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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2016
A one-night-only multimedia concert that paired Minimalist music–a movement that originated in downtown New York in the 1960s–with visual imagery and current digital technology, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Man and beast struggle and evolve in the post-apocalyptic world of Jungle, the latest work and first Fringe offering of the all-male dance troupe Bradley's Bucks. Created and directed by dan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
A self-referencing mockumentary on the process of putting together a show, Happy Yummy Chicken is the first full-length film by Love Drunk Life–a New Jersey-based multi-genre company t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2016
A featured work in this year's Curated Fringe, Pandæmonium, by Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Early Morning Opera, is a conceptual reflection on relationships, separation, isolation, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:44PM[SHARE]Commedia dell'arte meets Shakespeare in Ombelico Mask Ensemble's original deconstruction of Hamlet. Omeletto: Like Hamlet, Only Scrambled synthesizes all of Shakespeare's dramatic characters…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
In her world-premiere historical fiction A Runaway, a Soldier and a Snowball Fight, presented at Fergie's Pub by Iron Age Theatre, playwright-in-residence Leah Lawler re-envisions the moment…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:35PM[SHARE] Conceived by emerging playwright Kevin Stackhouse as "a parody mock opera," Gilbert and Sullivan's Switched! Or The Insider and the Outsider, presented by Tavern Productions and PAFA …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Three annual Fringe favorites have chosen to remount a past hit for this year's festival, giving audiences a chance to see the acclaimed works they missed, or to revisit the shows they loved…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
"Are you in here?" "Is there anyone here?" "Who are you?" Where are you?" "You're not supposed to be here." Spirits of the people who inhabited the Powel House at different periods in its 25…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
Camp and kitsch reign supreme in On the Rocks' Birdie's Pit Stop (and the tribe of queers who fucked everything up), an outrageously funny world-premiere parody of the horror genre and the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:53PM[SHARE]If you're a stickler for political correctness, lighten up, head over to L'Etage Cabaret, grab a drink, and laugh your *#@% off at all the irreverent humor in WaitStaff Sketch Comedy's hilar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
Inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Io, the principles of existential risk and human enhancement ethics considered by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrum, and the popular genre of science fic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 10, 2016
Birds on a Wire takes Fringe-goers on an evocative journey into the woods in a short-run premiere of its newest modern dance piece In the Clearing. The full-length adventure, choreographed a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PM[SHARE]The 2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival celebrated its official launch at the Barnes Foundation on Friday evening with an extraordinary one-night-only sold-out event in the Curated Fringe, as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
Emptiness. Isolation. Boredom. Expectation. Emptiness. The Old Man and Old Woman over-react to the petty nuisance of mosquitoes flying around them, then yammer incessant inanities to fill up…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
Renowned as the greatest American Shakespearean actor of his day, Edwin Booth (1833-93), the brother of Abraham Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth, could have easily become the collateral da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05PM[SHARE]Boldly erotic, seductively exuberant, and profoundly intimate, Carried Away, this year's world-premiere Fringe piece by Brian Sanders' JUNK, brings all the physicality, psychology, and emoti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
What do you get when you mix The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sunset Boulevard and Valley of the Dolls? A high-camp melodramatic parody on the consequences of aging in a profession where yout…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
At a 10 AM press conference this morning, the nominations for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre for the 2015-16 season were announced by Theatre Philadelphia. A total of 25 comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Here is Part 3 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts' favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees " TAKE A BOW! _____ Ensemble (Adrienne Hertler, Emily …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
At a press conference held on the eastern terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the members of the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts announced the foundation of its new professi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PM[SHARE]Here is Part 2 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts' favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees " TAKE A BOW! _____  Amanda Schoonover as Dorine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01AM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
Here are the 2016 Barrymore Award Nominations: Winners will be announced at the Merriam Theater on Monday, October 24th at 7 p.m. Congratulations to all the nominees! F. Otto Haas Award for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AM[SHARE]Here is Part 1 of the Philadelphia staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ favorite performances in Spring and Summer of 2016. To all our honorees – TAKE A BOW! _____ J Hernandez as Rica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
Edmond Rostand's classic French novel of 1897, Cyrano de Bergerac, is re-envisioned through a post-modern gay lens in Grind Arts Company's Cyrano: a love letter to a friendship. The triangul…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Relationships are hard. And that goes double if you're pushing 30, but still haven't made the psychological and emotional transition from youth to adulthood. In The New Collective's world pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Sometimes even the most inspired geniuses need to do some rethinking, reworking, and rewrites of their greatest creations to forge an unforgettable masterpiece. Such is the case with God, Mi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PM[SHARE]On June 25, 1906, famed architect Stanford White, of the firm McKim, Mead & White (among whose most noted works is NYC's Washington Square Arch), was shot and killed by crazed multi-mill…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 20, 2016
15,000 documents ÷ 3 years of intensive research + 1 actor x 9 characters = the formula for success with Einstein! Written and performed by Jack Fry, the one-man tour-de-force brings the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2016
From the time she was a kid, Ronna J Levy knew that she wanted to be an actress. How she ended up being a teacher is the theme of her original one-woman show of 2012, This Gonna Be on the Te…
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