blast over to Greenbelt Arts Center to see its latest show, Zombie Prom. It’s totally nuclear, a tongue in chic fusion of Happy Days, Grease, and The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55PMMonday, December 14, 2015
A sure sign the holiday season is in full swing is the annual return of classic ballet, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. It is almost as iconic as Santa Claus, a Christmas tree and catching …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:28AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Michael Feinstein is as warm, relaxed, and personable a musician as you’ll ever find. Last night, he worked every seat in the big house, making sure the folks in the nosebleed balconies in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:59PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
Have yourselves a very merry Christmas – go see this timeless classic with a Charm City twist. Bring the family to this show! Kids of all ages will love it. Instead of watching the Mister…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37PMFriday, November 20, 2015
How do you spell T-E-R-R-I-F-I-C S-H-O-W? Those of us with Millennial-generation children are used to the intensity of youth sports, like football, lacrosse or soccer, being played outdoor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Presenting Bertolt Brecht’s play, Galileo, is a terrific feat for Director Christy Stanlake of The Masqueraders. It is a production, a spectacle, filled with color, light, and delight – …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMThursday, October 22, 2015
A Wonderful “Mom-ologue” Many Baby Boomers’ earliest memories were of their stay-at-home mothers laughing at a risque line in an Erma Bombeck column, carefully cutting the column out �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMSunday, October 18, 2015
This musical comedy goes nuclear! Zombie Prom, with Music by Dana P.Rowe, and Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey, currently stalking the underground stage of Spotlighters in Baltimore, is a h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
The version of Carousel, with Music by Richard Rodgers and Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, presented in the recently renovated theater of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMFriday, September 18, 2015
If I Hold My Tongue is a short play written by Patricia Henley, a former Perdue University professor, who now lives in Frostburg, MD. The play was selected as one of 51 by and about women f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
Women Laughing Alone With Salad is a completely mesmerizing, multi-media show. Like a gourmet salad bar, this one has all the good stuff, plus a lot of dressings – and undressings. It ear…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PMSaturday, September 5, 2015
First things first: Happy Big One Oh Oh! to The Vagabond Players. The show was not only a Five Star treat, but the opening night audience was also treated to birthday cake in honor of the t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Yes, they’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, but they’re altogether ooky – and that’s just the “normal” members of the dynamic cast of The Addams Family, direc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:26PMThursday, August 6, 2015
Blue-Eyed Soul Singer Boz Scaggs Seduces a Sold out Strathmore Audience Call Boz Scagg’s music blue-eyed soul, rock, blues rock, soft rock, jazz rock, whatever – he rocked the house. Des…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:40AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Need a major pick-me-up after a week locked up with a dictatorial boss and coasting co-workers? An evening at the Bowie Community Theatre, tucked into the woodlands of White Marsh Park in Bo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:34AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
It’ll be nice to look back a few years from now and say: “I told you so!” Mario Correa’s Commander, which opened on The Vagabond Players’ stage in Fells Point July 11th, has the vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Remember that now-classic line from Jerry Maguire? “You had me from hello!” That’s how the audience felt about one minute into The Second City’s new production Let Them East Chaos, o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Go ahead. It’s okay to scream with laughter and stomp your feet. Though short by Shakespearean standards, this play is howlingly funny as it exploits every lesbian stereotype and cliché k…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:10PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
What’s not to like about Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s presentation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona? The playwright has had some good reviews. So, too, has the show’s director/choreo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32AMThursday, May 14, 2015
Diamond-studded diva dazzles at The Strathmore The house was packed Wednesday night at Strathmore Hall in North Bethesda, MD. It was crammed with a diverse, ready to rock audience of senior…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:34PM 
