Thursday, September 17, 2020
In our current political and cultural stressful times, how can theater make a difference, not just to those who are in-person patrons but to a wider community in the DMV and into American hi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSaturday, September 5, 2020
Who says a theater performance can’t make a difference in politics? With all the ongoing political and cultural conflict, is there a way to simmer things down for at least one brief shinin…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMSunday, August 30, 2020
With the sold-out success of Small Change, their first Drive-Thru theater experience, the creative folk at the Alden Theatre in McLean have developed a totally new live event. It is the Alde…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24AMFriday, August 28, 2020
Sit back to indulge in a comedy-melodrama. A streaming Zoom reading of a rediscovered play first produced in 1910. It is a love letter, with sharp edges, to a bygone time. A time of tintype …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04PMSaturday, August 22, 2020
Elections have consequences. Some elections more than others. With voting participation trending downward over the years, what can be done to awaken folk to the critical importance of voting…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30PMFriday, August 21, 2020
Change is coming. As the DMV theater community is reeling and reckoning with the effects of the coming post-COVID-19 world and as artists of color are speaking their minds freely, what await…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMMonday, August 3, 2020
Even as it faces the challenges of COVID-19, the Reston Community Center CenterStage has programmed a Professional Touring Artists Series that aims “to help our community reflect on how st…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMSunday, July 19, 2020
In these days of medically necessary masks and prudent social distancing, let us not forget children in hospitals and care facilities living with chronic illnesses and disabilities unrelated…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53AMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Wolf Trap’s Filene Center may be quieter than usual this summer of 2020, but it is far from dark. While there are no live performances in an abundance of caution because of COVID-19, Wolf …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMFriday, July 10, 2020
With the country hitting new daily highs as COVID-19 surges well beyond hot spots such as New York, New Jersey, and Connecituct, the Public Theater has produced a love letter to the medical …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
As health and safety concerns continue to make live theater productions with a live audience dicey at best, the DMV’s Dark Horse Theatre decided to find its own way to produce new content …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:53AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Black Stories Matter, a live online storytelling show benefiting Black Lives Matter DC, will be presented by the DMV’s Better Said Than Done on Zoom July 10, 2020. Black Stories Matter fea…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMThursday, June 25, 2020
The ever nimble Alden in McLean has developed a unique way to provide theatrical entertainment in this era of COVID-19. With indoor live theater on hiatus for more than three months, the Ald…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMSunday, June 21, 2020
For school-age children, their world has turned upside down because of COVID-19. Over the past three months, children and youth have lived from a distance in a virtual world, lived with a mu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16PMMonday, June 15, 2020
“I read the news today, oh boy… / the news was rather sad…” That day was May 22, 2020. In a leap into film docudrama creation, Arena Stage’s Artistic Director Molly Smith chronic…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:53AMMonday, June 8, 2020
With DMV theaters still shuttered because of COVID-19, there has been the opportunity to explore original streaming content written by local playwrights. One of those playwrights is Northern…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:01AMSaturday, May 30, 2020
There has been oodles of well-deserved praise for Round House Theatre’s homegrown Homebound, an original ten-installment web series exploring life under stay-at-home orders. Penned by som…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00PMMonday, May 25, 2020
We will open again. The COVID-19 virus will neither darken nor silence us even with the many scary unknowns before us. We know reopening for DMV theater will happen. The date may be uncertai…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMThursday, May 21, 2020
Better days may be coming. Some restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic may be easing. But there is not yet a definitive date when DMV performing arts venues might reopen across three …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMSaturday, May 9, 2020
With so much still unknown about the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the performing arts, the singular Washington Performing Arts (WPA) has delayed announcing its 2020–21 season until June …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00PMThursday, May 7, 2020
With university campuses closed because of COVID-19, how is student education continuing forward? This is a critical question, especially for higher education theater and dance departments…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:37PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
“Right now we are all desperately seeking contact and connections,” said Luke Frazier, Founder and Maestro, American Pops Orchestra, in a recent phone conversation on a chilly, rainy mor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48AMMonday, April 13, 2020
With college and university campuses in the DMV area closed because of COVID-19, distance learning is now the norm. But how do students in the performing and visual arts continue their educa…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
Part of Arena Stage’s ongoing Power Plays, the world premiere of Celia and Fidel transports the audience back to a time when Fidel Castro was not just a name in the history books, but a fe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:11PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
Ready for a dandy production about the complicated life with a child-like diva who happens to be a genius? Then consider Einstein’s Wife from ExPats Theatre. Written by Serbian playwright …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Monumental Theatre is providing DC-area audiences with a first look at the jukebox musical comedy Head Over Heels. The production features nearly two dozen musical numbers from The Go-Go’s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMThursday, February 27, 2020
Highly recommended. An unsettling dance play. The phrase “sorry you’re here” takes on new meaning. It is not typical for me to write “highly recommended” at the top of an article. …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:06PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
“Isn’t it OK to sometimes be selfish?” asks a character in Anna Ziegler’s cunningly devised The Wanderers. With Amber McGinnis’ discerning, sympathetic direction, Theater J’s pro…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03AMMonday, February 24, 2020
Trigger warning. Nu Sass’s world premiere of Weep is an arresting, unflinching peek into complicated lives with emotionally charged scenes and character collisions. It is a slowly building…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11PMThursday, February 20, 2020
Who Tells Our Story is the theme of Better Said Than Done’s upcoming, first-of-its-kind, two-day Women’s Storytelling Festival. Audiences can expect stories that have been crafted for a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
The world is so full of intractable political and cultural issues, with deep chasms making understanding, let alone peace, seem so far away. But the venerable Washington Performing Arts (WPA…
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