Monday, October 15, 2018
Many students use their high school musical to dip their toes into the theater world. Walter “Bobby” McCoy, used it to launch himself into the deep end. When McCoy was a freshman, the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMBy Gloria DuGan As one who had reservations about enjoying a musical about The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I was pleasantly surprised viewing the production at The Arlington Players. It had pas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
The American Pops Orchestra kicked off its fourth season with You’ve Got a Friend: A Singer-Songwriter Celebration featuring a diverse lineup of local and national talent at Arena Stage. M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34PMMonday, September 24, 2018
If you hear shouts of “bravo” at the Kennedy Center this week, there’s a good chance they’re not coming from the Opera House. That’s because the sound is probably emanating from a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may boast of owning “twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile,” but in Center Stage’s compa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14AMThursday, September 20, 2018
Ready for some out of this world fun that will teach your kids about good global citizenry? InterAct Story Theatre’s current production, Voytto Tech: A scifi fable, takes audiences to the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Midway through the 2018 Helen Hayes Awards ceremony, a bike whizzed onstage, jolting the audience to attention. On the bike was Theatre J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr, clad in bike short…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMFriday, September 14, 2018
When Rusty the celebrity dog goes looking for kisses this Saturday, he won’t be alone. Joining Rusty will be a cadre of adoptable dogs and animal-loving actors brought together by Lisa Car…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Natalie Graves Tucker is so many things to so many people that we might need to add “superwoman” to her resume: actor, mom, marketing professional, voice over artist, video produ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:36PMSunday, August 26, 2018
Patrick Flynn’s The Ferberizing of Coral was one of six plays chosen for publication by Samuel French at the 43rd Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival this week. 850 plays were submitted t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Studio Theatre has added a production to its previously announced 2018-2019 season. The Children, by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood, will close out Studio’s season beginning on May 1st, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
Artistic Director Jordan Friend had a clear vision when founding 4615 Theatre Company last year. Each 4615 season would kick off with a pair of shows – one classic, one contemporary &#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
I am writing to address the concerns of many who took the time to contact us tonight regarding the review of The Mikado at Young Victorian Theatre Company that DC Metro Theater Arts publishe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51PMLaughter really is the best medicine. As Vincent Clark assumes his place on stage for his one-person, multi-media comedy An Unhealthy Man Lectures You on Medical Issues, I immediately like t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
There is a kernel of a great idea behind (Super) Friends, AnyStage Theater’s offering by Andrew Brockmeyer currently playing at Capital Fringe: Two superhero arch-nemeses, one ostensibly g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37PMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Review by Caroline Bock For one brief minute at the opening of Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them, written by M. Cristina García and directed by Mediombo Singo Fofano at the Christ United…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Fresh off its 2018 Helen Hayes Award win for Outstanding Emerging Theater Company, Monumental Theatre Company will close out its season with Pippin (July 13-30). Monumental describes itself…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMFriday, July 6, 2018
Get ready Washington, DC: July is hot and about to get even hotter. The always spicy Capital Fringe Festival opens this weekend, delivering 80-some experimental, mostly self-produced shows t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Washington, DC—DC Metro Theater Arts, the most comprehensive source of performing arts coverage in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore metro areas, is pleased to announce a thorough redesign…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMMonday, June 11, 2018
The atmospheric and ethereal The Band’s Visit led the 2018 Tony Awards with 10 wins, including Best Musical, Best Director and Best Leading Actor and Actress in a Musical and Best Score fo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49AMThursday, May 24, 2018
On the heels of its impressive 9-award win at last week’s Helen Hayes Awards, GALA Hispanic Theatre hosted its annual Night of the Stars gala this week at the Organization of American Stat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMFriday, May 18, 2018
We at DC Metro Theater Arts are taking time today to remember Founder and Editor Joel Markowitz on what would have been his 61st birthday. Joel remains in our hearts every day as we strive t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43AMThe 2018 Helen Hayes Awards gave the DC theater community a chance to relax, recharge and reflect on a great year of theater. Two productions of In the Heights dominated the evening, with GA…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35AMFriday, May 11, 2018
When the ceremony ends and the last guest makes his or her way out of the Anthem on Monday night, many members of DC’s theater community will go home happy, clutching the trophy that prove…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMMonday, May 7, 2018
Spring is here and with it gala season: that time-honored tradition wherein arts organizations close out their season with a celebrity affair intended to highlight to their work and refill t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMSunday, April 22, 2018
Young Artists of America and the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras of Strathmore joined forces to present a concert version of Ragtime last Sunday, April 15th. The performance, which took pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24AMOvations Theatre closed out their 2017-2018 junior season with a rousing and colorful production of The Little Mermaid, Jr. Featuring truly impressive set design and sparkling costumes, the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Promoted as a hilarious send-up of Christian boy bands, Altar Boyz, with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker, delivers witty lyrics sprinkled among twelve songs. The st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
It was 6:45 am on March 2nd when Managing Director Leon Seemann received the call informing him that a fire had broken out at Adventure Theatre MTC. Artistic Director Michael Bobbitt was on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Pinky Swear Productions’ latest offering, Use All Available Doors, will open at the Dupont Underground this weekend. The popular DC arts and culture space in a subterranean trolley stati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44PMFriday, March 16, 2018
While American folk band the Grateful Dead officially disbanded shortly after the death of frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995, the Dead has lived on in numerous “post-Jerry” incarnations in t…
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