Monday, July 15, 2019
When the audience enters the performance space at Joe’s Movement Emporium, they are confronted by three women in period clothing (costumes designed by Julie Cray Leong, assisted by Kyla Ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMMonday, July 8, 2019
Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013, is a comedy about neurotic, middle-aged, well-off white people whining about thei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMWednesday, June 26, 2019
To transmogrify Seuss, What a difficult task! Just how do they do it? And well might you ask! This master of mayhem Who leaps from the page, How could he possibly be Put on the stage? In dra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMMonday, June 10, 2019
It’s June, a time for anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations. Where can you simultaneously look back with fond nostalgia at British pluck and cheek, and party for Pride month? How …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMMonday, May 20, 2019
The question when reviving a classic musical is always how much to preserve and how much to adapt. Audiences can often have fond memories of famous original productions, but times change, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:56PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
As much as modern culture claims to worship novelty, innovation and even disruption, there is a lot to be said for the tried and true. From an imaginative rendition of a beloved Shakespeare …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Silver Spring Stage is known for producing professional-level community theater, garnering more WATCH nominations and awards than any other company in Maryland. The Obie-award winner Appropr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMFarce is a classic form of comedy, based on ludicrous characters, silly situations, mistaken identities, sex, slapstick, and many slamming doors. After centuries of development (refinement w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Pride and Prejudice is an impeccable dance, an elegant minuet from start to finish. Every element works gracefully with every other, producing a pleasing, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Noises Off is the Mount Everest of farce. Numerous critics have called Michael Frayn’s 1982 masterwork the greatest farce ever written, and its second act may well be the most difficult to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMSaturday, March 9, 2019
Heathers: the Musical is an intense roller-coaster of a show, careening from biting satire and dark comedy to touching and intense emotion to hope. In the 2013 Off-Broadway debut, based on t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Note before you begin: Confection is a unique, multimedia, multisensory, ambulatory, audience-interactive, site-specific theatrical experience — “a rollicking rumination on teeny-tiny d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Those who aspire to great heights of theatrical art tend to look down on comedy. They don’t take it seriously, which is understandable, since it is, by definition, not serious. Famed c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMFriday, February 8, 2019
One of the things Best Medicine Rep does best is comedies about historical and literary figures, such as last year’s Engaging Shaw. They are now presenting another, Philosophus, by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMMonday, February 4, 2019
When you go to see The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 at Rockville Little Theatre — and you should — prepare to be confused. This is not a bug, it’s a feature. The comedy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
There are certain things that start popping up everywhere to mark the Holiday season. Carols on the radio. Decorations on houses and main streets. (Objecting to the fact that both of these a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMIt is a truth universally acknowledged in the modern era that everything must be novel, revolutionary, and exciting. People will (apparently) stand in line for the newest iPhone (whether the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:22PMFriday, September 21, 2018
It seems particularly appropriate that the National Players should be mounting a production about an imperturbable, peripatetic gambler who takes every mishap in stride while journeying as f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMMonday, September 10, 2018
There is an engaging sub-genre of theater, that one might call the battle of wits or the comedy of intellect, that takes some of the greatest minds in history and brings them to life, with a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMSunday, August 12, 2018
First, to avoid any confusion, let me state what this Frankenstein is not: It is not the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein, with “Abby Normal” brains and creator and creation donning…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMMonday, August 6, 2018
I came to Zemfira Stage’s production of Legally Blonde as a virtual newbie, having seen neither the musical nor the 2001 Reese Witherspoon comedy film on which it was based. I knew to expe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PMWednesday, July 18, 2018
As we know from the recent Royal Wedding, the British know how to throw a party. The most recent example was the top-notch afternoon when the British Players hosted the leading lights of Was…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Marx in Soho is a one-man show written in 1999 by the late historian Howard Zinn. It was re-mounted by Iron Age Theatre for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2004, produced and directed b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMMasterMimes: The Show, created and performed by Gabe Simms and Julianne Nogar, presents a series of … what to call them — vignettes? Scenes? Dances? — without words, accompanie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07PMSunday, June 24, 2018
Why don’t community theater companies do more revues? They are entertaining for audiences, fun for actors, and although permissions to use the songs are needed, they don’t carry …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:56PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Sick of cynicism, vitriol, and vulgarity? The British Players has an antidote: their 53rd Old Time Music Hall (directed by Malcolm Edwards and produced by Sue Edwards). The latest installmen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMMonday, November 7, 2016
How do you make a stage musical from a movie that was “Practically Perfect in Every Way”? A movie that won five Academy Awards, including Best Visual Effects for cinematic magic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
One might not be surprised to hear Johann Strauss Jr’s The Gypsy Baron described as delightful and charming, as that is what a late 19th century Viennese operetta aspires to be, but fresh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Our Lady of Good Counsel Theatre Company’s Les Misérables is a stellar production. In fact, it’s hard to believe this is a high school production; the singing, music, acting, and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Arlen & Berlin Occupy the Fringe! tries to gain Fringe-worthy edginess for its loving review of classic songs from the 30s and 40s by setting it in Freedom Plaza and linking it to the Oc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:36PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
It is no mere flattery to say that Triptych Productions’ The Confines of Flattery provides a delightful and intriguing hour at the theater. A trio of short plays from three quite differe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36AM 
