15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
A transformation is underway in Frederick Maryland's local theater community. Nowhere is that more evident than inside the JBK Theater, watching the Fredericktowne Players (FtP) latest produ…
Among the issues polarizing America (and degrading public discourse) is the hot-button question of what to do about guns. Proponents of positions right and left talk past each other. Both ca…
Adapted from the verses of beloved children's book author and poet Dennis Lee – known to generations of fans as "Canada's Father Goose" " Soulpepper Theatre Company's ensemble-devised …
The avant-garde work and Zen convictions of 20th-century American composer John Cage are the inspiration for Soulpepper Theatre Company's ensemble-devised piece Cage, performed in this mo…
Ally Theatre Company's second-ever production is radically different from the first, Miz Martha Washington, a darkly comedic historical play. Conceived and directed by Taylor Reynolds from a…
The Lion in Winter, written by James Goldman and directed by Jordan Friend, opened this weekend at The Highwood Theatre in Silver Spring; it is being performed in repertory with King John. T…
"Torture numbers," author Gregg Easterbrook once wrote, "and they'll confess to anything." David S. Kessler, a masterful storyteller aided by onstage musicians and projections in his new sho…
Top notch performers, frequent laughter, applause, audience sing-alongs, and an all-in standing hymn recital characterized a night at Rockville Musical Theatre's production of Monty Python&#…
Now playing at Greenbelt Arts Center (GAC), Seventh Street Playhouse's Teresa is a thought-provoking, historical dramedy written by Anthony Ernest Gallo and inspired by the life of Saint Ter…
Douglas Stafford is a very talented juggler. If that is an interest of yours, if you like juggling, and you've got an hour, then you may like this show. Stafford is pretty good as a magician…
A marketing company might have taken The Coil Project's The Changeling Child and instead titled it A Midsummer Night's Dream " The Next Generation. That title better conveys the…
Spider's Web ends with the unmasking of a murderer, and it starts with… a taste test. In this play's opening moments, two veddy proper, blindfold-wearing English gentlemen drink glasses…
Cabaret, the blistering musical satire written more than 50 years ago by John Kander and Fred Ebb, stormed into The Kennedy Center this week with a performance that had the audience on its f…
Toni Rae Salmi is an actor seen frequently on DC stages, most recently “enjoyably grand” in Perfect Arrangement at Source Festival. In Help Me, Wanda!, she belts out a r…
Something new and cutting-edge is happening at Christ Church Neighborhood House this summer " the U.S. premiere of Perfect Blue, by G.S. Watson. Perfect Blue, produced by Philadelphia-based …
Deserving recipient of an Academy Award for Best Actor, or modern-day Faust who sold his soul to capture Hollywood's biggest honor? Emilie Landmann (book), Carrie Morgan (book and lyrics), a…
Director Rami Khader, along with a group of talented and committed artists, both male and female and of differing ages and backgrounds, founded Diyar Dance Theatre in 2008. Based in Bethlehe…
By Amanda Brenner There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual fam…
You probably know Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, but did you know he was also an accomplished magician? In Orson the Magnificent, consummate showman L…
A play about gun control, mental health, Robert Kennedy, and the Umpqua Community College shooting that forms a cohesive message without hitting the audience over the head with an anvi…
Like storytime for adults, David W. Grant sits in a modern version of a wingback chair in the small space at the Pursuit Wine Bar, sipping a Negroni while regaling us with true tales from hi…
By far the best show I have seen at Fringe so far this year, The Regulars will have you laughing in your seat, squealing at insider "DC" jokes and dancing in the aisles, (Really, be prepared…
The post World War II Japanese dance theatre form, Butoh, is traditionally performed in white body make-up. Slow controlled movement, body tension and muscular involvement may rely on elabor…
Nazi Germany, South African apartheid, any city USA circa Black Lives Matter, pre-civil rights era America, Batista regime in Cuba, Cochabamba in Bolivia, Syrian uprising, 1984, even Jews in…
The original The Originalist returns to Arena in a much larger house (The Kreeger, not the Kogod Cradle where it debuted in 2015). This is fitting. The play, the performances, and the produc…
