15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Two-hundred and fifty artist citizens, teachers, members of arts non-profits, business executives, scientists and technologists from around the world, came together for a full day at the fou…
Encore Stage and Studio closed their most recent production, Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest, this past weekend. As the self-proclaimed "Theatre for kids, by kids," Encore works with young …
In My Funny Bone, the latest offering from Brian Sanders' JUNK, the boundary-breaking choreographer/dancer traces the evolution of his, let's say, "eccentric" sense of humor from childhood t…
DC site-specific theater of resistance reached a new height last night"also a new low"as Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s arresting staging of Vaclav Havel’s Protest became the f…
Stoop Storytelling, the Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features regular people telling "the extraordinary, true tales of their lives" is partnering with Everyman Theatre to prese…
Theatre-lovers searching for a sequel to Doubt"John Patrick Shanley's prize-winning (and frequently revived) play about nuns and priests in an Irish-American enclave of New York"will be surp…
Wanna play a game? Clue On Stage is a show that doesn't ask deep, profound questions of its audience. Instead, it simply asks, whodunit? Who killed Mr. Boddy? Was it Professor Plum in the co…
In conjunction with their last show of the 2016/17 season " the classic farce, Noises Off " Everyman Theatre is partnering with Stoop Storytelling to present a night of side-splitting storie…
Delightful and charming. Those are the words I would use to describe Rooftop Production's current offering You're a Good Man Charlie Brown which comes to life at the Kellar Theater at the Ce…
At a time when we can only imagine a world without walls of division and exclusion, the Annual Kennedy Center's Spring Gala concert, Come Together:Â A Celebration of John Lennon, reached …
With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company ("York Theatre") for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I saw this new musical on April 30, but in the l…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that seeing Edmund Kean play Shakespeare was like "reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." Acclaimed Director Liesl Tommy brings us Shakespeare torn asunde…
One Thousand and One Nights, the collection of classic Islamic tales upon which Mary Zimmerman built The Arabian Nights, now playing at Constellation Theatre Company, could not have a more v…
If you're looking for a musical of Broadway quality in the Baltimore area, look no further than some of the work being produced by Memorial Episcopal Church's drama ministry, Memorial Player…
Of Charles Dickens's fifteen novels, there are few, if any, that are less well-known than his first historical, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty"and few, with its forty-plus char…
Written in 1998, Book of Days is one of the final writings from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. The play is set in a fictional rural Missouri town of 4,500 or so residents,…
White is pure gold. James Ijames' audacious and hilarious new play takes on racism, sexism, and a handful of other isms. It’s a comedy, but its message is serious. It's bold, outlandis…
Welcome to the rehearsal hall. You are a student at a prestigious school for the performing arts. You have mastered your technique, but you are young. You have not thought through the circum…
Haunting and primal, Azuka Theatre's rolling world premiere of The Arsonists, the final installment in Philadelphia playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger's "Southern Gothic Trilogy" (following th…
Much to my tickled surprise, last night I found myself shouting out that I am a lesbian"I along with an entire audience in Lab One at The Atlas Performing Arts Center! Really, all of us, abo…
Gorgeous, ravishing arias by the legendary Puccini, an ethereally beautiful performance by Soprano Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), and an exceptionally ingenious concept and stage …
Moments into a dimmed house at the historic Lincoln Theatre, an off-stage voice over a loudspeaker made a promise to a buzzing audience: "We're going to light up the night sky, so dance!" Ci…
A sensitive young man struggles with his heritage as he tries to make his own mark on the world. A predictable story, you might say? Well, My Name is Asher Lev is anything but predictable…
Tracy Turnblad reminds us that "You gotta think big to be big" as Bowie Community Theatre (“BCT”) delivered a big success with Hairspray Jr. for their Youth Theatre Program's fir…
I didn’t know that Laura Bush had killed a guy. It really had never crossed my mind. Well, after seeing Ian Allen’s Laura Bush Killed a Guy, now playing at the Klunch at Caos …
