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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PMIn 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMRussian 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AMSherlock Holmes is an enduring character in the annals of detective fiction. A master of deduction, Holmes has been the subject of countless movies and plays, one of the most famous of which…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMOnto a landscape of food stamps, broken dreams, and Walmarts, director and playwright William Dean Leary has created an indelible portrait of life in rural America. Leary’s Midnight Cigare…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:10PMWho could guess that a play about the life of the renowned comic book artist, Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), would be filled with so much humor, pathos and fact-dropp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMThe city of Chicago is “Hog Butcher for the World… City of the Big Shoulders,” as poet Carl Sandburg wrote just over a 100 years ago. Much the same could be said of certain element…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38PMScandals, sibling rivalry, adultery and divorces represented daily living for England’s royal Plantagenet family, which held the dynastic reigns of power from approximately 1120 to 1490. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMImagine this scene. You’re on a paddle steamer on the Nile River in Egypt. It’s the mid-60s. You find yourself surrounded by an off-kilter cast of characters: Miss Ffoliot-ffoulkes on ho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35AMWe’ve all heard the cliches about aging: Life begins at 40. You are not getting older, you are getting better. Age is just a number. Once a man, twice a child. The inspiring dance repertoi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47AMShakespeare in the park is a long-held American tradition. From venues in places such as New York City’s Central Park and Washington, D.C.’s Carter Barron Amphitheater, watching the Bard…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04AMWilliam Shakespeare wrote memorable female characters, many of them laced within male-dominated plays. The Rude Mechanicals’ She Speaks came about when director Leanne G. Stump realized th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMA musical murder-mystery who-done-it is a strange bird indeed. But it can work if expertly executed. Something’s Afoot, with book, music and lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:51AMThe late self-taught playwright and poet August Wilson’s ten-play Century Cycle has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, with movie star Denzel Washington committing to bringing that cyc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25PMPacked with pizazz, energy and downright sizzle, A Chorus Line, as performed by Tantallon Community Players (TCP) and directed by Christopher Gerken, is the MVP of musicals on D.C. area stag…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26AMAs part of its 30th anniversary season, Scena Theatre has offered a stage adaptation of of late German film auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film Fear Eats the Soul, translated and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMTennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is an American theater classic. At its center a story about a shattered family, the show is timeless in its themes. Parlor Room Theater (PRT) Di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AMApropos to Mother’s Day, and a magnificent button to the end of its 63rd season, Arena Players’ Crowns: A Gospel Musical is, among many things, a celebration of Christian and African rel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMIf you’re looking for a musical of Broadway quality in the Baltimore area, look no further than some of the work being produced by Memorial Episcopal Church’s drama ministry, Memorial Pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMSome plays invite audiences to ask themselves vexing questions: What is the meaning of life? How long is a life well-lived? As King Solomon wrote in the Old Testament: “I have seen all the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02AMPoetry can be the seed of music, and music the seed of love. Music may even be used as a form of protest—and ultimately a promoter of peace. This is evidenced by the music of composers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AMThe characters in the oldie and much appreciated allegorical goodie The Fantasticks (The off-Broadway incarnation ran for 42 years, and it is reportedly the World’s most performed musical)…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59AMWhat’s the impact of war on the common man? Do the sins of leaders trickle down to their soldiers? Is patriotism dead? What does it mean to be a leader? These are just some of the themes e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30AMAmericans don’t know much about the details of the myths and folklore of the Middle and Far East. Many of those stories, which can be found in Sir Richard Burton’s translation of “One …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PM“I am a giant surrounded by ants!” exclaimed Walter Lee Younger in a scene from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is the embodiment of how society, family members, and internal struggle can de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMThere is a profound depth of directing and acting talent in the Baltimore-Washington area. Much of that talent was on display at 10x10x10, a collection of plays by area playwrights, which is…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40AMIn a scene of fierce confrontation between Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell in Providence Players’ production of To Kill a Mockingbird, Ewell insults Atticus in such a vicious way, that one won…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:36PMWiseguys, also known as those certain individuals the U.S. Government considers a bit more organized than they should be, descended on the quaint restaurant Germano’s Piattini in Baltimore…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:06PMLegendary entertainer Loretta Mary Aiken, aka Jackie “Moms” Mabley saw and endured a lot in her 81 years. Born in 1894 in Brevard, North Carolina, Aiken saw racial, sexual and political …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMWhat defines parenthood? Are children always a gift? The adoption-themed Hip Hop musical Not My Baby by Alexandria, Virginia-based playwright Jason A. Ellis, explores those questions and mor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMWar, friendship, and love are serious elements in a man or woman’s life. Rockville Musical Theatre’s production of Dog Fight explores those elements through the music and lyrics of Benj …
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