Tumultuous times call out for audacity in the performing arts. And Brave Spirits Theatre (BST) has boldly marked its territory for the next two years. Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Brave S…
Schools play a pivotal role in cultivating the next generations, and the arts have a key role. Research suggests that arts educational experiences can produce significant positive impacts on…
Dark Horse Theatre Company is the newest member of theatreWashington. As readers of DCMTA are aware, theatreWashington is the organization dedicated to supporting and representing the Washin…
Fiddler on the Roof, the quintessentially Jewish musical about keeping one's balance in changing times, remains ebullient and undiminished in its eternal appeal. At the opening night perform…
While the Tony Award-winning musical is called Jersey Boys, let's not forget that so many of the Billboard chart-toppers performed in the show are about the real-life Frankie Valli and the F…
A matchless, hypnotic portrait of love. A seductive vision of two lives tangled up in blues with too many tough nights apart as each knows "I have no will of my own." Are the two people on s…
A charming little gem of a ghostly, campfire-ish thriller is here for a short time courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company. Full of expressive acting, way cool whodunit lighting moods and ee…
Love in Hate Nation is the new musical from Be More Chill's composer/lyricist, Joe Iconis. Animated with a driving wheel of rock and funk rock tunes, it grapples with the pressing cultural i…
How prescient of the innovative UrbanArias. To be ahead of a major Washington Post Sunday Business section about a modern-day retail apocalypse: the dying of America's suburban retail malls.…
The sensuality and passion of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician, Pablo Neruda has become the bones for a contemporary opera, Il Postino by Daniel Catán. Il Postin…
The Welders, a self-described artists' collective, burst upon the DMV theatrical landscape in the summer of 2013 with a mission to establish an evolving, alternative platform for play develo…
What a great lively yarn about a musical disruptor as a stand-in for the volcanic eruptions of out-and-out revolution in the air throughout Europe and America. Amadeus at Folger Theatre is a…
"A Chorus Line is still one of those musicals you will sing about to your grandchildren," wrote theater and dance critic Clive Barnes in his 1975 New York Times review for A Chorus Line. Bar…
Being a stage manager of a theater production brings challenging, yet too often unheralded responsibilities that begin long before an audience steps into a theater to take a seat. As the pro…
Dispatch from the front. "Greetings: You are hereby ordered for induction in the Armed Forces of the United States."Â Â For those in the audience of the Boomer generation, Rainbow Theat…
Another unique cabaret evening is arriving at 1st Stage in Tysons. It is a musical performance by the quartet All 4 Bass. The event is entitled Play it LOW…Play it COOL. The All 4…
Next week, The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage will present a performance keyed to Veteran's Day"The American Soldier, conceived, written and performed by Douglas Taurel. The November 13 p…
Electrifying. Awakening. These are words to describe the heart-rending workshop presentation of Stirring the Waters Across America performed at Studio K at The REACH. To call it anything les…
As DC-area demographics have evolved over the recent decades, so have the missions of some of the area's nimble performing arts venues so that they are welcoming to those they serve and reac…
Ingenious. Shakespeare's venerable, often un-provocatively produced The Tempest has been reconstructed into theater with an invigorating musical arc and an awakening narrative bite. It has b…
Something's coming: an exclusive opportunity to take in an award-winning creative team's new adaptation of Rags, a hidden away musical gem. If you are not familiar with it, "Rags is a sp…
ARTSFAIRFAX presented its 2019 Emerging Arts Award at its eighth Arts Awards event on October 18, 2019. The award was given to the professional, black box NextStop Theatre Company. The A…
A much-needed rabbit hole to explore is opening in the DMV. Let us rejoice. It is the return of She Kills Monsters some five years after making its first appearance, thanks to Rorschach Thea…
LA Theatre Works is bringing its distinctive radio style, live theater to the DMV with a production of SEVEN. A documentary theater play, SEVEN is based on the lives of seven extraordinary w…
What a play! Escaped Alone is full of dramatic presentations announcing a coming apocalypse; an end of days. The production at Signature Theatre is receiving rightful praise (read my colleag…