Sunday, May 10, 2015
“This is the nicest reception I’ve had in 600,000 years!” And with that telling introduction, Shirley MacLaine charmed a crowded house of adoring fans on a personal journey filled with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PMSunday, March 29, 2015
The amazing vocal talent of Audra McDonald was a like a breath of the most enchanting spring air and perhaps the first real sign of spring in the DC area as Audra sang from the “Great …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Who knows for sure what really happened when sexual assault is the charge and impetuous youth, just out to have a good time, are exploring the possibilities? Good Kids, presented by the Univ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMSunday, February 15, 2015
On the most romantic night of the year, Grammy Award- winning jazz vocalist, Kurt Elling’s Passion World concert at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater was a warm toddy to take the chil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Clybourne Park, written by Bruce Norris in 2010 as sequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, is a riveting play that focuses on race relations, America’s covenant-based ho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03PMFriday, January 16, 2015
On the evening of January 24, 2015, the renowned star of stage, television, and film, Jasmine Guy will present for one-night only, “Raisin’ Cane: A Harlem Renaissance Odyssey,” along …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Holiday concerts just don’t get any better than Colors of Christmas. In a resplendent performance of Christmas classics and R&B favorites, the Strathmore Music Center’s starry-night …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:20PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Make a joyful noise! The Anacostia Playhouse’s Theater Alliance production of Black Nativity is a gloriously joyful noise indeed. An Afrocentric celebration of the Christmas story rooted …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48PMFriday, November 21, 2014
Who can resist the youthful, sensuous, energy of five high-stepping, superfine dudes who can sing and dance? “Jump blues” back to the rockin’ days of guys and dolls for an entertaining…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48AMSunday, November 9, 2014
On the eve of a grand jury’s decision on the killing of Ferguson’s Michael Brown, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America is a boldly courageous indictment on the origins…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:08AMSaturday, October 11, 2014
The plight of urban youth took a contemporary turn in the University Of Maryland School Of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ opening night revival of the 1970s Broadway hit, The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:28PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Am I on the Great White Way or am I really sitting in a theater in Bowie, MD? This is what I was thinking as I enjoyed 2nd Star Production’s opening night of Children of Eden now playing …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:13AMMonday, September 22, 2014
The Music Center at Strathmore welcomed Wanda Sykes for the first-time to the Marriott Concert Stage to a sold-out crowd of adoring Wanda Sykes fans. Veteran comedian, writer, actress and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:39AMSunday, September 7, 2014
How am I ridin’? I am ridin’ high after seeing the delightful, delectable The Cole Porter Project: It’s Alright With Me!, a cabaret-style show now playing at The In Series performing a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PMSunday, August 31, 2014
Neil Simon really made his mark as a great American playwright with Brighton Beach Memoirs, now playing at Prince George’s Little Theatre performing now at the Bowie Playhouse. Magnifi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMSunday, August 3, 2014
In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the richness, the grace and the grandeur of the English language itself entertain in a way that only the Bard can. Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33AMFriday, July 11, 2014
P.T. Barnum was right. There’s a sucker born every minute, and Perfect Liars Club is out to prove it. In 90 minutes of fun-filled storytelling and audience participation, the Perfect Liar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:37PMMonday, June 2, 2014
Art deco glitz was the perfect ambiance for the sophisticated glamour of The Flamingos‘ class-act performance, Sunday night, at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. The Flamingo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Howard University Department of Theatre Arts’ current musical production, is a champagne toast to keeping it real. Authenticity and self-a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMSaturday, November 30, 2013
Who said it’s too early to start putting up Christmas decorations? After seeing The Joffrey Ballet’s enchanting Kennedy Center Friday night performance of The Nutcracker, I’m headed st…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PMFriday, November 15, 2013
Get ready for a wacky wild ride through our nation’s timeline with the St. George’s Players ‘wonderfully zany presentation of The Complete History of America (abridged) currently playi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMSunday, November 10, 2013
The year is 1943 and Rosie the Riveter is home alone trying to figure out what to do with her life while her man is off to war. The Cover of Life, written by R.T. Robinson, and directed by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMThe legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and its protest for peace and freedom are being kept alive by the legendary Mavis Staples. In concert at the Kay Theatre of the University of Maryla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
“Jazzman, take my blues away.” Julia Nixon’s tribute to Carole King did that and so much more as Julia cast a spell on a mesmerized audience putting smiles on our faces in an …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Can life be sunshine, lollipops, rainbows and everything that’s wonderful when a deadly plague begins killing the citizenry and they start dropping like flies? Will you be next? In an absu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMSunday, September 22, 2013
That Kind of Girl That Kind of Girl delves deeply below the emotional surface in an innovative stream of creative consciousness that examines gender equality as it flows vignette to vignette…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AMMonday, September 16, 2013
“This ensemble was exquisite” — praise testimony of a theatergoer after seeing Gee’s Bend at MetroStage. Amazing how a cast of just four performers are able to transform the simp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Martin, Medgar, Malcolm, Thurgood, Colin, Jesse, Sammy, Trayvon, Barack. Julian. Searing black and white snapshots of America’s past and present were opening images for the University of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMSunday, August 18, 2013
Aplauso! Little hands needed little prompting to clap gleefully in applause for children’s theater production, Gotas de Agua (Drops of Water). Kids can be a tough crowd, but this enthusia…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:33AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
The Mousetrap is a must-see rite of passage production for any bona fide theater-lover. Parlor Room Theater’s production superbly captures the mood and mayhem of Agatha Christie’s classi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
“This is an amazing production” — words of one of the visibly dazzled theatergoers following opening night’s The Wiz at Montgomery College’s Summer Dinner Theatre 2013. “To…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38PM 
