Monday, March 5, 2018
Can you imagine a chamber music concert—a quartet, playing mostly classical work by composers with names like Bach, Schubert and Shostakovich—getting six encores? And seven—yes, seven�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25PMMonday, February 26, 2018
When the curtain goes up on Becoming Dr. Ruth – the one-woman show starring Naomi Jacobson and directed by Holly Twyford – the character on stage at Theater J is not, primarily, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Hobson’s Choice is a winner. The play – a sparkling comedy with a terrific cast – just opened at the Quotidian Theatre Company, a jewel of a playhouse tucked into the rear of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:25PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Despite its off-putting (and overly-clever) title, Digging Up Dessa is a lively and often moving tale of two 12-year-olds who are lost in the middle of a strange new world and trying to find…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMSunday, January 28, 2018
Sovereignty, the long-heralded new play by Mary Kathryn Nagle – a member of the Cherokee Nation and one of barely a dozen Native American playwrights writing today – has arrived.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Twelve years after it was first adapted for the stage by British playwright Simon Block, the play Everything Is Illuminated – based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer – has a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19AMSunday, January 14, 2018
It’s no coincidence that Queens Girl in Africa—Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ semi-autobiographical one woman play now at Mosaic Theater Company of DC—was chosen to kick off the Women’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
Now in its 21st year, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage is the Center’s gift to everyone in the Washington area, offering live entertainment at no cost every single day. It’s also …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PMMonday, December 4, 2017
One of the best things about improv is that no two shows are alike. And Citizens’ Watch, the improvisational mystery now unfolding at Washington Improv Theater, is no exception.
The post R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMSunday, November 26, 2017
Chances are you’ve seen him before, either as an angry Pakistani cook on Seinfeld or a benign Indian doctor on The Big Bang Theory. That’s because Brian George, the character actor now d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Anyone who thinks that storytelling is a lost art should hurry on over to the Quotidian Theatre Company, where Jane Squier Bruns is now holding forth in A Coffin in Egypt, Horton Foote’s m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
It’s roughly a year ago to the day that Vicuña—a political satire of presidential proportions—had its first showing in Los Angeles. At the time, audiences laughed themselves silly ove…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMThursday, October 12, 2017
In Sotto Voce, Theater J’s first production of the 2017-18 season, the characters don’t actually lower their voices. Instead, they speak in whispers, and not always to each other. Howeve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Even before the houselights go dim, sparks fly. That vision — of fire blazing from a riveter’s gun in a factory in Detroit — is emblematic of what is to come in Skeleton Crew, Dominiq…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09AMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Some of the most interesting new plays unveiled at this year’s Page-to-Stage Festival–held over the Labor Day weekend at the Kennedy Center–were among those offered by Playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Any doubts about the future of the American Theatre were put firmly to rest on Labor Day Weekend, when more than 60 DC-area companies presented excerpts from some of their newest plays at Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
It’s no coincidence that The Devil’s Music – the show that celebrates the life and song of Bessie Smith – blew into Washington’s bustling H Street district at roughly the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Horton Foote, the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of hundreds of plays for stage and screen, was known as the American Chekhov. As such, his work is a perfect choice for The Quotidia…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Cabaret, the blistering musical satire written more than 50 years ago by John Kander and Fred Ebb, stormed into The Kennedy Center this week with a performance that had the audience on its f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMThursday, July 13, 2017
Internet addiction is no laughing matter. However, for the talented team now lighting up the stage at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas, the Internet–and all the craziness it has produced&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Welcome to show business! And welcome to this comedy revue where four talented actors burst on and off the stage offering send-ups of various show biz situations, real and imaginary. Geoffre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMSunday, July 9, 2017
One of the most frequently performed plays in America today, The Laramie Project, is now on view at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where the bare stage of the Lang Theatre has been transf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41PMI love Fringe. And like many theatergoers, I head off each day with tolerance and hope. The tolerance is for shows that are long on ambition, and the hope is for something more. Imagine my s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMFriday, July 7, 2017
You don’t have to understand quantum mechanics – or even elementary physics – to follow Quantum Suicide: A Talk by Professor Sophie Miller, the one woman show now enjoying its first Fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:58PMFriday, June 23, 2017
The verdict is in: Shylock–the Jewish moneylender whose trial is detailed in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice–has been exonerated. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsbur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:07PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
They’re back! Second City–the group that made Chicago the capital of comedy and that all but invented improv–has returned to DC, where it is part of The Kennedy Center’s mont…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PMThursday, June 15, 2017
Seeing The Return, the stunning new play that has just burst upon the stage at Mosaic Theater Company of DC–is like watching fireworks up close. In fact, the heat from this drama is s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
The idea of using theater to educate people is not new. The Greeks were doing it way back when, using the great amphitheater at Epidaurus to teach the populace that murder and mayhem would…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Seeing All Shook Up at Arena Stage last weekend was like an adventure in time travel. The show, which played for one weekend only, offered a glimpse of a long-ago world—1955, when Elvis Pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
It’s taken five years for The Father—the highly-acclaimed drama by Florian Zeller that shook Paris in 2012—to arrive in the Washington area. But now that it’s here—following sold-o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
Theatre-lovers searching for a sequel to Doubt—John Patrick Shanley’s prize-winning (and frequently revived) play about nuns and priests in an Irish-American enclave of New York—will b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57PM 
