Tag: Washington DC Metro Theater

Is it nature or nurture? Is it innate personality or fearless optimism? Is the ability to see the glass half full, the willingness to take...

What does 21st-century ballet look like? For The Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America program, principle dancer and celeb ballerina Misty Copeland, 34, and 29-year-old...

Scottie Templeton is dying. And with that deadly diagnosis, Tribute, by Bernard Slade, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, poignantly considers what’s really important in...

Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid’s The Assignment – inspired by a true story and developed by Houses...

I’ve got to make this quick because there are only two more chances to see the fully staged, workshop performance of Sally McCoy at...

Those looking to add “a little bit of cinnamon” to their theatergoing should head to GALA Hispanic Theatre’s current production of In the Heights....

Racism, presumed in polite circles to be no laughing matter, gets a hilariously smart  deconstruction in Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People. Arena Stage has...

This was the first time this reviewer had seen a show with a large, and largely young audience of elementary, middle and high schoolers....

The characters in the oldie and much appreciated allegorical goodie The Fantasticks (The off-Broadway incarnation ran for 42 years, and it is reportedly the...

¡No pare, sigue, sigue! Hamilton lovers rejoice! Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights premieres tonight at GALA Hispanic Theatre in the show's first Spanish-language...

As soon as the lights come up on Lydia R. Diamond's Smart People, now playing at Arena's Kreeger Theater, the focus is clear. Or is...

I was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) 2 months ago. Since then my world has been turned upside down. I have accepted the grim news...

Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She's been...

Laurel Mill Playhouse is presenting Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore from April 28-May 21, 2017 at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main Street, Laurel...

As play titles go, Or, is one of the most ungoogleable. It is a search engine dead end. And as an original mashup of...

I never made it up to New York to see Fun Home. I did the same thing with The Ramones; it just always seemed...

First of all, for theatre lovers, there is nothing as delightful as watching three top notch actors have fun on stage, and with Holly...

This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it's about the battle for supremacy in...

Fans of Broadway musicals won’t get more bang for their entertainment buck this whole season than at Something Rotten! Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre has been...

When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway...