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Reversed Elf: Joe Brack Directs Matty Griffiths in ‘The Santaland Diaries’...

Since 2008 Matty Griffiths and Joe Brack have taken on David Sedaris' delicious script for The Santaland Diaries four times. Each year they explored the...

Meet the Cast of ‘George is Dead’ at The Klunch: Part...

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of George is Dead at The Klunch, meet John Tweel. Joel: Please tell our readers...

‘By George, By Ira, By Gershwin’ at The In Series

The In Series brings to life some of the funnest and iconic music of the 20th century by George Gershwin with most song lyrics by...

‘Elephant & Piggies We Are in A Play!’ at The Kennedy...

I could not say for sure whether my 6 year-old son or I had the most fun watching The Kennedy Center’s production of Elephant...

‘Pinocchio!’ at Faction of Fools

Italian writer Carlo Collodi’s beloved tale of Pinocchio! has been performed countless times over the past 132 years. Now, Faction of Fools Theatre Company has taken...

‘Catone in Utica’ by Opera Lafayette at The Kennedy Center

In Opera Lafayette's Catone in Utica, which opened last night at The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, the greats have come out to sing. And Antonin Vivaldi's...

Ian Allen’s ‘The Klunch’ Opens its 1st Production: ‘George is Dead’...

CHERRY RED PRODUCTIONS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IAN ALLEN FOUNDS “THE KLUNCH” A NEW THEATER COLLECTIVE OPENS ITS FIRST PRODUCTION: ELAINE MAY’S GEORGE IS DEAD AT DC ARTS CENTER THURSDAY, DECEMBER...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ ‘Best of 2015 Honors’ To Be Announced Shortly-A Look Back...

We will be announcing our 'Best of 2015 DCMTA Honors' in the upcoming weeks. Because we will have reviewed over 1,250 shows/concerts/dance in 2015, there...

A Look at ‘Glory Us’ by Playwright Madeline Farrington at The...

Glory Us was born during a series of Tinder conversations I had with a guy named Matt. (They're all named Matt, right?) We had been flirting a...

An Interview with Billy L’Amour on ‘Gentlemen Prefer Billy’ at Rainbow...

Super-excited to get to talk with Montreal’s oh so fabulous Billy L’Amour, whose career spans ballet, cabaret, and burlesque and is bringing her one-woman...

In the Moment: Reflections on ‘Sons of the Prophet’ at Theater...

At the heart of Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet are his Old-Testament Job-like questioning of an unseen, unknown higher presence. Questions abound around...

‘Kiss Me Kate’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

In a perfect world, the actors and actresses of a production get along. In a perfect world, there is no backstage drama. In a...

‘Semiramide’ with Washington Concert Opera at Lisner Auditorium

The predominance of voice in the operatic tradition usually doesn’t change the need for effective staging to put the full point across. Washington Concert...

Spine: ‘Pericles’ by Oregon Shakespeare Festival at Folger Theatre (Review #2)

The rarely performed Pericles by William Shakespeare, now on stage at Folger Theatre, is that even rarer of manuscripts: a folk play with epic...

‘Sons of the Prophet’ at Theater J

Theater J’s first triumph of the season was Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ semi-autobiographical Queens Girl in the World. Its second is also loosely autobiographical: Stephen Karam’s Sons...

Cellist Amit Peled and Pianist Noreen Polera with Washington Performing Arts...

Cellist Amit Peled is one of those practitioners of “serious” music who brings a kind of pizzazz that’s probably needed in the 21st century world...

Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: John Lloyd Young

John Lloyd Young, Tony-Award winner and musical wonder of the Broadway never-ending (and well-deserved to be!) musical hit Jersey Boys, enthralled the crowd at...

‘In the Moment’: Thoughts on Folger Theatre’s ‘Pericles’

Dazzling. Indeed Pericles is quite dazzling in the contemporary creation from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival currently at the Folger Theatre. It possesses a radiance with...

‘The Impresario’ at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music

Sheaves of music start flying and the upper octaves get higher and louder during an open opera audition. Vanity and rivalry turn into a...

‘SPEKTRUM’ at Howard University

A world of color streamed with feet pointed and backs arched, amazed at the auspicious shapes; I witnessed dance prevail in SPEKTRUM, Howard University’s...