Port City Playhouse

Review: ‘The Boys Next Door’ at the Port City Playhouse

Review by Betsy Lizotte The Port City Playhouse production of The Boys Next Door is playful, yet provocative. This community theater, operating out of the Sleepy Hollow United Methodist Church in...

Review: ‘Hamlet’ at Port City Playhouse

An actor of illustrious talent shone bright recently on the D.C. area stage of Port City Playhouse. Rebekah Raze, in a performance that progressed from great to astounding, not only enthralled her...

Review: ‘Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine’ at Port City Playhouse

Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine is an outrageously hilarious romp into the fabulated life of Undine Barnes Callas, a feisty, successful African American woman whose comeuppance...

Review: ‘Taking Sides’ at Port City Playhouse by Wesley Cobaugh

Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood is a stark look at post-war process and what is really meant by getting at the truth of what happened, why, who knew and when. Director Mary Ayala-Bush has crafted a...

Review: ‘Stupid F#@*ing Bird’ at Port City Playhouse

Port City Playhouse has undertaken the hilarious dark comedy Stupid F#@*ing Bird, by Playwright Aaron Posner. The show is adapted from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, but with a very modern makeover and...

Review: ‘Coming Home’ at Port City Playhouse

With Eleanore Tapscott’s gentle, affecting, eloquent direction, the Port City Playhouse production of Athol Fugard’s Coming Home (2009) is an exemplary work about love, loss and resilience. The...

Review: ‘Fool for Love’ at Port City Playhouse

Sam Shepard’s 1983 one-act play, Fool for Love, is now playing at Port City Playhouse. This talented four-person cast, directed by Jon Townson, lights up the intimate space in the Lab at Convergence....

A Tribute to Sydney-Chanele Dawkins at Her Memorial Service on July 17, 2015 by Joel Markowitz

This is the eulogy I delivered at the the memorial service for DCMetroTheaterArts columnist and reviewer Sydney-Chanele Dawkins yesterday, July 17, 2015: To Aaron and Sydney-Chanele’s family and...

DCMetroTheaterArts Reviewer and Columnist Sydney-Chanele Dawkins Passes Away at Age 47

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, beloved DCMetroTheaterArts writer and columnist, lost her battle with breast cancer last evening. She was only 47 years-old. The DCMetroTheaterArts family mourns her passing...

‘Stickfly’ at Port City Playhouse

Port City Playhouse is a scrappy little theater company brave enough to tackle important plays. Their literature states that they specialize in top-quality, thought-provoking plays, within a diverse...

‘Shining City’ at Port City Playhouse

I could hardly contain my anticipation before seeing the Port City Playhouse’s production of Shining City, directed by Becky Patton. The critically acclaimed play, first performed in 2004 and later...

‘Smellin’ Up the Den!’ A Co-Production of Red Knight Productions and Port City Playhouse

Red Knight Productions met its goal to design and perform Smellin’ Up the Den! as “a silly show” enabling audiences to “laugh at how ridiculous the world is,” as Director Scott Courlander wrote in his...

‘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...

‘Black Hole’ at Port City Playhouse

Black Hole is a show about people with emotional baggage. Not the cute little carryon kind of baggage but the its-going-to-cost-you-money-because-it’s-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. It’s a...

‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ at Port City Playhouse

Blues for an Alabama Sky at Port City Playhouse: A Kiss to Build a Dream On: After the Harlem Renaissance The gifted and much admired Pearl Cleage is a poetic playwright. Her dialogue shines with wit,...

Port City Playhouse Concludes its 36th Season with “Blues for an Alabama Sky’ -Opening on May 2nd

Port City Playhouse Concludes Its 36th Season, “A Salute to the American Voice,” with Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage, Opening on May 2nd. Port City Playhouse, Alexandria’s award-winning...

‘Next Fall’ at Port City Playhouse by Carl Nubile

You can’t get more intimate theater than at Port City Playhouse with their production of Next Fall. The very personal story of a tragic relationship is brought to life up close and personal and uses...

‘The Ballad of the Red Knight’ at Port City Playhouse and Red Knight Productions by Jenna Miller

I had a great time at The Ballad of the Red Knight – a comedic adventure that takes place in Medieval Story Land. The Red Knight is a prince known for using his silver tongue to negotiate rather than...

‘The Ballad of the Red Knight,’ a Special Co-Production of Port City Playhouse and Red Knight Productions, Opens Tomorrow Night

Port City Playhouse, Alexandria’s award-winning theatre company, in conjunction with Red Knight Productions, is pleased to announce the world premiere presentation of The Ballad of the Red Knight....

‘Shiloh Rules’ at Port City Playhouse by Jenna Miller

PortCity Playhouse presents Shiloh Rules by Doris Baizly and produced by Mary Beth Smith-Toomey. Smart writing tells the story of a Civil War re-enactment by a group of women. They’re in a National...

‘The Children’s Hour’ at Port City Playhouse by Emily Cao

Port City Playhouse presents The Children’s Hour, the first production of their 2013-2014 Season: A Salute to the American Voice, an homage to distinguished American playwrights that bring unique...

‘Six Degrees of Separation’ at Port City Playhouse by Francine Schwartz

John Guare’s award-winning Six Degrees of Separation was a tremendously successful Broadway play, eventually made into a movie, which played out the notion that all people are connected, and the...

Port City Playhouse Opens ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ on April 19th

Port City Playhouse, Alexandria’s award-winning theatre company, is pleased to conclude its 2012-13 season with Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare. Performances are Friday-Saturday, April 19-20 &...

‘The Drawer Boy’ at Port City Playhouse by Justin Schneider

Since its Toronto premiere in 1999, Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy has been one of the most produced plays in the United States. After seeing Port City Playhouse’s production, I can see why. In 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...

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,...

‘The Soul Collector’ at Port City Playhouse by Joel Markowitz

I am a big fan of playwright and actor David Emerson Toney and actress extraordinaire and director Deidra Starnes – and I was thrilled when I heard that David’s play The Soul Collector would have its...

‘Medea’ at Port City Playhouse by Jessica Vaughan

Port City Playhouse steps up with their version of Medea. The Greek tragedy by Euripides starts off their 35th Season with a hit. Port City Playhouse is a community theater based at the Lab at...

‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ at Port City Playhouse by Erica Laxson

It’s not everyday that a play can take you into the tortured minds of three political prisoners, but the Port City Playhouse presentation of Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me delivers quite a mental roller...