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 08:51PMSocial 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 10:43AMThe 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 02:46PMThe 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…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33PMProfessional theaters in the DMV have been at the forefront of making diversity a critical watchword and action step. During the past several years, the DMV has hosted two women’s theater …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PMThis month, UrbanArias presents composer Tom Cipullo’s chamber opera Glory Denied; the contemporary musical drama based upon the true story of America’s longest-held prisoner of war (POW…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:42PMTumultuous times call out for audacity in the performing arts. And Brave Spirits Theatre (BST) has boldly marked its territory for the next two years. Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Brave S…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PMSchools play a pivotal role in cultivating the next generations, and the arts have a key role. Research suggests that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMDark Horse Theatre Company is the newest member of theatreWashington. As readers of DCMTA are aware, theatreWashington is the organization dedicated to supporting and representing the Washin…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMFiddler on the Roof, the quintessentially Jewish musical about keeping one’s balance in changing times, remains ebullient and undiminished in its eternal appeal. At the opening night perfo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AMWhile the Tony Award-winning musical is called Jersey Boys, let’s not forget that so many of the Billboard chart-toppers performed in the show are about the real-life Frankie Valli and the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMA matchless, hypnotic portrait of love. A seductive vision of two lives tangled up in blues with too many tough nights apart as each knows “I have no will of my own.” Are the two people …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMA charming little gem of a ghostly, campfire-ish thriller is here for a short time courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company. Full of expressive acting, way cool whodunit lighting moods and ee…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PMLove in Hate Nation is the new musical from Be More Chill’s composer/lyricist, Joe Iconis. Animated with a driving wheel of rock and funk rock tunes, it grapples with the pressing cultural…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMHow prescient of the innovative UrbanArias. To be ahead of a major Washington Post Sunday Business section about a modern-day retail apocalypse: the dying of America’s suburban retail mall…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMThe sensuality and passion of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, Pablo Neruda has become the bones for a contemporary opera, Il Postino by Daniel Catán. Il Postino …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMThe Welders, a self-described artists’ collective, burst upon the DMV theatrical landscape in the summer of 2013 with a mission to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play deve…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMWhat a great lively yarn about a musical disruptor as a stand-in for the volcanic eruptions of out-and-out revolution in the air throughout Europe and America. Amadeus at Folger Theatre is a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PM“A Chorus Line is still one of those musicals you will sing about to your grandchildren,” wrote theater and dance critic Clive Barnes in his 1975 New York Times review for A Chorus Line.…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMBeing a stage manager of a theater production brings challenging, yet too often unheralded responsibilities that begin long before an audience steps into a theater to take a seat. As the pro…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10PMDispatch from the front. “Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States.” For those in the audience of the Boomer generation, Rainbow Theat…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41PMAnother unique cabaret evening is arriving at 1st Stage in Tysons. It is a musical performance by the quartet All 4 Bass. The event is entitled Play it LOW…Play it COOL. The All 4 Bass …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMNext week, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage will present a performance keyed to Veteran’s Day–The American Soldier, conceived, written and performed by Douglas Taurel. The Novembe…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMElectrifying. Awakening. These are words to describe the heart-rending workshop presentation of Stirring the Waters Across America performed at Studio K at The REACH. To call it anything les…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMAs DC-area demographics have evolved over the recent decades, so have the missions of some of the area’s nimble performing arts venues so that they are welcoming to those they serve and re…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMIngenious. Shakespeare’s venerable, often un-provocatively produced The Tempest has been reconstructed into theater with an invigorating musical arc and an awakening narrative bite. It has…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMSomething’s coming: an exclusive opportunity to take in an award-winning creative team’s new adaptation of Rags, a hidden away musical gem. If you are not familiar with it, “Rags is …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25PMARTSFAIRFAX presented its 2019 Emerging Arts Award at its eighth Arts Awards event on October 18, 2019. The award was given to the professional, black box NextStop Theatre Company. The ART…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PMA much-needed rabbit hole to explore is opening in the DMV. Let us rejoice. It is the return of She Kills Monsters some five years after making its first appearance, thanks to Rorschach Thea…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMLA Theatre Works is bringing its distinctive radio style, live theater to the DMV with a production of SEVEN. A documentary theater play, SEVEN is based on the lives of seven extraordinary w…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMWhat a play! Escaped Alone is full of dramatic presentations announcing a coming apocalypse; an end of days. The production at Signature Theatre is receiving rightful praise (read my colleag…
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