Tag: Virginia Metro Theater Arts

If you’re looking for something to laugh at in this wintry political season, then you’d better move fast. That’s because tickets for Twist Your...

German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), in his 1949 essay, "Cultural Criticism and Society," claimed, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” (transl. by...

The Winter Solstice is still several days away, but that shortest and often darkest day of the year will be a great treat for...

In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Matthew R. Wilson. Sophia: Please introduce...

In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre's The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Megan Graves. Sophia: Please introduce yourself...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…but you’d better not finish that sentence within earshot of the Grinch. Because as we all know,...

Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheaterArts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided...

In October, after several seasons of success with their Wright-Right-Now (“WRN”) program – the micro-commissioning series in which playwrights produce patron-prompted short plays on...

This past weekend, over 500 theater goers, young, old, families, singles and couples fell in love with the Providence Players production of the Barbara...

The year 2013, when the Supreme Court narrowly struck down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional, has already faded from America’s short-term memory...

The Greatest Holiday Special (N)ever, by Silver Spring Stage in collaboration with The Coil Project (a local company that writes and produces original work),...

A large, stylish Christmas crowd was on hand Sunday night as Mannheim Steamroller "steamrolled" into Bethesda’s Music Center at Strathmore to perform Mannheim Steamroller...

Jumpstart your holiday spirit with Naughty & Nice, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington's warmhearted, sassy and sexy extravaganza. For traditionalists, there's Irving Berlin's...

When I found out that the creators of the musical comedy Murder for Two were premiering a special Christmas-themed version at Bucks County Playhouse,...

Brightened by a beautiful glittering garden backdrop, several of Oscar Wilde's fabled fairy tales, smartly adapted and directed by Jeremy Bloom, convey the childlike...

The Delaware Theatre Company (DTC) is offering a time-honored classic for the holiday season: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Only Patrick Barlow’s adaptation...

There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays. When Everyman Theatre (“Everyman”) Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi left the Humana Festival of New Plays...

Is all fair in love and war? As Compass Rose Theater’s production of Camelot shows, both can leave hearts broken. Produced and Directed by Lucinda...

I cried while watching Adam Immerwahr’s revamped production of A Christmas Carol for McCarter Theatre Center. Immerwahr’s redo is less opulent, more spare, and aims...

Tom Story is a knockout in his one-actor, effortlessly frenetic, tour de force performance as 40 different characters who comprise the charming “controlled” frenzy...