Tag: DC Metro Theatre

An awful lot goes on in William Shakespeare's dream play, but here's all you really have to know. It's set in Athens at first,...

The musical Big Fish is by any measure a feel-good show for the whole family, as evidenced by the buoyant and beautiful production now...

Taking its name from the romantic wartime ballad famously recorded by Marlene Dietrich in 1945, and which, in its earlier German and English versions,...

Family-friendly musicals are relatively rare these days. Family-friendly musicals that have adult themes are even rarer. Big Fish, with book by John August and music...

No sooner did some aerial apparatus drop from the fly space—ropes, straps, silks, hoops, trapezes—but what some artist-athletes would take hold of it and...

Join members of The King and I’s royal court as they step out of character for good fun and a good cause at One...

Part of the first Summer Family Theater Festival at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Gruff!, a co-presentation by Vital Theatre Company and Doppelskope, is everything that...

Barbara Goldman was married to the Academy Award winning playwright/screenwriter/novelist James Goldman; she's been called Bobby through their 23-year marriage, which ended when he...

In the world premiere of A Real Boy, presented by Ivy Theatre Company in association with Athena Theatre at 59E59, playwright Stephen Kaplan significantly...

Spring Awakening (co-created by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik and now playing at the Arts Barn in The Kentlands) has a circular tragedy to...

Despite the torrential downpour Thursday night, Blondie and Garbage devotees came in droves to Wolf Trap, with rain ponchos and umbrellas in hand, to...

Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's The Secret Garden boasts one of the most gorgeous scores in the history of musical theatre, but is rarely...

Red Branch Theatre Company continues to amaze with its 2017 season premiere of the perky and impertinent Lysistrata Jones. Thanks to savvy staging and...

The rise and fall of the largely forgotten 19th-century American artist John Banvard is the subject of Georama, an irresistible bio-musical by West Hyler...

Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s production of Alice and the Book of Wonderland is an entertaining treat for all ages, with delightful acting, colorful costumes, a...

Atomic Doll Productions Presents: Shocked and Amazed! was inspired by James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, the world's leading journal on...

Harry Dietzler, the executive and artistic director of Upper Darby Summer Stage, one of America’s oldest and most successful theater programs for young adults,...

Catching Up With Atomic Doll Productions! Sideshows and carnival acts have always offered normies a safe space to vicariously scratch that thrill itch. It’s equal...

Is “star viola player” an oxymoron? Not if the viola player – a “violist” as opposed to a violinist – casts her net as...

The Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) production of Legally Blonde is a laugh-fest for summer audiences. Gauging from the hoots and cheers of appreciation...