Monday, November 18, 2019
Virginia Opera’s artistic director Adam Turner, in his program note for contemporary composer Daniel Catán’s Il Postino, hastens to assure audiences that the company is working to dispe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMMonday, November 4, 2019
I’ve never been to Reading, PA, the location of Lynn Nottage’s searing 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, now playing at Silver Spring Stage, but my life has been bracketed by livi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Canadian playwright Norman Yeung’s Theory, in its American premiere at Mosaic Theater, seeks to be, in the words of Mosaic’s press release, “a hot button play for our digital moment.…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Getting killed multiple times in a single production can be great fun (my personal best is three). In Reston Community Players’ (RCP) A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Patrick Grah…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSaturday, October 26, 2019
How do you put a human face on a difficult, complex subject the natural habitat of which may more likely be a law review article than a stage? Such is playwright Sharyn Rothstein’s task in…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AMWednesday, October 23, 2019
From its beginnings as a very low-budget 1960 Roger Corman B-picture horror flick (a young Jack Nicholson had a minor role), Little Shop of Horrors has been an irresistible salad of corrupte…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Snow White is bossy. Cinderella is a ditzy dim bulb. Sleeping Beauty not only sleeps a lot but snores. Belle is going nuts from talking to inanimate objects. Mulan likes girls. Just what …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMSaturday, October 5, 2019
Black early 20th-century celebrity heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson has had as irresistible a pull on subsequent playwrights and filmmakers as he did on the public of his day. Alrea…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMMonday, September 23, 2019
Ambiguous loss that binds two people together while pushing them apart. Incompatible paths of grief that alienate each other’s only source of connection. The dominating presence of someone…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Andrew Lloyd Webber catapulted to unprecedented West End and Broadway success with his musical extravaganza Cats, based on a 1939 collection of light verse by the otherwise modernist poet, T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSunday, September 15, 2019
After a highly successful animated film, a long-running Broadway show, a live-action movie version, various spin-offs, and innumerable theme park, cruise ship, and school productions, the Di…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
The central character in Best Medicine Rep’s (BMR) DC-area premiere of Cricket Daniel’s Helen on Wheels, Helen Wheeler (Liz Weber), is a 74-year old Oklahoma widow full of vim, vigor, an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
In this summer of our discontent – what with unchecked climate change, racist politics, and mass murders – a bit of cheer in the form of a frothy tale of a privileged white girl who, thr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMSunday, July 28, 2019
Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s (BSF) production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Tom Delise, delivers the “merry” promised in the title. The wives – Alice Ford (Emily Clas…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMMonday, July 15, 2019
The American interior West has long been a favored setting for stories about loneliness. The visual emptiness of vast open spaces – think of your favorite John Ford film – and the emotio…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Playwright Sam Hamashima is described in his program bio as working in the “collision between his queer identity and his Japanese-American identity.” In American Spies and Other Homegr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMMonday, July 8, 2019
Eat your heart out, Christmas Carol. Hang up your dancing shoes, Nutcracker. Change the channel on reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s Christmas in July in Shepherdstown, as the Contem…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMThe Antonio in question is Antonio Edwards Suarez, the writer (with Dael Orlandersmith) and actor in this one-man autobiographical piece, part of the Contemporary American Theater Festival i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:11PMMy Lord, What a Night, a new play by Deborah Brevoort at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, explores the relationship between two 20th-century greats…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMSunday, June 30, 2019
A young hero in her own story who redeems the lives of others around her, the title character in the musical adaptation by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin of Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda uses h…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Tennessee Williams famously wrote fragile female leads: Laura, delicate and easily shattered; Blanche, already defeated before she is forced to rely upon the kindness of strangers. Not so wi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:14PMSunday, June 9, 2019
Princess Ida, now being presented by The Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC), is something of an odd duck in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory. It has three acts, the dialogue is in blank …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:21PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
The audience didn’t stop laughing all night. Between Matt Minnicino’s rhyming couplet- filled, witty, knowing, sometimes bawdy adaptation (or, as he would have it, “distillation”) of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMSunday, June 2, 2019
In the midst of Pride season, and in the 50th anniversary year of the Stonewall riots that defined the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, Rainbow Theatre Project presents a look at…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMMonday, May 27, 2019
All the familiar characters are there: Lizzy Bennet, her sisters and parents; suitors Darcy, Bingley, Collins, and Wickham; the de Bourghs and Charlotte. The basic plot lines and period sett…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PMMonday, May 6, 2019
Rose Hovic is one of the most riveting characters in the history of musical theater, inspiring allusions to the most renowned figures in dramatic literature. Gypsy’s lyricist, Stephen Sond…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMSunday, April 28, 2019
Reston Community Players (RCP) serves up a tasty dish of that ultimate Broadway comfort food, Annie. Cooked up by Thomas Meehan (book), Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics) in…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMSaturday, April 20, 2019
It is a joyful occasion when a new, vital theater company opens, and the advent of Boundless Theatre in Frederick is a welcome addition to the Western Maryland arts scene. Their inaugural pr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:13AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Things are getting silly at the Olney Theatre Center these days. Very, very, silly. Very skillfully silly, in the production of Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors. A follow-on to Ludwig’s h…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMSunday, April 7, 2019
When we first see the Tate family in Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, now playing at Frederick’s Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), they are already doomed, they just don’t ful…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PMSaturday, March 30, 2019
“She sweeps out,” says George Bernard Shaw of Eliza in a stage direction at the end of Pygmalion, leaving Henry Higgins alone and feeling self-satisfied. As Shaw said emphatically in his…
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