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Saturday, July 9, 2016

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Wash Over You’ by Yvonne French

Get ready for a distinctly American piece of multi-media artistry told in choreography, text and video projections by Artistic Director Jane Franklin of Jane Franklin Dance in Arlington, Va.…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08AM
Friday, September 25, 2015

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival ‘Destiny of Desire’ at Arena Stage by Yvonne French

DC playwright Karen Zacarías’ world-premiere musical comedy Destiny of Desire is a delightfully soapy mix of magic realism and situation comedy – so sit back in this bubble b…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:47PM
Saturday, August 1, 2015

‘RENT’ at Metropolitan Youth Theatre by Yvonne French

Metropolitan Youth Theatre’s production of RENT is a 100% student-run show from the director to the 17 actors who are making this flashback to the turn-of-the-century HIV/AIDS epidemic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PM
Saturday, July 18, 2015

‘Hairspray’ at City of Fairfax Theatre Company by Yvonne French

A huge, multi-generational cast tells the story of integrating a 1962 Baltimore TV dance show in a musical directed by Tara Taylor that is all heart—and soul. With book by Mark O’Donnel …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AM
Thursday, July 16, 2015

Little Butterfly Theatre Company Presents Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ on July 23-26th at 1st Stage by Yvonne French

Just off her success for McLean High School with Big Fish, which rose to local and national prominence, Director Amy E. Poe is leading a cast of young adults in American Idiot. The rock musi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:56AM
Monday, July 13, 2015

‘Leto Legend’ at Hub Theatre by Yvonne French

Valerie Fenton leads an all-woman cast as a super mom, super employee, and superhero in Leto Legend by Kristen LePine. Depicting the dual character of Charlie/Leto, Fenton, a founding member…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PM
Monday, May 4, 2015

‘Barefoot in the Park’ at McLean Community Players by Yvonne French

The McLean Community Players are performing an enjoyable production of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon’s play about a mismatched couple, directed by Jerry Bonnes. One of the longest-runni…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47AM
Friday, April 10, 2015

‘The Laramie Project’ at McLean High School by Yvonne French

A well-cast and convincing docudrama directed by Amy Poe is giving audiences a lot to talk about, opening a few minds, and lending high school students with fluid gender identities a degree …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PM
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

‘Gone Country’ at Signature Theatre by Yvonne French

Three accomplished performers are singing their hearts out in a real crowd-pleaser at Signature Theatre’s Gone Country cabaret, a short engagement conceived and directed by Walter Ware II…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PM
Monday, March 30, 2015

‘Cinderella’ at The Russian National Ballet Theatre at Hylton Performing Arts Center by Yvonne French

I attended the Russian National Ballet Theatre’s enchanting Cinderella on Friday night at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Cinderella moves to George Mason University’s Center for…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:55AM
Friday, March 27, 2015

‘Cinderella’ at American Ballet Theatre at The Kennedy Center by Yvonne French

Just as the cherry blossoms come out, pure romance is in the air with Cinderella at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is performing this three-act…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Reporting From the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) Conference & Stage Expo-Part 4: You Used What? Plastic Sheeting as Inflat by Yvonne French

Two-or three-mil plastic tube sheeting cut into a single thickness can be taped together with clear packing tape or two-sided carpet tape to make huge, bubble-like structures, some 200 set …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AM
Saturday, March 21, 2015

Reporting From the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) Conference & Stage Expo-Part 3: Free Software for Theaters on a Budget by Yvonne French

There is a lot of free software available to theaters to design everything from sets to lighting, sound, and projections. If you have the processing speed and RAM on your computer, you can e…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PM
Friday, March 20, 2015

Reporting From the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) Conference & Stage Expo-Part 2: Immersive Production: Audience and Perfor by Yvonne French

Have you wanted to break the fourth wall but don’t know how to immerse your audience into a performance? About 200 members of the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14AM
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Reporting From the United States Institute of Theater Technology (USITT) Conference & Stage Expo-Part 1: How to Set up a Rental Program for Costum by Yvonne French

Does your theater company have an untapped wealth of supplies that you could loan out in order to make money on your inventory of costumes, props or lighting? Perhaps you just want to loan o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51AM
Sunday, March 15, 2015

‘The Jungle Book’ at Creative Cauldron by Yvonne French

Olivia Laurine’s fantastic performance as Mowgli, plus original music and artful masks, make for an absolutely mesmerizing rendition of The Jungle Book at Creative Cauldron in Falls Ch…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:14PM
Friday, March 13, 2015

Meet the Cast of ‘Nunsense’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company: Part 3: Linda Whiting by Yvonne French

In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Nunsense at Wolf Pack Theatre Company, meet Linda Whiting. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us where local theatregoers may h…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AM

Yvonne French To Report From U.S. Institute of Theater Technology’s 55th Annual Conference & Stage Expo by Yvonne French

Stay tuned next Wednesday, March 18, 2015, as DCMetroTheaterArts technology reporter Yvonne French travels to Cincinnati to cover the U.S. Institute of Theater Technology’s 55th Annu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36AM
Sunday, February 15, 2015

‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Yvonne French

This confection of a girl’s-night-out show deserves six stars, one for each of the five actresses, who depict 29 characters in 28 vignettes about fashion, plus one for Director Lorrain…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM
Sunday, January 11, 2015

‘Crime and Punishment in America’ at The American Century Theater by Yvonne French

Billed as Crime and Punishment in America this pairing of one-act plays (Cops and Hello Out There) are must-sees for several reasons. First, they are well-written, gritty crime dramas from…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:35PM
Saturday, December 13, 2014

‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Yvonne French

Director Jennifer Lambert has coached two casts of 13 talented youngsters—plus a baby who plays Woodstock–to their natural best and the simplicity of A Charlie Brown Christmas’…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AM
Saturday, November 29, 2014

‘The Great One-Man Commedia Epic’ at Faction of Fools by Yvonne French

The Great One-Man Commedia Epic is a one-man show that is so endearing that I felt like my Dad had just told me a bed-time story. Like my Dad, Matthew R. Wilson pretended to have an argumen…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18AM
Monday, November 24, 2014

‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ at 1st Stage by Yvonne French

1st Stage, One Man, Two Guvnors, Five Stars. Uproariously directed by Matthew R. Wilson, the madcap British farce, One Man, Two Guvnors, by Richard Bean, with songs by Grant Olding, is about…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ at Act Two @ Levine by Yvonne French

Alex Stone and Rachel Lawhead showed so much chemistry that you would have thought that their roles were written for them. in Act Two @ Levine’s stunning production of Sweeney Todd: Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AM
Monday, October 20, 2014

‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ at Reston Community Players by Yvonne French

Reston Community Players’ You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is a sweet and serious show that will warm the cockles of your heart. This delightful 1967 musical comedy has music a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:32AM
Sunday, August 3, 2014

‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Yvonne French

The Little Theatre of Alexandria has a smash it on its hands with The Monty Python’s Spamalot. The opening night audience bellowed and clapped and roared at the puns and gave a standin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PM
Friday, July 11, 2014

Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Interrogation’ by Yvonne French

In his play Interrogation, John Feffer, a foreign policy analyst who writes widely on privacy issues, pokes gentle fun at U.S. intelligence agencies as if to say, “I love my country but I …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AM
Friday, June 27, 2014

Contemporary Ballet With an Edge . . . and Live Music by Chamber Dance Project at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater by Yvonne French

This contemporary ballet with the string quartet performing onstage fuses sound and movement in four contemporary dances featuring two world premieres, including the tango-inspired “Sur”…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PM
Monday, June 9, 2014

‘The Wonderful World of Dissocia’ at Theater Alliance by Yvonne French

If you like great acting and want to know what it must be like to be mentally ill and to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, go see The Wonderful World of Dissocia, directed by C…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:09AM
Friday, May 30, 2014

‘The Secret Garden’ at McLean High School Choral Society by Yvonne French

The McLean High Choral Society is putting on a magical performance of The Secret Garden even as it weathers budget cuts that did away with a formal class for a 50-year-old Renaissance-style …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AM
Monday, April 21, 2014

‘Underneath the Lintel’ at MetroStage by Yvonne French

I know a lot of librarians who would love Underneath the Lintel (and non-librarians too like those in the audience last night who were having a great time). First, it includes variety of …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:17AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic