15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
Featuring everything from simulated puppet sex, tawdry seductions and a mangled ear, the Tony-nominated Hand to God, by Robert Askins, is a play that dares to be different. Director William …
She Sings Light, written by Claudia Rosales-Waters and directed by Josh Sticklin, is one of four 'curated' shows in the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. That means that this highly symbolic dra…
Making its debut in this year's New York Musical Festival (NYMF), LadyShip " with book, lyrics, music composition, and orchestrations by twin sisters Linda Good and Laura Good (known for the…
"All alone in the quiet /And my ears are thirsty / For your voice, for your voice / Can you answer me." Those lyrics from The Band's Visit's "Answer Me" burrowed into my heart as I took in T…
One of the more common phenomena of fringe festivals like ours is to see young actors commit to intensely personal projects, creating a cohesive performance piece that celebrates and reflect…
UrbanArias delivers a physical, aural, and emotional journey in their brilliant interpretation of Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet's The Juliet Letters. Based upon imagined love letter…
Last year, Shaun Michael Johnson put himself on the map as a master storyteller, whose protean moves captivated audiences at the Capital Fringe Festival with Sobriety of Fear, a compelling s…
Back at the Fringe Festival after their successful 2018 appearance, Laugh Index Theatre's production of Hold the Tomato strikes a number of funny bones during its fast-paced series of comic …
By Caroline Bock Passover, the holiday that marks the Exodus, that signals to Jews and the world that this night is different from all others because we are not slaves, but free, is the movi…
Imagination Stage's The Ballad of Mu Lan is the funny and poignant tale of a Chinese woman warrior who defies tradition in order to protect her father and be the person she feels she was …
Currently featured as the nerdy dead guy Adam Maitland in the award-winning Broadway premiere of the new musical adaptation of Beetlejuice, Rob McClure keeps on racking up those fifteen minu…
Written, directed, and acted by playwright Tara Lake, Â I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, is a one-woman trip down the poetic and artful mem…
There is reason for concern or apprehension as you scroll the morning headlines or track developing news moment by moment. Closer to home, the cause for unease might be a decision as simple …
Gerry is mad. Furious even. And who can blame him? He's all set for the wedding of the … well … summer. He's driven out the I10 from Los Angeles to Palm Springs and the expensively taste…
By Rebecca Kurtz What fun! The Adequate Players make a splash again at Fringe this summer with writer/director/actor John Geoffrion's one-act parody of Thorton Wilder's 1938 ode to the small…
Improv, as any actor knows, is harder than it looks. And dramatic improv"in which actors invent their roles as they go, expanding on a basic situation in ways that are both comic and sad"is …
Anyone who has been a server in a restaurant will likely sympathize with the plight of the well-intentioned and yet deterioratingly cheerful waitress, Lauren, in Intimate Dinner by Lauren Fr…
Aficionados of modern dance and movement theatre take note: if you are hungry for something unique, abstract and poetic, get thee to the Plum space at Arena Stage for A Short History of Unfo…
Funny, sweet, and poignant, Colleen Hindsley's one-woman show, That's Not How It Happened, will resonate with anyone who misses their parents, has endured the torture of older siblings, or n…
When Cynthia Shaw sits down at the piano and casually busts out Bach's Allegro from Italian Concerto, you know Velvet Determination isn't your average Fringe show. Written and performed by S…
So here's the deal: the card game 52 Pickup is, technically, not a game so much as it is a mess. You grab a deck of cards, say "52 pickup!" and scatter the cards every which way. …
It turns out Al Snow (Todd Blakesley) is that guy " the one who admits to voting for Donald Trump in 2016. His participation in the democratic experiment turns his life upside down. Snow liv…
By Rebecca Kurtz There is a lot to love about historical fiction, and writer/director Robert McNamara chose a good branch of history with the beautifully open-ended story of Amelia Earhart's…
If you're not familiar with devised theater, it's when an ensemble collaborates on the script, movement, and even score of the production, often through improvisation and storytelling. If yo…
Don't believe your program! Dust is not, in fact, a collection of surreal daydreams to trip your imagination. It is a thought-provoking drama worthy of your attention. It's the end of the wo…
