Tag: Washington DC Metro Theater
Review: ‘Pike St.’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Even as fear and animus split the human race asunder, great authors have reminded us for millennia that we really are all one. From...
Review: ‘Rent’ at The Hippodrome Theatre
Fans of Rent, it’s time to “Occupy Baltimore” once again. Hook yourselves up with tickets by any means necessary to that 20th Anniversary Tour making...
Review: ‘Improvaganza-A 3-Night Improv Festival’ Presented by Howard Community College’s Arts...
Thursday, March 30, 2017, the fun began in The Studio Theatre at Howard Community College with the start of Improvaganza-A 3 Night Improv Festival...
Review: ‘King Lear’ at George Washington University
Director Leslie Jacobson has book-ended Shakespeare’s dark tragedy King Lear with lyrical and lovingly-lit tableaux of the mad king’s court as if in a...
Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
In the new Beauty and the Beast at Toby’s Dinner Theatre, it’s not just the accursed Beast and his castle of talking knickknacks that...
Review: ‘Church & State’ at New World Stages
Religion, gun control, and the impact of social media are the hot-button issues addressed by playwright Jason Odell Williams in Church & State, a...
Review: ‘Battlefield’ at The Kennedy Center
In The Empty Space Peter Brook declared that the stage has “two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.”
In Battlefield, his...
Review: ‘Mary Poppins’ at Walkersville High School
From Bert the chimney sweep’s offstage introduction of the Bank’s stately home on London’s Cherry Tree Lane, the audience at Walkersville High School’s auditorium...
Review: Hamburg Ballet: John Neumeier’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
In this production, John Neumeier adapts the classic 1837 tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid. The production, not only explores the story...
Review: ‘Titanic’ at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School
Something about the RMS Titanic’s sinking has, for the past hundred or so years, always struck a chord with the American public. There have...
Review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at The Belasco Theatre
This is the play that introduced me to the writings of Tennessee Williams long ago, in 1945! That was the original production at the...
Review: ‘Faun’ at The Next Ice Age
The Columbia Figure Skating Club put on its annual spring show at the Columbia Ice Rink last Saturday and Sunday. The theme this year...
Review: ‘Sub-Basement’ at Athena Theatre Company
It’s not always easy to decide who you are and what you want to be when you grow up, especially if your father, ex-boyfriend,...
In the Moment: A Talk with the Pipeline Playwrights: Part Two:...
This is the second installment of In the Moment columns focusing on the Pipeline Playwrights. Pipeline Playwrights is a small collective of accomplished Northern...
Review: ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened at Laurel Mill Playhouse on Friday, March...
Magic Time! ‘Dry Land’ & ‘What Every Girl Should Know’ at Forum...
I’ve seen some harrowing-to-watch theater in my time, but I recall nothing as excruciating as a particular scene in Dry Land, now running at...
Post-Play Palaver: ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘No Sisters’ at Studio Theatre
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheaterArts writers who saw the same production—in this case the same two productions, Chekhov’s Three...
Review: ‘Mary Poppins’ at Charm City Players
For a day of family fun, it doesn’t get much better than Charm City Players. Charm City’s current production, Mary Poppins, continues their tradition...
Review: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Providence Players of Fairfax
In a scene of fierce confrontation between Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell in Providence Players’ production of To Kill a Mockingbird, Ewell insults Atticus...
Review: ‘The New Yorkers’ at New York City Center’s Encores!
Producer Jack Viertel and his merry band of music makers at Encores! have unearthed another great example of the beginnings of American dominance in...