Friday, December 14, 2018
South African jazz singer Vuyo Sotashe returns to Strathmore this week on December 14 and 15 to perform holiday standards with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. Follo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2018
Now in its sixth year, The DC Center's DC Queer Theatre Festival delivers on its promise to unleash and celebrate underrepresented voices and diversity. After evaluating over thirty submissi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
By Julie Janson If you are looking for some holiday merriment that is fun for all ages, dance and sing your way over to Adventure Theatre's Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas. This musical…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
This November, as Americans prepare for Thanksgiving and the start of the holiday season, arts organizations across the Washington area will commemorate a more somber occasion: the 100th ann…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AM[SHARE]By Ezra Tozian Editor's note: In Avant Bard's production of Illyria, or What You Will"freely adapted from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hébert"the character of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2018
by Ciahna Heck Three Princes Theatre presents the end of things. at the Charm City Fringe Festival, a daring new piece of theater which touches on the termination of multiple relationship…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 4, 2018
By Kylie Miller Fringe Festivals are a great platform for shows that push boundaries and challenge the norm. 50 Shades of Gay does exactly that. Ike Avelli, a 52-year-old single gay man, is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PM[SHARE]By Kylie Miller The play on words of the show's title, Un-a-parent, perfectly sets up this comedic solo show. The life experiences of Joe Minchik, the writer and performer, are both hilariou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
For the past 10 seasons, conductor/composer/commentator/author Rob Kapilow has brought his acclaimed series What Makes It Great? to D.C. under the auspices of Washington Performing Arts. Wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
Cabaret icon Ann Hampton Callaway just released her 16th album, Jazz Goes to the Movies—renditions of songs from classic Hollywood films. On her way to New York to perform at Feinstein…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
By Sophie Herreid, Caitlin Partridge, Lauren Patton I had so many hopes. I had so many dreams. But I died I died I died along the way. – Chorus of Refugees, ‘Anon[ymous]’ P…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
PUBLIQuartet is not a typical string quartet. Violinists Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth, violist Nick Revel, and cellist Amanda Gookin make up this unique ensemble dedicated to improvisi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Happy Theater, a theatrical group using object puppetry and physical theatre to heal, unite and inspire, and sorrows&songs, peddling poetry and wonder by way of the stage, will bring the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58PM[SHARE]Applications are now open for the 2019Â Capital Fringe Festival! See below for application details. OPTION 1:Â FRINGE RUN VENUE Participation in the Fringe Festival is an opportunity for…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
By Danny Romeo MetroStage is getting the band back together. Rooms: A Rock Romance celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its premiere this year, in the very theatre where the production had…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
When asked to picture a lute, the average 21st-century music fan might envision an illustration from a medieval illuminated manuscript, depicting someone in tights, maybe some sort of tunic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2018
By Julie Janson Peace Mountain Theatre Company's production of Barbara Lebow's A Shayna Maidel is a piercing, unabashed look at life before and after the Holocaust through the eyes of two se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
By Jen Lofquist Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is almost a master class in restrained theatre. His words, like the Nordic landscape, are stark and carved. Ibsen will tolerate no over-acti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Washington, DC:Â The Anderson-Hopkins Award for Excellence in the Theater Arts presented six awards Monday night at Signature Theatre, October 8. The award was presented to actors Will Gar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2018
By Andy Arnold You know you'll have a bad day at work when the guests at the Hangtown Asylum for Extremely Tense People lock up the staff and take over the business. As it happens, the asylu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:55AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
Adventure Theatre MTCÂ (ATMTC)Â announces its grand reopening on October 15th in Glen Echo Park after seven months of renovations due to an electrical fire. Executives from Adventure The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
An Alfred Hitchcock-style mystery play unfolds at the Knights of Columbus performance on Friday, October 5, 2018, at 7 p.m. in the St. Leo the Great School Gym. The play is the second origin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2018
By Brandon Block We're in a long, dark, monastic chamber. A white marble bust of Putin sits against dark red drop-banners that are just barely not swastikas, instead featuring a black outlin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
By Cybele Pomeroy "My name is Luther and I'm going to sing every song I know. Come on, y'all, let's have a party." — Tamba Giles as Luther Vandross in Luther. It's a small, squatty bri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
After a dramatic auditioning process that lasted the entirety of their 40th season, Washington Bach Consort has selected their new Artistic Director. The premiere Baroque chorus and orchestr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 2, 2018
The final days of summer are here. And you know what that means? It's time to score some awesome deals during Theatre Week. For the third year, we're bringing you exclusive prices to some of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2018
The Kennedy Center’s 17th annual Page to Stage Festival offers theatergoers the chance to view and give feedback on works of theater. The free performances feature work by over 60 loca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2018
The Washington, DC-area premiere of Athol Fugard's most recent play The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek opens this weekend at MetroStage and will run through September 30. First preview on T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48PM[SHARE]Theater Alliance launches Season 16 with the Word Becomes Action Festival: Flipping the Script. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural festival, this second annual festival e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2018
Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, died last night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The cause was complications from pneumonia. He was 91 years ol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Rep Stage is pleased to announce that the third annual conference dedicated to women working in the theatre will be held in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center at Howard Community…
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