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 01:18AMFells 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 03:17PMSpectacular. 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 09:53AMPart 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 03:30PMThe 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 09:23PMWhat 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 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PMStarted 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,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:32PMHarmonious 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47PMHe’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”). …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMMagic. 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMAfter 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMThere 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PMIntrigue! 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�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMMetroStage’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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMAmerican 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMLike 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMDriving 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMThis 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMThe 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMThe 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PMA 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PM“People that love money, they never have enough,” said a character from Director and Playwright Fay Brake’s engaging stage play, The Benjamins. With themes of overreaching ambition, gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PMCan one escape the sins of their ancestors? Can one choose their own course and overcome an evil background? These questions are explored in NextStop Theatre Company’s glorious new adapta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMSilver Spring Stage’s spectacular and engrossing show, The Crucible, under Director Craig Allen Mummey’s expert guidance, tackles many contentious subjects, including sexism, racism, rel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMDinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong. Serving under the contemporary ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PM“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” said the character Shug Avery in novelist Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMIt’s been said that family is a foundation—the one area in which failure can cause permanent heartache. Director and writer Gill Nelson’s amazing stage play No Time, the tagline of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PM“Motown is the soundtrack of people’s lives,” intoned Mack Leamon in his portrayal of legendary Motown record label founder Berry Gordy in Director/Writer/Choreographer Kashi-Tara’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMSteel Magnolias, by playwright Robert Harling, tells the southern-style story of a group of women who grow close while hanging together in a small-town, northwest Louisiana beauty shop. Truv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26PMWho can resist entertaining theater on a warm, summer night? An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is especially apropos for such nights, and Chesapeake Shake…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMThe Promised Land is entertaining, thought-provoking, unsettling, and at times disturbing. Director and Playwright Lane McLeod Jackson has written and directed a dystopian tale in which the …
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