Currently playing at the Gateway Performing Arts Centre of Suffolk County is Swing! a song and dance showcase celebrating the classic sounds and dance steps of the swing era. It is a swirlin…
The new play at Lantern Theater Company is smart, funny, fascinating and entertaining. At times, though, it's also rude, frustrating, predictable, and morally troubling. But then again, all …
America's beloved franchise The Wizard of Oz gets a sprightly and spectacular makeover at Creative Cauldron this month. The musical " with music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, …
What is education? Just because you attend school and sit in a desk doesn't mean you learn something. In addition, learning can happen beyond the traditional classroom. In School Play, Terry…
One of the elements of the Source Festival 2017 is two Artistic Blind Dates. These collective creations bring together area artists from different disciplines to devise an original performan…
Alone. Lonesome. Free. These three words appear often in Paul Osborn's classic Morning's at Seven, now on view at Old Academy Players in East Falls. This play has become a staple of regional…
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a cheeky flip, begun with fun by castaways, who do everything but strip. Gilligan's Fire Island is a parody, bringing back nostalgic mem…
A disheveled bedroom in Port of Spain, Trinidad — home to the nearly incapacitated Dinah " is playwright Tony Hall's incubator for an important and wide-ranging drama about the destruc…
The Curious Savage by John Patrick, directed by Nick Cherone and produced by Maureen Rogers, is a comedy which premiered in 1950, and it provides much laughter and warmth. The story seems…
Perfect Arrangement by Topher Payne was a smash hit at Source Festival when it debuted there four years ago, and the comedy’s return to Source on the occasion of the festival’s t…
Thursday night on a beautiful Spring evening, Alan Alda fans descended upon the George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium to hear him speak about his passion…communication! The even…
On the Record is a new column that discusses recordings of theatrical shows. It's a companion to the theater reviews that appear here on DC Metro Theater Arts. This week, in connection with …
A musical murder-mystery who-done-it is a strange bird indeed. But it can work if expertly executed. Something's Afoot, with book, music and lyrics by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert Ge…
The New York theatre scene continues to offer variety and great fun with this post-Tony production of Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, The Government Inspector, as adapted by American play…
To help mark its 45th year in business, Toby's " The Dinner Theatre of Columbia is serving up something special in its new revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. No l…
Two staples of American drama have been the "kitchen-sink play," which feature small casts and meticulously detailed, usually lower-middle class, settings, and what I'll call "family reunion…
Theatre Horizon (TH) is a professional nonprofit theatre company headquartered in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 20 miles west of Philadelphia. Since its inception, TH has presented critically-ac…
Inheritors: The Nature of Keys is an original collaborative drama by Howard Community College's Art Collective, directed by S. G. Kramer that opened at the HCC's Horowitz Center Studio Theat…
Urgency propels them forward. In a blink there are flashes of precise articulation and rapid fluidity as sweeping curves carry a leg overhead or propel a body high in the air. Dancers merge …
It was an informal gathering. Barefoot. Casual attire. Just a handful of women standing in a semi-circle, reciting words from a page. They were from a variety of South and Central American c…
Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy opens on June 9, 2017, at Baltimore's Iron Crow Theatre. This production, a Baltimore premiere and the official show of Baltimore Pride 2017, closes out the larges…
The two media companies combine writing strength to review 70 openings in 6 days Washington, DC, June 9, 2017"The editors and publishers of DC's two major theater websites"DC Theatre Scene a…
There's something seriously wrong with this house. That’s what one character says early in Quintessence Theatre Group’s new production of Uncle Vanya, and boy, is she right. U…
Under new Director David Phillips, the Columbia Festival of the Arts will be back at the Lakefront in Town Center Columbia this year. Phillips, who has a background as Associate Dean for the…
Though a generation apart in age, Norman Rockwell (1894 New York City-1978 Stockbridge) and Andy Warhol (1928 Pittsburgh-1987 New York City) captured the tenor of their respective eras of 20…