15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Even successful plays get retired from the workforce after a few seasons. A select few, however, may go on to a new phase of wizened seniority. That is the case with The Heidi Chronicles, no…
In a week that began with the repeal of DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals " what better way to end it than with a musical about dreamers. For those children " many now youn…
Confederate statues are toppled because they ignite memories of slavery. Colleges are compelled to rename buildings because their namesakes turned out to be slaveholders. Theater companies m…
The cast of Hello Blackout! spends a lot of time in the dark. In the opening moments of the show, lights slowly fade up and we faintly see five people staggered across the stage. They're …
Performed in the candlelit courtyard of the historic Betsy Ross House and opening in the 2017 Fringe on September 9 – the same date, in 1776, that the Second Continental Congress de…
Okay, I'll say it: the production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running is so packed with dynamic performances under the direction of the multi-faceted Fuzz Roark, it threatens to explode ou…
An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestly, is currently playing at Laurel Mill Playhouse, produced by Maureen Rogers and directed by Ilene Chalmers. Priestly was from the working class, albeit wh…
Dreamgirls has followed the summer's closet full of Dreamcoats into Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia. That's a lot of dreams, providing plenty of rich musical memories for theater fans to c…
While Don Juan, the character, is a recognizable archetype of insatiable lust, the GALA Theatre's Don Juan Tenorio, is an elegant, at times humorous, meditation on the psychic toll abject na…
Though written 30 years ago, few contemporary plays speak so profoundly to America’s current situation in the world as does David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, now playing at…
A spot-on parody of the retro-style of film noir in a hilarious send-up of our ever-growing post-modern obsession with social media and technology, Fishtown " A Hipster Noir reaffirms Tribe …
We will now consider Amanda Quain’s latest play, Noah: Apocalypse, currently playing through September 18 in a bar in Petworth. “Is it a sequel?” my friend, Jeff, asked,…
Some of the most interesting new plays unveiled at this year's Page-to-Stage Festival–held over the Labor Day weekend at the Kennedy Center–were among those offered by Playwright…
A ten-year account of the failed pursuit of his Hollywood dreams, Gene Duffy's As the Matzo Ball Turns " The Musical is an ambitious stage adaptation of the eponymous 2012 autobiographical c…
Brainchild of Director Brenna Geffers and Designer Thom Weaver, the newly-formed Die-Cast makes its public premiere in the 2017 Fringe Festival with an arresting re-envisioning of the rarely…
Onto a landscape of food stamps, broken dreams, and Walmarts, director and playwright William Dean Leary has created an indelible portrait of life in rural America. Leary's Midnight Cigarett…
There's a story circulating about Everyman Theatre's Artistic Director, Vincent Lancisi, and it’s one of the best What I Did on My Summer Vacation yarns around. It involves two contine…
Amit Peled is a story-teller. He happens to do it with a cello. But that doesn't mean you have to be a genius audience member to find the entire story for yourself in the music. The charisma…
Life Lines is a new, collectively-developed work by the all-female ensemble Tangle Movement Arts. Tangle's work is mostly derived from circus arts, particularly aerial performance on trapeze…
So here we are in late 2017. And in the past several months, nooses have appeared in the Washington DC area, on the campus of American University, at the University of Maryland, inside the N…
Seen through the lens of the popular phenomenon of the TV game show, Found Theater Company's latest ensemble-devised Fringe offering, Game Show Show, considers the ethical dilemma of how far…
As Founding Editor Continues to Endure Debilitating Effects of ALS, Revitalized Staff Regroups to Carry Forward His Vision Metro DC (September 7, 2017)"DCMetroTheaterArts (DCMTA)"the website…
In 1582, a village parson heard the deathbed confession of a man named Richard Barley, who had married his butter churn. Barley claimed he had been bewitched into matrimony by a fairy called…
Skipping puddles on my way to The Kennedy Center, I reminisced: "It's a rainy day. The sky is gray. I think I'll smile anyway." My childhood friend, Nancy, taught me that and it has stuck wi…
Any doubts about the future of the American Theatre were put firmly to rest on Labor Day Weekend, when more than 60 DC-area companies presented excerpts from some of their newest plays at Th…
