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Review: ‘The Dictator’s Wife’ at Washington National Opera
A one-hour World Premiere opera is reason enough for the imagination to run rampant with artistic anticipation. So what a veritable array of riches...
Review: ‘Silent Sky’ at Silver Spring Stage
Friday marked the opening at Silver Spring Stage of a very timely drama, Silent Sky, by Laura Gunderson.
Produced by Seth Ghitelman and directed by...
Review: ‘Saloon’ at the Merriam Theater
Montreal’s Cirque Éloize explodes on stage at the Merriam Theater with a two-day run of its touring production of Saloon, presented collaboratively by the...
Review: ‘Image China: Confucius’ at The Kennedy Center
It seemed fitting somehow during a full moon, on Friday the thirteenth, to be attending Confucius on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New...
Review: ‘Mamma Mia!’ at Hippodrome Theatre
Countering the brisk winter temperatures outside, Tony-nominated Broadway jukebox musical sensation Mamma Mia! unleashed flash bolts of pulsating heat with bold bright lights, zesty...
Review: ‘Bud, Not Buddy’ at The Kennedy Center
Last night, The Kennedy Center presented an inspiring world premiere commission of Bud, Not Buddy. Kirsten Greenidge created the fast-paced and touchingly funny script, based...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #14: Best Design in Professional and Community Theaters in DC/VA/MD
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #14: Best Design in Professional and Community Theaters in DC/VA/MD Are:
John Alexander for his lighting for Blackberry Winter at Forum Theatre.
John Alexander...
Magic Time! ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Someone Is Going to Come is a comedy of menace with a roiling undercurrent of sexual tension. It evokes ominous noirish goings-on in a...
Review: ‘Last of the Red Hot Lovers’ at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on...
There is one man and three different women. He’s in the midst of a midlife crisis, trying to connect with somebody not his wife,...
Meet the Three Young Actors in ‘Watch on the Rhine’ at Arena Stage: #2...
Tyler Bowman makes his Arena Stage debut playing the youngest of three siblings in Lillian Hellman’s 1941 play Watch on the Rhine. The children...
‘Charm’ at Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Just opened at Mosaic Theater Company in a thrilling and vibrant production directed by Natsu Onoda Power is a play that puts on stage...
Kathleen Madigan: ‘Bothering Jesus Tour’ Comes to the Weinberg Center for the Arts This...
Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus Tour at the Weinberg Center for the Arts
With a refreshing take on life’s absurdities and a brand-new Netflix special (“Bothering Jesus”),...
Meet the Three Young Actors in ‘Watch on the Rhine’ at Arena Stage: #1...
Ethan Miller makes his Arena Stage debut playing one of the three children in Lillian Hellman’s 1941 drama Watch on the Rhine. It’s not...
Charlie Bethel on His One-Man Show ‘The Call of the Wild’ at Baltimore Theatre...
Tomorrow – Thursday, January 12, 2017, master storyteller Charlie Bethel returns to Charm City to perform his newest adaptation – a one-man show of...
Review: ‘The Gabriels’ at the Kennedy Center
For those who are familiar with Richard Nelson's 4-play cycle, The Apple Family Plays, his The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One...
Spine: ‘Charm’ at the Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Philip Dawkins' Charm takes on a high order: it wants to charm you.
And to do that its lead character, Mama, has to be more...
Review: ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre’s Someone Is Going to Come is a tightly wound riddle about danger; the lightly concealed danger lurking in a couple’s push-pull of...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #13: Best Direction and Musical Direction in Musicals and Best...
The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts Best Direction and Musical Direction in Musicals and Best Direction of Plays of 2016 in Community Theatres in DC/VA/MD Are:
BEST...
Review: ‘Copenhagen’ at Theater J
Strange to watch a play unfold and wish that it did not feel so chillingly relevant. Or that the past it depicts never happened....
Review: ‘Charm’ at Mosaic Theater Company of DC
If you think teaching manners to a group of outcast runaways sounds like a joke—ridiculous at best, and irrelevant or possibly dangerous at worst—then...