15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Baltimore's John Waters takes another swipe at Eisenhower-era conformity in Cry-Baby: The Musical, making its area premiere now at the Drama Learning Center in Columbia. The show had a short…
It's hard to believe that almost 20 years have passed since John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's ground-breaking, genre-bending, glam-rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch first emerge…
Shakespeare in the park is a long-held American tradition. From venues in places such as New York City's Central Park and Washington, D.C.'s Carter Barron Amphitheater, watching the Bard's w…
We are in the streets of Rome. The lights onstage bump up and immediately we are in the midst of controversy. Flavius and Marullus are admonishing the crowd to break up and get on with their…
Economic self-interest, an 'inconvenient truth,' a ruthless politician, a whistleblower, 'fake news,' closed-door meetings, a bureaucratic cover-up, the refusal to work together for the comm…
In response to continued demand for tickets, Single Carrot Theatre will be extending the sold-out Promenade: Baltimore for three performances. The production, which is already the highest-gr…
Seeing The Return, the stunning new play that has just burst upon the stage at Mosaic Theater Company of DC–is like watching fireworks up close. In fact, the heat from this drama is…
A destination awaits for theater-goers ready for a high-quality evening taking in a marketplace of intriguing 10-minute plays. The destination is DC's ever-changing 14th Street and this year…
The Manhattan Theatre Club is presently offering a 4-character play set in “the urban east of America” in the “near present day.” That description in the Playbill is …
Now in its fifteenth year as a fundraiser for the educational programs of Shakespeare Theater Company, Will on the Hill joins a few celebrity actors with a gaggle of professional politicians…
Winner of five Tony Awards in 2015 – including the first-ever Best Musical honors given to a show written entirely by a team of women – Fun Home, with book and lyrics by Lisa Kro…
BRAVO Productions Theatre for Young Artists strives to nurture young, local talent and offers the opportunity for those budding entertainers to perform both mainstream and classic shows on t…
Patsy Cline's spirit inhabited the theater when Laura Stracko sang some of Cline's later and best known songs including "Sweet Dreams," "She's Got You," "I Fall to Pieces" and "Crazy." Direc…
August Wilson was a high school dropout who went on to receive two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and he's regarded as one of the five most celebrated playwrights in the history of American theat…
William Shakespeare wrote memorable female characters, many of them laced within male-dominated plays. The Rude Mechanicals' She Speaks came about when director Leanne G. Stump realized that…
Mosaic Theatre Company of DC concluded their 2017 season with a riveting, deeply provocative examination of a State’s National Security apparatus on dissident individuals living and lo…
It was a day for the un-stuffy. I wanted to engage with something new and ambitious. I hoped to be left agog. Well, Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown is an overwhelming succ…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rogers and Hammerstein, a gorgeous, glamorous revue that celebrates the works of two greats from the go…
From the moment the curtains opened, we knew we were not going to see a traditional version of The Mikado. The Victorian Lyric Opera Company's production, directed by Helen Aberger, at the F…
A good American farce is as rare as a diamond. If you can write a crazy comedy that will keep audiences laughing, regional and community theaters will beat a path to your door. Ken Ludwig, o…
Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre's production of Sister Act, directed by Clare Shaffer, is a funny spectacle of a musical. Based on the movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, with music by Alan Menk…
You need to take up some sports. This weekend, Iron Crow Theatre ("Iron Crow") opened the final show of its 2016-17 Season of Dark Play " the Baltimore premiere of Robert O’Hara’…
A few facts are laid at your feet as you move through a couple of simple rooms. Black and white video on old portable television shows a boxing match, which is no match for the clutter. A pe…
DC Mega Hits Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away were honored at last night’s Tony Awards. The shows had sold-out runs at Arena Stage and Ford’s Theatre. Dear Evan Hansen was vic…
The set that we see is a towering eyeful, The interior decorator spared nary a trifle, For decked all about are amusing objets d'art On loan from museums with tastes tres bizarre. Claes Olde…
