Thursday, May 5, 2022
His Welders solo show, ‘Crossroads, Detours, and Exits,' premieres at Busboys and Poets.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMMonday, May 2, 2022
Sam Shepard's family feud makes an enjoyable show for theater buffs.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Strong acting and effective scenic and sound design make the show a majestic evening.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26AMFriday, April 22, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Saturday, October 30, 2021
An evening of delightful entertainment by the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
If you like your Shakespeare characters to behave and react like flesh and blood people, and not esoteric abstractions, Brave Spirits Theatre’s Henry the Fourth, Part 1 is a play you’ll …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMMonday, January 13, 2020
Grease is a musical that celebrates the changes born of the late 1950s era of rock n’ roll, drive-in movies, and James Dean–an era that sat on the cusp of the turbulent 1960s. Riverside …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PMFriday, January 10, 2020
She’s mesmerizing, astounding, and accomplished beyond reason. I’m writing about world-renowned superstar recording artist Diana Ross. Ross, conductor Emil de Cou of the National Symphon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44PMThursday, December 19, 2019
There’s a scene in the mind-blowingly good musical Jersey Boys in which erstwhile hoodlum and fast-talker Tommy DeVito, founder of the internationally known singing group The Four Seasons,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25PMSunday, December 8, 2019
Peace Mountain Theatre’s Other Desert Cities, by Jon Robin Baitz, features outstanding, in-the-moment performances. Director Julie Janson directs a show that touches on themes ranging from…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMFriday, December 6, 2019
The scene was a cozy cabaret at Signature Theatre. The enthralled patrons sat at small, circular, red tables and swayed to “Give Love on Christmas Day” performed by The Motown Three, whi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMSunday, November 17, 2019
As the Gospel stage play The Home opens, it is clear that the Thompson family must soon face a challenge shared by 43.5 million Americans—caring for a family member over 50. Nubia Filmwork…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Taj Express: The Bollywood Musical Revue is a treat for the eyes and an ocean-tide of extravagance for the senses. This is a musical with dance moves that make you feel as if you are burning…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:40PMSunday, October 20, 2019
Who is a Jew? Will you go with me to the Ballyhoo ball? Those are two questions the Jewish upper-middle-class Freitag family kvetch about during the happenings of playwright Alfred Uhry’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Thoughts of a Colored Man is a poetic journey through the lives of seven Black men over the course of a day in Brooklyn, New York. Playwright Keenan Scott II has written, and Steve H. Broadn…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:48PMMonday, September 9, 2019
The Opening Festival of the new REACH complex at The Kennedy Center featured a plethora of live performances and films, including the laugh-until-you-break-your-funnybone The Second City and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMSunday, August 25, 2019
As the Gospel stage play Nuthin’ But The Truth! opened, the fictional Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church in Mississippi had figuratively seen many literal and emotional battles in its o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PMSunday, July 28, 2019
Funny Boy, a musical version of Hamlet, A Breaking Wind, She Schtups to Conquer–could anyone predict how much those fictional plays would wow audiences? The Little Theatre of Alexandria’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMMonday, July 22, 2019
Buy your ticket today for a rich palette of cultural and political satire. Olney Theatre Center’s Tiger Style! is the best stage comedy I’ve seen in 2019. Directed by Natsu Onoda Power, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Home, Sweet, _____ takes audiences on a sentimental journey through music, sight gags, and pantomime. Without words, Home, Sweet, _____ tells the story of a clown, the frenetic Collette Camp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMSaturday, July 13, 2019
Featuring everything from simulated puppet sex, tawdry seductions and a mangled ear, the Tony-nominated Hand to God, by Robert Askins, is a play that dares to be different. Director William …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Written, directed, and acted by playwright Tara Lake, I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, is a one-woman trip down the poetic and artful memor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
The road to redemption can be an arduous one, especially when you’ve burned so many bridges in the past. LA TI DO Productions’ Soul Redeemer, with a book by Paul Handy, music and lyrics …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Rockville Musical Theatre’s Hairspray is musical dynamite. The winning trio of Director T.J. Lukacsina, Musical Director Marci Shegogue, and Choreographer Rikki Lacewell make this show ova…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
Family history, like any history, has a tendency to repeat itself. Filled with pathos, generational curses, and touches of humor, Land of Promiscuity, directed by LaRay McDaniels and written…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMSunday, June 9, 2019
Farces are hard to do well or differently, but they nearly always impart an important lesson: always tell the truth. How the Other Half Loves is an innovative farce, replete with secret affa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18AMSaturday, May 25, 2019
Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipatio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Spectacular. Amazing. Unforgettable. Pride & Joy is a musical that tells the little known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014) and the legendary and icon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage’s How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMMonday, May 6, 2019
The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I’ve seen in years: a mixture of ’50s kitsch, photos of ’50s-era entertainers, a record player conso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PM 
