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‘Rapunzel’ at The Puppet Company

The Puppet Company Playhouse presents Rapunzel, a re-imagining of the classic fairy tale through the use of puppetry. Directed by Allan Stevens and written by Duane T. Bowers, this adaptation more...

Game of Thrones: ‘Burlesque Is Coming’ Tour Tonight at 7 & 10 PM at The Bier Baron

I don’t know from Game of Thrones. I know a lot of people nerd out over it, hard, and it’s got dudes with swords doing dude with sword things. Season One is on my tv bucket list as is everything that...

‘Working for Peanuts’: Meet the Cast of Reston Community Players’ ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’-Part 2: Nina Jankowicz and Patrick Graham

Fall is in the air, and it’s perfect weather for tangling kites in trees, trying to finally win a baseball game, and hoping against hope to finally kick the football without having it pulled away at...

‘Evita’ at The Kennedy Center

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s tango drenched Evita has achieved an iconic status that rivals that of its own subject, Eva Peron, the social-climbing, deeply flawed, yet popularly beloved wife of...

Bill Cosby at Strathmore

The Cos leaves his audience wanting more Thursday night, the Cos had his audience roaring with knowing laughter with his description of every day life. When he left the stage, two hours and ten...

‘Chéri’ at The Kennedy Center

Revisiting Chéri – and a Baltimore visionary The venerable Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts turned avant-garde last night with the return of modern dance maven, Martha Clark, and her latest (and...

‘Of Mice and Men’ Opens Tomorrow Night at Providence Players of Fairfax by Chip Gertzog

The Providence Players, performing at The James Lee Community Center Theater at 2855 Annandale Road in Falls Church, kicks off their 17th season with the John Steinbeck award winning classic Of Mice...

‘Journeys’: An Evening of Musical Theatre to Benefit Loudoun Interfaith Relief” This Saturday at 8 PM

Don’t pretend you haven’t noticed – the winds are shifting. There are pumpkin flavored things everywhere. You’ve even been forced to unearth your sweater collection from the back of your closet. The...

‘Driving Miss Daisy’ at Ford’s Theatre

It’s time to bring out the sweet tea and church crowns, because Ford’s Theatre has brought a taste of the South to Washington with its spectacular production of Driving Miss Daisy. Authentic,...

$10 Tickets for ‘TOAST’ Tonight at 7:30 PM the Hill Center and on Friday at 7:30 PM at Woolly Mammoth

dog & pony dc is offering a special discount ticket price for Toast! ______ TONIGHT’S DISCOUNT CODE AT THE HILL CENTER The Hill Center is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE. Eastern Market Metro...

‘The Tiny House Plays’ at Pinky Swear Productions

TINY HOUSE, HUGE HEART Down a dark alley where cats dodge cars and across from the Glenwood Cemetery is Boneyard Studios, DC’s tiny house community. It feels almost otherworldly or enchanted, stepping...

‘The Reel Deal’: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Review Video of ‘The Equalizer’

https://youtu.be/Qt0GkVZK8zA Here are the Washington, DC area showtimes for The Equalizer. The Equalizer website. LINKS Kyle Osborne’s Video Movie Review of The Maze Runner AND This Is Where I Leave...

‘The Night Fairy’ at Imagination Stage

Imagination Stage presents The Night Fairy, based on the book by Laura Amy Schlitz and adapted by John Glore. Jeremy Skidmore directs this imaginative production full of childhood nostalgia. If you...

‘Hamlet: Believe None of Us’ at Off the Quill

Blending a mix of performance mediums, including modern dance, contemporary music and stage combat, Off the Quill (OTQ)’s Hamlet: Believe None of Us reconceives the original play by Shakespeare,...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending 9/28/14

Here are our new DCMetroTheaterArts Scene Stealers. Congrats to all our honorees. ______ The Cast and Orchestra of Children of Eden Performing “The Return of the Animals” at 2nd Star Productions “True...

A Tribute to Costume Designer Reggie Ray – An Interview at The Helen Hayes and Videos of His Work

Costume Designer Reggie Ray died in his sleep yesterday and what a loss it is to the local theatre community. Personally, Reggie had always been so kind to me and as a regular Facebook friend we’d...

‘Lobster Alice’ at Flying V

Oh Frabjous Day!! I must say, the toves were slithy! And gyring and gimballing were happening all over the stage! And, this take on the creation of Alice in Wonderland really lived up to its promise....

Remembering Dick Cerri: A Celebration in Song at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

For those who are fans of folk music, there was only one place to be in the Washington, DC Metro area on Saturday night in order to be folkin down memory lane. The World Folk Music Association (WFMA)...

‘Rabbit Hole’ at Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions

“Grief does not change you (…). It reveals you.” John Green’s words rang true but seemed like a huge understatement while watching David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Stevie...

‘The Game’s Afoot’ at McLean Community Players

The Game’s Afoot, and the evening promises suspense, hilarity, and entertainment for all who brave the McLean Community Players’ romp of a whodunit. Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot, or Holmes for the...

‘Awake and Sing!’ at Olney Theatre Center

Clifford Odets’ 1935 turbulent drama Awake and Sing! is a stark portrayal of a dysfunctional Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City in the mid-1930s. Set against the backdrop of the Great...

‘Three Decembers’ at UrbanArias

A relatively new opera company UrbanArias stages the touching, beautiful opera Three Decembers by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer based on a play by Terrence McNally. Robert Wood founded UrbanArias in...

‘creature’ at Deviated Theatre at Dance Place

In Margaret Atwood’s futuristic novel Oryx and Crake, the cutting-edge of modern science creates the Crakes, genetically modified human beings whose beauty is only matched by the healing power of...

The Playwright’s Playground: The Lonely and The Brave -‘Marie Antoinette’ Playwright David Adjmi Discusses Audience Engagement and the Rigors of Writing a Memoir by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

There is great passion and intensity with Award-winning Playwright, David Adjmi. “I want to be able to live up to my ambition. I want to feel that I can be a part of the theater in a significant way.”...

Aquila Theatre Brings ‘Wuthering Heights’ to George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on October 5th and ‘The Tempest’ to Hylton Performing Arts Center on October 11th

Enduring works of live theater continue to be performed; even in this fast-changing digital age, with disruption to so much long-held, accepted wisdom. Classic works of literature and theater keep on...

‘Working for Peanuts’: Meet the Cast of Reston Community Players’ ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’-Part 1: Alana Sharp and Eric Hughes

In the first in a series of interviews with the cast and director of Reston Community Players’ You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, meet Alana Sharp, who plays the psychoanalyzing Lucy Van Pelt, and Eric...

A ‘Tiny’ Interview with Director Jessica Aimone of ‘The Tiny House Plays’ and Playwright Danielle Mohlman

I got super-excited when I found out Pinky Swear is doing an immersive theatre piece (or pieces) at DC’s own Tiny House community, Boneyard Studios. I’m a huge fan of tiny houses and what they...

The Playwright’s Playground: The Lonely and the Brave – An Interview with ‘Marie Antoinette’ Playwright David Adjmi

Writing is deeply personal. For David Adjmi, playwright of Marie Antoinette, writing is not only personal it is something that is stirring, deeply passionate, and all encompassing. In the process of...

‘All That Bethesda Jazz’: Meet The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club Proprietor Rick Brown and Events Manager Karla Rosenfeld Azachi

Meet Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club’s Proprietor Rick Brown You grew up in the DC area. What was the DC area jazz scene like when you were growing up, how has it changed, and how would you...

‘Miss Electricity’ at NextStop Theatre Company

There were some very happy young theatregoers and their parents at NextStop Theatre Company when I attended the very fun and electrifying production of Kathryn Walat’s Miss Electricity, directed with...

Audience Member Barbara Bear Awarded the ‘Gary Lee Maker Award’

Barbara Bear, audience member and theatre patron extraordinaire was awarded the 2014 Gary Lee Maker Award by DC Theatre Scene. She joins past winners David Tannous (2011) in Tom Holzman and Alison...

‘Three Sistahs’ at MetroStage

Who says lightning never strikes the same place twice? All MetroStage has to do is keep bringing back Three Sistahs, the foot-tapping, gut-busting and tear-jerking family drama now back in its third...

National Symphony Orchestra Eighty-Fourth Season Opening Ball Concert at The Kennedy Center

Last night the National Symphony Orchestra debuted its eighty-forth season in The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, one of the most anticipated musical events of the year, with a delightful evening of...

‘The Seven Year Itch’ at American Century Theater

An unadulterated look at a one man’s plans for an affair The American Century Theater enters its 20th – and final – season itching to make a lasting impression. This the company does with its...

‘God of Carnage’ at Silver Spring Stage

God of Carnage, originally Le Dieu du Carnage, was written by famed Art playwright Yasmina Reza (ART), and was first produced in 2006. After critical success in Europe it opened with a new American...

In the Moment: This Saturday 9/27/14: ‘ARTS by George!’ at George Mason University: An Interview with Co-Chair Mark Shugoll

ARTS by George, a signature event gala that supports scholarships and the Great Performance series at George Mason University, has raised more than $1 million. The co-chairs of this year’s gala are...

Wanda Sykes With Special Guest Keith Robinson at Strathmore

The Music Center at Strathmore welcomed Wanda Sykes for the first-time to the Marriott Concert Stage to a sold-out crowd of adoring Wanda Sykes fans. Veteran comedian, writer, actress and Emmy...

‘Stuart Little’ at Adventure Theatre-MTC

Adventure Theatre MTC opens their 63rd (wow!) season with Stuart Little, based on the award-winning children’s book by E.B. White and adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette. Colin Hovde directs...

‘Aladdin & the Magic Lamp’ at Pumpkin Theatre

Pure giddy-ness, energy running at about a ten, and heart felt childlike laughter, literally!! – That is what the atmosphere encompassed as we walked in Pumpkin Theatre. But of course, that should’ve...

‘Florencia in the Amazon’ at Washington National Opera

A mystical and lushly romantic journey down the Amazon River is only the beginning of the fully absorbing and richly textured production of the current offering of the Washington National Opera (WNO),...

‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrrow’ at the Red Branch Theatre Company

Musical theater doesn’t get more challenging than Stephen Sondheim — for audiences and performers alike. So hurrah for Columbia’s fearless Red Branch Theatre Co. for bringing us the Sondheim revue...

‘Marie Antoinette’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

In Woolly Mammoth’s Marie Antoinette the doomed, dark-shades donning Queen of France enters with two ladies-in-waiting. She slips off her robe, revealing an oh-so-modern two-piece bathing suit. She...

‘The Reel Deal’: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Review Video of ‘The Maze Runner’ AND ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

Here are the Washington, DC area showtimes for The Maze Runner AND This Is Where I Leave You. The Maze Runner website. This Is Where I Leave You website. LINKS Kyle Osborne’s Video Movie Review of...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major at Strathmore

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been pleasing the ears of its patrons for almost a century. Established in 1816, the Orchestra is the first and only orchestra in the United States to have home...

Joe Calarco on Being Named Resident Director and Director of New Works at Signature Theatre

After a very busy week, after being named Resident Director and Director of New Works at Signature Theatre, Multiple Helen Hayes Award-winning director/playwright Joe Calarco, who has directed 14...

‘Nevermore’ at Pandemonium Theatrical Productions

Pandemonium’s Workhouse Arts Center could not have been more well-suited for Nevermore, a dark and intimate musical about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, with music by Matt Conner and the book by Grace...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Scene Stealers-Week Ending 9/18/14

Here are this week’s Scene Stealers. Congrats to all our honorees. ______ Jennifer Berry as Blanche DuBois and Anna Fagan as Stella Kowalski in the Final Scene of The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s A...

‘The Shoplifters’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

The under-affluent of this country find small change on America’s stages: under-represented more often than not, they are the butt of jokes and edgy satires and, on DC stages, are presented as...

‘Masquerade’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company

When I was watching Wolf Pack Theatre Company’s intense Masquerade last night, written and directed by William D. Leary, I shook my head several times and covered my ears at other times because what I...

Arts Collective @HCC Holding Auditions for ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ on 9/29 and 9/30/14 by Susan G. Kramer

HCC’s Arts Collective Holding Auditions for It’s A Wonderful Life On September 29 & 30, 2014 Open Auditions: All Ages and Ethnicities Encouraged to Attend Arts Collective proudly announces auditions...