Sunday, January 15, 2017
For Allens Lane Theater's production of And Then There Were None, director Josh Hitchens not only presents the mystery, but also heightens the mood and highlights the message inherent in Aga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 14, 2017
Montreal's Cirque Éloize explodes on stage at the Merriam Theater with a two-day run of its touring production of Saloon, presented collaboratively by the Kimmel Center and the Shubert O…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2017
The current remount of George & Co.'s critically-acclaimed Holden, first developed in New Ohio Theatre's 2015 Ice Factory Festival, is as relevant and unnerving now as it was then, in a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
Who would have thought that a fact-filled illustrated lecture on neuroscience could form the basis of a popular and critically-acclaimed Fringe show? Or that rap music could hold appeal for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
1812 Productions' Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Jennifer Childs teamed up again with musician Monica Stephenson, a long-time friend and former colleague at the company, for this…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:07PM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2016
Wilmington's City Theater Company ushers in its 23rd season with lots of glitter for the holidays. But it's not the usual tinsel on the tree, it's the fabulous drag fest that is La Cage a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
Originally commissioned by NBC as the first opera for television, composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors has become an American Christmas tradition since i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
Conceived and directed by Elizabeth Huston, the current two-night presentation of 10 Synchronisms by Argentine-American composer Mario Davidovsky–created between 1963 and 2006, and pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2016
A musician, singer, and songwriter who toured for eight years with the titular folk star and lived near him in Aspen, Colorado, before his tragic death in a plane crash at the age of 53, Dan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
A multimedia synthesis of music, film, and drama, Jib: or, The Child Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was traces the rise and fall of a fictional rock star through arcane fragmented scen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2016
A smash hit for Arden Theatre Company in 2004 and 2009, A Year with Frog and Toad is back for its third run and it's guaranteed to be as popular as it was the first two times around! Philade…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 3, 2016
Director Dan Hodge strikes a fine balance between comedy and drama in the Philadelphia Artists' Collective's presentation of All's Well That Ends Well. In keeping with the sardonic tone of S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2016
"I tell you, War is Hell." So declared Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman in his 1879 address to the graduating class of the Michigan Military Academy. In Shades, a New York premiere…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2016
The latest world-premiere offering at People's Light, in its annual homage to the British holiday tradition of family-friendly musical-comedy entertainment, is a side-splitting reimagining o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
If you "love a Gershwin tune" (and who doesn't?), An American in Paris, presented by Broadway Philadelphia for a limited run this Thanksgiving week at the Academy of Music, is the show for y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:43PM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
Hot off a Barrymore win for Best Ensemble in a Play for Inis Nua Theatre Company's The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning and having received widespread acclaim for its current Barrymore-reco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
A deserving winner of the FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for a play, The Radicalization of Rolfe, produced by Glenn Krutoff, is a uniquely witty original take-off on The Sound of Music. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
An immersive site-specific mash-up of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and the game of "Clue," Edward G. Pettit's Mystery in the House of Usher: A Poe Tale, staged at the historic Ebenezer Max…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
To what lengths would you be willing to go to get what you want? That's the moralizing question posed by English playwright Philip Ridley, in Inis Nua Theatre Company's Philadelphia premiere…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
It's drag to the rescue in playwright Matthew Lopez's camp comedy The Legend of Georgia McBride, now in production at Arden Theatre Company. Filled with caustic humor, glitz, and music, and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PM[SHARE]Fresh out of the recording studio, Red 40 & the Last Groovement is getting ready for the release of their debut album, She's Keen to Feed, with a launch party concert at FringeArts on Sa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
Growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents, Gloria Rosen faced many challenges, both in interpreting for and communicating with her family, and then struggling to find her own voice in th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
Following the trajectory of his career from heavy-metal rocker to student, writer, and theater artist, Carlos Dengler not only recounts his own personal development, but considers it within …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2016
The human condition can be challenging, whatever your age, gender, background, or experience. Inner Voices explores, with insight and humor, some of those debilitating personal difficulties,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Though they never met or performed together, Édith Piaf (1915-63) and Jacques Brel (1929-78), nearly fifteen years apart in age, both became legends of the modern “chanson franç…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2016
An engaging storyteller, a gifted soprano, and a natural with children, Melanie Gall brings her warmth, talent, and stage presence to the Fringe Encore Series in Opera Mouse, a delightful so…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
An annual favorite at 1812 Productions is its irreverent take on the current news. This year's show, This Is The Week That Is: The Election Special, has hit the motherlode of material with t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Guests arrived for the party in formal wear, as requested by the host. Inside the historic building, constructed in 1909, they donned masks in carnival colors and enjoyed hors d'oeuvres and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2016
Filled with poetic language, engaging characters, and penetrating insights into the human condition, Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney represents the tradition of Irish storytelling at its very be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
In his autobiographical one-man show Rent Control, which won the 2016 FringeNYC Award for Overall Excellence in Solo Performance, Evan Zes turns his comic eye and adult humor on two o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
Winner of the 2016 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Ensemble, ChipandGus— written, directed, and performed by John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen, and produced by Fat Knigh…
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