Sunday, June 9, 2019
Farces are hard to do well or differently, but they nearly always impart an important lesson: always tell the truth. How the Other Half Loves is an innovative farce, replete with secret affa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18AMSaturday, May 25, 2019
Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipatio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Spectacular. Amazing. Unforgettable. Pride & Joy is a musical that tells the little known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014) and the legendary and icon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage’s How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMMonday, May 6, 2019
The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I’ve seen in years: a mixture of ’50s kitsch, photos of ’50s-era entertainers, a record player conso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
What happened to the characters in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang when they entered adulthood? We find out in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, written by Bert V. Royal and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Started by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1991, STOMP is a cacophony of sounds produced by common objects in lieu of musical instruments. An amalgam of music,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:32PMSunday, April 14, 2019
Harmonious voices! Hilarious hoofing! A dancing frog! With over 30 songs packed into its 90 minutes, the Colonial Players’ A New Brain is a magnificent autobiographical musical comedy that…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
He’s charming, he’s debonair, he’s sophisticated, and when you’ve got a problem, you better call Psmith – that’s Ronald Eustace Psmith (“the P is silent, like pterodactyl”). …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMMonday, March 18, 2019
After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its pre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMSunday, March 17, 2019
There was a moment in the first act of Annapolis Opera’s Carmen in which Director Fenlon Lamb assembled her cast in a colorful tableau that enthralled me and impressed itself on my mind. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Intrigue! Battles! History! Excitement! In a stunningly entertaining display of stagecraft, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV, Part I features three of the best performances you�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
MetroStage’s Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSunday, January 13, 2019
American Moor, in a return engagement at Anacostia Playhouse, lambasts the audience with a series of provocative questions: can an actor play a role without tapping into the darkest parts of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PMSunday, January 6, 2019
Like TV’s “Seinfeld,” [title of show] is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. [title of show] is a musical about four friends creating a musical—the one the audie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PMSunday, December 16, 2018
Driving Miss Daisy, at Anacostia Playhouse, tackles many subjects: growing older, race relations, and all sorts of personal drama encountered by its Southern protagonists over a 25-year peri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMMonday, December 10, 2018
This isn’t your mother and father’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this present day version, Ebenezer Scrooge’s father Andrew runs the charitable Scrooge Family Foundation. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMSaturday, December 8, 2018
The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie’s Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young girl, Magda, and a band of actors searchi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre’s Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel’s lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes define the characters nearly as muc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PMMonday, November 19, 2018
A more dazzling display of heart-warming family entertainment and memories may not be found this Christmas Season than Charm City Players’ A Christmas Story, The Musical. With deft directi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMSunday, November 4, 2018
“People that love money, they never have enough,” said a character from Director and Playwright Fay Brake’s engaging stage play, The Benjamins. With themes of overreaching ambition, gr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PMSunday, October 28, 2018
Can one escape the sins of their ancestors? Can one choose their own course and overcome an evil background? These questions are explored in NextStop Theatre Company’s glorious new adapta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Silver Spring Stage’s spectacular and engrossing show, The Crucible, under Director Craig Allen Mummey’s expert guidance, tackles many contentious subjects, including sexism, racism, rel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PMSunday, August 5, 2018
Dinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong. Serving under the contemporary ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, August 3, 2018
“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” said the character Shug Avery in novelist Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMMonday, July 23, 2018
It’s been said that family is a foundation—the one area in which failure can cause permanent heartache. Director and writer Gill Nelson’s amazing stage play No Time, the tagline of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
“Motown is the soundtrack of people’s lives,” intoned Mack Leamon in his portrayal of legendary Motown record label founder Berry Gordy in Director/Writer/Choreographer Kashi-Tara’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Steel Magnolias, by playwright Robert Harling, tells the southern-style story of a group of women who grow close while hanging together in a small-town, northwest Louisiana beauty shop. Truv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26PMSunday, June 24, 2018
Who can resist entertaining theater on a warm, summer night? An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is especially apropos for such nights, and Chesapeake Shake…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMSunday, June 10, 2018
The Promised Land is entertaining, thought-provoking, unsettling, and at times disturbing. Director and Playwright Lane McLeod Jackson has written and directed a dystopian tale in which the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PM 
