15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Morningstar is a small chamber drama playing in the basement of Shopkeeper's on Florida Ave, (a venue whose old wooden floors add quite a bit of natural folly to the performance, some useful…
Dorothy Parker claimed, famously, that she was "just a little Jewish girl, trying to be cute." In fact, she was a legendary wit; the first female drama critic in America; and a successful wr…
Nevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flicker…
With a breezy "Hi, y'all!" Clyde Ensslin welcomes us to the complicated story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, as told by none other than Big Bill Clinton himself. It's a chance to rel…
There are certain topics that one avoids on first dates. Like race, politics, religion, Moby Dick, your ex. Mixed Blessings is the story of how these topics can make a first date go sp…
Stories of war wounded told from the point of view of military medics"those who try to save lives and bag the bodies of the ones they can’t"give glimpses into the bravery and heroism o…
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…
Scott McPherson wrote Marvin’s Room, a play about illness, family ties, and death when he was just a lad of 30. As a gay man, he was of course aware of the AIDS epidemic that had been …
The first-ever stage adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, written by Vern Thiessen and directed by Albert Schultz for Canada's Soulpepper Theatre Company, is also the recipi…
This isn't your normal poetry reading. Those words, spoken by Creator and Director Caleb Beissert as he introduced the Asheville-based Poetry Cabaret Collective, could serve as the tagline f…
Mike Bartlett's Contractions, directed by Julia M. Hurley, comes to DC this summer and will be performed at the Logan Fringe Arts Space. This production is presented as a part of the 2017 Ca…
The two media companies combine writing strength to review 70 openings in 6 days The editors and publishers of DC's two major theater websites"DC Theatre Scene and DCMetroTheaterArts"today a…
Between Hebrew classes and surviving middle school, best friends Jared "J-Swizzle" and Daniel "D-Man" dream of becoming the biggest rap stars in the universe. It will take a magical ques…
Damon Bonetti, a popular Philadelphia actor and director at various theaters and Co-Founding Artistic Director of The Philadelphia Artists' Collective (The PAC), is directing a new productio…
Every year PBS puts on a spectacular show with A Capitol Fourth and has the most talented people involved performing and behind the scenes. This year features The Blues Brothers with Dan …
When Jonathan David Martin came from New York to DC to be Theater J’s new associate producer in March of last year, he brought with him a backstory as co-artistic director and p…
I am not a specialist. I’ve never wanted to be a specialist. In fact, I’ve always wanted to be a non-specialist: someone who encounters life across many disciplines and many love…
In Napoli, Brooklyn, playing at Roundabout Theatre Company through September 3, Playwright Meghan Kennedy gets us started with a mimed prologue in which a family sits at the dining table, en…
One Man, Two Guvnors directed by William T. Fleming and produced by Karen Flemling is now playing at Silver Spring Stage. This play is a British farce by Richard Bean, based on The Servant o…
A hearty bro-hug to The Kennedy Center and to the National Symphony Orchestra's (NSO) new Artistic Adviser, Ben Folds, for having the joint jumping at the recent late night Declassified even…
​The early 1970s gave us three Bible-themed musicals: Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell (currently in a production directed by Alan Ostroff at Infinity Theatre Company in Annapolis), …
The great thing about fairy tales is their malleability. Fairy tales have been around for millennia and are often transported from country to country, morphing with each region and time that…
Smash hit On the Town has sailed into the Gateway Playhouse. Originally opening on Broadway in 1944, this popular musical is also quite well known for its 1949 film version starring Gene Kel…
AnyStage Theater presents I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! After premiering their sci-fi comedy Amelia Earhart In Space at last year's Capital Fringe Festival, AnyStage is thrilled to bring …
NTC goes viral. What happens next will Blow. Your. Mind. We’re baa-aack! Naked Theatre Company returns to the Capital Fringe Festival with a world premiere production, ClickB@it. In…
