Monday, March 2, 2015
The Russian Chamber Art Society (RCAS) has become the go-to organization for those in the know in the DC area when it comes to rarely heard—and rewardingly performed—works from the Russi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
“Part mystery, part romantic comedy, part moral fable, Our Mutual Friend justly earns its place among Dickens’s most brilliant novels.” With these words, Directors Kelly Newman O’Con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
It’s eleven o’clock. Do you know where your children are? A question we’ve become accustomed to, it’s meant to both prod us and reassure us that the “village” is looking out for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:33PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
All the world’s a stage, and much of life’s a circus. Shakespeare may not have said the second part, but his whirlwind, identity-switching, gender-bending, who’s-on-first 1602 comedy T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Say “Tchaikovsky,” and as Christmas creeps ever closer, be it excitingly or inexorably, visions of sugar plums, graceful ballerinas in sparkles and white tulle, and softly falling faux s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMMonday, October 20, 2014
It’s not often that theatergoers have the rug of common assumptions pulled out from under them and enjoy both the trip and—as the dust and a few loose threads settle to the ground beside…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMThursday, September 11, 2014
Amore! Amour! Amor! The eagerly anticipated concert by the couple memorably dubbed by a leading British newspaper “the Jay-Z and Beyoncé of opera,” tenor Stephen Costello and soprano Ai…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PMMonday, July 14, 2014
You can easily miss him. Lying on the floor in dim light, dressed in grey, still as death, he is easily overlooked. It is the young woman, her dark blond hair held back with a tortoise-shell…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57AMSunday, July 13, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Who, indeed, has come to play? Five women in ten choreographic (no less compelling, for being non-cinematic) captures, their bodies conveying emotional capture…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Six actors: three men, three women, all in all black—t’s, tanks, slacks, shoes, leggings—sitting, standing, walking upon; bounding, flipping, dancing acros…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Stephen Mead is no stranger to Fringe—or to one-man shows: his “Dark. Powerful. Mysterious. Magnetic. Suspenseful” performance in Murder on the Bare Stage, as lauded last year by DCMTA…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AMMonday, June 2, 2014
Soprano Andrea Rost, whose career began in European opera houses, must have felt at home in the Warner’s lavishly appointed, gilded and crystal-chandeliered art deco interior, the stage�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
Rarely do we see the poetically evocative adjective “arabesque” outside the ballet. So being invited to “An Arabesque Event” held an irresistible charm. As it turned out, the title w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38AMWhat’s the best place to enjoy a scrumptious lunch surrounded by ever-changing exhibits by local artists, while hearing celebrated actors and writers engage each other in stimulating, illu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMSunday, April 20, 2014
If you have a child or grandchild you’d like to introduce to ballet, does The Washington Ballet has a show for you. Artistic Director Septime Webre’s Peter Pan is a cherry lollipop …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40AMFriday, April 4, 2014
SUBJECT: What You Know There are known knowns. There are known unknowns. There are unknown unknowns. But there are also unknown knowns—that is to say, things that you think you know tha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50AMFriday, March 28, 2014
“The Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre entrance temporarily closed for emergency work until Monday, March 31.” For anyone familiar with the legendary lockout that threatened to strand several…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
In his third and final Explore the Arts lecture at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Gallery on great composers serendipitously born in years lending themselves to anniversary celebrations in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The Washington Chorus, marking the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth with a series of concerts, offered the sixth on Sunday evening, with a program of arias, scenes and choruses…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Sunday afternoon’s recital at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Concert, was a musically and intellectually adventurous expedition that testified absorbing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18AMFriday, February 28, 2014
The Kennedy Center’s 500-plus-seat Terrace Theater was filled nearly to capacity Wednesday night for soprano Hei-Kyung Hong’s recital of German and Korean art songs, the latter as cheris…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48AMMonday, January 6, 2014
We Washingtonians take pride in accomplishment, and in being duly recognized for it. And strongly dislike having our expertise challenged—particularly, publicly. Fortunately, most of us do…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Montgomery College Communications and Performing Arts Department’s production of Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate, which closed on Sunday is whip-smart, sophisticated, and incisive. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMFriday, November 22, 2013
If Secretary of State John F. Kerry is willing to think way outside the box in his attempts to break the seemingly eternally intransigent deadlock in Middle East peace negotiations, he could…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
A sizable crowd at Legacy and Life: A Musical and Visual Reflection greeted the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s performance of the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and Take Him, Earth by c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:43AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Steven Dietz has the dubious distinction of being one of the nation’s most performed but least known playwrights. With its earnest production of Dietz’s searing, cerebral and enigmatic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23AMThursday, September 26, 2013
British soprano is making her debut with the Washington National Opera in the role of Isolde in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, sharing the role with Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin. Leslie: …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
British tenor Ian Storey plays Tristan in Washington National Opera’s Tristan and Isolde Leslie: You’ve performed the role of Tristan in opera houses from Berlin to Glyndebourne, und…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMMonday, September 23, 2013
“Thanks for sharing,” most commonly considered a wry reply to one who’s just told you something you really didn’t need to know, is both apropos and perplexing as a title for a film w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:32PMMonday, September 2, 2013
The Catholic University of America (CUA) presented five readings of new plays on Saturday afternoon. Circulation by Robert Montenegro Language lovers who like their grammar lessons steeped …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMThursday, August 15, 2013
Carol Solomon, daughter of one of the great voice-over (V.O.) artists, Sam Sotto (Fred Melamed), has been getting by as a voice coach, so overshadowed vocally and cowed psychologically by he…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM 
