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The student production at Atlas Performing Arts Center was delivered with enthusiasm, determination, and professionalism. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2023
You may find yourself vibrating with joy and admiration for the protagonist Olga Ivanovna. This flamboyant production is theater at its most epic. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
The dramatic story of enslaved Africans' efforts to be freed by the courts of PG County, told in oral histories, choreography, and dazzling design. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2023
The playwright-director has a talent for bringing to our attention skilled storytellers we might not otherwise discover. This cast is full of them. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Playwright Lynn Nottage shows in intimate detail what happens in a community when the jobs are gone.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
Students share the exuberance of their 'musical theater boot camp' experience. By GREGORY FORD
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2023
A tribute to refugees from Central America during the 1980s and to people in the DMV who rose to address their needs.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
Called a 'congregational opera' by its creators, Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the performance offers up a benediction of hope and faith.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 10, 2023
The author and solo performer of 'Rock Paper Scissors' " a Welders production " shares the personal and artistic history of the show.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2023
A mother's plan to bust her son out of prison plays like an explosive video game.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 4, 2023
You shoulda been there. The newest production by IN Series was successful in so many ways. In his program notes, artistic director Tim Nelson highlights the fact that IN Series seeks to prod…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2023
A conversation with Ryan Jamaal Swain, Justin Weaks, and Michael Kevin Darnall about a play whose title is a statistic about gay Black men and HIV.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Who will believe my verse in time to come?… The age to come would say 'This poet lies'… But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme. " Will…
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2023
The performances by Lezlie Hatcher and Patricia Williams-Dugueye evinced the tenacity and desperation of Jacob wrestling his angel.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:32PM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2023
This rarely performed work, with music by John Adams and text by June Jordan, is an experience not to be missed.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
The exquisitely crafted performance, consisting of both scripted theater and unscripted communal storytelling, is clever, playful, tender, and poetic.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2023
Tony Kushner's classic directed by János Szász is by turns disorienting, devastating, and exhilarating.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2023
The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art stages the 1738 opera by George Frideric Handel in Las Vegas " and Elvis makes an appearance.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
"What I've really not seen and not experienced is African American family life when it's OK. When there's prosperity, when there's abundance." " Jeanine Tesori, composer of Blue "Thou shalt …
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:50AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2023
The production shows what is unique about Synetic Theater that makes it worth visiting again and again.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2023
R. Nathaniel Dett's 1932 oratorio about the Israelites' liberation from the Egyptians is by turns startling, soul-stirring, and highly satisfying.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2023
How the accomplished DC theater artist " a gay Venezuelan immigrant " shifted from scripted theater to devised, then from live performance to film.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:12PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2023
New play with music sings of the musician who trained and mentored young artists and formed the first African American opera company in the United States.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2022
In a performance on December 30, members of a multi-generational audience will share stories from their lives and see those stories enacted on the spot.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Friday, December 2, 2022
The Spanish-language Afro-Latinx reimagining of Puccini's beloved classic opera will screen for free on December 11 at Atlas and stream for free on demand.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2022
The singing fills the space with a sound that penetrates the audience's very being.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:31PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2022
The haunting events surrounding the trial of Emmett Till's killers seen through the eyes of Black reporters trying to get the facts of the story.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2022
Playwright Ifa Bayeza transforms this terrifying and traumatizing story for Black Americans into a catalyst for change.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2022
This play in Ifa Bayeza's 'The Till Trilogy' shows how the Emmett Till murder distorted the most intimate human relationships among the people involved.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2022
At their best, William Finn's songs are candid snapshots of something that makes life worth living.
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