Monday, May 16, 2022
Paola Lázaro’s scintillating script about two sexual abuse survivors is astonishingly entertaining and deeply moving.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
One of the most intimate, touching, and truthful relationship dramas you’re likely to experience without being in it yourself.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:43PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Chelsea Marcantel's gently touching and deeply satisfying new play is about a brother's and sister's quest for connection.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Director Joseph Ritsch and Dramaturg Khalid Long on how race, queerness, gender, and ability intersect in Tennessee Williams's classic.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27AMSunday, April 17, 2022
From the Coil Project comes an inviting show of possibility for polyamorous playmaking.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMNow performing in DC at Hook Hall is a sensual cabaret combining circus and burlesque. Is it theater? Let's see.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:29AMSaturday, April 9, 2022
Monday, April 4, 2022
To the sound and lighting falls the task of making the gothic horror erupt — and by god do they deliver.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMSaturday, April 2, 2022
It prompts a provocative question: Just who are the rhinos today?
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:36AMSunday, March 27, 2022
It’s as if the playwright has scripted the subtext of every relational betrayal and said all the quiet parts out loud.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:13PMSaturday, March 19, 2022
The Austrian and German playwright, Daniel Kehlmann, calls his twisty script 'a play for two actors and a clock.' And it's right on time.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMThursday, March 17, 2022
Two DC theater critics take in the world's most inclusive circus and are blown away.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46AMSunday, March 13, 2022
In its twist on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' Washington Improv Theater not only cracks jokes but cracks open the emotion in the moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05AMMonday, March 7, 2022
The first season planned by new Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas aims to spark conversation across DC around issues of and for the moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMMonday, February 28, 2022
A profoundly illuminating play about a Black man who lives in the glare of the white gaze.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:42AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
In a dystopian near future, a twentysomething romance heats up steadily alongside a chilling public health crisis.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:22AMSunday, February 13, 2022
A magnificently entertaining and beautifully profound new musical has opened at Olney. Here's what love's got to do with it.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMMonday, February 7, 2022
You cannot watch his performance in this shocking role without feeling agitated and aghast — and he was willing to talk about it.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMWednesday, February 2, 2022
The teenage diarist Anne Frank appears as a puppet; an author tries to pull strings to stage her story.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
It’s as if Suzan-Lori Parks scalds and skins the body politic in one fell swoop.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMMonday, December 20, 2021
Michael R. Jackson’s 'big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show' will open in spring 2022 at the Lyceum Theatre.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PMThere's got to be more to it than a cool chance to groove on the oeuvre of Britney Spears. | Column by JOHN STOLTENBERG
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:02AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical sings of a singular poet’s journey from self-loathing to self-respect.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
"What is important in this moment for Signature," says its new artistic director, "is how we are creating a culture of consent going forward."
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:48AMWednesday, October 13, 2021
The text keeps us off-kilter in a way that tickles us silly even as a sobering undercurrent churns.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:40AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
A gutsy and gifted project called Working in DC puts on an ebullient show to remind us of the everyday dignity of work.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:49PMSaturday, May 15, 2021
Playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi mixes romance and vengeance and packs volumes of truth into stunning poetic dialog.
The post Rep Stage radio play ‘Ghost/Writer’ is some mind-blowing writi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMSunday, May 9, 2021
Men behaving badly is a masterplot in life and art as old as time, and Mike Daisey has given it a doozy of a twist. Not ten minutes into his one-night-only monologue Scott and Andy and All t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:43PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
It’s been quite the terrifying year for us connected to the performing arts. An absolute scary time that began in mid-March 2020 as theaters went dark, lit only by their ghost lights. And …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
In observance of the the 12th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31, 2021), we republish this in-depth conversation with two leading lights in DC-area theater. —John…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55AM 
