15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Last week, the theater community suffered a great loss with the death of Anthony Lane Hinkle. Below is a lovely tribute, penned by our fellow Baltimore theater reviewer, The Bad Oracle. Plea…
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) is such a perfect amalgam of comedy and pathos that audiences will cheer even a flawed performance of it. And it's hard to get everything…
DC Mega-hits Dear Evan Hansen and Come From Away, which wowed  audiences  during  their sold out runs at Arena Stage and Ford’s Theatre, will be vying  for Best…
"Alternative facts" and "fake news" are nothing new with the current presidency; they led to the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq and its still-ongoing dire consequenc…
The dystopia delineated in Building the Wall is predicted by the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, to happen in America very soon. By the time the play is set, in the year 2019, the two char…
How do you turn one of literature's greatest tragedies into a raucous comedy? Very carefully. I read Madame Bovary in high school, and while it's been (ahem) a few decades since I've thought…
When it comes to musical theatre, there are two types of people: those who hate it and those who are obsessed with it. There is no in-between. And those obsessives, those for whom musicals a…
The night I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on Roald Dahl’s novel, the theatre was packed with moms and dads with little kids in tow. All of them seemed to…
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, one that has spurred argument and discord for over 400 years. Is the play as misogynistic as it often appears, or is…
West Potomac High School’s Beyond the Page Theatre Company gave us the "old razzle dazzle" in their production of Billy Elliot the Musical, with music by Elton John, and the book and l…
There are mysteries of belief and faith beneath this fascinating parable of a play, roiling like the seawater that churns below the wooden house where its action takes place. This house is b…
Poetry can be the seed of music, and music the seed of love. Music may even be used as a form of protest—and ultimately a promoter of peace. This is evidenced by the music of composers…
International multi-platinum selling acclaimed singer and ASCAP award-winning songwriter LeAnn Rimes returned to DC Friday night, joining the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at The Kennedy…
An unusual choice and subject matter for a musical, Grey Gardens tells the story of the dysfunctional relationship between mother Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter "Little" Edie Beale. The tw…
Strong and dramatic " the two words that continuously came to my mind as I watched Dorian's Closet at Rep Stage last night. This production is the world premiere of the new musical based on …
Suppose your two best friends were really talented and you invited them over to sing and tell stories and a few of your other friends found out and showed up to listen and it turned out to b…
Swallow, by Scottish playwright Stef Smith, was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival in 2015. This American premiere is produced by Inis Nua Theatre Company (which specializes in works from …
During his lifetime, Sergei Rachmaninoff was more famous as a pianist than as a composer. Logically, therefore, The Philadelphia Orchestra's current Rachmaninoff Festival is concentrating on…
There's the daily ordeal of truth, imaginary facts, and shifting identities. There is wealth and privilege and assumptions based on hearsay, without understanding. Within all of this lies th…
Anton Chekhov's classic play Three Sisters is being given a superb rendering by the Maly Drama Theatre (from St Petersburg, Russia) at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. Director Lev D…
How are dances created? What might inspire a choreographer? Specifically, how does Tania Isaac develop a dance? What role does the viewer have in it all? These are some of the questions that…
Nothing can keep Hetty Feather down. An orphan's life is a hard one, especially in Victorian England " and Hetty has it harder than most orphans, spending years enduring cruel treatment in L…
Andy Karl is a delightful musical theatre leading man, but he’s been having a bit of bad luck lately. During a late preview of Groundhog Day, his latest outing on stage, he suffered se…
With the Maly Drama Theatre’s Three Sisters, playing through April 30 at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre, theatre lovers will feast on every slow motion wonderment, every…
Massacre. Bloodbath. Horror. These are just a few of the terms used to describe the absolute tragedy that took place on April 20, 1999 in Jefferson County, Colorado. The terrible events that…
