"Optical confusion" is how choreographer Moses Pendleton describes the inventive, arresting illusions he has developed over the past decades for his renowned dance theater company, MOMIX.…
Ideas for this column can come from unexpected encounters. This column was sparked over a dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. Let's call them Rayna and Ed. We were at the neighbo…
It is extraordinary that Constellation Theatre Company continues to seek out and present works of artistry that would likely be unknown to us. And Constellation's willingness to take financi…
Closet Land is certainly haunting. There was no shelter from this play's unremitting psychological ferocity and physical fierceness of political D/s (Dominance and submission). Over time …
The inaugural season of the Northern Virginia International Film Festival, at the Angelika Film Center in the vibrant, youthful Mosaic District of Fairfax County, just wrapped up. Fernando A…
Let yourself be seduced into a dark reverie as a love triangle, or perhaps a rectangle, goes way wrong. Musical pulp-fiction has come to 14th and P Streets pushed forward by electric guit…
1st Stage’s production of Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans has opened to high praise from reviewers and audiences alike. After seeing the show I wanted to learn more about something very…
In early May, Daniel Phoenix Singh and the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company will be premiering a dance theater work at Dance Place and at Reston's CenterStage. The new work is …
The world renowned Pilobolus will be bringing their "stunning, evocative and visceral" dance theater to the Alden Theatre, said Sarah N. Schallern, director, performing arts, McLean Communit…
In this town of powerful out-sized personalities of all persuasions, and the ever-increasing shift to delivery of entertainment through pixels and with headsets on, The Hub Theatre's satisfy…
Its title beckons with a "come hither" attitude; Off the Wall. Three small intriguing words that are total catnip when strung together. And, then a connection to something called the Virg…
The artistry and craft of two masterful choreographers are coming together for a stimulating, one night only performance at the Atlas Performing Arts Center with the tantalizing title, Every…
There are so many way to demand justice. In 1973 South Africans Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona found their voices to take on South Africa's apartheid through the words of an…
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop. In her Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather she also wrote, "Where there is great love…
Searching out the unusual or off the regular trail is one of the joys of having this column with DCMetroTheaterArts. Recently I attended the unveiling of the 29th volume of the Northern V…
Illusions and dreams are often enough the stuff needed to help us keep on truckin' through life. Certainly Prospero in The Tempest and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon suggested it was so. Bu…
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 by Nick Blaem…
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 …
We caught up with NextStop Theatre Company to learn more about its upcoming production of the musical The Secret Garden. The Secret Garden premiered on Broadway in 1991 and received multi…
With its Small Batch Audience Series created for an especially limited number of patrons per performance, Nu Sass Productions is out to transform the way DC theater audiences experience the …
The Pointless Theatre Company troupe has taken on a major "dare" in adapting a landmark silent expressionist cult film into to a live stage production. Doctor Caligari from Pointless evokes …
"We expect that our Mason Dance Company will leave strong impressions," said Susan Shields, director, George Mason University School of Dance. She was describing the multi-performance Sch…
Synetic Theater's terrific "silent" production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing had me wondering about the many technical design element decisions made long before an audience steps i…
Over the past several years, Shu-Chen Cuff and the Gin Dance Company have been making impressions on the DC area dance scene. Established in Reston, Virginia, the award-winning Gin Dance Com…
Escape the constraints of the everyday world to swagger and carry-on with some entertaining steampunk pirates of the Caribbean. All you need to do is take in the world premiere of The Pirate…