15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
The latest in Audible's burgeoning initiative of audioplays is Girls & Boys by Tony Award-winning playwright Dennis Kelly. Directed by Lyndsey Turner and performed by multiple award-n…
It's a rare and special treat to see the world debut of a new musical, and I was lucky enough to have the privilege of seeing the first public performance of Judy and the General at The Audr…
By Rachel Kurzius Wendi Winters was one of five staff members murdered while working at the Capital Gazette newsroom on June 28. But in addition to her thrice-weekly columns as a staff write…
Ain't too many surprises in Ain't Too Proud, the new jukebox musical about the supergroup The Temptations and their rise to meteoric heights. Their music defined a generation and gave voice …
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Capital Gazette Reporter and DC Metro Theater Arts Senior Reviewer Wendi Winters. Winters was killed in the shooting incident wh…
Irish Repertory Theatre's new production of the 1965 Broadway classic (and 1970 movie remake starring Barbra Streisand) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and book…
Motown the Musical is one irresistible playlist of infectious chart-topping music performed by a bevy of fine singers and dancers who have plenty of acting chops as well. While too-sweet …
Watching young artists perform carries its own level of excitement beyond the entertainment itself. There's the shared love of arts which compels people to participate and support learning t…
I went to see Other Life Forms, the new comedy at Keegan Theatre, not expecting to write about it. But the play changed my mind. I wasn’t even home yet when on an impulse I tweeted …
Imagination Stage presents You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. Clark M. Gesner provides book, music, and lyrics, with additional dia…
The 10th Annual Jimmy® Awards, presented by The Broadway League Foundation and Pittsburgh CLO on Monday, June 25, at the Minskoff Theatre, provided an evening of high-energy entertainment…
As a parent, it's hard to watch yet another adaptation of Peter Pan without fixating on the fact that he essentially kidnaps children and leaves grieving parents (specifically mothers, const…
Washington, DC"DC Metro Theater Arts, the most comprehensive source of performing arts coverage in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore metro areas, is pleased to announce a thorough redesign o…
"No diving. No running. Absolutely no cannonballs," the pre-show announcement at Joe's Movement Emporium orders. But get ready to dive deep for the world premiere of #poolparty as it unpacks…
With the announcement of its New Voice Series, Synetic Theater is taking its own unique approach to the development of the richly talented pool of emerging theater-makers and budding theater…
As a Props Master, you try and read through a script and see where the big “what ifs” are, but there is always a human factor that you just can't predict. In Hamilton, one big "w…
D.C."area audiences are notorious for their too-free-and-easy awarding of standing ovations. But last night's prolonged, enthusiastic, standing, whooping, hollering, response to Olney Theatr…
Who can resist entertaining theater on a warm, summer night? An outdoor performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is especially apropos for such nights, and Chesapeake Shakespea…
Why don’t community theater companies do more revues? They are entertaining for audiences, fun for actors, and although permissions to use the songs are needed, they don’t carry …
In 2012, Hannah Todd and Raven Bonniwell founded a small theater company, We Happy Few, with the desire to revive classic texts and find new ways to interpret and present the material. While…
The Second City's Generation Gap is everything you've made fun of about your parents, grandparents, recent grad intern and tween niece, but wittier and with better lighting. Generation Gap h…
Broadway celebrates the next generation of musical theater artists with the 2018 Jimmy® Awards on Monday, June 25, at the Minskoff Theatre. Recognizing talented high-school students and t…
The Columbia Festival of the Arts began last week in Columbia, Maryland. After a wonderful weekend of music and other performances as well as a place for local artists to display their work …
Avant Bard today announces  its “Welcome Tempest-Tossed Campaign”: For the final weekends of its production of The Tempest, Avant Bard commits to donating one-half of all full…
Yes, she really did, and Washington DC-based theater collective The Klunch brings its acclaimed original production of Laura Bush Killed a Guy, keenly written by company Artistic Director Ia…
