Sunday, May 13, 2018
The first thing you notice about Deathtrap is its busy and detailed set. The set contains posters of plays by the fictional playwright Sidney Bruhl on the wall; a skull with a pipe between i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMFriday, May 11, 2018
Holy Mother of all that is funky! SOUL The Stax Musical is the most fun I’ve had as a reviewer. A musical this magnificent comes around once in many a shady blue moon. SOUL The Stax Musica…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PMMonday, May 7, 2018
There’s a powerful scene in MAD Theater’s Weird Romance in which a computer-simulated woman, who may or may not contain a reincarnated spirit, bemoans the precarious fate of her newly bo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMThursday, May 3, 2018
Gayle Carney has played a myriad of roles in her many years as an actress. She’s been seen most recently in The Dog Must Die at Highwood Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. That play is a …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:37PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Big Brother. Newspeak. Thoughtcrime. Doublethink. Orwellian. Those words have floated around the public lexicon for years, and at a time when the political zeitgeist contains phrases like …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38AMFriday, April 27, 2018
The Russians have a folktale called Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden). Prominent in the 19th Century, many versions of the Snow Maiden folktale centered around the appearance of a young girl who…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07PMSunday, April 15, 2018
In its sixth year, Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights, is a feast for theater lovers. The setup of this must-see show …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38PMOn April 3, 1968, a rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee, in a dingy hotel, there was a man working on a speech. This man had missed birthdays and anniversaries in pursuit of his dream. He was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37PMSaturday, April 7, 2018
How can you unpack a show with as many racial, sexual, and historical bombshells as Underground Railroad Game? The conceit of the play (2017 Obie Award Winner, Best New American Theatre Work…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Ford Theatre’s The Wiz, the Tony-Award-winning musical based on L. Frank Baum’s novel, will leave you enthralled, amazed, and bedazzled. The show is a cornucopia of colors, dancing, sing…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
Frankenstein by Bowie Community Theatre has blood, violence, and drama, all wrapped up in a Gothic shell. This version was adapted from Mary Shelley’s novel by Victor Gialanella and Di…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04AMSunday, March 4, 2018
Race, religion, office politics, and fear of the “other” are just some of the issues that explode onto the stage in playwright/novelist Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize w…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:55PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
A play like Othello raises many questions in the minds of theater-lovers: Should art be recuperative? Should plays written long ago be redeemed to suit the tastes of modern-day audiences? Ot…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
U-Street, The Musical, directed by Alexandria, Virginia-based playwright Jason A. Ellis, explores the tribulations of the homeless in an engaging story punctuated with humor, song, dance, an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMFriday, February 16, 2018
George Clinton, legendary songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, at 76 years young, put on a rapturous, stunning, extraterrestrial funk fest at the Howard Theatre on a warm February ni…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Stick Fly is a boiling stew of classism, colorism, parent-child dynamics, unspeakable secrets, and marital choices. With a cast every bit the equal of Lydia R. Diamond’s Broadway-produced …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Complete with double identities, hidden passages, murders, and mystery, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is the type of comedy that blends the serious with the silly. Sharply directed by J…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMSunday, January 28, 2018
Almost, Maine, by John Cariani explores the upside and downside of love as experienced by the residents of its mythical, titular town. Playing as almost a comedic version of Our Town, the co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:11PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Reality TV shows have been described with many different words since they have pervaded the airwaves over the past two decades – crass, stereotypical, unreality. Maryland-based playwri…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Written and directed by Fay Brake, The First Christmas, performed recently at Shiloh Baptist Church of Landover, speaks to the essence of Christmas – inspiring its audience to remember…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Christmastime is promoted by many as a time to let go of, at least temporarily, the practice of excessive self-cherishing. It is a time to reflect on the wants and needs of others. Many Chri…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AMSunday, December 10, 2017
Who isn’t familiar with the story of Ebenezer Scrooge? Wolf Pack Theatre has retold the familiar story of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, in a different way each year, for the past …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
What can you say about a character who was on a first name basis with Walt Disney and Mahatma Ghandi? A character who dominated the radio airwaves, read plays, wrote books, who often slept u…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
Greenbelt Arts Center’s The Wizard of OZ, directed by Jon Gardner, is the epitome of joy, happiness, and sunshine; a theatrical ride to magic and wonder. With lyrics and music by Ha…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Satire can be both salve and mirror in tough times and in good. A Tuna Christmas, written by Tony-nominated Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, satirizes small-town American life, lea…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:54PMThursday, November 2, 2017
The road to freedom is never easy. Often that road is fraught with several steps forward and several steps back. Marginalized groups must face pressures from without and within. The in-works…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:23PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’,” wrote poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The themes of “what might have been” and “what if” wer…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
Ask most theater lovers if they have heard of Jacobean-era playwrights such as John Fletcher and Philip Massinger and you would probably receive a confused “no.” Fletcher and Massinger, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:24PMSunday, October 15, 2017
An actor of illustrious talent shone bright recently on the D.C. area stage of Port City Playhouse. Rebekah Raze, in a performance that progressed from great to astounding, not only enthrall…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
In the current political zeitgeist, which includes Russian hackers manipulating opinion through Facebook ads, playwright Carlyle Brown’s Are you now, or have you ever been… is germane to…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMMonday, October 9, 2017
Russian playwright Anton Chekhov believed the role of the artist was to ask questions, not answer them. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s 2013 Chekhov-inspired Tony…
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