Saturday, July 20, 2019
With a return visit to The Happiest Place on Earth, new gemstones are uncovered, adding complexity and currency to its bittersweet tale about dreams that a heart makes. In its current incarn…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMMonday, July 15, 2019
The Things They Carried is a personal people’s history. A sharply conjured chronicle. It is told at the most granular of levels by a platoon of characters. Performed solo by David Sitler, …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMSunday, July 14, 2019
Joy Rebel, written and performed by Khanisha Foster, is a moving, deep dive into fluid identity and the fraught experiences of a mixed-race human being on her journey to self-understanding. …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59PMFriday, July 12, 2019
“All alone in the quiet /And my ears are thirsty / For your voice, for your voice / Can you answer me.” Those lyrics from The Band’s Visit’s “Answer Me” burrowed into my heart as…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:23PMMonday, July 8, 2019
You may remember James Corden, Sara Bareilles, and Josh Groban singing a parody of the song “Michael in the Bathroom” a few weeks ago on the Tony Awards network television show. The star…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMIt was 50 years ago. Lost deep in the pages of the June 26, 1969 edition of The New York Times was this, “Firebombings, rock throwing and rifle shots marked a third straight night of racia…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMFriday, June 28, 2019
Glory days of diminutive touring tent circuses visiting small towns return with David Dimitri and his L’homme Cirque: The One-Man Circus, currently at Strathmore. In a cozy tent set up on …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMThursday, June 27, 2019
I have no idea who the “real” Blackbeard might have been. But I raise a cup (maybe a cutlass as well) to Signature Theatre’s epic, cheeky vision of the dude and his daring-do. Envision…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49PMSunday, June 23, 2019
Once again Fairfax’s Hub Theatre will be introducing a new playwright, and a new play that highlights America’s common humanity, to a wider DMV audience. This time the playwright is Sam …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMSunday, June 16, 2019
I love Brecht. My heart and soul were ready for Scena Theatre’s production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (written during World War II but not produced in America until the late 1950s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Battle lines drawn. Cogent argument made. Can everyone be right at the same time? Does it matter in a world full of choices? Invigorating and decidedly bracing, the Round House production of…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
‘‘Do I dare/Disturb the universe?” asked T.S. Eliot’s protagonist in the confessional modernist masterwork “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Through a world-premier devised …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38AMMonday, June 10, 2019
With the world premiere of DC playwright David Kessler’s fictional memory play, Gwen & Ida: The Object is of No Importance, Nu Sass & Uncle Funsy present an enlightening window int…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51PMThursday, June 6, 2019
“It is what I am supposed to do in my life,” The Actual Dance playwright Samuel A. Simon told me in a phone interview. He was speaking about the play he developed and has performed that …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
There are so many intersections in life–so much for creative artists to put before audiences as a way to initiate larger conversations about issues that can divide or bring together. In a …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
With construction ongoing but substantially completed, The Kennedy Center recently threw open the doors on May 29, 2019 to its new addition, The REACH. It was a glorious day to take in the s…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMMonday, June 3, 2019
The Workhouse Arts Center has someone special working closely with its upcoming production of that fan favorite, Little Shop of Horrors–Emmy Award-winning puppet fabricator and performer B…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Many of us started our journey into theater as high school students. There was just something about the stage that beckoned us. And that continues for today’s high school students. For 20 …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Last Out is a raw emotional journey with no illusions as its core value. It is an intense confessional about military service and the effects on family, told from multiple perspectives. It i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:06PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Synetic Theater’s Richard iii is a potent conspiratorial theatrical experience for an anxious age such as ours. It is the ultimate in theatrical paranoia, set in a time out of joint. It’…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced more than $80 Million in arts funding awarded across the United States. This is the second round of NEA grant announcements for this ye…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Dancing and singing over the wireless airways–how might it have happened? What might have been a dry history lesson is given delightfully appealing musical charm in Creative Cauldron’s w…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Ready for teasing mockery and romantic conflict that crosses economic classes and genders with an added dash of some re-imagined blurred lines? Then step up to the wit and words of William S…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PMSunday, May 5, 2019
Ally Theatre Company will receive the 2019 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company at the 35th Annual Helen Hayes Awards. At its core mission, Ally Theatre Company is com…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMIn 2018 Monumental Theatre Company was the recipient of the prestigious theatreWashington John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. The Aniello Award aims to give public r…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
For those wanting to be absorbed into a highly recommended, fictionalized account of events surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords and the inconceivable peace between Israelis and Palestinians th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Dance and theater performances can be much more than sitting in a seat and watching. BodyWise Dance and its cadre of dedicated, diverse artist educators have been touring throughout the DMV …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Staging an epic that involves a bloody chain of events in “a deluge of violence,” as the Shakespeare Theatre Company describes The Oresteia, requires not just the skills and talents of t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature? If you are the least bit curious and open to a quie…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Time may be running out for the denizens of Berlin’s swanky Weimar era Grand Hotel who wonder if life has passed them by. But Signature Theatre’s roaring, non-stop rendering of the music…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20PMSaturday, April 6, 2019
Ah, Shakespeare’s As You Like It–the ultimate romantic comedy about people trying to find their way to love in a bewildering world; a world that seems to have no rules, or rules that are…
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