Shaped by memory and imagination, the autobiographical play by the award-winning writer and performer premieres next week at Mosaic
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PM'Oy Vey in a Manger,' their adults-only holiday special, is not for the pious or prudish—let alone right-wing fanatics—but it’s hilarious for everyone else.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AMRegina Aquino, David Bryan Jackson, and Serge Seiden talk about time and its loss and life's precious moments.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:05PMThe deliciously comic young actress, who aspires to be Castro’s comrade (and stand-in for his late mistress), talks about her role in her cousin's play.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59AMThe incisive and inspiring play filmed at Ford’s Theatre is now streaming through November 4.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:39AMA landmark acting school settles into a former church—home of the long-lost Black Last Supper—and welcomes the return of in-person classes.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMTheater grande dame Jane Squier Bruns, starring in 'The Day Emily Married,' talks about the challenge of playing 'the mother from hell.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMWhen I interviewed Ken Ludwig about his latest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, which opened at Arena Stage more than a year ago, I was curious about his parents—the Jack and Louise of the ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PMScreens will be lighting up all over Metro DC as theater lovers, supporters, and luminaries gather online for the 2020 Helen Hayes Awards Friday, September 25. The red carpet unrolls at 6 pm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMWhen COVID-19 first struck last winter, most of us in the theater world—audiences as well as those on or off stage—thought the crisis would end in a couple of weeks. No such luck. Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PMWhen Joy Zinoman—the doyenne of DC theater and founder of Studio Acting Conservatory—describes the training center’s new home as a “sacred place,” she’s not exaggerating. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00PMWhen Jordan Friend, the highly inventive founder of 4615 Theatre Company, invited me to attend a rehearsal of Museum 2040 a few weeks ago, I jumped at the opportunity. The show, billed as an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AM“I’ve never laughed so hard in rehearsal,” said Nick Olcott, describing some of the antics performed by a tiny but talented cast — four actors in 48 roles — in the wickedly funny s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMWhen Laura C. Harris bursts onto the stage in Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre, she is Henrietta Leavitt—hoop skirt and all—fresh out of college, brimming with confidence, and determined t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:08PMYou don’t have to read Ulysses—or, for that matter, know anything about James Joyce, its author, or Leopold Bloom, its hapless hero—to love Bloomsday. The play, a gentle romance now bl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:39PM“Read the book. But see the play first!” That’s what Hend Ayoub—the actor who plays Mariam, the empowered first wife of A Thousand Splendid Suns—told me about the show, now in its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:55PMPilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World—the award-winning play now enjoying its DC debut at Mosaic Theater—is as delicious a romp as any that’s come along in a while. Billed as a roma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56PMThere’s no doubt about it. Eureka Day is a very funny play. The show, now having its DC debut at Mosaic Theater, features five perfectly-attuned actors, a director who understands comedy, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PMThere’s a lovely new play at Arena Stage, but you’ll have to rush if you want to see it. That’s because the play—Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise—will be off and running befor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:17PMIf the notion of compressing 900 years of Irish mythology into a single two-hour show sounds like a lot to take on, that’s because it is. In fact, tackling the entire pantheon of Irish leg…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53PMWhen Fiddler on the Roof opens at the National Theatre next week, the village of Anatevka—the fictional setting for one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history—will not be th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMWhen Susan Rome bats her eyelashes—as she often does in Edward Albee’s Occupant, now at Theater J—she becomes Louise Nevelson, the iconic sculptor whose life and work were inseparable.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:17PMVillainy takes many forms. And Ian Merrill Peakes – now plotting revenge against a gifted rival in the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Amadeus – has played more than a few. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04PMStorytelling is a gift. And Conor McPherson—the Irish playwright, screenwriter and long-time ‘bad boy’ of the British stage–is one of the most gifted tale-tellers ever known. His Por…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PMHenry IV Part I, which opened at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre last week, is superb. (Click here for DCMTA’s review.) This production, starring Ed Gero, is equal to any I’ve seen. In fa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMMore than 50 seniors crowded into a storytelling circle inside one of the Kennedy Center’s new REACH buildings on Monday, and I, as a card-carrying member of the reduced-fare generation, s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15PMFirst, the bad news. Enron, the farcical, scary and all-but-unbelievable romp through the biggest fraud in corporate history, has closed. The good news is that there’s still time—four mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:52PMAlthough it sounds serious on the surface, Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, is one of the funniest plays ever to grace a DC stage. That’s the opinion of my colle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMAnn Richards, the late governor of Texas, and the first woman in that state to be elected in her own right would be howling with glee if she could see the pandemonium unleashed in government…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30PM“Heaven is so boring.” That’s the complaint of a modern-day version of Dante Alighieri in Inferno the Musical, a look at the vagaries of life and love and the inevitability of fate. Wr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMThere’s plenty of beef in Carolann Valentino’s one-woman musical, If These Balls Could Talk, about her life as a young actress from Texas working at a steakhouse in New York. This was …
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