Monday, March 28, 2022
Read by strong and compelling casts, the plays explore the intersection of faith with some of humanity’s darkest and most desperate moments.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Lively and brilliant letters between George Bernard Shaw and the original Eliza Doolittle from before there was Zoom.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:49PMThursday, May 20, 2021
Washington Stage Guild continues its run of online performances with a one-act comedy from George Bernard Shaw, whose works they perform so frequently that he’s affectionately known as the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:09AMSaturday, April 3, 2021
Dear Elizabeth, performed by a two-person cast and streamed online by Vienna Theatre Company, is a feast for fans of 20th-century literature, or even just those interested in stories of frie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
When J’Nai Bridges made her triumphant debut in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah Sunday night, it was the fulfillment of a dream. The young mezzo-soprano’s star has been rapid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:11AMSunday, March 1, 2020
Hollywood, 1939. The production of Gone with the Wind — arguably the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade — is in chaos. Producer David O. Selznick (Griffin Voltmann) has just fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMSunday, October 6, 2019
Love is a game—or deadly serious—or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Pride and Prejudice. The game motif is evident early …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:35PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Eternal questions are being hotly debated in the back room of the Italian Café in Falls Church, where the Providence Players of Fairfax have once again set up shop for a “pop-up productio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMSaturday, July 20, 2019
One doesn’t generally think of Beauty and the Beast as a dance show first and foremost. But in this lively production by The City of Fairfax Theatre Company and Truro Anglican Church, feat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
How do you replicate perfection—especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin’ in the Rain, the beloved movie m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMSunday, April 28, 2019
If you never thought the words “theological comedy” could go together, think again. The Savannah Disputation, playing now at The Little Theater of Alexandria, bills itself as just such a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
In 2017, the Broadway musical Amazing Grace opened its national tour with a stint at the World Stage Theater at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible. (DC Metro Theatre Arts’ review of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMFriday, January 18, 2019
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks had a legendary 42-year Off-Broadway run (and then an 11-year revival), suggesting that there’s something strangely captivating about this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:52AMSaturday, October 6, 2018
Ryan Speedo Green is a man with a story. Many opera fans first learned his name through Daniel Bergner’s 2016 book Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family. The New York Time…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Giacomo Puccini never met a foreign culture that he didn’t try to set to music. His operas set in Japan (Madama Butterfly) and China (Turandot) are celebrated as masterpieces. Less celebra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
I have a perpetual soft spot for Crazy for You, which was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. What with George and Ira Gershwin songs, Tony-winning choreography by Susan Stroman, and the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMSunday, September 11, 2016
The story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., was first brought to America’s attention in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. It gained a new lease on life in 2011 with the Broadway mu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40AMFriday, January 15, 2016
With a wealthy aristocratic family that refuses to acknowledge him, and a money-hungry girlfriend who refuses to marry him, what’s an impoverished young man to do? The unfortunate relative…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36AMSunday, November 29, 2015
Probably no other cast in the D.C. metro area works harder for a laugh, or enjoys it more when it comes, than the cast of A Broadway Christmas Carol, now playing its sixth consecutive season…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25AMThursday, November 12, 2015
From its opening number, Arena Stage’s innovative new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! is bursting with excitement and emotion. Director Molly Smith has stripped the classic musical b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Put 1630s Spain and 1920s America into a cocktail shaker, shake well, and you get WSC Avant Bard’s sparkling update of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s 1632 play Friendship Betrayed. Transl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52AMSunday, May 31, 2015
Forget everything you learned from the recent PBS miniseries Wolf Hall. Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, currently playing at Herndon’s NextStop Theatre, tells a very different tale …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
It’s not always easy to figure out what view of life George Bernard Shaw is trying to express in Major Barbara. Though he was a freethinker, he gives us a witty, tolerant, idealistic heroi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AMSaturday, April 25, 2015
“Golf is not a game, but a way of life. A religion, if you will,” intones Henry Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club, in Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway, playing now…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AMSunday, December 28, 2014
Having successfully adapted C. S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters into a two-character play, Max McLean and his group Fellowship for Performing Arts have gone for an even bigger chall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
Charles Dickens left his novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished when he died in 1870. Over a hundred years later, Rupert Holmes took advantage of that ambiguity to create a unique music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59PMSunday, September 14, 2014
Award-winning bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent explained onstage at the Hylton Performing Arts Center Saturday night that they usually model themselves after The Statler Brothers (a member…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PM 
