15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
From the opening moments of the Other Voices Theatre's production of Willy Wonka, the audience is swept away into a "world of pure imagination." The show is based on s classic children's nov…
2nd Star Productions' over-the-top presentation of Peter and The Starcatcher is a recent addition to the cannon of lore surrounding the first appearance of that ever-young, pre-tween char…
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is looking as strong and beautiful as ever in its annual February visit to The Kennedy Center Opera House. Now in his sixth year as artistic director o…
Pop-rock musicals are having a moment. With Dear Evan Hanson ruling on Broadway and Freaky Friday recently debuting at Signature Theatre, fun, upbeat musicals are all the rage. While lesser …
About halfway through Villanova Theatre's ultimately engaging production of Lagan, by Northern Ireland playwright Stacey Gregg, is a scene between two young people, Emmet (Patrick McAndrew) …
I love being surprised when I go to theater. Recently, I went to a play, MetroStage's comely The Gin Game, and became totally smitten with the textures of its music design. It was a sound…
A colorful clearing outside a provincial French village is visited by the spirit of a murderer who enthralls Isabel, an innocent young schoolteacher obsessed with the enigma of death. Aided …
Heidi Schreck's fascinating play Grand Concourse is set in a church soup kitchen, among people who need a hand and those who help them. The play deals with poverty, but its biggest concern i…
Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine came to DC for a command performance on January 25, 1942. The occasion: Franklin Roosevelt’s 60th birthday. America had just entered World Wa…
Whatever this play meant to Broadway audiences when it debuted in 1941, just prior to America's entry into a war of resistance to fascism abroad, what matters now is what it means to audienc…
Sans Everything is a collaboration between the theater companies Lightning Rod Special ("LRS") and Strange Attractor Theatre Co. ("SATC"). The title comes from Jaques' famous "Seven ages of …
In Part One of a series of interviews with the cast of Two Rooms at Kensington Arts Theatre, meet Sean Dynan. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perf…
As an avid collector of art, antiques, and memorabilia, with a PhD in Art History, I have spent a lot of time around objects, studying, explaining, and appreciating them. And I've always kno…
Henrik Eger: You left quite an impression portraying the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (2009) and Peter in Peter and the Starcatcher (2016) " both at the Walnut Street Theatre. Seen from the pers…
In a series of interviews with the cast of The Miracle Worker at Rockville Little Theatre, meet Heather Andrews. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen…
Musician Rachel Levitin embodies passion. She is passionate about her music, life, and friends and is grateful for everything. When she sings, her whole body is enraptured in the music. It i…
Anton Chekhov's The Seagull is one of the most durable of all 19th century plays. But it's a play that producers, directors, and playwrights love to tinker with. In the last few years, au…
There is a delightful surprise in store for any of you who can manage to get to the Davenport’s 75-seat Loft Theatre to watch Ed Dixon’s one-man play in which he brings to vivid …
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MICHAEL KAHN ANNOUNCES THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY'S 2017-2018 SEASON Othello The Collection and The Lover Twelfth Night Hamlet Waiting for Godot Camelot Final producti…
A new professional theater company is coming to Montgomery County, Maryland. Best Medicine Rep, helmed by playwright John Morogiello, will focus on new comedies. This year, Best Medicine Rep…
As DC area performing arts companies continue to grapple with advancing issues of social justice into the public realm in these stressful days, DC is certainly not alone. In 2015 the Ford…
Under the crafty direction of Alex Levy, 1st Stage's production of Trevor, penned by Nick Jones, had me in agreement with a recent American Theatre headline calling Jones the “Deadp…
Currently playing on the Westchester Broadway Theatre stage is The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party. Produced by The Bikinis Tour Company, The Bikinis was created by Ray Roderick and James…
  US Premiere of Mexican Classic Now Playing at GALA Hispanic Theatre  Some might think of it as a Mexican version of Rashomon"Akira Kurosawa's classic 1950 film in which each of …
Stephen Sondheim's gloriously urbane, stylistic and sophisticated musical Company was groundbreaking when it first arrived on Broadway in the Seventies and it still remains relevant today. M…
