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‘Bad Jews’ at The Studio Theatre

Bad Jews beggars genre naming. “Comedy of ideas” doesn’t hold a Shabbat candle to it. Bad Jews is so over-the-top funny, so razor-sharp smart, and so plumb-the-depths profound that it left me...

‘Green Porno Live on Stage’ With Isabella Rossellini at Lisner Auditorium

Green Porno. Now that’s a show title to bring interest. Add that it was adapted from a well-viewed Web series aired on the Sundance Channel and your reviewer wondered how it would be accomplished live...

‘Virus Attacks Heart’ at Venus Theatre Company

Virus Attacks Heart, a new play by Australian playwright Shannon Murdoch, is a romance for people who don’t do romances. It’s a horror story of a relationship that makes you ache for an intimacy as...

‘Death by Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center

The appreciative audience at the Greenbelt Arts Center tonight found themselves transported to a 1930’s English manor house, complete with dead body and amateur detective! It was their adept...

‘Death Takes a Holiday’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Directed by Mark T. Allen and produced by Maureen Rogers, Death Takes a Holiday follows the fate of a group of aristocrats at the mansion of Duke Lambert, played by Larry Simmons. We hear that death...

‘Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

On the eve of a grand jury’s decision on the killing of Ferguson’s Michael Brown, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America is a boldly courageous indictment on the origins of racial...

‘In the Next Room’ at Port City Playhouse

Port City Playhouse’s production of Sara Ruhl’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, In the Next Room, is filled with incredible actors, a clever set, and gorgeous Victorian time period outfits (designed by...

‘A Little Business at the Big Top’ at TheaterSpace at George Mason University

Masterful! David Gaines solo performance was clever, skilled and totally engrossing. Using only his body, facial expressions and some gibberish, he transported the audience to the circus, both in the...

‘There is a Happiness that Morning Is’ at WSC Avant Bard

There is one howl of a good time at There is a Happiness that Morning Is at WSC Avant Bard. The production is a masterly feat of acting prowess full of precise, adroit comic work and squinting eye...

Meet the Cast of ‘Translations’ at The Masqueraders at The United States Naval Academy–Part 3: Megan Rausch

This is the third in a series of interviews with the cast of The Masqueraders’ production of Translations. Meet Megan Rausch. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you...

‘Not About Nightingales’ at Howard University

Although it was written in 1938, six years before his breakthrough hit The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales was only produced in 1998, due to the persistence of actor...

‘Africa Umoja’ at the National Theatre

The energy of Africa Umoja virtually leapt off the stage. At times, the performer’s enthusiasm was nearly matched by the shout-outs, ululations, whistling, foot stomping, singing, arm-waving and...

‘Pen’ at Washington Stage Guild

Washington Stage Guild starts off its 29th season with a smart production of David Marshall Grant’s Pen, a curious play that is by turns provocative and perplexing. The company’s tagline, aptly, is...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending 11/7/14

Here are our new Scene Stealers honorees. Congrats to all of you!! This week The Addams Family at Kensington Arts Theatre sets the record for most Scene Stealers from one show-5! _____ Lisa Carrier...

Meet the Cast of ‘My Fair Lady’ at Damascus Theatre Company–Part 2: Director Stephanie Bonte-Lebair

In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the director and cast members of Damascus Theatre Company’s My Fair Lady, meet Director Stephanie Bonte-Lebair. Joel: Introduce yourself and tell our readers...

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC Presents ‘Love Stinks!’ at Atlas on November 15th at 5 & 8 PM by Craig Cipollini

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC presents a funny look at the world of love and dating! We’ve all kissed a few frogs in our time – right? Join the Gay Men’s Chorus as select soloists will sing...

At Studio Theatre Keith Alan Baker Ends Tenure as Managing Director and Artistic Director of 2ndStage; Meridith Burkus Appointed New Managing Director

STUDIO THEATRE ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP CHANGE • Keith Alan Baker ends tenure as Managing Director and Artistic Director, 2ndStage • Meridith Burkus appointed new Managing Director Studio Theatre Board...

The Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at Washington Performing Arts

You have a right to be skeptical when a symphony orchestra claims to have a unique sound. Down through the centuries most composers of symphonic music have given specific directions about what...

Meet the Cast of ‘Translations’ at the Masqueraders at The United States Naval Academy–Part 2: Chris Hudson

This is the first in a series of interviews with the cast of The Masqueraders production of Translation. Meet Chris Hudson. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you...

The 2014 MetroCooking Show Promises To Have All The Right Ingredients by Cary Pollak

On Saturday and Sunday, November 8th and 9th the MetroCooking Show will make its ninth appearance in the nation’s capitol at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and each year it has outdone...

Meet the Cast of ‘Translations’ at Masqueraders at the United States Naval Academy–Part 1: Jonson Henry

This is the first in a series of interviews with the cast of Translations at The Masqueraders‘ production of Translation. Meet Jonson Henry. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what...

‘Playing Poe: The Man, the Mustache’ By Elliott Kashner

After being cast to play Edgar Allan Poe, the central figure in Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe from Molotov Theatre Group (opening tomorrow night, November 6th), I started developing my plan to become...

Meet the Cast of ‘Death By Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center: Part 8: Meet Winard Britt

In Part 8 in a series of interviews with the cast of Death By Design at Greenbelt Arts Center, meet Winard Britt. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you have...

Meet the Cast of ‘Death By Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center: Part 7: Meet Jenn Robinson

In Part 7 in a series of interviews with the cast of Death By Design at Greenbelt Arts Center, meet Jenn Robinson. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you have...

Spine: ‘Julius Caesar, “et tu Brute?” and You’

Shakespeare, the humanist; Shakespeare, the poet; Shakespeare, the political playwright; Shakespeare, the fatalist. Before he passed away, my 87-year-old father used to quiz members of the younger...

‘As You Like It’ at the Shakespeare Theatre Company

As You Like It is a celebration of love; love as we hope it will be, love as it often is, and love as a harbinger of growth and redemption. The Shakespeare Theatre’s As You Like It is a veritable...

In the Moment: “Julius Caesar’ at Folger Theatre

Let’s be provocative in this column. Let’s imagine a world where the debates within Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar are not between ambitious political people like Brutus, Mark Anthony, Cassius, and...

Free Tickets to ‘There is a Happiness that Morning Is’ At WSC Avant Bard-Enter Now!

WSC AVANT BARD is Giving Away 5 Pairs of tickets for anytime in their run TO THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS Lusted. Then busted. A comedy in couplets. Back...

‘The Addams Family’ at Kensington Arts Theatre

Up for a twisted trip into the macabre world of the famed, now modernized, Addams Family this Halloween season? Well look no further than the Kensington Arts Theatre (KAT) and their current production...

‘Grease’ at Rockville Musical Theatre

Opening on Broadway in 1971, with music, lyrics, and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, Grease became one of the most successful musicals of its time with an original run of 3,388 performances and...

‘Earth and Sky’ at Silver Spring Stage

Earth and Sky by Douglas Post brings Dylan Thomas, cops and robbers, murder and true love to at Silver Spring Stage in an uninterrupted two-hour production. Director David Dieudonne’s signature...

The Choral Arts Society of Washington Performs ‘Bach’s Mass in B Minor’ at The Kennedy Center

The Choral Arts Society of Washington brought forth a momentous occasion to The Kennedy Center Concert Hall on yesterday afternoon with their undertaking of Johann Sebastian Bach’s legacy masterpiece,...

‘Cabaret Macabre’ at Happenstance Theater

Delivering a tantalizing treat for the Halloween season, Happenstance Theater makes its Baltimore debut at the Theatre Project with the fifth iteration of its 2013’s Helen Hayes multiple...

‘Arabian Nights’ at Creative Cauldron

“Imagination is more important than knowledge,” says Aladdin in one of three stories told by Scheherazade to her Persian King husband, in order for her to save her life. Spinning tales of...

‘Julius Caesar’ at Folger Theatre

Folger Theatre launches its 2014-15 season with a strikingly imaginative production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a play whose contradictions and cruelties mirror the bewildering politics...

‘Twelfth Night’ at Maryland Ensemble Theatre

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare probably never imagined a cowboy reciting one of his most famous lines, but Twelfth Night,...

‘How We Got On’ at Forum Theatre

How We Got On, a brilliant new play from Forum Theatre by playwright Idris Goodwin, tells the story of three kids in 1988 who fall in love with rap and hip hop and set out to make a record together....

‘The 39 Steps’ at Prince William Little Theatre

Love, laughs, and suspense: you’ll get the full package at Prince William Little Theatre’s production of The 39 Steps. Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the early Alfred Hitchcock film, and directed by...

‘Not Enuf Lifetimes’ at The Welders at Atlas Performing Arts Center

There is a shortlist of great American plays about hopes and dreams, wrenching and emotionally exacting dramas exposing the anguish when righteous aspiration is tragically not enough. Arthur Miller’s...

National Philharmonic: ‘Mozart’s Requiem’ at The Music Center at Strathmore

Why do people willingly get dressed up and head out in the dark to hear funeral music when no one has died? Three words: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There have been dozens or hundreds of other musical...

‘La bohème’ at Washington National Opera

Young love is in the air, lifted there by a host of young performers in the Washington National Opera’s new production of La bohème. Most of the cast and crew are making their WNO debut. Many are...

Arts Collective@HCC’s ‘Eat the Runt’ Auditions on November 15 and 16th by Susan G. Kramer

HCC’s Arts Collective Announces Auditions for EAT THE RUNT, November 15 & 16, 2014 Open Auditions for Ages 18 and Up – All Ethnicities Encouraged to Attend Arts Collective proudly announces auditions...

‘The Murder Room’ at Bowie Community Theatre

Verbal wordplay flies faster than bullets Jack Sharkey’s The Murder Room” is a delightfully wacky, witty spoof of the dead serious British murder mysteries of the post-war era of the 1950s. The...

Meet the Cast of ‘My Fair Lady’ at Damascus Theatre Company–Part 1: Brian Lyons-Burke

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the director and cast members of Damascus Theatre Company’s My Fair Lady, meet Brian Lyons-Burke. Joel: Where have our readers seen you perform on our local...

Meet the Cast of ‘Death By Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center: Part 6: Meet Alie Kamara

In Part 6 in a series of interviews with the cast of Death By Design at Greenbelt Arts Center, meet Alie Kamara. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you have...

Meet the Cast of ‘Death By Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center: Part 5: Meet James McDaniel

In Part 5 in a series of interviews with the cast of Death By Design at Greenbelt Arts Center, meet James McDaniel. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you have...

Laurel Mill Playhouse: A Theatre with a Sense of Community Brings ‘Love Letters’ for One Performance This Sunday at 2 PM

The Laurel Mill Playhouse has been more than just a community theatre. It has become a theatre of the community. The Playhouse is the home to Teen Shakespeare, Young Adult One Act Festival and the...

‘Urinetown The Musical’ at The George Washington University

George Washington University’s Department of Theatre & Dance and the Department of Music have joined forces to create a production of Urinetown The Musical that is simply a pisser! You must pee-lieve...

An Interview with Scena Theatre’s ‘Handbag’ Director Robert McNamara and Cast Members Anne Nottage, Amanda Forstrom, and Haely Jardas

I had the honor of interviewing Director Robert McNamara and cast members Anne Nottage, Amanda Forstrom, and Haely Jardas from Scena Theatre’s Handbag, which begins performances tonight. Michael:...

Meet the Cast of ‘Death By Design’ at Greenbelt Arts Center: Part 4: Meet Colin Davies

In Part 4 in a series of interviews with the cast of Death By Design at Greenbelt Arts Center, meet Colin Davies. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them what other shows you have...