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For fifteen years, a California theater company has been presenting the drama The Manor in the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills " an appropriate spot because the play is based on a true mu…
Creative Cauldron's Learning Theatre has put on an original version of Francis Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. Ellen Selby, who co-directed the show, wrote the book, with music by Matt …
He might have had an interesting idea for a solo show. He hadn’t written it yet. but he told Studio Theatre, which had booked him, that its title would be A Short Series of Disagree…
Villanova Theatre's final production for 2017 is Intimate Apparel, directed by Valerie Joyce. The play, penned by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, tells the story of Esther Mills (played …
I heard Kris Kringle (played by Harley Venton) tell little Susan Walker (Leah Packer): "…Imagination is a place all by itself. Now, you’ve heard of the French nation? … And the Bri…
It has been exactly one year since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States. In that year, countless artists, performers, actors, and professionals have found various forms of…
Verdi's Il Trovatore was revived at the Academy of Vocal Arts for the first time in 20 years this week, and it's a revelation. Filial love inspired Verdi, and that intense emotion is passed …
The Pink Hulk, written and performed by Valerie David, is not your typical sad cancer story. After surviving lymphoma and breast cancer, Valerie decided to create The Pink Hulk to share her …
“Even monsters need clothing,” says the bespoke tailor Anselm, an Arab Jew and immigrant, defending why he will sew a vicuña suit for a Republican presidential candidate whom …
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun " "Time," by …
Only the indubitable Caryl Churchill could, in a play about a contemporary dysfunctional British family, give us an opening restaurant scene that includes the likes of: Dull Gret (a warrior …
The Pajama Game is a classic, a Broadway mega-hit with themes and tunes as timely as today's news. The show is currently a wonderfully realized, dynamic production at the Fichandler Theater …
The Isley Brothers rocked into The Kennedy Center's Concert Hall this last Sunday night. Though the Hall is still standing, it may never be the same. Since their founding in 1955, the�…
Thirty-seven years and more than 550 performances stand between Mount Vernon Community Children's Theatre's (MVCCT) first foray onto the stage with Winnie the Pooh in 1979 and their 100th pr…
The Gap, Emma Goidel's world premiere play for Azuka Theatre, focuses on Lee, a theater practitioner constructing a performance piece about her older sister, Nicole. Nicole claims, with no i…
We in the theater community lost a great friend with the passing of Joel Markowitz. Â As many know, Joel was diagnosed with ALS in March of this year. Since then, he dedicated himself to …
Tributes and expressions of affection and appreciation for Joel have been pouring in. This is a space for us to celebrate and remember our friend, Joel Markowitz. Use the comments to share f…
The DC Metro Theater Arts family is devastated to announce the loss of our Founder and Editor Emeritus, Joel Markowitz. Joel passed away at 2:40pm this afternoon from the effects of ALS. A f…
Daniel Kitson is an acquired taste. In the premiere of his newest one-actor creation, A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological Order at Studio's Metheny Theatre…
By the Bog of Cats " a modern Irish drama by Marina Carr, who has taught in Ireland and the U.S., including at Villanova University " echoes classical Greek theater, especially Medea by Euri…
DC Metro Theater Arts was excited to speak to Charm City Fringe Festival founders Zach Michel and Michael Brush last week at the Lexington Market. We enjoyed a nice chat over crab cakes and …
It's roughly a year ago to the day that Vicuña"a political satire of presidential proportions"had its first showing in Los Angeles. At the time, audiences laughed themselves silly over th…
Shedding new light on Hamlet by William Shakespeare is what Aquila Theatre aims to do with its upcoming production of at Fairfax's Center for the Arts. Hamlet has been recognized for centuri…
Living in the modern world, we are constantly the bystander to, or observer of, the life events of others. Be they consequential and indelible, or fleeting and forgettable, these seemingly d…
"I'm not going to take this on the road unless it's as good as what people have read about, with the same lighting and the same sound. I think that's my biggest bequest"that I imposed my sta…
