Monday, 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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’…
Linked From 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, …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
What happened to the characters in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang when they entered adulthood? We find out in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, written by Bert V. Royal and …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Started by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1991, STOMP is a cacophony of sounds produced by common objects in lieu of musical instruments. An amalgam of music,…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:32PMSunday, April 14, 2019
Harmonious voices! Hilarious hoofing! A dancing frog! With over 30 songs packed into its 90 minutes, the Colonial Players’ A New Brain is a magnificent autobiographical musical comedy that…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
He’s charming, he’s debonair, he’s sophisticated, and when you’ve got a problem, you better call Psmith – that’s Ronald Eustace Psmith (“the P is silent, like pterodactyl”). …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMMonday, March 18, 2019
After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its pre…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMSunday, March 17, 2019
There was a moment in the first act of Annapolis Opera’s Carmen in which Director Fenlon Lamb assembled her cast in a colorful tableau that enthralled me and impressed itself on my mind. T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Intrigue! Battles! History! Excitement! In a stunningly entertaining display of stagecraft, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV, Part I features three of the best performances you…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
MetroStage’s Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – and…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSunday, January 13, 2019
American Moor, in a return engagement at Anacostia Playhouse, lambasts the audience with a series of provocative questions: can an actor play a role without tapping into the darkest parts of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMSunday, January 6, 2019
Like TV’s “Seinfeld,” [title of show] is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. [title of show] is a musical about four friends creating a musical—the one the audie…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMSunday, December 16, 2018
Driving Miss Daisy, at Anacostia Playhouse, tackles many subjects: growing older, race relations, and all sorts of personal drama encountered by its Southern protagonists over a 25-year peri…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMMonday, December 10, 2018
This isn’t your mother and father’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this present day version, Ebenezer Scrooge’s father Andrew runs the charitable Scrooge Family Foundation. T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMSaturday, December 8, 2018
The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie’s Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young girl, Magda, and a band of actors searchi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre’s Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel’s lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes define the characters nearly as muc…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PMMonday, November 19, 2018
A more dazzling display of heart-warming family entertainment and memories may not be found this Christmas Season than Charm City Players’ A Christmas Story, The Musical. With deft directi…
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