Sunday, December 8, 2019
The good news? The Second City’s sharp-witted She The People: The Resistance Continues is back at Woolly Mammoth for another rollicking production of top-notch sketches and witty songs. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMMonday, November 18, 2019
Like many of Charles Dickens’s sprawling novels, Hard Times chronicles the lives and times of multiple characters dwelling in England’s mid-19th-century industrial chaos. But unlike the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PMThursday, October 3, 2019
The economic and social plight of America’s white rural working class has been the subject of recent blockbuster books from J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy to Educated, by Tara Westover. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PMSunday, September 15, 2019
The Woolly Mammoth Theater Company has rocket-launched its 40th anniversary season with a searing production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Dram…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
Sensuous and just a bit sly, the smooth white pavilions of the Kennedy Center’s new REACH complex wink at us amidst undulating grassy berms. One rises up from the green lawn, curling like …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Nearly thirty years after its premiere, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins still astonishes. An audacious meet-up of nine successful and would-be presidential assassins – from the narcissist J…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMFriday, July 12, 2019
Back at the Fringe Festival after their successful 2018 appearance, Laugh Index Theatre’s production of Hold the Tomato strikes a number of funny bones during its fast-paced series of comi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Funny, sweet, and poignant, Colleen Hindsley’s one-woman show, That’s Not How It Happened, will resonate with anyone who misses their parents, has endured the torture of older siblings, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning God of Carnage is a cautionary tale for modern times. Written in French and translated into English by Christopher Hampton, Reza’s razor-sharp black com…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMMonday, March 25, 2019
What if your favorite dramatic heroine could – just for once – alter her tragic fate? That’s the question posed by playwright Jon Klein in the Washington Stage Guild’s production of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Edmond Rostand’s tale of a consummate wordsmith achieves profound new eloquence in Synetic Theater’s wordless production of Cyrano de Bergerac. As they have done in so many previous prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMSunday, January 6, 2019
Rising from its roots in the Deep South, African American music journeyed north with the Great Migration, invigorating urban culture with rhythms derived from shouts to spirituals, work song…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMSaturday, December 8, 2018
The Second City lights up the Kennedy Center’s holiday season again this year with their new production, Love, Factually. Featuring a top-rate cast directed by Frank Caeti, The Second City…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMMonday, November 19, 2018
In the bleak Long Island backyard that serves as their coffee-klatch confessional, neighbors Lina and Jessie chat daily about the alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching emotional terrain …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:33PMFriday, October 26, 2018
It has taken more than 35 years for Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s iconic musical Little Shop of Horrors to reach the Kennedy Center. But it’s been worth the wait! The Kennedy Center’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Twenty years ago, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive shocked audiences with its holistic examination of pedophilia. It takes a village to molest a child, Vogel believes, not just a perpe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:44PMSunday, September 30, 2018
Anne Frank’s immortal words about love, fear, and hope come alive once again at Rockville Little Theatre’s new production of The Diary of Anne Frank. Based on the words of World War II�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:44AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Aubri O’Connor lights up the tiny stage at Caos on F, drawing us into this quirky, funny, and poignant play within a play starring her alter ego, Aubrey. During a 70-minute romp through Au…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
When asked recently what he hoped audiences will get from watching Other Life Forms, playwright Brandon McCoy answered, “I hope they laugh, and I hope they have a really good time.” Miss…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
On a rainy afternoon in 1950, two middle-aged black servants slowly scrub the floor and wipe tables in an empty South African tea room. They banter about an upcoming ballroom dance competiti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PMFriday, March 30, 2018
The inspiration for Migratory Tales comes from multiple sources, according to the play’s creator and director, Leslie Jacobson. Our current and painfully divisive debate on immigration was…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 margin of victory – nearly 16 million popular votes and a lopsided total of 486 electoral votes – is almost unimaginable today. Armed as well with a 68-32 majorit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Yoga Play, a new work by Dipika Guha, was presented as part of Mosaic Theater Company’s 2018 Workshop Series at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on Monday, January 29th. The play was commi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMSaturday, December 16, 2017
Now in its seventh year, the Keegan Theatre’s annual production of Matthew J. Keenan’s An Irish Carol has become a favorite Washington DC holiday tradition. It’s easy to see why. A qui…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:32PMFriday, December 8, 2017
If you’re yearning to kick off your holiday season with goodnatured hilarity, get thee to the Kennedy Center and grab a seat at the Theater Lab, where The Second City’s Twist Your Dicken…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PMMonday, November 20, 2017
André Watts brought an ecstatic audience to its feet after his magnificent performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Playing with the Baltimore Symphon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMAndré Watts brought an ecstatic audience to its feet after his magnificent performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Playing with the Baltimore Symphon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Louisa May Alcott’s evergreen tale of female fortitude and family virtues beams its inspiring message once again at American University’s lovely new production of Little Women, the music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:11PMWednesday, September 20, 2017
Five fabulous divas joined the innovative new American Pops Orchestra to celebrate the music of Aretha Franklin at the Arena Stage’s Fichandler Stage on September 16. An energized audience…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:24PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
The Words She Gave Me, Solia Bickersteth’s ambitious multimedia project, is a bighearted and moving exploration of how African-American women have shaped one another’s concept of womanho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
A disheveled bedroom in Port of Spain, Trinidad — home to the nearly incapacitated Dinah – is playwright Tony Hall’s incubator for an important and wide-ranging drama about the des…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:38PM 
