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McLean Community Players Holding Auditions for ‘Rumors’ Tomorrow @1:30 pm & Monday @7:30 pm

MCLEAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS HOLD AUDITIONS TOMORROW AND MONDAY FOR NEIL SIMON’S RUMORS Where: McLean Community Center – 1234 Ingleside Avenue in McLean, VA TOMORROW: Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at 1:30 p.m....

Our new ‘Other Reviews’ Feature

Starting today, we will be posting other reviews plus DCMTA’s reviews that have been written for shows playing in the DC Metro Area in our new ‘Other Reviews.’ I hope you like it. Click on the ‘Other...

Watch The Helen Hayes Nominations LIVE Tonight at 6:45 PM

Want to be there live to witness the unveiling of the Helen Hayes Award nominations? Well, this year, you can be there LIVE from The National Theatre as nervous theatres await the opening of the...

Tonight at 7 PM: ‘From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook’ in Waterbury, Connecticut

OVER 100 BROADWAY PERFORMERS AND 100 NEWTOWN STUDENT PERFORMERS SET FOR TONIGHT’S From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook TONIGHT, January 28th at 7 PM at The Palace Theater in...

The March on Washington for Gun Control Is This Saturday, January 26th at 10 AM

Join Arena Stage’s Artistic Director Molly Smith and her partner, Suzanne Blue Star Boy, as they lead The March on Washington for Gun Control on THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013 AT 10 AM. “This will be...

Performers Announced for Tonight’s ‘La-Ti-Do’ at Black Fox Lounge at 8 PM by Don Michael Mendoza

Join us for another week and a whole new year of the Washington Blade’s “Best of” nominated cabaret series: La-Ti-Do! “Go see La-Ti-Do, not just for the art, but for the artistry that will leave you...

Tomorrow & Sunday ‘Bravo@KAT Presents ‘The Music Man JR.’ & Meet the Marians & Harolds by Laurie Levy Issembert

They say when one door closes another opens. The same is true of theatre curtains, theatrical productions and theatre companies. BRAVO@KAT, Theatre for Young Artists, is the newest “kid” on the...

NoPassport, Theater J, Twinbiz & Force/Collision Stage Theatre Action After March for Gun Control on 1/26@5 PM

NEIL LABUTE, MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS, JENNIFER MAISEL, OLIVER MAYER, WINTER MILLER, IAN ROWLANDS AND MORE SUPPORT NOPASSPORT’s GUN CONTROL THEATRE ACTION WITH THEATER J AND FORCE/COLLISION ON JANUARY 26,...

Join The March on Washington For Gun Control on Saturday, January 26th at 10 AM

Join Arena Stage’s Artistic Director Molly Smith and her partner, Suzanne Blue Star Boy, as they lead The March on Washington for Gun Control on Saturday, January 26th at 10 AM. “This will be the...

Port City Playhouse Seeks Directors for Their 2013/2014 Season

We heard from several of you that the holidays kept you from completing your director submission. Never fear! The deadline has been extended to this coming Monday, Jan 14 at 7 pm. We look forward to...

2013 Oscar Nominations Announced. ‘Les Miserables’ and Broadway’s Hugh Jackman Nominated

Congrats to this year’s Academy Award nominees. Winners will be announced on February 24th at 7 PM on ABC. Best Actor In A Leading Role: Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis in...

ArtCentric’s Musical ‘Delilah’ Staged Reading at Atlas on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Washington Savoyards presents ArtsCentric’s premiere of a new original musical DELILAH ONE NIGHT ONLY! January 14th, 2013 at 7:30 PM Washington Savoyards presents Maryland-based production company...

TONIGHT at 6 PM: Free Performance of ‘The Brontes’ at Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage by Steve McWilliams

SPECIAL ONE NIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE BRONTES! KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE THEATRE LAB TONIGHT – MONDAY JANUARY 7TH, 2013 6:00 P.M. THE BRONTES ARE BACK! With our Fringe Festival hit, The Brontes!...

The Best of 2012: Part 10: Designers, Cabarets & Concerts, Dance & University Shows

Here are DCMetroTheaterArts writers’ choices for their favorites designs of production in the the DC Metro Area in 2012. I always felt that Designers never received enough ‘ink’ or credit or respect...

The Best of 2012: Part 9: ‘Solo Performances, Children’s/Young Adult, Directors, Performances & Special Award

BEST SOLO PERFORMANCES Joe Brack in My Princess Bride at DC Capital Fringe Festival. Alex Brightman in How I Paid for College at The Hub Theatre. Mike Daisey in The Agony and The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs...

The Best of 2012: Part 8: ‘Best Director of a Play and Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Play’

Here are our choices for Best Director of a Play and Best Actor and Actress of a Play in 2012. Feel free to leave a comment and share your favorites of 2012 with our readers by leaving comment at the...

The Best of 2012: Part 7: ‘Best Play’ and ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best Actress in a Play’

Here are the writers of DCMetroTheaterArts’ choices for Best Plays of 2012 and Best Performances by an Actor and Actress in a Play in 2012 in the DC Metro Area. Congrats to everyone on our list and to...

WSC Avant Bard Looking for a New Home and Artisphere Responds

WSC Avant Bard is now looking for a new home. Managing Director Kyle Jean Fisher and Artistic Director Christopher Henley explain why: “After two years as the resident theatre company at Arlington...

The Best of 2012: Part 6: ‘Best Ensemble of a Play’ and ‘Best Ensemble of a Musical’

Here’s our favorite Ensembles from plays and musicals in 2012 on DC Metro Area stages. Congrats to everyone on these lists and to everyone who appeared on our local stages in 2012! BEST ENSEMBLE OF A...

The Best of 2012: Part 5: ‘Best Director, Best Musical Direction, and Best Choreography of a Musical’

For the next week we will be posting lists of our favorites of 2012 in several categories. These lists reflect the opinions of members of the writing staff of DCMetroTheaterArts. We were allowed to...

The Best of 2012: Part 4: ‘Best Performance by Supporting Actor and Actress in a Musical’

For the next week we will be posting lists of our favorites of 2012 in several categories. These lists reflect the opinions of members of the writing staff of DCMetroTheaterArts. We were allowed to...

The Best of 2012: Part 3: ‘Best Performance by an Actor and Actress in a Musical’

For the next week we will be posting lists of our favorites of 2012 in several categories. These lists reflect the opinions of members of the writing staff of DCMetroTheaterArts. We were allowed to...

The Best of 2012: Part 2: ‘The Best Musicals of 2012’

After reviewing over 1,200 theatrical productions, concerts, and recitals on DCMetroTheaterArts in 2012 – it was no easy task to come up with this list of our ‘Best Musicals of 2012,’ because there so...

Enter to win a pair of tickets to ‘The Screwtape Letters’ at The Lansburgh Theatre

Win two free tickets to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS!! Send an email to dcmetrotheaterarts@gmail.com (Paste this email address into your email) and tell us why you want to see the show. You can select the...

Jason Robert Brown’s Tribute “Twenty-Six Names”

Composer/Lyricist Jason Robert Brown has posted “Twenty-Six Names” – a tribute to the 26 victims of Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut on his website. Thank you Jason for this beautiful...

Today at 2 pm: ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ at Montgomery Playhouse & 11 AM ‘Arkansaw Bear’

PRESENT TWO FAMILY SHOWS FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON: Adapted by George Seaton. Based on the story by Valentine Davies -DC Theater Arts NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 16 -DC Theater Arts DECEMBER 1 – 23 Fridays...

Final Performance Tonight for ‘MARTYRS’ at Young Artists of America

Tonight at 7:30 PM at Sandy Spring Friends School – come see Young Artists of America’s MARTYRS, a concert of selections from opera and musical theatre featuring characters that gave their lives for a...

LIMITED AMOUNT OF FREE TICKETS TONIGHT to ‘Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra-No Place to Go’ Sat Dec 15th @ 8 @ Artisphere

EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR DC METRO THEATRE ARTS READERS: WE HAVE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF COMP TICKETS OBIE AWARD-WINNING ETHAN LIPTON + HIS ORCHESTRA: NO PLACE TO GO A live musical ode to the unemployed TONGIHT...

‘So Our Hearts are Broken Today’ – President Barack Obama

“We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news, I react not as a president, but as anybody else would as a parent. And that was especially true today....

Tonight and Tomorrow Night at 7:30 PM Young Artists of America’s ‘MARTYRS’ at Sandy Spring Friends School

Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 PM at Sandy Spring Friends School – come see Young Artists of America’s MARTYRS, a concert of selections from opera and musical theatre featuring characters that gave...

Coming to La-Ti-Do on Monday, December 17th at 8 PM by Don Michael Mendoza

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012 AT 8 PM La-Ti-Do At Black Fox Lounge 1723 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20009 $10 cover charge at the door. Doors open at 7:50 pm for an 8 pm start. It’s that...

WINNERS ANNOUNCED of Tickets to Ethan Lipton + His Orchestra on Saturday 12/15@ 8 at Artistphere

Congrats to Ming Lowe and Jeanne Welsh on winning the two pairs of tickets to Ethan Lipton and his Orchestra Tomorrow – Saturday, December 15th at 8 PM At Artisphere: 1101 Wilson Boulevard Arlington,...

Final Weekend for Arts Collective @HCC’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Sue Kramer

Did we hear you right? Did you say “Bah-humbug..(groan).. Not another A Christmas Carol?!!! “*****A proverbial circus of entertainment for the whole family to enjoy, this delightful romp through the...

Vpstart Crow Productions Takes Final Bow by Shellie Jablonowski

Vpstart Crow Productions Takes Final Bow It was with great sadness that I read this announcement today. Vpstart Crow Productions had produced so many fine productions and we were honored to have seen...

The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre is hosting a Charity Date Auction on Sunday December 9, 2012

The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre is hosting a Charity Date Auction on Sunday December 9, 2012! As a part of their ADA Renovation Capital Campaign, Spotlighters wants to be fully accessible to...

The British Players’ ‘The Princess and the Sprout’ Opens Tonight

The British Players present THE PRINCESS AND THE SPROUT. This traditional holiday pantomime, a theatrical treat that for centuries has entertained audiences all around the British Isles. Delight in...

Tonight: Tony Award Winner Duncan Sheik Brings ‘The Sunset Sessions Tour’ to Birchmere by Joel Markowitz

Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik (for his score of Spring Awakening) brings his THE SUNSET SESSIONS TOUR to The Birchmere – 3701 Mount Vernon Avenue, in Alexandria, VA TONIGHT at 7:30 PM. Joining him...

Quotidian Theatre Company’s ‘The Dead’ Part 3: Interview of Marni Nixon by Janice Hall

In the final segment of our interview, Marni Nixon and I are joined by David Dubov, who will be playing the role of Freddy Malins in the Quotidian Theatre production of James Joyce’s The Dead. David...

Today From 2-5 PM: Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund Royale Talent-a-thon!

Today, Sunday, November 11, 2012 From 2-5 PM (open house format) Ballet Royale Institute of Maryland 9147-D Red Branch Rd. Columbia, MD. 21045 American Red Cross Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund A...

The Red Cross Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund: A Royale Talent-a-thon! This Sunday From 2-5 PM

American Red Cross, Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Fund A Royale Talent-a-thon! Ballet Royale is asking the Howard County community for financial support in providing for those who have lost so much...

The British Players Presents ‘The Princess and the Sprout’ November 20-December 16th at Kensington Town Hall

The British Players present THE PRINCESS AND THE SPROUT. This traditional holiday pantomime, a theatrical treat that for centuries has entertained audiences all around the British Isles. Delight in...

Talk Back This Saturday With David Emerson Toney and Michael J. Bobbitt at Port City Playhouse

Enjoy a special talkback with playwright David Emerson Toney and Adventure Theatre/MTC’s Producing Artistic Director Michael Bobbitt after the 8pm performance of The Soul Collector on Saturday,...

TONIGHT’S Guests Announced for ‘La-Ti-Do’ at 8 PM at Black Fox Lounge by Don Mike Mendoza

TONIGHT – MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2012 AT 8 PM La-Ti-Do At The Black Fox Lounge 1723 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20009 $10 cover charge at the door. Doors open at 7:50 pm for an 8 pm...

Miřenka Čechová presents ‘S/he is Nancy Joe’ at Mead Flaspoint November 9-11th

Award-winning performer Miřenka Čechová brings her unique blend of movement style to the American premiere of her newest work, S/he is Nancy Joe in a series of preview performances at the Mead Theatre...

Today: A talk back with ‘Over the Tavern’ Playwright Tom Dudzick and DCMTA’s Joel Markowitz at Olney Theatre Center

DCMTA’s Editor and Publisher Joel Markowitz will moderate a talk back with Tom Dudzick, playwright of OVER THE TAVERN, today after the 2 PM matinee. Talkback with Tom Dudzick on Sunday, October 14th...

‘Beethoven: The Power of Three’ at National Philharmonic at Strathmore by Tiffany Draut

I was fortunate enough to attend “Beethoven: the Power of Three” by the National Philharmonic, under the expert baton of Piotr Gajewski, at the Music Center at Strathmore. The night began with the...

Winner Announced For Tickets To ‘SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: The Music of Chick Corea…’ at U of MD

Our Winner of the two tickets is MARIE HIMEL The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is offering one lucky DCMTA reader a free pair of tickets to tomorrow night’s SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: The Music of...

Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions: A New Theater Voice Arrives in DC

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday will open November 2nd at Theatre on the Run in Arlington. The play will kick off the Inaugural Season of Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions. An innovative new company,...

Broadway’s Alton Fitzgerald White Performs at Adventure Theatre MTC Fundraiser on October 14th at 6:30 PM

Adventure Theatre MTC announces its 2012 Fall Musicale Fundraiser for its education and outreach programs to be held on Sunday, October 14th at 6 PM at Adventure Theatre-MTC – in Glen Echo Park Cuddle...

Memorial Service for Dr. Jaylee Mead Tonight at 6:30 PM at Arena Stage

From Arena Stage at the Mead Center Center for American Theater. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BELOVED PHILANTHROPIST, SCIENTIST & THEATER LOVER DR. JAYLEE MONTAGUE MEAD TO BE HELD TONIGHT – MONDAY, OCTOBER 8,...