15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
PolySHAMory, Capital Fringe veteran Kate Robards' exploration of love, showcases theater's ability to give stories meaningful emotion. The show is constructed around Robards' story of being …
Laughter really is the best medicine. As Vincent Clark assumes his place on stage for his one-person, multi-media comedy An Unhealthy Man Lectures You on Medical Issues, I immediately like t…
Race relations in the Deep South might not leap to mind as a promising topic for a laugh-out-loud comedy. But in Shopworn, premiering at Fringe, Playwright-Producer Derek Hills (who is wh…
As we know from the recent Royal Wedding, the British know how to throw a party. The most recent example was the top-notch afternoon when the British Players hosted the leading lights of Was…
By Bill Kamberger Full disclosure: I love The Mikado. I sang in the chorus of the Young Victorian Theatre Company's 1979 production, a publicity photo from which is being used to advertise t…
by Isabel Echavarria Black Confederates by James F. Bruns and directed by David Allen Schmidt depicts a conversation between Jefferson Davis, played by Larry Levinson, and his wife Varina Da…
Jo Williamson is the creator and performer behind metamorphose, a solo production stitched together out of some musical storytelling and the patterns of Martha Graham-like modern dance. As i…
There is a kernel of a great idea behind (Super) Friends, AnyStage Theater's offering by Andrew Brockmeyer currently playing at Capital Fringe: Two superhero arch-nemeses, one ostensibly goo…
Yes, there is magic done at Monumental Theatre's nifty production of Pippin. I am not overstating my utter enjoyment of this production. It is spunky, buoyant, and engaging from the moment t…
Love in Three Scenes, which opened during the second week of this year's Capital Fringe, is not so much about love per se as it is about the lack thereof, particularly on the part of our…
Solo performances are among the most difficult in show business. Without other actors to parry dialog or set up jokes, the entertainer can easily end up putting an audience to sleep. Luckily…
By Beatrice Loayza Watching Lindsey Griffith's one-woman performance Horse People, I can't help but feel as if I've stumbled into a dream. Papier-mâché horse heads, large overhead projec…
By Becca Kurtz The pair of plays that make up Paul Handy's "Hawaii Nei" fit together nicely in a 90-minute, fact-packed commentary on the state – both past and present – of the r…
Anything Goes is one of those old-timey musicals where even if you've never seen the show before, you somehow discover you know the words to every one of the songs. Filled with exciting danc…
I went to see O Monsters, the radically abstract production created by Philadelphia's New Paradise Laboratories, now playing in the Kogod Cradle at Arena as one of five curated productions i…
By Christina Kovac On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local D…
God is Dead and April is Getting Married: A show title that promises a lot and absolutely delivers. Written by A. A. Brenner, this Capital Fringe jewel opens with El (Anna Shafer) and Elliot…
Set in a non-descript stand-up comedy club, the 1st Stage production of Brahman/I has a clever premise: a solo performer reveals some of a human being's most intimate details. Brahman/I is a…
By Beatrice Loayza Titus Andronicus is the little-known Shakespeare tragedy most reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. Bloody murder, sex, and violence galore, Andronicus is historically …
As the audience enters to see Roko’s Basilisk produced by Reliant Theatre, they are handed not a playbill, but a flyer, whose relevance is not immediately apparent. Its text simply …
By Beatrice Loayza First staged in 1971, The House of Blue Leaves is a descendant of the kitchen sink dramas and average joe tragedies that marked the American and British theater scenes in …
In The Lives Left Behind, the Silver Finch Arts Collective presents four short, one-act, chamber operas, each by a different composer and librettist. The instrumental music for all four piec…
Monica Dionysiou gives audiences a bravura hour of solo storytelling in her Aphrodite's Refugees, which is based on the experiences of her family during the warfare that consumed Cyprus in t…
By Bill Kamberger Conceived and choreographed by Kristen Brooks Sandler for Harlot Productions, Gilded depicts “a steampunk monarchy in decline,” including two illicit love affai…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare, directed by Sally Boyett and Donald Hicken, is being performed on the grounds of St. John's College…
