Sunday, June 16, 2019
The motley crew of neurotic and quasi-neurotic characters in Falsettos, now playing at the Kennedy Center, offers an eye-opening look at all-too-human dilemmas. The rituals of everyday life …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMMonday, June 3, 2019
Mark Christopher Lawrence is a comedian of myriad talents. Appearing at the Bier Baron Tavern’s Comedy Loft, Mr. Lawrence commanded the stage with an act that was multi-dimensional – and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:39PMSunday, April 7, 2019
Rainbow Theatre Project has presented a trenchant and exciting production of the rarely produced Clothes for a Summer Hotel. The dualistic themes of the great playwright Tennessee Williams a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMSunday, March 17, 2019
The Maryland Lyric Opera (MDLO) presented an evening of an assortment of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s musical excerpts from three of his most esteemed operas–The Marriage of Figaro, Don Gio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMSaturday, March 9, 2019
The National Symphony Orchestra delighted with a superb program on Thursday night at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Acclaimed cellist Kian Soltani performed with panache as he joined force…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39PMMonday, February 11, 2019
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC has presented a production of the musical Working that perfectly captures the individual and collective spirit that embodies the strength and dignity…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMSunday, January 20, 2019
Jeffrey, the current offering of the Rainbow Theatre Project by playwright Paul Rudnick, casts a humorously defiant eye towards the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic – as set in the New Yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC presented their annual Holiday Show on a cold winter’s night and the warmth exuded by this very polished and respected chorus obliterated any bitte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Jeffrey Higgins: A Deafening Sound is an apt title for the anguish and turmoil that singer and pianist Jeffrey Higgins went through after being fired as a singer in the Archdiocese of Washin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
The Washington National Opera’s current production of the opera Silent Night is a shattering indictment of the futility and waste of war set during the historical truce that occurred durin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Washington National Opera’s current production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata is a moving and heart-wrenching view of tragic romantic love in all its variations. Under the taut and astu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02AMMonday, September 10, 2018
The current offering from the justly renowned GALA Hispanic Theatre, Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate) is a veritable feast for the senses and a savory mixture of theatrica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:54PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
In The Legend of Georgia McBride, a theatrical cornucopia of camp, country music, drag, domestic dilemmas, and larger-than-life divas await you. This disarming and sexually-charged excursion…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
The “double bind” of being gay in an oppressive climate of prejudice against gays and, yet, choosing to turn down any hope of redemption with a loving partner (or a political party that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
As was announced at the beginning of the National Chamber Ensemble’s recent musical offering Today’s Classical and Jazz Masters —in a veiled reference to the British Royal Wedding …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
The current production of the Washington National Opera –Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville plays like a frenetically captivating musical dreamscape of schemers, clowns, and roman…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AMThursday, April 12, 2018
An eerie sense of the supernatural combined with an almost ritualistic sense of the minutiae of daily living combine to form the aesthetic ambiance of playwright Annie Baker’s haunting and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:59PMFriday, March 9, 2018
An eclectic excursion into choreographic experimentation, innovative instrumental accompaniment, and exciting vocalizing is all part of DEMO by Damian Woetzel: Now at Kennedy Center’s Te…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:46PMMonday, March 5, 2018
“Peace and transcendence can only be found in death” seems to be the eternal thread that runs through Verdi’s operatic masterpiece, Don Carlo. Presented by the Washington National Oper…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Enticingly presented by Monumental Theatre Company as part of the Atlas Intersections Festival, Infinite Future: Bernstein’s Lasting Impact is an exciting and multi-dimensional theatrical …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC has just offered the DC Metro Theatre Region an alternately wistful, romantic, and humorous cabaret review entitled It Takes Two…. Presented at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PMMonday, November 6, 2017
The Washington National Opera is now offering opera lovers the rare treat of a disarming and whimsical baroque opera, Alcina, by Composer George Frideric Handel. An opera, by default, is oft…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Eternal, romantic love conquers all — even a jealous rival — in Verdi’s ravishingly melodic Aida, now being presented by the Washington National Opera with splendid work from a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Gorgeous, ravishing arias by the legendary Puccini, an ethereally beautiful performance by Soprano Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), and an exceptionally ingenious concept and stage …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:32AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Wearing his heart on his sleeve throughout, entertainer extraordinaire Alan Cumming (Tony-award winner for Cabaret, regular on the hit television series The Good Wife, concert and recording …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Anton Chekhov’s classic play Three Sisters is being given a superb rendering by the Maly Drama Theatre (from St Petersburg, Russia) at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Director L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07AMMonday, March 6, 2017
In the fascinating contemporary opera Champion, the external world of the often-violent sport of boxing and the inner turmoil of the self-loathing and self-denial of the lead character colli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
One of the natural vocal wonders of the world, the legendary entertainer and vocal artist Dionne Warwick beguiled the audience at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. The occasion to c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27AMMonday, February 27, 2017
It is certainly a “Dark Night of the Soul” (St. John of the Cross) for Sister Helen Prejean in the contemporary opera Dead Man Walking. A meditative, spiritually resonant study of our co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:47AMSunday, February 26, 2017
I recently had the privilege to interview the music legend, Dionne Warwick. The occasion for the interview is to celebrate Ms. Warwick’s illustrious career, ask some related questions, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Stephen Sondheim’s gloriously urbane, stylistic and sophisticated musical Company was groundbreaking when it first arrived on Broadway in the Seventies and it still remains relevant today.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM 
