Tag: DC Theater Arts

It was a packed house for Peter Frampton Raw: An Acoustic Tour last night at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. With excitement in the...

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of The Mongomery Playhouse's Postmortem, meet Gemma Davimes. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers...

North Bethesda United Methodist Church’s’ (NBUMC) presentation of  William Nicholson's Shadowlands, directed by Janet Van Albert Replogle, is a delightful and touching real life...

The first time I read through TAME., I had to walk away from my computer. TAME. had been described to me not as a reinterpretation...

AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE  Adapted by Robert Mason and Lindsay Price AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE ONE DAY ONLY! TWO PERFORMANCES! THURSDAY OCTOBER 20, 2016,...

On Friday, I got to do two things I’ve been wanting to do for a while: catch a show at Arena Players and see...

Whatever your choice in Hallowe’en fare, Witch—an adaptation of a Jacobean melodrama now having its world premiere at The Mead Theatre Lab—has it all. There’s...

Billed as “The Second City’s Completely Unbiased Political Revue,” Unelectable You—now in the middle of a four month pre-election national tour—paused in Washington, DC...

Oliver Sacks' non-fiction book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, consists of a series of neurological case studies. Each study examines...

So far as I can tell, The Catholic University of America’s Drama Department turns out a lot of local talent. I keep seeing mentions...

A non-traditional, very timely theater experience is arriving at Reston’s CenterStage from the creative risk-taking minds of award-winning Ping Chong + Company. What the...

Growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents, Gloria Rosen faced many challenges, both in interpreting for and communicating with her family, and...

Anglo-Irish Playwright Oliver Goldsmith's "laughing comedy"- She Stoops to Conquer- was first performed in London in 1773. It's been a favorite for study in English...

It is sometimes difficult to imagine what theater might be able to further contribute to an already contentious national conversation about tolerance and devisiveness...

One of the opening lines to last evening's performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, uttered by the world's most famous detective, was “You...

Following the trajectory of his career from heavy-metal rocker to student, writer, and theater artist, Carlos Dengler not only recounts his own personal development,...

There is nothing quite like "a vast morsel." When Jane Ira Bloom plays her soprano saxophone, her wiry body jutting and jagging to the notes...

Let's get the title out of the way for starters. Simon Stephens, the author of this play, uses it to remind us that the...

Fells Point Corner Theatre (“FPCT”) opened its production of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man on Friday. The second show of FPCT’s “Rescue Me” season,...

I go to see live theatre for a lot of reasons. I go to laugh and to be moved, to feel excitement or empathy,...