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Ancient sea lore meets Sixties beach party in Night Tide, a new musical parody by Taylor Tash (book and lyrics) and Nathania Wibowo (music), based on Curtis Harrington's 1961 B-movie thrille…
Fear City is the South Bronx in July 1977. There is nothing particularly unique about that July in that year in that place. Fear, it seems, is a way of life in the South Bronx. Kara Lee Cort…
The production of Portraits of Grrrls felt like I walked into a high school guidance counselor's activity. This should not diminish the discussions, content, importance, and impact thi…
The Amish with their horse and buggy, 19th century culture; their simple, old world uniforms and habits; their infamous Rumspringa where the teenage Amish is given the opportunity to choose …
New Records is our column about recordings of shows and concerts. It's a companion to the reviews that regularly appear here on DC Metro Theater Arts. This month we take a look at albums fro…
Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties is a political play that takes the gloves off. It’s bare knuckled and it’s bloody, though no bones are broken and no souls crushed. But who kn…
Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer committed the shocking murders of seventeen men, involving necrophilia, dismemberment, cannibalism, and the preservation of the victims' body parts. Aft…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest is a colorful, spirited spectacle. Directed by Donald Hicken and performed outdoors, in the gardens of the historic Ch…
Evan Linder's Byhalia, Mississippi pulls theatre-goers into familiar territory: the “white trash” world of Laurel and Jim. Once there, however, the unfamiliar takes shape: amidst…
Oh the years of awkward adolescence. Who doesn't look back on that time and cringe? No one! Which is why The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is the perfect combination of hilarity and…
David Meyers' We Will Not Be Silent places American audiences within an interrogation room in Nazi Germany in 1943. Leaders of the White Rose, one of several resistance groups to Hitler and …
Before the emergence of the late legendary composer and playwright Jonathan Larson's iconic Rent on Broadway, there was his semi-autobiographical rock monologue Tick, Tick… Boom! that h…
Sunny and cheerful is how I felt after an hour or so with Happenstance Theatre's Bon Voyage! A Happenstance Escapade. The original production, currently at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, m…
The Three Musketeers has been dramatized countless times over the past two centuries, and for a good reason " it’s a rousing tale filled with intrigue, swordplay, appealing characters,…
The world of Wig Out! is a glittering fantasia on house ballroom culture. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ingeniously metatheatrical 2006 script sets this play with music in the urban unde…
A man wanders onstage, a mad look above his riotous beard. Another man comes on, petrified with fear, not seeing the disturbing maniac. With lightning speed, the bearded man pounces and …
Lakeboat was thought controversial when it debuted 40 years ago, but now it seems almost quaint, verging on classy. The very first script by David Mamet, it features many of the hallmarks…
Horton Foote, the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of hundreds of plays for stage and screen, was known as the American Chekhov. As such, his work is a perfect choice for The Quotidia…
Last year there was Not Medea; this year there is Wild Horses, Allison Gregory's rollicking one-woman ride through a 13-year-old's adventures in horse country. Though structurally not as wel…
With P.I.C. : The Prison Industrial Complex, the Conciliation Project hits the cruelty of the American criminal justice system hard with just about everything they can throw at it: Scores…
What would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination had failed " but the danger wasn't over? Lancer and Lace pulls on this historical thread and weaves an interesting yet …
"These are my friends," Billie Holiday (Anya Nebel) tells her accompanist (LeVar Betts), gesturing at the audience. It is March of 1959, and Holiday will be dead in four months. She's singin…
Feel jaunty and energized after Prince William Little Theatre's production of Oklahoma!. Enter into a land of wide open prairie fields, great company and even greater gossip. This cheery tow…
Scandals, sibling rivalry, adultery and divorces represented daily living for England's royal Plantagenet family, which held the dynastic reigns of power from approximately 1120 to 1490. The…
"Games have rules," Brooklyn-parent Dixon (Zach Brewster-Geisz) tells his wife, Pam (Mindy Shaw). They're playing Boggle, Dixon has tried to play "Slurpee," and both are a little wounded tha…
