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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PM[SHARE]A post-modern take-off on the Book of Revelation, Tribulation: The Musical, with book and lyrics by Molly Miller and music by Brad Kemp, reimagines the Apocalypse through the eyes of a recen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
After listening to John McDonagh's hilarious reminiscences about his life as a New York cabbie, you'll be convinced that few jobs are as rife with comic material. Born and raised in Queens, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
A poignant and uplifting three-hander, Joey Variations: A Play with Dance, written and directed by Jon Spano, is a seemingly simple story about the psychological and emotional complexities o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38PM[SHARE] Fulfilling a ten-year dream, the all-female Musical Company OZmate, from Takarazuka, Japan, has brought its epic tale, The Legend of Oni, to FringeNYC, and NYC couldn't be more fortun…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
If you're a fan of the fright genre and nostalgic for classic Saturday morning TV shows for kids, Playlab NYC's Humorously Horrendous Haunted Hideaway will have you screaming with laughter! …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06PM[SHARE]As two upper-crust English sisters of marriageable age in the Victorian era, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and Natalia Dyer bring new meaning to sibling rivalry in the titular roles of Adaire Kamen's …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2016
What better reason to leave Elizabethan England than to stage a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in the New World and to found an indie theater there? That's the witty premise of play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49PM[SHARE]Traditionally, one of the defining factors of human civilization is a society that creates art. But are the hand, mind, and emotions of the artist integral parts of the creative process, or …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
Philadelphia's John Schultz brings an immersive sensory experience to FringeNYC with Till Birnam Wood, an original adaptation of Macbeth. Already a hit in the 2014 and 2015 Philly Fringe Fes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
For Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Philip Yosowitz, the story he weaves in The Gold, a fictional history of the impact the Holocaust had on one extended family of German Jews, is very personal.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
When award-winning sportswriter and radio-show host Ray Didinger was a kid, he never could have imagined that he'd end up helping his boyhood hero, wide receiver Tommy McDonald, be inducted …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2016
As a practicing trial and class-action lawyer for 46 years, playwright Norman Shabel has seen the American legal system from the inside, and it isn't pretty. He draws on that first-hand expe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
From Peter and The Starcatcher to Finding Neverland, the ever popular tale of Peter Pan continues to inspire original interpretations for the theater. A different take on J.M. Barrie's belov…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2016
For his next novel To the Unseen, successful author and socialite Charles Condomine must gather material on the world of the occult, of which he is highly skeptical. So on a lark, "to make n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PM[SHARE]There are more than 175 shows in this year's Philadelphia Fringe Festival, spanning eleven different genres and covering a wide array of subjects. Two experimental Fringe regulars, Applied M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Two sets of twins create twice the confusion and double the laughs in The Comedy of Errors, Delaware Shakespeare Festival's 2016 selection for its annual outdoor offering at Wilmingto…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2016
They're ba-ack! If you're a fan of the macabre clan from the 1960s black-and-white TV show, inspired by Charles Addams' series of single-frame cartoon drawings for The New Yorker beginning i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
When Ginger Dayle founded New City Stage Company in the summer of 2006, she was a graduate student at Villanova University, hoping to provide herself and other young theater artists with pro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2016
Talent, showmanship, and charm"Rob McClure has it all, and he brings it all to Feinstein's/54 Below with Rob McClure: Smile, his premiere solo concert in New York City. The pride of New Jers…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Located just 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, the freshly renovated Valley Forge Casino Resort offers visitors a wide range of activities, from gaming and swimming to fine dining and l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
After receiving a classical education at the University of Pennsylvania and graduating with a degree in English and a minor in Theater in 2014, Hannah Van Sciver has appeared in productions …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 25, 2016
Directed by local theater artist Tommy Butler, #theaternow's entry in Philadelphia's 2016 SoLow Festival is New-York-based Alex Clothier's delightfully eccentric reminiscences about his Midw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]For the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's current production of Julius Caesar, Director Patrick Mulcahy views the Bard's ancient Roman history through a post-modern lens. Set in an imagine…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Following his 2013 hit No Reservations, best-selling author, humorist, and playwright Josh Piven brings a new work to the Philadelphia stage with the world premiere of Muddled, an original s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Spectacular circus arts meet vintage-style song-and-dance in Cirque du Soleil's premiere Broadway musical, Paramour, now playing at the Lyric Theatre. Known for its consummately graceful and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Renowned as one of the greatest actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, James Cagney (1899-1986) was a proverbial triple threat who could do it all. And so can Robert Creighton, the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
In the 1930s, when Thornton Wilder was unhappy with the state of contemporary theater and felt that something had gone wrong, he created a metatheatrical work that would become an American c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2016
Director/creator Michael Durkin takes his inspiration for The Renegade Company's latest site-specific performance, In the Community Garden of Earthly Delights, from the famous paintin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 7, 2016
Following its premiere at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2015, White Guy on the Bus, a new work by Philadelphia's prolific award-winning playwright Bruce Graham, comes to Passage Theatre in…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
If you believe that the arts are an integral part of life, and that children should be introduced to them from an early age, then you are in total agreement with the mission of Enchantment T…
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