Monday, February 18, 2019
Taken with his debut as a director for Synetic’s touching Cyrano de Bergerac, I took the opportunity to interview Vato Tsikurishvili. It was a chance to delve deeper into the creative mind…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:08PMThursday, February 14, 2019
With a singular mission to expand the music universe for diverse audiences, ground-breaking pianist Lara Downes will be gracing DC’s Sixth & I Historic Synagogue stage in a live event …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Regional Tony Award recipient Signature Theatre continues its singular Signature in the Schools program with another original production written and directed by Joe Calarco. Calarco is the R…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMMonday, February 11, 2019
Shu-Chen Cuff and her Gin Dance Company are returning to perform at the celebrated DC Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival. “We are thrilled to be part of the 10th anniversary of the Atlas INTER…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Complex villains are irresistible on stage and screen. They can be so magnetic. They certainly keep my attention even with the awful consequences of their thinking and action. Their restless…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
The upcoming Second Glance at Alexandria’s Athenaeum promises to cross artistic boundaries to produce the uniquely dramatic in a highly original venture. So what is Second Glance? It is st…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13PMSunday, February 3, 2019
By all means, go, have a great time at Signature Theatre’s grandly jaunty Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical Show. A musical revue centered upon the prolific composer Fats Wall…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59AMMonday, January 28, 2019
An evening of conversation with Broadway legend Baayork Lee is coming to Reston’s CenterStage. Baayork Lee has performed in some of the most far-reaching musical theatre events of the past…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMSaturday, January 26, 2019
How any of us deal with the death of a loved one is so very personal. With the passing of her beloved brother Carl, playwright Paula Vogel found her own sui generis way to let the world know…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Some sixty-five years since its original premiere as a black-and-white teleplay, Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men remains timeless; all too intriguingly relevant as ever. In the Ford’s T…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Go with no preconceived notions to best absorb Scena Theatre’s Submission, the American premiere theater adaptation of the 2015 European best-selling novel by French author Michel Houelleb…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:42PMThursday, January 17, 2019
A far-reaching cultural exchange production from China by the China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) is making its United States premiere at The Kennedy Center. It is Image China: Xuanzang’s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Zemfira Stage is producing an uncommon sighting in the DC area: a production of the offbeat mid-1950’s play, The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson. An unconventional nightmare of a melodrama e…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
With its premiere of Cartography, The Kennedy Center continues to be a welcoming venue for theatrically devised civic discourse on often fraught issues. Cartography is a unique live document…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PMThursday, January 3, 2019
DMV area theaters are always a class act. With no end to the government shutdown in sight, many DMV theaters are offering special discounted tickets to federal government workers. DMV theate…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMThursday, December 20, 2018
A blunt assessment: It’s time to move on. It is time to retire Miss Saigon as the seductive, out-of-touch, museum piece that it is. Miss Saigon has little to say about the sorrows of the V…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Man of La Mancha has long been an icon of mid-20th century American musical theater with its share of 1966 Tony Awards. This show about a man marching forward for “a heavenly cause” is …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
A perfect fit for a convivial concert on a winter’s night is coming to the acoustically rich Reston CenterStage. It is a cozy evening of personally selected music and song with critically …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
Just in time for an escape from too many holiday-spiked eggnog toasts for a better tomorrow to come, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) provides an appealing, sugar-coated farce to indulge au…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Northern Virginia’s Alden Theatre, with a long-standing moniker, “small stage, big talent,” reopens on Saturday, January 5, 2019, when renovations of the surrounding building complex, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22AMSunday, December 2, 2018
“Why must every Jew on stage be a paragon?” A key question asked without bombast by one of the fictional characters created by playwright Paula Vogel for Indecent, her daring stage play…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Northern Virginia’s NextStop Theater has announced a very special cabaret event for the Holiday season. It is called A Kosher Christmas Cabaret. The performance is a follow-on to NextStop&…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:41PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
With the holiday season upon us- whether it’s Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s- the performing arts calendar is full of productions that help connect an audience to the larger,…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMSunday, November 25, 2018
Can love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua’s upcoming production of How to Keep an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMCan love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas Nua’s upcoming production of How to Keep an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51PMMonday, November 19, 2018
It was another time. It was a time of high anxiety. Even private lives were far from private in the treacherous, early 1950’s with the likes of Senator Joseph McCarthy and columnist Hedda …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Taunt and remarkable is the production of Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic play Machinal (1928), performed by George Mason University School of Theater and Mason Players. A student p…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:40PMThursday, November 15, 2018
With its title, The Accident Bear, and its performance location, a laundromat in Annapolis, I was most intrigued to learn more about local playwright Bob Bartlett’s new work. The productio…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
It has been 100 years since suffrage pickets began in front of the White House for women to have the legal ability to vote in the United States. Over 70 of the suffrage picketers were arrest…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Signature’s Billy Elliot the Musical soars with expressive, youthful dance energy and a liberating message of doing what you need to do to be who you want to be. Directed and choreographed…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMThursday, November 8, 2018
Folger’s rendering of the seldom-produced King John is more than impressive Shakespearean rhetoric and the checking off on a bucket list of plays to produce. With a deft touch, director Aa…
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