Friday, 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 …
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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 …
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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…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMThursday, February 13, 2020
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Raw one moment, richly comic the next. Subtle in one scene, directly challenging the audience the next. The world premiere musical Gun & Powder at Signature Theatre is strikingly effecti…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMSunday, February 2, 2020
With personality galore and voices full of pizzazz and warmth, The Mason Cabaret in Concert delivered a wonderful evening of Celebrating the Great American Songbook! Under the direction of J…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:05AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
Bright and jaunty as a hippie’s tie-dyed shirt, the opening musical number for Folger’s The Merry Wives of Windsor lets the audience know what’s in store. It’s a farce set long ago…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Washington Stage Guild’s Bloomsday is a flower of a production. One to gaze at, listen to, and revel in, enjoying the power of words, terrific acting, connections, and confessions. Written…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06AMSaturday, January 25, 2020
There was revolution in the air. Decolonization of Africa was taking shape. The world was on fire. And The Kennedy Center’s World Stages will be providing audiences a taste of those times.…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Social commentary in a dance performance is not unusual, especially in the modern dance community. But in a week-long residency by The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company at George Mason Univer…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMSunday, January 19, 2020
The weather outside was surely cold and cranky. But the outside world could be quickly forgotten as the American Pops Orchestra (APO), led by Maestro Luke Frazier, gently took children and a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMMonday, January 13, 2020
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S…
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