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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC " August 14 " theatreWashington today announced plans for Theatre Week 2018, a three-week celebration that will offer $15 and $35 tickets to over 20 productions, a fr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
By Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about Alexander Hamilton, "the forgotten founding father," has become a turning poi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Baritone Joshua Conyers is becoming a mainstay in the Washington area. Conyers is a Summer 2018 Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he has sung Count Capulet in Charles Gounod's Roméo e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
For its 29th season of making theatre on the edge, Avant Bard proudly announces three mainstage productions featuring classic comedies by Shakespeare and Molière newly adapted for now, plus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
By Bill Kamberger King John of England was not a popular ruler, and Shakespeare's play about him is not, to put it mildly, among his most popular works; indeed, it hasn't been performed in B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
From The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts: The Theatre Lab has lost a wonderful friend and an integral member of our family. We mourn the passing of George Grant, who over the past te…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]By Leandra Lynn Step right up! Feast your eyes on PWLT's current production, Barnum! The fun started even before I walked into the Hylton Performing Arts Center, with clowns waving at me fro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
By Bill Kamberger On September 30, 1975, twenty years to the day after the car crash that took the life of movie legend James Dean, six of his female fans gather at a convenience store in a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
by Jill Kyle-Keith Two unconventional beauties take us on a wild ride through sex, politics, and the politics of sex. As the title implies, Chlamydia dell'Arte is a sort-of burlesque, with a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:55PM[SHARE]By Becca Kurtz Raina Greifer's new play, Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It, produced by Purple Crayon Productions, is a tale of abandonment, friendship, and the teenage mind. It's fitting …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
By Hannah Sternberg Riot Brrrain is a punk-fueled, nonlinear tour through the life of Teddy as they revisit their past relationships after being diagnosed with neurosyphilis. Teddy is bisexu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:21PM[SHARE]By Shawn Reilly Simmons Hold The Tomato is a comedy variety show featuring sketches, songs, and improv, written by Nancy Safavi and David Stauffer, and composed by Wesley Fox. We're introduc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07PM[SHARE]By Shawn Reilly Simmons "I don't want to sit in front. I don't want to get picked on," a woman said to me nervously as we chose our seats, about to experience Unscripted, a two-man improvisa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PM[SHARE]By Rebecca Kurtz If there is one thing to be said for Meet the Glory Wholes, it's that the creatively minded Joey Maranto has contagious confidence. Sixty minutes alone onstage is no small f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
By Bill Kamberger Ironically enough for a story that is propelled by sibling rivalry and longing for a better life, the stage adaptation of The Little Mermaid has always been a bit of a negl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:38PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
By Caroline Bock What's worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are "peddled out," i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds and doing shots at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PM[SHARE]By Garinè Isassi Through the Wall is a dance story that sprang from an art experiment put together by Source Festival called the Artistic Blind Date Program. Artists from different discipli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AM[SHARE]By Bill Kamberger Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in a theater seems only natural. There’s a reason, t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza A woman (IO Browne) climbs out of bed, her lover still fast asleep, unmoved. She lays out on the floor, limber and sensual as she dances like a flower budding through a cr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19PM[SHARE]By Ellie Milewski Four intelligent and gifted female playwrights/directors, three bold female actors and their marvelous male partner in crime, and a wonderful crew, walk into Arena Stage to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PM[SHARE]By Ellie Milewski Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Parkland. These are only a few names from a list of mass shooting in the United States. A list that is painfully and heartbreakingly l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PM[SHARE]The Ferberizing of Coral by Patrick Flynn which debuted at the DC Source Festival in 2016 has been selected from 850 submissions to be a finalist in the Samuel French 43rd Annual Off Off Bro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PM[SHARE]"Quick! We need a word. Any word," says Travis Charles Ploeger, director and accompanist for iMusical, an improv ensemble out of Washington Improv Theater. He's standing in a black box theat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
By Bill Kamberger Full disclosure: I love The Mikado. I sang in the chorus of the Young Victorian Theatre Company's 1979 production, a publicity photo from which is being used to advertise t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
by Isabel Echavarria Black Confederates by James F. Bruns and directed by David Allen Schmidt depicts a conversation between Jefferson Davis, played by Larry Levinson, and his wife Varina Da…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
By Beatrice Loayza Watching Lindsey Griffith's one-woman performance Horse People, I can't help but feel as if I've stumbled into a dream. Papier-mâché horse heads, large overhead projec…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16PM[SHARE]By Becca Kurtz The pair of plays that make up Paul Handy's "Hawaii Nei" fit together nicely in a 90-minute, fact-packed commentary on the state – both past and present – of the r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57PM[SHARE]By Christina Kovac On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:12PM[SHARE]By Beatrice Loayza Titus Andronicus is the little-known Shakespeare tragedy most reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. Bloody murder, sex, and violence galore, Andronicus is historically …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AM[SHARE]By Beatrice Loayza First staged in 1971, The House of Blue Leaves is a descendant of the kitchen sink dramas and average joe tragedies that marked the American and British theater scenes in …
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