15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
When the audience enters the performance space at Joe's Movement Emporium, they are confronted by three women in period clothing (costumes designed by Julie Cray Leong, assisted by Kyla Carn…
15 actors. 20 scenes. The Civil War. A lot is at stake in All for the Union, written by the prize-winning playwright, librettist, and historian Meredith Bean McMath and directed by Jenna Pow…
New companies, and especially hybrid troupes whose members have a variety of artistic origins and talents, are a vital part of DC's theatrical ecosystem. The past few years have seen the lau…
The Things They Carried is a personal people's history. A sharply conjured chronicle. It is told at the most granular of levels by a platoon of characters. Performed solo by David Sitler, th…
A recurrent favorite at 59E59's annual "East to Edinburgh" line-up, California native Chris Davis returns to New York with his latest original solo show The Presented, after debuting it last…
Arcade is unlike anything you will experience at Fringe. Equal parts art installation, gaming experience, and nostalgia, Arcade perfectly encapsulates the feeling of walking into a 1980s …
Set in a blighted corner of Wales, Iphigenia in Splott is a breathtaking one-woman show, imported from the UK and written by Gary Owen, a Welsh playwright and winner of the Meyer-Whitworth A…
The American interior West has long been a favored setting for stories about loneliness. The visual emptiness of vast open spaces " think of your favorite John Ford film " and the emotional …
If you're in the mood for a drawing-room comedy exploring the social habits of the British upper class in the Edwardian era, Bethesda's Quotidian Theatre Company should be on your list. Quot…
Summer and Shakespeare are two very different things that somehow seem to go perfectly together. Every summer, theater companies all over the country dust off their British accents and take …
Absolutely Dead, written by Michael Walker and directed at Bowie Community Theatre by Ken Kienas, is a charming and hilarious dark comedy centered around a murder mystery. I'm afraid to give…
The Knighthood Players' Production of The Knights of Salisbury, by Tim Caron, directed by Tim Caron and Ilyana Rose-Davila, with music direction by Jason Schoenfeld, is a nostalgic, though a…
Here's a show description you don't see often: "A dark yet whimsical exploration of food, fitness, body image, and metabolic endocrinology." And I will say, that's no lie. In American Diet's…
If you can't get to the Broadway sensation Be More Chill, which closes August 11, there is no need to despair. Monumental Theatre Company is presenting the DMV's first professional version o…
EyeSOAR is primarily a dance performance which incorporates video, audio interviews, music, and the spoken word to tell the story of the Shirlington neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. This…
Beyond These Walls is a provocative contribution to the Capital Fringe, and well worth seeing. It was originally devised in 2018 under the direction of Matt Bassett, Artistic Director of the…
Joy Rebel, written and performed by Khanisha Foster, is a moving, deep dive into fluid identity and the fraught experiences of a mixed-race human being on her journey to self-understanding. …
When done well, dance has a unique ability to tell a compelling narrative through themes that audience members can then adapt to their own perspectives and stories. Moving Body Dance Company…
Playwright Sam Hamashima is described in his program bio as working in the "collision between his queer identity and his Japanese-American identity." In American Spies and Other Homegrow…
By Rebecca Kurtz Perhaps it is a matter of personal preference that at Fringe I am often more taken by the comedies than by the dramas. The intensely self-involved process of making and perf…
Nothing Broken is an autobiographical one-woman show written and performed by Amanda Haddock, directed by Cathy Reinking. It tells the story of Hope, who is grappling with the end of her ten…
The Little Senator That Could held its world premiere at Capital Fringe on July 12, 2019, and it is nearly perfect for Washington, DC. Billed as a comedy, playwright Kirsten Grady's show is …
By Helen Ganley Conjuring up images of day and night, one imagines the sun cascading into a pink and purple horizon while the moon excitedly and stoically takes its place in the sky. The pic…
Ladies, grab your closest friends, make a post-show dinner reservation, and head to Capital Fringe's Good & Kissed for a night out that will make you laugh, cry, and spur your own storie…
George Washington University researcher Sufian Zhemukhov is a popular guy around Washington. He has several awards for his storytelling and some of the stories he relies on in Flirting Like …
