Sunday, January 26, 2020
Summoning a galaxy of African American recording stars, this poignant one-act sometimes seems like a sublime dream with vintage music. There are ethereal visions, vivid Afrofuturist visitati…
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This thoroughly delightful offering from Mosaic has all the makings of a lighthearted rom-com. Boy meets girl. He invites her to his place. She initiates sex. It’s hot. Though they come fr…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMMonday, January 20, 2020
The set for Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline at Studio Theatre could not be any whiter. Its white walls of freshly painted concrete blocks span the breadth of the stage and extend around the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:03PMSunday, January 19, 2020
The casual cruelty that constructs men’s certainty they’re real men—and the cost of that violence to others and to themselves—comes under scathing scrutiny in Joe Calarco’s shatter…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
A gathering stormcloud looms over this exquisitely wrought play by Alix Sobler. “How bad is it going to get?” a character wonders aloud. No one can answer. “It can’t go on like this …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Now in its eighth year, Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show has established itself as the season’s most joyful and lovable family festivity in DC. Exuberant music, adorable …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:02PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
“Have you seen this before?” I heard an audience member ask his friend just before Holiday Sauce, Taylor Mac’s sold-out alt-holiday extravaganza at The Kennedy Center. “Prepare your…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMMonday, December 16, 2019
When Playwright Lauren Gunderson took on the challenge of adapting J. M. Barrie’s 1904 Peter Pan, she knew she had to fix what she has called the “deeply harmful misrepresentation of Ind…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:53PMSunday, December 15, 2019
The five adults seated onstage in a children’s classroom each have a kid enrolled in this private day school, which like the play we’re watching is named Eureka Day. These earnest pare…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
J. M. Barrie imagined a lot when he wrote his 1904 play about the boy who wouldn’t grow up, but he could not have imagined how many childhoods have been etched by its enchantment. Now in P…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PMSunday, December 1, 2019
My name is Christopher Boone and I am 15 and I am brave and I can do anything. I know that because I traveled by train by myself from Swindon to London and I solved the mystery of a neighbor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMFriday, November 29, 2019
On the day I was to see 19: The Musical—which is about how the amendment granting women the right to vote came to pass in 1920—our Constitution Denier in Chief made a perfectly timed gaf…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:28PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Anchuli Felicia King’s White Pearl is a hilarious, fast-paced satire set in the Singapore office of a cosmetics startup called Clearday that sells skin-whitening cream to Asian women. As t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:43PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
In the competitive national and international air guitar scene, contestants vie for championships and prizes by pretending to play (or “shred”) imaginary guitars to 60-second tracks from…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
“True if interesting” is Louise Nevelson’s byword in Occupant, Edward Albee’s witty and wise bioplay about the famous sculptor. She was quite the character. For Nevelson, in the hagi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Following on Factory 449’s electrifying production two years ago of Lela & Co.—which earned Helen Hayes Awards for both its director (Rick Hammerly) and star (Felicia Curry)—the co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
“It feels unknown. This is nowhere somehow,” says a character in this intriguingly cryptic poetic play by the acclaimed Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Indeed, where are we? And what is…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21PMFriday, November 8, 2019
Four African American women address the audience as if speaking to a department store clerk. Each is shopping for a dress—a dress, they stress, that must be “special.” As they turn to …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMThursday, November 7, 2019
In honor of the Czech dissident, political prisoner, and playwright Václav Havel, Alliance for New Music-Theatre has served up a two-course theatrical repast in DC’s most outré new arts …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AMMonday, November 4, 2019
This world premiere comic drama about gays in the military takes us back to July and August of 1964 when LBJ was ordering American ground troops into Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonki…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Academia has inspired several thematically penetrating plays featuring female protagonists—the two teachers falsely accused of being lesbian lovers, for instance, in Lillian Hellman’s 19…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMMonday, October 28, 2019
On the day after opening night of Everybody, the first show in Simon Godwin’s much heralded first season as artistic director of Shakespeare Theatre Company, I visited him in his office to…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMTiramisù—the caffeinated confection from Italy—translates as “pick me up” or “cheer me up,” which makes it the perfect name for the hilarious new solo show Michael Burgo brought…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Right to Be Forgotten is a play written from the outside in. By that I mean, its intention is to illustrate a legal issue: the tension in U.S. law between privacy and freedom of speech, a te…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMThursday, October 17, 2019
To realize how much white America loved minstrelsy is a reckoning painful or shameful, depending on one’s ancestry. Minstrel shows were never meant for people of African descent to see; th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Editor’s note: Woolly Mammoth Theatre, in conjunction with its staging of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, has brought to DC a show produced by the Harlem-based Movement Theatre Company…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMSunday, October 13, 2019
How does that new GalaPro app work? How well does it work? And what’s it like to watch a show with it? This inquiring theatergoer wanted to know. Many Deaf and hard of hearing people are a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:12AMMonday, October 7, 2019
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Midway through this taut, fraught drama about sexual trauma, a woman named Ana, a wife and young mother, is suddenly triggered. We are not told exactly why. It might be the Kavanaugh hearing…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:09PMMonday, September 30, 2019
Can one laugh heartily at a satirical comedy—be thoroughly engaged by the entertaining characters, story, and performances—and then after it’s over mourn what it was about? That was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Sitting in the front row in a child-size chair, I watched a puppet show based improbably on a play by Tennessee Williams. The occasion was a preview at Spooky Action Theater of a never-befor…
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