15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
A man reportedly shouted "Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!" at last night's performance of A Fiddler on the Roof at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a man stood up…
With its title, The Accident Bear, and its performance location, a laundromat in Annapolis, I was most intrigued to learn more about local playwright Bob Bartlett's new work. The production …
The Baltimore Concert Opera has every reason to be proud as it moves into its 10th year of operations. From the concert hall at the Engineers Club, the company provides a unique experience f…
The spirits of displacement and change hang heavily over Fiddler on the Roof these days. What keeps it all from becoming, well, dispiriting is the heartfelt humanity evident in every timeles…
The paradise in Shakespeare's Arden Forest, a beautiful place where everybody is happy, communal, and fed, doesn't exist in reality. But if it did, you'd want to be there. And since you can'…
It has been 100 years since suffrage pickets began in front of the White House for women to have the legal ability to vote in the United States. Over 70 of the suffrage picketers were arrest…
From the moment the audience enters the large square room that is Spooky Action Theater’s church basement home, Environmental Designer Colin K. Bills has already communicated to the au…
The Washington National Opera's current production of the opera Silent Night is a shattering indictment of the futility and waste of war set during the historical truce that occurred during …
George Mason University Center for the Arts has three stirring works of theater November 15-18 on the Fairfax campus. Friday features A Rap on Race, a modern spin on a monumental conversa…
Making an absolutely sidesplitting return to New York for a four-month limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, after its original development in the New York Musical Festival …
Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class opens in 1926 in a kindergarten classroom in a small town in northeastern Poland. Whereas in most of Europe’s Jews had experienced a long history…
No more than ten minutes into Reditum " a Flamenco dance performance by José Barrios and Company, at the GALA Hispanic Theatre on Friday night " the man of the hour is drenched in sweat. Ba…
The Masqueraders' production of Endgame, performed at the United States Naval Academy, is a powerful piece of theater. Samuel Beckett's classic 1957 play, considered one of his best after Wa…
If you're planning a November outing to the theater in New York, there's plenty to do in the city this month before the curtain goes up! From celebrations of the holiday season to a theater-…
by Ciahna Heck Three Princes Theatre presents the end of things. at the Charm City Fringe Festival, a daring new piece of theater which touches on the termination of multiple relationship…
Mt. Rushmore, activist-artist Monica Hunken's one-woman show at the Seventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival through Sunday, has it all: badass women, time travel, punk rock, political acti…
Listening to Katherine Fahey recount personal memories, ghost stories, and a lovely tale about Baltimore's arabbers while grouped around The Lantern Sisters’ gorgeously adorned cran…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Sterling Playmakers and produced by Shanna Christian, is an intense musical experience with just enough blood, murder, mischief, and mayhem…
While it's Nutcracker season for most dance companies across the region, Charm City Ballet presents something unique: its original full-length ballet, A Christmas Carol. Directors, founders,…
Signature's Billy Elliot the Musical soars with expressive, youthful dance energy and a liberating message of doing what you need to do to be who you want to be. Directed and choreographed b…
For a play about a hippo, it's pretty dark. Forgive Us, Gustavito! is bookended by the primal howling of a grieving animal, as the audience is enveloped in a blackout. This is not to say, ho…
WP Theater's world-premiere production of Natural Shocks by Lauren Gunderson, America's most-produced playwright of 2017-18, has been advertised as "darkly hilarious," but there's nothing fu…
Ally Theatre Company is pleased to announce Doug Robinson as the commissioned playwright for our 2019 Mapping Racism Project, produced in partnership with the Hyattsville Community Developme…
The title of BlueShift Dance's show, "The Male Gaze," refers to the objectification of women by cis-hetero men. The idea of the "male gaze" isn't new to women. The premise is "what happens w…
Folger's rendering of the seldom-produced King John is more than impressive Shakespearean rhetoric and the checking off on a bucket list of plays to produce. With a deft touch, director Aaro…