15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
For a fantastic evening of dark comedy with hysterical individual performances that bring quirky characters to life, don’t miss Arsenic and Old Lace at Other Voices Theatre! Nice…
Full disclosure: If your only exposure to the classics was Shakespeare in high school, then be ready to get out there and see what else there is. There's much to be found from the period tha…
Ask most theater lovers if they have heard of Jacobean-era playwrights such as John Fletcher and Philip Massinger and you would probably receive a confused "no." Fletcher and Massinger, who …
In 2015, Everyman Theatre produced an acclaimed run of Playwright Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined. Tazewell Thompson directed and actors Jade Wheeler, Bueka Uwemedimo, and…
This is what my mother/her mother before her believed / they believed had they been born "rich and high yella," they wouldn't have suffered. Clear your calendar, call the sitter and postpone…
Sociological research project meets PPT lecture meets jukebox musical in Professor and Playwright Dorothy Marcic's This One's for the Girls, produced by William Franzblau at St. Luke's Theat…
Just as Fiddler On The Roof, Cabaret, Porgy and Bess, and Hello Dolly! defined their generations, The Book of Mormon mirrors the zeitgeist of the Millennial Generation. It is often vul…
"Don't dream it, be it!" Iron Crow Theatre brings back their annual fundraising production of The Rocky Horror Show with music and lyrics by Richard O' Brien, directed by Sean Elias, to bene…
Many people are already familiar with Shakespeare In Love from the 1998 Academy Award-winning movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, but in many ways a stage production of the pi…
Adapted, designed, and directed by Loretta Vasile, The Mechanical Theater's immersive site-specific production of Bram Stoker's Dracula, performed at the solemn Neo-Classical Receiving Vault…
TouchTones is a new musical by playwright/lyricist Michael Hollinger and composer Robert Maggio. Directed by Emmanuelle Delpech, it delves into the romantic relationship between Christine…
Please give us your name, and a brief description of your theatrical background. My name is Cole Sitilides, and I will be playing Jay Kurnitz in the upcoming production of Lost in Yonkers. I…
NextStop opened their production of Assassins over the weekend and (all the cheesy pun intended) absolutely killed it. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, …
Intimate Apparel is the story of a woman named Esther. In 1905, Esther is a 35-year-old woman who lives in a rooming house with other single ladies. She is a skilled seamstress who makes her…
It's been said that one of the problems with politics these days is that people talk but don't listen. Opposing political sides state their positions, but too many speak just to their suppor…
It was a festive, most satisfying evening of high-end arts entertainment and education. And it was totally free. What was it? It was a recent Monday evening at The Landsburgh with the Shakes…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's special production of Poe…And All the Others is an imaginative and chilling spectacle, with a creative use of space. With just two actors, a chair, and ligh…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond, directed by Sherri L. Edelen. Joyce Dewitt from ABC’s hit comedy Three’s Company and the…
What do we do when a storm rages? We fold the laundry. We try to understand our daughter. We clean a table that wasn’t dirty to begin with. We don’t think about what’s bein…
Gin Dance Company’s Dance, Champagne and Chocolate with Gin program felt a little bit like flicking between emoticons: determined, eyebrows scrunched emoji? Hmm, aloof? What about gigg…
Long-time collaborators Phoebe Schaub and Emily R. Johnson, known to Philadelphia audiences for their haunting and transportive style as former members of Found Theater Company, have teamed …
Back in ancient times, tragedy was prized for its cathartic experience; fear, rage, pity, the whole range of human emotions would run through you, and on a grand scale, too, with thousands p…
Challenging theatrical conventions, Hello, My Name Is… by Deb Sivigny, directed by Randy Baker, and produced by The Welders is like no other theater production I have taken in, in re…
 Big Brother Really, Really Likes You Your online identity does not belong to you. Digital Eye, a transatlantic theater project that was presented Monday and Tuesday, October 16-17, at Bl…
The production company known as How Do You Like Me Now Productions and its sister organization Erase Hate Through Art were founded with the specific intention of provoking dialogue and actio…
