15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Full Disclosure? The Addams Family was a wild romp for the whole family! I made my way down to Oldtown Manassas to see Rooftop Productions’ take on The Addams Family. The story feels l…
The fabled Royal Shakespeare Company brought its Hamlet to the Kennedy Center this week, in a production fully worthy of its glittering reputation. The RSC Hamlet is lavish, bursting with fr…
The current production of the Washington National Opera "Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville plays like a frenetically captivating musical dreamscape of schemers, clowns, and romantic …
Singer-Songwriters and Poets Take the Stage at 9th Annual Gaithersburg Book Festival Gaithersburg, Md. " May 4, 2018 " Singer-songwriters and poets will share their talents at the 9th Annual…
Last week, I decided to venture off my usual path and check out the Constellation Theatre, which performs at Source in the lively 14th Street corridor. What lured me there was the chance …
For over three decades, Helen Hayes nominations and awards have represented the pinnacle of professional excellence in Washington, DC area theater. What began as public recognition of a smal…
Emmy Award-winning actress Sally Struthers returns for her fifth engagement at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as Louise Seger in Always…Patsy…
Though gynocentric themes featuring lead roles for women are a welcome new trend in contemporary theater, there's little new or unexpected in Unexpected Joy, an original musical by Bill Russ…
Gayle Carney has played a myriad of roles in her many years as an actress. She's been seen most recently in The Dog Must Die at Highwood Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. That play is a dy…
Maybe you can go home again. Broadway's original Éponine from Les Miserables, Bethesda native Judy Kuhn, returns for a solo concert, A Broadway Cabaret With Judy Kuhn, 8 PM May 5 at Dumb…
Mid-century aficionados and other interested earthlings can take a time-traveling trip back to the '50s at St. Luke's Theatre with the Off-Broadway premiere of It Came from Beyond, a silly m…
The resources of upstart Best Medicine Rep are optimized in this charming production of Robin Rothstein's new work, Derek Jeter Makes the Play. Tucked in a corner of Lakeforest Mall, Best Me…
How important can a wig be to a theater production and an actor's performance? What better way to answer that question then with a section from the recent book, The Ascent of Angels in Ameri…
Think of the latest "new" Gershwin touring show up at the Hippodrome Theatre " An American in Paris " as a G.I. "jukebox musical" with legs. About a hundred of them, it seems. And, boy oh bo…
Big Brother. Newspeak. Thoughtcrime. Doublethink. Orwellian. Those words have floated around the public lexicon for years, and at a time when the political zeitgeist contains phrases like "a…
“A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it…” — André Breton (1896"1966) French writer, poet, and founder of Surrealism. Artistic Director P…
Forget the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Tonys. Here in the nation's capital, there is only one award worth talking about. And that's the Helen Hayes, honoring the best of DC's theater professi…
There is so much in this show to flip over, you could be dizzied by its delights. The fantastical story and kooky characters, the wicked humor and badass music, the frisky cast and musicians…
How does anyone cope with the unthinkable: Whether the unthinkable is The Holocaust, The Killing Fields, chemical bombs dropped on children, slavery or lynchings. How does one survive even s…
Throughout history, the term 'Cover-up' has evoked feelings of frustration, sadness and often horror once the truth is brought to light. Public perception changed drastically about products …
"This concert series is dedicated to Russian chamber vocal music, which is rarely heard in America," states the program; a regrettably true state of affairs. The Russian Chamber Art Society …
America lost its most distinctive theater voice of the 1980s with the passing of Sam Shepard. But that voice still resonates through works like True West, getting a welcome return by Rep Sta…
Imagination Stage's production of Twelfth Night is an inventive update of Shakespeare's classic play. Adapted and directed by Randy Baker, the show features the teenage actors from the Actin…
The idea behind Single Carrot Theatre's Peter Pan: Wendy, Peter. Peter, Wendy. is one of the most interesting and exciting concepts in recent Baltimore theater history. The company com…
Follow the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole for an enchanting Alice in Wonderland performance. It was a surreal evening on Friday evening, the Opening Night of Chesapeake Shakespeare Compan…
