Sunday, October 22, 2023
An energetic vibe lifts up the rock opera's 50th-anniversary tour. By ANDY ARNOLD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:47AMSunday, September 17, 2023
The play is two hours of silly, slapstick humor disguised as a murder mystery and international spy thriller. By ANDY ARNOLD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:36AMMonday, July 17, 2023
Acting performances shine in this psychological drama set in DC high society.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:05PMSunday, July 16, 2023
Mitchell tells her story of coming of age as a latchkey kid in the 1960s and '70s and reckoning with dreams and disappointment into adulthood.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:18PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Veteran director John Cusamano leaves Maryland with a triumph.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:13AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
I hate using terms like comedy and drama together, but they aptly describe Christopher Chen’s The Late Wedding. The play, inspired by the whimsical stories of Italian writer Italo Calvino,…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:00AMSaturday, April 8, 2023
A young boy's fantasy has a lesson: Enjoy your youth, death is coming.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:04AMSunday, February 26, 2023
In this tongue-in-cheek British comedy, two eccentric ladies come together as frenemies.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:35PMTuesday, November 29, 2022
The dazzling score by Irving Berlin features well-known standards that invite feet to dance.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:45AMSunday, November 6, 2022
The musical may have a weak plot but this production is excellent.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:53AMFriday, October 14, 2022
If you enjoy using your mind, this play is for you.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:39AMMonday, September 12, 2022
DC theater veteran B. Stanley returns to the stage as the fast-talking spirit of the former president — because 'Our democracy is in a dire strait.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:55AMSunday, August 28, 2022
The Rude Mechanicals stage realistic jury-room strife at Greenbelt Arts Center.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:32AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Exhilarating music, dance, orchestration, and fine acting make for a winning opera.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:28PMSaturday, March 12, 2022
Dancing sets the tone for this iconic musical that brings life and humanity to Jewish peasants facing antisemitism in pre-revolutionary Russia.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:31PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
It’s 1939 and film studio chief David O. Selznick has staked his career on adapting Margaret Mitchell’s bestselling novel Gone with the Wind for the screen. Still, Selznick shuts down pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMMonday, February 24, 2020
Chris Dwyer uses Walt Whitman’s poetry and his many hospital visits to bring vivid accounts of the Civil War to life in Leaves of America: Walt Whitman’s Stories of the Civil War. Whitma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMMonday, February 3, 2020
Agatha Christie’s A Daughter’s a Daughter at The Arlington Players features the character of Sarah Prentice: the most hateful, self-centered, pampered, jealous, possessive, resentful, ro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMMonday, January 13, 2020
Is racism a taboo subject in the arts? Of course not. From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Porgy and Bess to the whitewashing of the Oscars, artists have used their platform to convict American socie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMSaturday, December 7, 2019
You know it’s going to be a long night when Santa Claus goes missing. Either Stage Manager Meaghan Leahy made a whopper of a mistake, or some fiend stole jolly ole St. Nick, thus threateni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54PMMonday, December 2, 2019
If you know a bored child who doesn’t know what to do with their time, a trip through Susan Nanus’ The Phantom Tollbooth just might be the answer. It certainly works for Milo in Greenbe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMMonday, November 25, 2019
Viewing Aquila Theatre’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 at the Center for the Arts at George Mason University, I couldn’t help but wonder which came first “newspeak” or “alte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
The set and staging steal the show at 2nd Star Productions’ A Christmas Carol: The Musical. That is almost a shame because the acting, singing, and dancing are also first-rate; however, th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56PMThursday, October 31, 2019
If you are into corsets, fishnets, glitter, high heels, bold makeup, sexual innuendo and cussing as art, Wolf Pack Theatre Company’s (WPTC) rendition of Richard O’Brien’s cult classic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:48PMSunday, October 27, 2019
If you are looking for some enjoyable entertainment before the holiday rush sets in, see The Drowsy Chaperone by the Goddard Music and Drama Club at the Barney & Bea Recreation Center. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMSunday, September 29, 2019
Although three murders, or “helping lonely men to find peace,” as the aunts see it, take place in the first two minutes, Rockville Little Theatre’s current presentation of Joseph Kesse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMMonday, July 22, 2019
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap is a serious whodunit in which strangers are thrown together at a remote place and cut off from the outside world, with a police inspector unlocking a murde…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PMSaturday, July 13, 2019
The Little Senator That Could held its world premiere at Capital Fringe on July 12, 2019, and it is nearly perfect for Washington, DC. Billed as a comedy, playwright Kirsten Grady’s show i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48PMGeorge Washington University researcher Sufian Zhemukhov is a popular guy around Washington. He has several awards for his storytelling and some of the stories he relies on in Flirting Like …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:02PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
It turns out Al Snow (Todd Blakesley) is that guy – the one who admits to voting for Donald Trump in 2016. His participation in the democratic experiment turns his life upside down. Snow l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
The musical Mamma Mia! is playing in Frederick, Maryland for the first time at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre. If opening night is any indication, WOB has a hit on its hands. Director Jorda…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PM 
