15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Among the unimaginable atrocities perpetrated under Adolf Hitler's command was Aktion T4 (or the "Euthanasia Decree") " the systematic murder of an estimated 200,000 people with disabilities…
JaBen Early is a Washingtonian through and through. His father worked at the Smithsonian, and his mother was a teacher in DC. He went to Morehouse College and Sarah Lawrence University, and …
"When did money become the thing " the only thing?" asks an ambitious young financial journalist in her opening monologue. She then answers her own question: "The mid-eighties. 1985 to be ex…
Now playing at New World Stages as "the famously handsome wizard boy Cedric" in the long-running Off-Broadway hit Puffs " a critically-acclaimed laugh-out-loud comedy inspired by the Harry P…
Let's get the persnickety stuff out of the way first. Then we can get to why the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's second Porgy and Bess in concert at the Strathmore Music Center in three years…
Laura Giannarelli is a woman of many roles. A founder of Washington Stage Guild, she's been a fixture of the DC stage for almost four decades. She's been the mother-in-law from hell in Gulf …
"I think you have to define who you are"and that definition can change"but you have to be as uncompromising as you possibly can about who you think you are, and to fight for that, in bad tim…
Signature Theatre Announces 30th Anniversary Season, including new and inventive stagings of: ASSASSINS A CHORUS LINE HAIR NIJINSKY'S LAST DANCE The DC Premiere of: CARYL CHURCHILL'S PLAY ES…
Time may be running out for the denizens of Berlin's swanky Weimar era Grand Hotel who wonder if life has passed them by. But Signature Theatre's roaring, non-stop rendering of the musical G…
Silver Spring Stage is known for producing professional-level community theater, garnering more WATCH nominations and awards than any other company in Maryland. The Obie-award winner Appropr…
Farce is a classic form of comedy, based on ludicrous characters, silly situations, mistaken identities, sex, slapstick, and many slamming doors. After centuries of development (refinement w…
If you happened to see something akin to celestial beings descending on North Bethesda on Monday evening, don't worry " that wasn't actually Heaven coming down, it was just the sound of Kris…
Tucked inside the new live musical retelling of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Toby's Dinner Theatre is an altogether wonderful concert staging that should not be missed. The s…
"Pick a chord and I'll be there," Alicia Hall Moran told husband Jason Moran from the stage of a packed performance hall at Georgetown University. Moran, accompanying on piano, nodded in agr…
When Pinter is performed with precision, with exacting attention to the text"as is the case with Scena Theatre's razor-sharp Pinter Rep"the effect can be both unnerving and exhilarating. The…
Studio Theatre's 2019-2020 Main Series Season: Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley White Pearl by Anchuli Felicia King Pipeline by Dominique Morrisseau Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu Fu…
Food trucks are a fun and a convenient way to sample something tasty and new, but don't forget to check out the bars " of music that is. Several DC area venues offer bite-sized classical mus…
There are times when the theater takes daring artistic risks, asks uncomfortable questions, and exposes the darkest truths about our institutions and ourselves. We love the medium for that. …
Don't be put off by the deliberately opaque, long title of the current world premiere at Studio Theatre's experimental space. P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle is a very slick, i…
Rooftop Productions has wowed me yet again, this time with its current production, Godspell. I have a hard time describing Godspell because there isn't exactly a plot; there are several incr…
A klaxon sounds. A video montage of "Betsy" LaQuanda Ross (actor and playwright Liza Jessie Peterson) passing through the visitor entrance at a correctional facility plays in black and white…
Amanda Gookin is a cellist, a founding member of the acclaimed music group PUBLIQuartet, and, since 2015, the founder of the Forward Music Project, which commissions new multimedia works for…
When Maggie Miller just can't take any more abuse from the popular clique of mean girls, dream guys, and high-school bullies, her cries for help are answered by the Devil himself. At the cos…
There is a mystery at the heart of Ghost-Writer, currently being presented by the Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer's Center in Bethesda. Not that Michael Hollinger's drama is a lighth…
Rainbow Theatre Project has presented a trenchant and exciting production of the rarely produced Clothes for a Summer Hotel. The dualistic themes of the great playwright Tennessee Williams a…
