Tuesday, 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 …
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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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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,…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
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…
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