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Spotlighters & Artisphere present ‘The River and the Mountain’-Controversial Ugandan Play TONIGHT & Saturday

The American Debut Reading of the Controversial play THE RIVER AND THE MOUNTAIN In August 2012, one line from one play changed Ugandan history. “I’m gay” was uttered by the main character from The...

Adventure Theatre MTC’s ‘Spotlight 2013’ This Thursday-Saturday at JCC in Rockville, MD by Amanda Russell

ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC ANNOUNCES ITS STUDENT PRODUCTION OF SPOTLIGHT 2013 Thursday, March 21 at 7pm Friday, March 22 at 7pm Saturday, March 23 at 2pm & 7pm Performances held at The Jewish Community...

‘In the Heat of the Night’ at The Bowie Community Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Argo, Alabama 1962. A white man’s death leads to the arrest of a black out of town off-duty police detective. The Emmy-Winning TV show winds itself together in this racially-charged crime thriller on...

Pumpkin Theatre Finds New Home, Expands Programming by Stacey Needle

Pumpkin Theatre is excited to announce it has signed a multi-year contract with the Har Sinai Congregation, at 2905 Walnut Avenue Owings Mills, Maryland 21117, and will move there this summer. “This...

‘Three Litttle Birds’ at Adventure Theatre MTC by Julia L. Exline

Adventure Theatre MTC presents the world premiere of Three Little Birds, a Reggae Children’s Musical based on the story by Cedella Marley, with music and lyrics by her father, musical legend Bob...

‘Les Misérables’ at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School by Jennifer Georgia

Our Lady of Good Counsel Theatre Company’s Les Misérables (the musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer, based on the classic Victor Hugo novel, that originally opened in...

‘A Walk in the Woods’ at Quotidian Theatre by Jessica Vaughan

Quotidian Theatre Company heats up the Cold War with Lee Blessing’s classic, A Walk in the Woods. Quotidian’s mission is to present theater about real life with “no-frills acting“ or special effects...

‘God of Carnage’ at Everyman Theatre by Amanda Gunther

If you’re eccentric enough to believe in the soothing power of culture then watching it unravel into a chaotic disarray of Neanderthal style behavior will surely be appealing to your eyes as the Tony...

‘Truthpaste: A Blotto Biography’ at Maryland Ensemble Theatre by Mike Spain

The crowd was ready for the debut of Tad Janes’ world premiere of Truthpaste: A Blotto Biography – advertised as “a one man comedy based on his life experiences.” Janes had a lot of support from...

WATCH AWARDS Winners Are Being Announced Birchmere

We are updating the winners so check back after 7:30 PM. Here are the winners of the The 12th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors‘ (THE WATCH AWARDS) being awarded tonight at The Birchmere...

‘Edges’ at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School by Miriam Urquhart

It was certainly an edgy night at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s student-directed production of Edges. Edges is not your average piece of musical theater. This beautifully composed piece takes the...

Nibbles And Sips Around Town: ‘How to Succeed in the Wine Business…’ by Jordan Wright

The Barefoot Spirit How to Succeed in the Wine Business Without Really Knowing a Damn Thing About It Last month I spoke with Barefoot Wines founder Michael Houlihan about his upcoming book The...

Olney Theatre Center Announces NNPN Premiere of ‘Rancho Mirage’ & ‘The King and I’ by Laura Asendio

Olney Theatre Center Announces NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Rancho Mirage and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Classic Musical The King and I for their 75th Anniversary Season by Laura Asendio. Olney...

DCMetroTheaterArts is One Year Old Today!

DCMetroTheaterArts is one year old today. Thanks to all our readers for supporting and visiting our site. A special thank you to the theatre and arts communities who welcomed us and reached out to...

‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ at The Puppet Co. by Julia L. Exline

The Puppet Co. presents Jack and the Beanstalk, a favorite childhood tale suited for all tastes. Performed by Allan Stevens and Christopher Piper and recommended for ages K-6, Jack and the Beanstalk...

‘Mud Blue Sky’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Tender compassion and wicked wit come to CENTERSTAGE as the world premier of Marisa Wegrzyn’s Mud Blue Sky rounds out the remainder of their 50th Anniversary Season. In this funny new play by Wegrzyn,...

‘Tuesdays With Morrie’ at Gaithersburg Arts Barn by Amanda Gunther

Everyone knows they’re going to die, but no one believes it. But when faced with the end of the journey so close at hand you start to reevaluate just how you’ve lived your life and whether or not you...

Annapolis Opera Performs ‘Rigoletto’ March 15-17th by Kathleen Booth

Annapolis Opera’s year-long celebration of its 40th anniversary will culminate on March 15 and 17 at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts with Verdi’s Rigoletto. First performed in Venice, Italy in...

‘From Here to There’ at Imagination Stage by Julia L. Exline

Imagination Stage presents From Here to There, a show all about playtime! Brought to the North America for the first time through England’s Tell Tale Hearts Company, actors Megan Dominy and Bradley...

‘Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon’ at YAA and MCYO at The Music Center at Strathmore by Miriam Urquhart

The heat was truly on in Saigon at The Music Center at Strathmore on Sunday, March 10, 2013, at Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon – a spectacular joint-production between Young Artists of America and...

‘Les Illuminations’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at U of MD by Tiffany Draut

A concert program that consists of Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler could be considered just another classical concert in a town filled with classical music. Yet when that program includes a...

‘Copenhagen’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Terry Byrne

Forget, for the moment, all you know about quantum physics. It’s history that matters in Copenhagen, Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning, World War II drama. Make that revisionist history, which, after...

A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine at Glenelg Country School by John Harding

If audiences selected the Cappies Award winners, Glenelg Country School might as well start making room for another trophy in May. To borrow one of the lyrics from the current Glenelg program, its...

‘Cirque Zíva’ at The Music Center at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

Strathmore’s Concert Hall is usually a venue for some of the area’s finest music. But on Thursday night, the conductor’s baton was traded in for human gyroscopes and a troupe of Chinese acrobats that...

50% Off All Tickets for Spring Awakening Today through Sunday

CLICK HERE TO GET 50% OFF FOR ALL REMAINING PERFORMANCES OPRING AWAKENING AT OLNEY THEATERE CENTER TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 10TH USE DISCOUNT CODE DCMTA Spring Awakening plays through March 10,...

‘The Last 5 Years’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Amanda Gunther

A pedestrian love story like you’ve never heard it before. Two sides to every tale when there’s a boy and a girl involved. But what if the boy told his story from the beginning to the end and the girl...

Kristofer Sanz on Conducting YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterfly & Miss Saigon’ This Sunday @4 PM at Strathmore

In our final interview and article about Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ joint production of Madama Butterfly & Miss Saigon on Sunday, March 10th at 4 PM at Strathmore,...

‘Looped’ at Hippodrome Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Looped lands at the Hippodrome Theatre as a co-production between Broadway Across America and Tony Cacciotti, Ann Cady Scott, and The Tallulah Organization in association with The Pasadena Playhouse....

SHOW SNOW CANCELLATIONS FOR TONIGHT

Here are cancellations of performances we have received so far. We will update the list as information comes in. -Arena Stage has rescheduled today’s matinee of Metamorphoses to Wednesday, March 13th...

‘Home’ at Rep Stage by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Who says you can’t go home again? Think about the word home, and what it means to you. Home can be the place that you grew up in, or any place that you spend a significant amount of time. More than a...

Arts Collective @ HCC Dancers Showcase Their Talent This Thursday Through Sunday by Carolyn Kelemen

College dance concerts are always a fun place for brushing up on modern currents in the art, but spring semester programs are often a pure delight. They represent the culmination of eight months’ work...

Carousel at Act Two @ Levine by Francine Schwartz

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award-winning Carousel is one of the most celebrated and longest running musicals in history. The production by Act Two@Levine was a good choice, providing many parts...

‘Hexagon 2013: A Raucous Caucus’ at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center’ by Kim Moeller

What do politics, Spandex body shapers, Washington area traffic, and colonoscopies have in common? They are all satirical targets in Hexagon 2013: A Raucous Caucus. If you’re not familiar with...

‘The Wiz’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore by Amanda Gunther

Dancing tornados. Pop-modern munchkins. And a traffic-light color collision in Emerald City that will blow you away. Think you know Oz? Think again! Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore has got Dorothy...

‘Once on This Island’ at Montgomery College by Keith Tittermary

Once on This Island, with a score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime) the Caribbean inspired retelling of The Little Mermaid, is a bright and vibrant story of a peasant...

‘The Producers’ at Silhouette Stages by Amanda Gunther

When you got it, flaunt it! And boy do they got it. And they flaunt it too! Who, you ask? Why Silhouette Stages with their dazzling and titillating production of The Producers. As it turns out you can...

‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ at Clarice Smith Performance Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

There is a fine group of young actors in the cast of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a surrealistic and sometimes confusing play (I wish there were more production notes to help make the play more...

‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall’ at The Mobtown Players by Amanda Gunther

A play-within-a-play, that’s been done. But a play about a theatre company trying to find start-up capital to take their unconventional methods on the road? That might be what you’re getting with The...

Student Vocal Soloists of YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterly & Miss Saigon’ on 3/10@4 @ Strathmore by Joel Markowitz

Meet the the student vocal soloists (who are high school students) who will be singing the roles in Miss Saigon at Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ production of Madama...

Glenelg Country School Performs ‘A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine’ on Wed-Sat 3/6-9 by John Harding

The musical mouthful A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine is just too much for the busy Twitter generation, so it has been redubbed ‘Hollykraine’ by the cast of high schoolers readying a rare...

Mount Airy Playhouse Presents A Reading of ‘8: The Play’ This Saturday at 2 PM

Mount Airy Playhouse in association with Broadway Impact, presents A reading of 8: The Play by Dustin Lance Black. March 2, 2:00 pm “On election day 2008, Proposition 8 re-wrote the California state...

Part 5: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Round House Theatre: Meet Rick Foucheux

Here is our fourth interview with the cast of Round House Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Today – meet Rick Foucheux. Joel: Introduce us to the character you play and tell...

Part 4: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Round House Theatre: Meet Jesse Terrill

Here is our third interview with the cast of Round House Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Today – meet Jesse Terrill. Joel: Introduce us to the character you play and tell us...

Married to the Stage: ‘Valentines Day and Murder at Mount Hope Mansion’ by Natalie McCabe

It was a fantastic weekend in the life of this couple, “Married to the Stage.” I was able to visit my husband for the first time in three weeks, received a huge, adorable teddy bear for Valentine’s...

Red Branch Theatre Company’s Five Year Anniversary with Cabaret & Silent Auction on 3/15-16 @7:30 PM

Red Branch Theatre Company will kick off its fifth season with a two-night cabaret celebration on March 15 and 16, 2013. Red Branch Company Members and area performers will present selections from all...

Meet The Guest Soloists of YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterly & Miss Saigon’ on 3/10@4 at Strathmore by Rolando Sanz

Meet the performers and guest soloists of Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ production of Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon which will be performed at The Music Center at...

‘Superior Donuts’ at Greenbelt Arts Center by Amanda Gunther

The Great American Novel. Everyone talks about it, every writer thinks they’ve written it or are going to write it. But what if I told you that a young twenty-something boy from uptown Chicago has...

‘The 1940’s Radio Hour’ at Dundalk Community Theatre by Amanda Gunther

December 21, 1942— the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on New York’s WOV radio station. The gang’s all here and the only thing missing is you, but you can fix this...

Part 2: An Interview with Duane Boutté – the Director of Rep Stage’s ‘Home’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Rep Stage celebrates Black History Month and their 20th season with the 1980 Tony Award-nominated production of Home, written by Samm-Art Williams, in a limited run from February 27- March 17, 2013....

‘The Real Thing’ at Silver Spring Stage by Jessica Vaughan

The Real Thing in Silver Spring Stage’s production of the Tom Stoppard’s play of that name refers to love. It is the love of two long-married couples when one partner of each is straying with each...