Tag: Maryland Metro Theater Arts

Monologue Madness—the DC acting competition modeled after college basketball’s March Madness—is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Local actor Edward Daniels started the event...

I'm sending you this note on the City Center's staged reading of Lerner and Loewe's Paint Your Wagon even though its brief 6 performances...

The sounds of lutes. A rainbow of lights. A copy of The Yale Shakespeare positioned conspicuously on a leather chair. A skull sitting on...

As a writer for this website, I’ve had the privilege of seeing shows at The Kennedy Center and The National Theatre, Arena Stage and...

Under the assured, skillful touch of Director Matthew Gardiner, Signature Theatre has delivered a smart, engaging, delightfully personal-sized production of Soon, a new musical...

While a depression journal might be an unlikely starting point for Glass Mind Theatre’s unpretentious, fast-paced, delightful romp through classic sci-fi and isolation, Joshua...

Shrek is back in full green glory Last year Jonah learned to ride a bike. More recently he picked up a hockey stick. During the...

I’ve seen Paul Pfau play locally at Gypsy Sally’s and with The Nine Songwriter Series with Justin Trawick. He is a well-respected musician in the...

In a fitting capstone to Virginia Opera’s 40th anniversary season, the Virginia Opera, in conjunction with Des Moines Metro Opera, presents a thrilling production of...

Feelin' Blue? Are you a violist who's feeling unwanted and underappreciated? Then run down to UrbanArias' entertaining and high-strung English sung short opera Blue Viola, and you'll...

The word is out. It didn't arrive in town with much hoopla, most thought "another revival of a relic from the past" so it...

Lovers of poetry! Lovers of the long line! From his deck on The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre, Diogo Infante calls, "Ahoy!" And the spirit of Alvaro...

There is a lot of free software available to theaters to design everything from sets to lighting, sound, and projections. If you have the...

The Catholic University of America, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music had its opening night of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Rigoletto this past Thursday night...

In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of How the Other Half Lives at The British Players, meet Laurie Simonds. Joel: Please introduce...

Just a couple of blocks north of the now bustling H-Steet corridor in Northeast Washington, tucked away on Florida Avenue, you’ll find one of...

Arena’s resident playwright John Strand has developed an affectionate, quite delightfully complex, fictionalized account about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Strand’s The Originalist has...

In 1989 Wendy Wasserstein's play hit Broadway hard,  dealing with her fervent feelings about women's liberation which began with her graduation from high school...

Norway is one of those small, gentle countries that we may not think of too often. In its Scandinavian quiescence, it hums along with...

Over 2500 years ago, Aristophanes put "living" contemporary power-brokers into his comic masterpieces and then skewered them with their own foibles. The results were...