15,330 stories from DC Metro Theater Arts
The road to redemption can be an arduous one, especially when you've burned so many bridges in the past. LA TI DO Productions' Soul Redeemer, with a book by Paul Handy, music and lyrics by N…
Years after Wendy's tales of lost boys, pirates, and mermaids, Michael Darling is grounded and committed to a hospital when his brother, John, finds him on the roof. In the world premiere of…
By Helen Ganley Labeling the DNA sample bottle and depositing it gingerly into the mail slot feels almost like a rite of passage for many Americans. The masses of inhabitants that bask under…
John: Before you brought A People's History to DC, you performed all 18 parts three times"once through in Minneapolis and twice through in Seattle. I can imagine people could be picking and …
Soft, behold! This summer DC offers first-rate Shakespeare everyone can enjoy. The Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting (ACA) at the George Washington University, start…
Wanda Savage was a trailblazing Chickasaw woman, American sharp-shooter, silent-film actress, and divorced single mother, whose life provides a telling illustration of the racism, sexism, an…
You may remember James Corden, Sara Bareilles, and Josh Groban singing a parody of the song "Michael in the Bathroom" a few weeks ago on the Tony Awards network television show. The stars sa…
It was 50 years ago. Lost deep in the pages of the June 26, 1969 edition of The New York Times was this, "Firebombings, rock throwing and rifle shots marked a third straight night of racial …
Given the seemingly endless parade of creeps and pervs we see in the news every day, it might seem surprising that a woman would write a sympathetic play about guys. The kind who think of th…
Eat your heart out, Christmas Carol. Hang up your dancing shoes, Nutcracker. Change the channel on reruns of It's a Wonderful Life. It's Christmas in July in Shepherdstown, as the Contempora…
The Antonio in question is Antonio Edwards Suarez, the writer (with Dael Orlandersmith) and actor in this one-man autobiographical piece, part of the Contemporary American Theater Festival i…
Josh Groban seems to have hit his stride with his latest album Bridges by tying together many elements of his previous work. Uplifting melodies and covers of pop standards have created anoth…
My Lord, What a Night, a new play by Deborah Brevoort at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, explores the relationship between two 20th-century greats…
Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013, is a comedy about neurotic, middle-aged, well-off white people whining about thei…
Ah, the perfect relationship " not yours, of course, never yours. I'm talking about the one that other couple has; you know who I'm talking about, they're always such great fun, always quick…
One of the true gems at this July's Contemporary American Theatre Festival (CATF) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia is the premiere of Joseph Dougherty's battle of heart and wit, Chester Baile…
Rockville Musical Theatre's Hairspray is musical dynamite. The winning trio of Director T.J. Lukacsina, Musical Director Marci Shegogue, and Choreographer Rikki Lacewell make this show ovati…
Readers of DC Metro Theater Arts who are District-based are likely already familiar with immersive theater. Companies like TBD Immersive have recently begun presenting in nontraditional spac…
The joyful spirit of Kenyan actress and storyteller, Anna Mwalagho filled the black box theater at Anacostia Arts Center as she performed her one-woman Black woman's rites of passage message…
A summer favorite, Broadway in Bryant Park returns to the lawn this week for the 20th anniversary of its annual series of free lunchtime concerts, featuring a sampling of songs and stars fro…
Chapter 1: The Gold Earring, July 5 8pm Mike Daisey's marathon retort to Trump's Fourth of July "Salute to America" kicked off in the Kogod Chapel last night before a sold-out crowd. Daisey'…
The American Shakespeare Center is promising audiences a Roman adventure this summer with their Festival Season. The season opens with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. P…
Now in rehearsals and about to begin previews at Off-Broadway's Greenwich House Theater on July 9, the highly anticipated Broadway Bounty Hunter " by Be More Chill sensations Joe Iconis, …
In addition to being a multi-platinum-selling recording artist and a Grammy and Emmy Award-nominated entertainer with an active international concert schedule of more than 200 shows a year, …
In 2016, after the presidential election that put Donald Trump in the White House, musician Mark Meadows felt lost. He believed that his voice, and the voices of other artists "weren't heard…
