Monday, 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 02:54PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
The HBO hit Succession centers around a wealthy media family reportedly based on the Rupert Murdoch dynasty. Its central dilemma: who will succeed the ruthless Logan Roy as the head of his w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:28PMTuesday, January 7, 2020
Brave Spirits Theatre (BST), led by Artistic Director Charlene V. Smith, has taken on a spectacular challenge: Shakespeare’s eight history plays. Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth Parts…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
The Woman in Black, the long-playing London ghost story now perturbing a Shakespeare Theatre Company stage, reminds us that spine-chilling horror can be the most delightful of sensations. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Stand-up comedian and monologist extraordinaire Daniel Kitson enjoys a devout following in the UK and in Australia. He first made his reputation at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he wo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Elizabeth Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows, first produced in 1798, is every bit as amusing as the unfortunately named Schitt’s Creek, The Good Place, or any other contemporary comedy. Inchbald…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PMThursday, October 24, 2019
IN Series’ Stormy Weather, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, features the music of Billie Holiday and a stunning cabaret performance by Nigel Rowe as Ariel. In the new Sybil William…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMMonday, September 30, 2019
The all-female production of Othello at Taffety Punk, directed by Kelsey Mesa, is a breath of fresh air. Because all the characters are played by women, you forget that they are female after…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14PMTuesday, September 10, 2019
1 Henry IV at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre, directed by Rosa Joshi, is perfectly cast and beautifully executed. Edward Gero is a superb Falstaff, and he is surrounded by gifted actors and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMMonday, August 19, 2019
Betrayal, one of Harold Pinter’s finest works, will open on Broadway September 5 after an extended run in London’s West End. Thanks to 4615 Theatre, a young professional company, you can…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMSunday, July 28, 2019
Taffety Punk’s Bootleg Shakespeare, a beloved DC tradition, is like attending a party with dozens of friends you never knew you had. The lines are long. The audience is enthusiastic. And t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
Where can you find one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, most passionate “problem plays,” and most famous tragedies, performed with conviction and flair? At the Shakespeare Theatre C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Hamlet is the most produced play in the world. It is said that Hamlet is being performed somewhere every single minute of every single day. Now, the Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22AMSunday, July 14, 2019
If you can’t get to the Broadway sensation Be More Chill, which closes August 11, there is no need to despair. Monumental Theatre Company is presenting the DMV’s first professional versi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07PMBeyond These Walls is a provocative contribution to the Capital Fringe, and well worth seeing. It was originally devised in 2018 under the direction of Matt Bassett, Artistic Director of the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Soft, behold! This summer DC offers first-rate Shakespeare everyone can enjoy. The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting (ACA) at the George Washington University, sta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) left Berlin in February 1933, the day after the Reichstag fire, an attack on the home of the German Parliament. President Paul von Hindenberg had named Hitler Chan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy is a graceful meditation on motherhood: its joys, its sorrows, and its unforeseeable costs. Director Kathryn Chase Bryer offers a visually lovely and emotionall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMMonday, June 3, 2019
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 07:51AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
“The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.” –William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. Synetic Theater, a beloved DC-area institution, has come up with a luxur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:16PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
The Oresteia, freely adapted by Ellen McLaughlin from Aeschylus (c. 525 BCE-c. 456 BCE) promises to be a fitting conclusion to Michael Kahn’s last season as Artistic Director of the Shakes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52PMSunday, April 28, 2019
The Hub is off to a remarkable start under new Artistic Director Matt Bassett with their production of The Burn by Philip Dawkins. Featuring snippets from the Arthur Miller classic The Cruci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PMSunday, April 21, 2019
Black Pearl Sings! by Frank Higgins, at Alliance for New Music-Theatre, is an absorbing production with an uplifting message. This witty play was successfully produced here in 2016 at MetroS…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18PMThursday, April 11, 2019
“I think you have to define who you are–and that definition can change–but you have to be as uncompromising as you possibly can about who you think you are, and to fight for that, in b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM 
