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Review: ‘Exit Pluto’ at Strand Theater Company
Continuing “The 100 Percent Season” – an entire season consisting exclusively of works written by women – Strand Theater Company (“the Strand”) presented the...
Review: ‘The Tin Woman’ at Prince George’s Little Theatre
The Tin Woman, written by Sean Grennan, is based on a true story, and is Prince George’s Little Theatre’s winter production. The show is...
Review: ‘The Hard Problem’ at The Studio Theatre
No shrinking violet when it comes to exploring humanity’s most complex questions, playwright Tom Stoppard takes a deep dive into the frontiers of neuroscience,...
Review #2: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade: 75 Years...
8-track tape: It's the only medium of Barbra Streisand recordings that I do not own. LP, cassette, VHS, CD, DVD, mp3, mp4 ... I...
Spine: ‘Silent Sky’ at Silver Spring Stage
On occasion, a play comes along with a bit of history, a bit of uncovered history, and that history changes the nature of the...
Review: ‘Hands on Hard Body’ at Drama Learning Center
Hands on Hard Body opened on January 13th at the Drama Learning Center in Columbia, MD presented by the TYA Professional Training Program. The...
Review: ‘Blackbird’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre
When Una, the 27 year-old British woman at the center of David Harrower’s startling and complex play Blackbird, tells a man named Ray, 15...
Review: ‘LIZZIE: The Musical’ at Pinky Swear Productions
Fresh off their Capital Fringe Best Overall Show and Best Musical Theatre or Opera wins for 2016’s Over Her Dead Body, Pinky Swear Productions...
Review: ‘I Will Not Go Gently’ at Act II Playhouse
An aging rock star struggles to stay relevant, or perhaps struggles whether or not to care at all whether she is still relevant, in...
Review: ‘And Then There Were None’ at Allens Lane Theater
For Allens Lane Theater’s production of And Then There Were None, director Josh Hitchens not only presents the mystery, but also heightens the mood...
Here Are This Year’s WATCH AWARD Nominations
Announcement of Nominations
16th Annual Washington Area Theatre
Community Honors
THE WATCH AWARDS
Nominations Announced January 15, 2017 – 7:30 pm
at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
Award Ceremony Sunday, March...
Review: ‘Grey Gardens’ at StillPointe Theatre
Grey Gardens is the latest show in StillPointe Theatre’s 2016 – 2017 season. This musical is based on the eponymous 1975 documentary about the lives...
Review: National Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ and Ravel’s ‘Left Hand’ Concerto
With a program packed with masterpieces from Russian and French composers, Sir Mark Elder conducted the National Symphony Orchestra. Sir Mark Elder opened the night...
Review: ‘Pippin’ at Act Two at Levine performing at Arena Stage
I have often heard Pippin described as a frivolous musical with silly little songs and a thin plot, but to me, Pippin has always...
Best of 2016 #15: Best Performances in Plays in Community Theatres in DC/MD/VA
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #15: Best Performances in Plays and Ensembles in Community Theaters in DC/MD/VA Area Area
Mark T. Allen as John Barrymore in I...
Review: ‘[gay] Cymbeline’ at Theatre Prometheus
Queering Shakespeare may be gilding the lily. And if so DC these days has seen quite a few such embellished flowers. Like, golden nosegays...
Review: ‘Loves and Hours’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
Laurel Mill Playhouse offers up an ideal evening of theatre in Loves and Hours by Stephen Metcalfe and directed by Daniel Douek. This intriguing...
Review: ‘Legally Blonde The Musical JR’ at Bravo Productions
Legally Blonde The Musical JR, based on the 2001 hit film starring Reese Witherspoon about a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law in...
Review #1: ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade: 75 Years of Streisand’ at The American...
Streisand came to DC for a quick pre-inauguration visit. Well almost, but not quite. Well, maybe my first sentence is a little bit of...
Review: ‘Recent Tragic Events’ at St. Mark’s Players
The American theater has generated some great plays prompted by the tragic events of 9/11. I remember vividly Neil LaBute’s powerful 2002 drama The...