Monday, March 9, 2020
News got you nervous? Quaking over coronavirus? Morose about the stock market? Fed up with the Fed? Sick of the swamp? And yet, do you fear if you take your mind off it all for a second, thi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06AMSunday, February 23, 2020
Filled to bursting with Warrior Girls, Lost Boys, dastardly Pirates from tiny to extra-large, and flying children, Theatre@CBT’s Peter Pan is a treat from start to finish. Director Kevin …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Given that so many plays and films these days are based on, drawn from or inspired by each other, it is worth examining the differences between these media and the treatments they require. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:05AMSaturday, December 14, 2019
Ah, yes, it’s that most wonderful time of the year: The tingle of frozen breath on the air, the sparkle of lights on the trees, the warmth of spiced cider, and the sublime silliness of Pan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Plaza Suite, this is not. In fact, it is about as different as a play can be that shares the same premise: short vignettes about the different people who occupy the same room in, as one char…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Ah, an evening of cabaret in an intimate venue in the swanky Pike and Rose complex. Elegant artists dressed to the nines singing and playing sophisticated classics from the Great American So…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMMonday, 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 01:56PM 
