Mona Golabek delivers a tour de force performance in the musical memoir ‘The Pianist of Willesden Lane.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:00PMA conversation with playwright Ari Roth and dramaturg Debbie Minter Jackson previews 'My Calamitous Affair with the Minister of Culture and Censorship.'
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:39PMThe coauthor and director of ‘Old Stock’—coming to Theater J—talks about how the acclaimed klezmer musical merges comedy and sex with the sorrow of loss.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:30PMThe Broadway actor and singer—known for her roles as Ma Rainey and Ella Fitzgerald—on the most sophisticated play she's ever been in.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:15PMThe world premiere comedy about small town life in the South came and went in a flash, leaving laughter, applause, and hopes for a revival in its wake.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:51PMTerrance McNally’s 1960s-style musical comedy is now in its final week. Two powerful dramas are coming next—‘Drumfolk’ and ‘American Prophet.’
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMThe story behind a witty rewrite of an 18th-century classic by Adapter Michael Bloom, with Director Adam Immerwahr
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMWashington Stage Guild draws out the humor and the horror in George Bernard Shaw’s classic take on hypocrisy and deceit.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PMThe director points to the role of antisemitism in the whitewashing of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PMShaped 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.…
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