Friday, November 11, 2016
Say what you will about Barbra Streisand " whether you love her massive talent or ego, or not, you have to admit there's no one else like her. And few people can say that with as much author…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Working isn't a typical musical. There's no plot, no resolution, no love story. Yet the tale it tells is an absorbing one. By using words and music to examine the relationship of people to t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
Leslie Ayvazian's comedy Out of the City opens in the lobby of a Bed and Breakfast in the Poconos. Carol and her husband Matt are there for the weekend to celebrate Carol's sixtieth birthday…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
Douglas Williams' Breathe Smoke, a world premiere being presented by the Orbiter 3 Collective, tells the story of four people whose public lives and private lives are markedly different. It'…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PM[SHARE]Promises, Promises opened on Broadway in 1968, and while the world it depicts seemed relevant back then, today that world has largely vanished. It's set in the Manhattan skyscraper home of C…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2016
When you take your seat at Bucks County Playhouse and find a paper bag on your seat filled with props " including a baggie full of rice to throw at the stage during a wedding scene " you may…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
Rosanne Cash admitted on Thursday night that she looks at the world through a "peculiar prism." In one of the songs she performed that night, "Modern Blue," she sang of visiting Barcelona an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Janis Dardaris is a force to be reckoned with. As Mother Courage, standing firm with her hands on her hips and wearing a white, shapeless frock covered by a blue sweater, she is a tower of s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
When you think of The Birds, you probably think of Tippi Hedren running for her life through the streets of a California town " a town inexplicably under attack by every winged creature with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2016
The Other Place seems at first like a straightforward drama: Juliana, a brilliant and highly esteemed 59-year-old scientist, is beginning to suffer from memory loss. This brings her into con…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
The Mountaintop is a fantasia rooted in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century. Set on the final night in the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Katori Hall's play takes Ki…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline marks the second time in two years that Bristol Riverside Theatre has staged a show about the life of Cline, one of country music's greatest stars. (Always… …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2016
King John, one of Shakespeare's lesser-known history plays, is filled with intrigue, betrayal, and a pair of kings who are constantly threatening to go to war. In other words, it's perfect f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:05PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
It was just two and a half years ago that the Arden Theatre presented a version of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters that used a fresh, slangy translation. It took a musty classic and made it fe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
The Elementary Spacetime Show is an unusual musical about a subject you don't often see onstage: teenage suicide. With music, book and lyrics by César Alvarez, the show treads the line betw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
Bill Forchion is an accomplished circus performer, a veteran of Cirque du Soleil, and Ringling Brothers. He's also a real charmer, with a smile the size of a big top and the stage persona of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
In Surface Tension, the Philadelphia-based circus arts company Tangle Movement Arts spotlights the skills of six female performers. They use ropes, swings, bungee cords, and aerial silks in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30PM[SHARE]A wordy drama from the 19th century about capitalism, duplicity, and women's role in English society. Sounds like it might be rather tough to get through, doesn't it? Well, don't be fooled. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The Berserker Residents, a Philadelphia-based troupe, has been writing and performing inspired comedy for years. Their irreverent 2010 offering The Very Merry Xmas Carol Holiday Adventure Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12AM[SHARE]"This isn't the Ken Burns musical documentary on James Baldwin," said Stew about two-thirds of the way through his latest show, Notes of a Native Song. He was right. Notes of a Native Song m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
The title tells you all you need to know about Chris Davis' new show at the Fringe Festival. When you enter the performance space " a small room inside a Southwest Philly warehouse that's se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
Greg Kennedy bills himself as an "Innovative Juggler," and he lives up to that billing in Spherus, his show now running as part of the 201 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Kennedy's style is ro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
Animal Farm to Table isn't like any other show in the Fringe Festival. The show, conceived and directed by Mike Durkin for The Renegade Company, is performed on an actual (but small) working…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Who would have thought that 2016 would be the year we saw not one, but two musicals about… food preparation? Just six months ago, Bucks County Playhouse premiered A Taste of Things to Come…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
About halfway through Ray Didinger's new play Tommy and Me, one of the characters mentions Joe Kuharich. On the night I attended the play, the audience responded with a round of derisive lau…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:28PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
Fool for Love is a pretty short play, and its plot isn't especially complex: A couple of longtime lovers with a volatile history meet to battle again in a seedy motel room in the Mojave Dese…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
The new production of Love's Labour's Lost at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival continues a tradition the festival began several summers ago of creating a production in a fashion similar to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
For its eleventh annual summer offering, Shakespeare in Clark Park is offering a take on The Two Gentlemen of Verona that feels light and airy as the summer breeze wafting across the park. I…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers haven't even said grace. So says the Mother Superior of St. Veronica's Convent School, the lead character in the new play at the Bucks County Playhou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
I Am Not My Motherland, the latest play from the Orbiter 3 playwriting collective, is about a medical operation that has complications, and about a relationship between two surgeons that als…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42AM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
Scholars, theatergoers and activists have been debating The Taming of the Shrew for about four centuries. Just what was Shakespeare, with his tale of the warring lovers Katherina and Petruch…
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