15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
By Shawn Reilly Simmons "I don't want to sit in front. I don't want to get picked on," a woman said to me nervously as we chose our seats, about to experience Unscripted, a two-man improvisa…
Riot!: A Celebration of Women in Comedy was part of the District of Comedy Festival at the Kennedy Center, featuring a weekend of comedy including stand-up, improv, sketch, variety, podcasts…
Lightning has struck in the form of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) this past Saturday night. Taking on the epic, and challenging, rock opera, Director Jim H…
Written and directed by Chuck DeLong, Blowin' Off Steam takes you bench-side into the steam room of a men's fitness club in the suburbs of New York City, where seven painfully straight men s…
By Rebecca Kurtz If there is one thing to be said for Meet the Glory Wholes, it's that the creatively minded Joey Maranto has contagious confidence. Sixty minutes alone onstage is no small f…
An ancient professor (Mickey Hays) ambles into the lecture hall, his collapsed posture and bowlegged, turned-out stance recalling Pantalone of the commedia dell’arte (he even wears the…
Capital Fringe Festival presents Heartbreak Hitman, an original rom-com by Leigh Giangreco. This DC-based piece follows the story of Jon (Walter Riddle), a man who makes a career out of outs…
By Bill Kamberger Ironically enough for a story that is propelled by sibling rivalry and longing for a better life, the stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid has always been a bit of a negl…
You Win! presents Movie Magic Live!, an evening of silly, competitive fun for movie lovers! Hosted by Jason Fraley and Ally Jenkins, this is perhaps the most interactive show at the Fringe t…
Margherita by Anthony E. Gallo, presented by the Seventh Street Playhouse at the Greenbelt Arts Center under the direction of Beatrix Whitehall, is a drama about the long extramarital relati…
On July 6, 2018, six girls ages 13 to 17 came together and began composing poetry and choreography and a little music about their just-starting-out lives. Two weeks later they performed the …
ORT Productions’ Beauty and the Beat begins with a trio of dancers (Kelly Hogan, Carrie Monger, and Amy Scaringe) entering in formation into the graffitied performance space of the Bli…
My father first showed me This Is Spinal Tap when I was about fifteen. It was immediately one of my absolute favorite films. I’ve seen it at least a dozen times since then, tried and f…
Once upon a time, Gilbert and Sullivan staging was " there is no other word for it " stodgy. The D'Oyly Carte opera company dominated G&S performance from the late 19th century until its…
If you've ever wondered about the private lives and inner thoughts of emojis and the impact software updates have on their interpersonal connections and eventual obsolescence, then Emojiland…
By Caroline Bock What's worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are "peddled out," i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds and doing shots at…
By Garinè Isassi Through the Wall is a dance story that sprang from an art experiment put together by Source Festival called the Artistic Blind Date Program. Artists from different discipli…
By Bill Kamberger Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in a theater seems only natural. There’s a reason, t…
By Beatrice Loayza A woman (IO Browne) climbs out of bed, her lover still fast asleep, unmoved. She lays out on the floor, limber and sensual as she dances like a flower budding through a cr…
By Ellie Milewski Four intelligent and gifted female playwrights/directors, three bold female actors and their marvelous male partner in crime, and a wonderful crew, walk into Arena Stage to…
By Ellie Milewski Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Parkland. These are only a few names from a list of mass shooting in the United States. A list that is painfully and heartbreakingly l…
The Ferberizing of Coral by Patrick Flynn which debuted at the DC Source Festival in 2016 has been selected from 850 submissions to be a finalist in the Samuel French 43rd Annual Off Off Bro…
Where Did We Sit On The Bus? is a solo performance that examines identity in America through the eyes and observations of a Brown young man named Brian Quijada. With his charismatic smile, p…
"Quick! We need a word. Any word," says Travis Charles Ploeger, director and accompanist for iMusical, an improv ensemble out of Washington Improv Theater. He's standing in a black box theat…
I am writing to address the concerns of many who took the time to contact us tonight regarding the review of The Mikado at Young Victorian Theatre Company that DC Metro Theater Arts publishe…
