What the playwright has done with Harper Lee’s novel epitomizes what live theater does best: hold values up to view.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:10PMThe two leads — Michael J. Mainwaring as Daniel and Josh Adams as Chris — are spellbinding together. Their unabashed attraction is palpable.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:54AMThe writer-director explains why his play about young Black gay men is titled after the movie about Black women friends.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35PMAt DC Arts Center, an original musical about real-life risk-takers who went over the famous falls.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMAn absurdist, dark comedy sendup of toxicity on the job.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMThe quality of the writing and the caliber of the performances at Studio are enthralling, but here's what impressed me most. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22AMPlaywright Paula Vogel lifts three women from 'Othello' — Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca — and puts them in their own risqué play about today.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18AMPaola Lázaro’s scintillating script about two sexual abuse survivors is astonishingly entertaining and deeply moving.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMOne of the most intimate, touching, and truthful relationship dramas you’re likely to experience without being in it yourself.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMChelsea Marcantel's gently touching and deeply satisfying new play is about a brother's and sister's quest for connection.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMDirector Joseph Ritsch and Dramaturg Khalid Long on how race, queerness, gender, and ability intersect in Tennessee Williams's classic.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27AMFrom the Coil Project comes an inviting show of possibility for polyamorous playmaking.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMNow performing in DC at Hook Hall is a sensual cabaret combining circus and burlesque. Is it theater? Let's see.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29AMAn iconoclastic take on the classic excites on tour at KenCen.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMTo the sound and lighting falls the task of making the gothic horror erupt — and by god do they deliver.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMIt prompts a provocative question: Just who are the rhinos today?
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36AMIt’s as if the playwright has scripted the subtext of every relational betrayal and said all the quiet parts out loud.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMThe Austrian and German playwright, Daniel Kehlmann, calls his twisty script 'a play for two actors and a clock.' And it's right on time.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMTwo DC theater critics take in the world's most inclusive circus and are blown away.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46AMIn its twist on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' Washington Improv Theater not only cracks jokes but cracks open the emotion in the moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05AMThe first season planned by new Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas aims to spark conversation across DC around issues of and for the moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMA profoundly illuminating play about a Black man who lives in the glare of the white gaze.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42AMIn a dystopian near future, a twentysomething romance heats up steadily alongside a chilling public health crisis.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22AMA magnificently entertaining and beautifully profound new musical has opened at Olney. Here's what love's got to do with it.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMYou cannot watch his performance in this shocking role without feeling agitated and aghast — and he was willing to talk about it.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMThe teenage diarist Anne Frank appears as a puppet; an author tries to pull strings to stage her story.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMIt’s as if Suzan-Lori Parks scalds and skins the body politic in one fell swoop.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMMichael R. Jackson’s 'big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show' will open in spring 2022 at the Lyceum Theatre.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PMThere's got to be more to it than a cool chance to groove on the oeuvre of Britney Spears. | Column by JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02AMMichael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical sings of a singular poet’s journey from self-loathing to self-respect.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PM"What is important in this moment for Signature," says its new artistic director, "is how we are creating a culture of consent going forward."
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