15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
By Betsy Lizotte The Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Noel Coward's world-class comedy Blithe Spirit was an old-fashioned roller coaster of fun: an essentially delightful thrill…
As parts of the nation settled in to hear 45 read the script of the State of the Union address, and other parts assiduously ignored the same, balletomanes and ballet goers in the Washington …
You will want to leave a more-than-generous tip for the national tour of Waitress, especially if you appreciate top-notch service. It is currently bringing all the spicy baked sweetness of t…
Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe are both world-class pianists and they love to play together. And that's all you can say about them that fits any model. Their artistry is not patterned a…
The reason I asked to interview Katie Kleiger is that after I saw her in Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves at Studio Theatre, I realized I had seen her on the same fourth-floor stage in Lu…
"What Mary Katheryn Nagle has given us on stage tonight is the history we don't learn," said renowned feminist author and organizer Gloria Steinem during one of the most buzzed-about talkbac…
Inspired by the lives of his great-great-grandparents Ollie Thomas and Ruby Dyson, playwright Steven A. Butler Jr. brings their legacies to life in The Very Last Days of the First Colored Ci…
What is a life worth? What is the Earth worth? And what are we doing " what can we do, what should we do " to sustain and preserve them? These provocative questions, and other questions that…
Kyla Garcia is starring as Sarah Ridge Polson in Sovereignty at Arena Stage. Sovereignty, by Mary Kathryn Nagle, tells two stories. One is of a modern Native woman (played by Garcia) fightin…
Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies' fascinating drama at Bristol Riverside Theatre, seems at first as if it's going to be a deep meditation on war and politics. But Margulies' characters, a…
Inspiring generations of theater-goers and music lovers alike is one of the aims of Director Stevie Zimmerman by connecting the talents of the professional Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO) w…
The Blakes are not your ordinary dysfunctional family. As they gather for Thanksgiving dinner in an unfamiliar locale, everything seem fine, if a little off-kilter; they engage in their favo…
Almost, Maine, by John Cariani explores the upside and downside of love as experienced by the residents of its mythical, titular town. Playing as almost a comedic version of Our Town, the co…
Sovereignty, the long-heralded new play by Mary Kathryn Nagle – a member of the Cherokee Nation and one of barely a dozen Native American playwrights writing today – has arrived.…
Do you enjoy the works of playwrights like Oscar Wilde and Nöel Coward, but wish their plays had a little more adultery? Then Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill is the play for you. Never having se…
Written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman and directed by Melissa Jo York-Tilley, this production of the musical Assassins comes to Dominion Stage at one of the most politically tumultuou…
Company, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, is now playing at the JBK Theater at the Frederick Community College presented by the Fredericktowne Players. It …
A portrait of George Washington hangs in Ford’s Theater on the presidential box where Abraham Lincoln was shot. When you stop to think about it, this is an odd disconnect. Presumably f…
4,380 Nights is a raw, emotionally charged political theater production that makes the movie Zero Dark Thirty look timid. That is my trigger warning about a new play by Annalisa Dias that…
By Guest Author Cecilia Mencia Institutional racism, cultural trauma, gun right, police brutality: Playwright Tracy Conyer Lee tackles many social issues in her play Rabbit Summer. Directed …
It did not turn out well for Dr. Frankenstein or his monster, but receiving an abnormal brain was a blessing for Mel Brooks. After eight decades in show business, he is still using that gift…
Have you ever met someone who left you feeling as though there is nothing you can't do? I got that feeling each time I sat down with four playwrights and a director who identify as women of …
In the first decade of the 20th century, on a farm in the tiny village of Avonlea, in Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island, a brother and sister realize they need help to sustain…
The Ford's Theatre production of Jefferson's Garden (by Timberlake Wertenbaker), which had its American premiere on January 24, tries to balance the oft-tread narrative of Thomas Jefferson's…
With an illustrious career spanning the past five decades, John Guare has been the recipient of Tony, Obie, and Olivier Awards, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an Oscar nomi…
