15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Arguments have been made that the theater is supposed to be a "safe place" where patrons can go to be entertained, away from the harshness of the world. Yet there is a large(r) number of…
This is what theater is all about and it was my dream when I started DCMetroTheaterArts 5 years ago-to see a venue filled with parents and kids laughing and clapping and having a great ti…
Concert Operetta Theater was founded in 2008 to revive and preserve the type of musical theater that's more lighthearted and accessible than opera, but a bit grander than Broadway. These tun…
Glorious! Dazzling! Verve! Bursting at the seams with voices and stories of America's humanity and originating dreams. These are the words I felt as Ragtime, now at Ford's Theatre, unfolded …
Dad jokes are an odd construct. As likely to make you cringe as to laugh, they are both funny and not funny at the same time. You may laugh at a dad joke, but you almost feel bad that you di…
Jeff Talbott established himself as a writer of great promise with the MCC Theater production of his first play The Submission in 2011. This excellent actor/playwright joined The Actors Comp…
The Providence Players of Fairfax will soon premiere the third production of its 19th season, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Christopher Sergel, directed by Beth Gilles-Whitehead. Tickets…
An intriguing musical piece of consequential historical value, Keegan Theatre's production of the Award-winning musical Parade is unapologetically dark and honest. Based on actual events, th…
At a comfortable table at Alexandria's Extra Perks Coffee Shop and Café, I had the happy opportunity to spend some delightful one-on-one time with The Gin Game‘s playwright D. L…
Contrast was stark in the concert which Michael Tilson Thomas led with The Philadelphia Orchestra. The first half displayed two radically dissonant pieces from the 1930s " Ruth Crawford Seeg…
Welcome to the world It's such a funny place The people who you love the most Are also the ones Who make you cry I'm not sure why A girl sings these lines to her newborn brother in the openi…
Beth Henley stocks her plays with characters that are distinctive and outlandish, right down to their names. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her wily and witty comedy now being revived at Sout…
I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about Cohesion Theatre Company ("Cohesion") setting its production of Shakespeare's Henry V in Appalachia, smack dab in the middle of the feud betwee…
We're not going to be talking about love, but I bet you can guess what we will be doing…singing about it…a LOT! So strap in, because you're going to get two solid hours of some fantastic…
In the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland's newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era of the Celtic Tiger was over; a mass exo…
With the spate of openings in March, I wasn’t able to get to Wallace Shawn’s new play, the New Group’s production which played a strictly limited engagement through Mar…
This is one of Arthur Miller’s successes, and though it’s been revived three times on Broadway since it first appeared in 1968, it has never attracted the audiences that flocked …
The setting is mysterious, the music is strange, and the lighting is ominous. This is what one will experience when attending Bowie Community Theatre’Â Night Watch, a murder mystery …
Encore Stage and Studio presents Night at the Wax Museum, a play by Craig Sodaro. A company known for theater “by kids, for kids!,” Encore leads and encourages children who show …
When you have over 200 talented musicians and singers filling the Strathmore stage, you know you are in for some great singing and playing from Young Artists of America. In a world premiere …
One of the wonders of children is their capacity to take the simplest object and create a whole new world filled with curiosity and excitement. Paper Dreams, a new children's dance theatre p…
War, friendship, and love are serious elements in a man or woman's life. Rockville Musical Theatre's production of Dog Fight explores those elements through the music and lyrics of Benj Pase…
An ensemble is very key to the success of a theatrical production. Whenever I go to a theater performance, I make sure to take in those who, while not in the spotlight, still pack a vi…
Here's something I bet you never wanted to think about again: the '80s and your hairstyle. Good. Now that I've unlocked a horror all too unimaginable, let's revisit a sexier time in our hist…
Nu Sass' latest Small Batch production is Howard Zinn's one-actor Marx in Soho. It is another highly successfully, nervy production by Nu Sass with it mantra, "strong women, great theatre." …
