15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid's The Assignment " inspired by a true story and developed by Houses on the Moon …
I've got to make this quick because there are only two more chances to see the fully staged, workshop performance of Sally McCoy at The Strand Theater Company ("Strand"), and one of them is …
Those looking to add "a little bit of cinnamon" to their theatergoing should head to GALA Hispanic Theatre's current production of In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2008 Tony Award-winnin…
Racism, presumed in polite circles to be no laughing matter, gets a hilariously smart deconstruction in Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People. Arena Stage has given this 2016 play its DC…
This was the first time this reviewer had seen a show with a large, and largely young audience of elementary, middle and high schoolers. Hundreds swarmed into the cavernous Victorian-era bui…
The characters in the oldie and much appreciated allegorical goodie The Fantasticks (The off-Broadway incarnation ran for 42 years, and it is reportedly the World's most performed musical) f…
¡No pare, sigue, sigue! Hamilton lovers rejoice! Lin-Manuel Miranda's 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights premieres tonight at GALA Hispanic Theatre in the show’s firs…
As soon as the lights come up on Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People, now playing at Arena’s Kreeger Theater, the focus is clear. Or is it? Are four really “smart” people…
I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) 2 months ago. Since then my world has been turned upside down. I have accepted the grim news that this is one battle I might not w…
Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She’s been particularly interested in exploring the need …
Laurel Mill Playhouse is presenting Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore from April 28-May 21, 2017 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel MD. H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass Tha…
As play titles go, Or, is one of the most ungoogleable. It is a search engine dead end. And as an original mashup of past and present, prose and poetry, and performative purposes, Liz Duffy …
I never made it up to New York to see Fun Home. I did the same thing with The Ramones; it just always seemed like there'd be time to do it later. Fortunately for me " and unlike my gaffe wit…
First of all, for theatre lovers, there is nothing as delightful as watching three top notch actors have fun on stage, and with Holly Twyford, Gregory Linington, and Erin Weaver you’ll…
This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it’s about the battle for supremacy in the field of female skincare and beauty. It sounded like ev…
Fans of Broadway musicals won't get more bang for their entertainment buck this whole season than at Something Rotten! Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre has been on a roll when it comes to offe…
When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway premiere in 1998, t…
Celebrating its 20th anniversary season, 1812 Productions – Philadelphia's all-comedy theater company – is now in rehearsals for its springtime offering, the local premiere of Fr…
The revolution will not be televised. Nope, it is on stage at Round House Theatre with a playful, headlong charge of a wild comedy. The comedy is called OR, a fictionalized account of fre…
On Saturday, I attended the inaugural production in the newest post-renovation Baltimore Center Stage ("BCS") performance space " the descriptively-named Third Space. BCS chose a play with i…
Philadelphia-based artists Dan Martin (composer) and Michael Biello (lyricist) are about to make their Off-Broadway debut this month with Marry Harry at The York Theatre Company. The longtim…
Since its debut in 2008, The Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America series continues to showcase the best of ballet from regional companies across the nation. This fourth time around, there …
Compass Rose Theater's production of the George Bernard Shaw classic Pygmalion is an entertaining, thought-provoking show. Directed by Jim Knipple, it combines great acting with a clever set…
If you are like me, you would have given your right arm for an invitation to "Club Cumming," the nightly party Alan Cumming held in his dressing room at Studio 54 after performances of Cabar…
As soon as the Trio finished Thelonius Monk’s “Brilliant Corners”, the KC Jazz Club exploded in applause. Some music is not listened to: it is experienced, your body vi…
