Thursday, February 24, 2022
‘It’s a thrill ride to be able to play her, and to be able to talk about her like this.’
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMMonday, January 17, 2022
'It’s risky to get on stage and be that vulnerable,' says the playwright, glam rocker, and trans advocate. 'It’s powerful, but it’s risky.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21AMFriday, December 24, 2021
The immersive journey of two young Afghan refugees, an unforgettable tour de force.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:33PMThursday, December 9, 2021
The comedy musical based on the famous movie shines with romantic insanity.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Heartfelt, ironic, and mystical writing, a beautiful production, and a historical backstory of religious persecution.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17AMMonday, November 1, 2021
It is 1945. Five women share a cell in the famous Pankrác Prison in Prague. Their meeting is fictional, but the events they describe are true.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39AMTuesday, October 26, 2021
The entertaining and enlightening story of Sylvia Méndez, whose lawsuit desegregated California schools.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28AMSunday, October 17, 2021
The music steals the show, but there is much, much more to enjoy.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PMMonday, October 11, 2021
David Strathairn's spectacularly affecting performance as Jan Karski becomes not only an emotional but a moral experience.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Monday, September 13, 2021
A play deeply attuned to the ways people from disparate backgrounds interact and feel, it will bring you straight to the essence of what it is to be human.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55AMMonday, August 9, 2021
At the DC War Memorial, genders are bent, love is lost and found, and a good time is had by all.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PMThursday, June 17, 2021
After the harrowing events of the last year, the production is a noble effort—but something of a misfire.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52AMThursday, June 10, 2021
Members of Congress and A-list actors join Shakespeare Theatre Company in fun and frolic for a good cause.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:14PMSunday, June 6, 2021
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMWednesday, June 2, 2021
Growing up in Baltimore, it was impossible to avoid the story of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). He was conceivably our most famous resident. There was the mysterious stranger, known as the �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24AMTuesday, May 11, 2021
Beth Hylton solos as a fourth-grader in Lucy Alibar’s poetic and comic ‘Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up.'
The post In a child’s voice, a magical and moving portrait of the Sou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMThursday, May 6, 2021
“2.5 minutes is a really long time on a roller coaster if you are having a good time. If you think it’s killing your father it’s a really, really long time.” —Lisa Kron in 2.5 Minu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58AMMonday, April 19, 2021
Conformity can be difficult for some of us at the best of times. But it is especially difficult in adolescence for a girl. Cynthia, 17, the main character in Sue Jin Song’s brilliant Child…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
Critic Marjorie Garber suggests that A Winter’s Tale is “a hall of mirrors” and that the main character, King Leontes, lives in a solipsistic universe. The beloved tradition of STC’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (2020) and a Princeton professor, writes in The New Yorker about an encounter at a fu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMWednesday, February 3, 2021
“This rough magic I here abjure.” This phrase, from Prospero’s farewell in The Tempest, is among the most exquisite in Shakespeare. In All the Devils Are Here, Shakespeare Theatre Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMFriday, January 15, 2021
There is something inherently Shakespearean about DC. It’s easy to picture Lincoln wandering the corridors of the White House reciting his favorite passages. In his journal, John Adams onc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AMMonday, December 7, 2020
A Christmas Carol, produced by PG County Shakespeare in the Parks and set in Victorian England, is a hauntingly lovely radio drama. It’s free and family-friendly, and a welcome reminder of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36AMTuesday, November 17, 2020
The Keegan Theatre’s streamed live performances from their stage are the closest thing I’ve seen so far to theater as we remember it avant le deluge. They are presenting two pieces in re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01PMMonday, October 26, 2020
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” —Fannie Lou Hamer Anyone who has ever seen E. Faye Butler perform knows that they are witnessing something truly extraordinary. A two-time …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:18AMThursday, September 24, 2020
How, exactly, does one make theater in the middle of a pandemic? People are sitting on the couch streaming The Umbrella Academy. Broadway is closed until January 3, 2021. Much of local theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
For one brief shining moment, there was bipartisanship in Washington. It occurred with the 2020 online edition of STC’s 18th annual Will on the Hill, broadcast on Monday, September 14, 2…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMSunday, September 13, 2020
There are certain theater experiences that you look forward to with extraordinary excitement. Brave Spirits Theatre’s Shakespeare’s Histories 2020 was one of them. To their credit, Brave…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:57PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
Karen Richards (Celeste Holm) the playwright’s wife: A part in a play. You’d do all that for a part in a play? Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) conniving actress: I’d do much more for a pa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30AMThursday, March 12, 2020
Museum 2040, a world premiere written by Playwright Renee Calarco and directed by Artistic Director Jordan Friend, is an extraordinary immersive installation, which confirms 4615 Theater Com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PM 
