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’33 Variations’ at Silver Spring Stage

33 Variations is a drama by Moisés Kaufman that deals with the nearly always fatal disease of ALS and the study, not just of music, but also the variations of life. The main character is Dr. Katherine...

Obsession and Transcendence: ’33 Variations’ Opens on Friday Night at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

It started with a waltz, a seemingly insignificant waltz written by someone who was hardly a musical giant: Anton Diabelli, a music publisher and minor composer in early 19th century Vienna. And it no...

The 15th Annual 2014 WATCH AWARDS Nominations Announced

THE WATCH AWARDS Nominations Announced January 18, 2015 – 7:30 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA Award Ceremony Sunday, March 8, 2015 – 7:00 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA Award Ceremony...

‘Orson’s Shadow’ at Silver Spring Stage

I would say that Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow is the best show I’ve seen all year, even though the year is only about a week old. So, I will state it is the best show I have seen since I saw...

Humor, Drama, and Titanic Personalities: ‘Orson’s Shadow’ Opens at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

Humor, Drama, and Titanic Personalities: Orson’s Shadow at Silver Spring Stage Real-life…and larger than life. Those are the kinds of characters who will be holding court on Colesville Road for the...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Directors of a Play in Community Theatres

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Directors in a Play in Community Theatres go to: Adam R. Adkins for God of Carnage at Silver Spring Stage Howard Berkowitz...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Play in Community Theatres

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Performances in a Play in Community Theatres go to: Best Actor in a Play Harris Allgeier as Albert Einstein in Picasso at...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Community Theatres

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Plays in Community Theatres honors go to: A Few Good Men at The Colonial Players A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Castaways...

‘Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge’ at Silver Spring Stage

Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge is an alternative to the usual uplifting Christmas stories playing during the holiday season, and Silver Spring Stage has staged an outrageous production....

‘Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge’ Opens Friday, December 12th at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

A Holiday Show with a Twist… And a Chance to Help Manna Food Center by Lennie Magida This year, why not take the traditional holiday theatrical cocktail…and add a twist? If A Christmas Carol is the...

‘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...

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...

‘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...

Civility Gets Smacked in the Mouth: ‘God of Carnage’ Opens September 19th at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

If you’re looking for a laid-back get-together with easy-going friends, the foursome of Veronica, Michael, Annette, and Alan might not be your first choice. But if you’re eager for a couple of hours...

Silver Spring Stage Continues its One Act Festival Tonight Through Sunday

Silver Spring Stage continues its One Act Festival It’s Weekend 2 of Silver Spring Stage’s 2014 One-Act Festival! Performances are TONIGHT Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00...

The 2014 Ruby Griffith Award Winners Announced

Last Sunday, July 13, 2014, The 2014 Ruby Griffith Award winners were announced at a ceremony at Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD. The awards honor the best productions in Community...

‘Good People’ at Silver Spring Stage

Silver Spring Stage closes their 46th season with a riveting production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People. This captivating dramadey about life struggles from rock bottom is both humorous and...

Opening This Friday at Silver Spring Stage: ‘Good People’: It’s a Complicated Concept by Lennie Magida

When a playwright calls his play Good People, we can assume that the characters will be…you know…good people. Can’t we? In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, opening this Friday at Silver Spring...

‘The Arabian Nights’ at Silver Spring Stage

If the wind’s from the east, and the sun’s from the west, and the sand in the glass is right, then come on down, stop on by, hop a carpet and fly to Silver Spring Stage to see their sensational...

‘The Arabian Nights’: Stories Upon Stories at Silver Spring Stage

Theatre can enthrall us in many ways: A great story. Perhaps, if we’re lucky, a couple of great stories beautifully intertwined. Gorgeous costumes. Evocative lighting and sound, and including music. A...

Montgomery Playhouse and Silver Spring Stage Win Awards at ESTA’s One Act Festival

The Eastern States Theater Association (ESTA) One Act Festival was held May 2-4, 2014 in Ridley Park, PA. One act plays representing New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland competed for top...

‘Other Desert Cities’ at Silver Spring Stage

Acting or reality; the two are hardly mutually exclusive. We live with each other’s divergent truths because we know no other way to live. Our lives could be complete lies that we have no idea we are...

Family Flashpoint: ‘Other Desert Cities’ Opens at Silver Spring Stage on April 4th by Lennie Magida

FAMILY FLASHPOINT: OTHER DESERT CITIES OPENS APRIL 4 AT SILVER SPRING STAGE If families existed without conflict, stress, heartbreak, and deception—and if those difficulties weren’t often laced with...

Here are the Winners of the 14th Annual WATCH AWARDS Awards

Announcement of Winners 14th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors THE WATCH AWARDS Award Ceremony Sunday, March 9, 2014 – 7:00 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA And now for the Winners...

‘Superior Donuts’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

Pick an adjective. Any adjective. Engaging, compelling, exciting; all good choices when it comes to describing Silver Spring Stage’s production of Superior Donuts. Written by Tracy Letts and Directed...

A Father and Son, Two Sisters, and Others React to Their WATCH AWARD Nominations

How did thy feel when their names were announced as a WATCH AWARD nominee? A Father and a Son Are Nominated Outstanding Special Effects Chip Gertzog and Jimmy Gertzog Chip Gertzog & Jimmy Gertzog–...

The WATCH AWARDS Nominees React!-Part 1 by Joel Markowitz

How did thy feel when their names were announced as a WATCH AWARD nominee? A Father and a Son Are Nominated Outstanding Special Effects Chip Gertzog and Jimmy Gertzog Chip Gertzog & Jimmy Gertzog–...

The 14th WATCH AWARDS Nominations Announced!

The 14th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors‘ (THE WATCH AWARDS) nominations were announced tonight at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. Here are this year’s nominees: 14th Annual...

WATCH AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED TONIGHT!

The 14th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors‘ (THE WATCH AWARDS) nominations will be announced tonight at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. The WATCH Award Ceremony will take place on...

Here’s the Winner of Tickets to Silver Spring Stage’s “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

THE WINNER OF A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SILVER SPRING STAGE’S THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) IS… LUKE TUDBALL AND HE ANSWERED THESE THREE QUESTIONS CORRECTLY: (1) What Neil Young song...

Win a Pair of Tickets to Silver Spring Stage’s ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ and Discount Link and Enter by Tomorrow at NOON

Win a pair of tickets to Silver Spring Stage’s hysterical production of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) SEND YOUR ENTRY TO: dcmetrotheaterarts@gmail.com And Put “SHAKESPEARE...

Oh, That Crazy Bard! ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’ Opens January 10 at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

Doing Shakespeare is hard. Doing all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays – plus his sonnets – in 97 minutes, using only three actors, with lots of props, physical comedy and improvisation, and with no fourth...

‘A Christmas Carol’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

“God bless us, everyone.” If you’ve heard it once this season you’re bound to have heard it a dozen times, but the Silver Spring Stage’s production of A Christmas Carol is rather quaint, homey, and...

Fall 2013 ‘Scene Stealers’ Part One by The DCMetroTheaterArts Staff

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts has taken a brief breather and is offering their favorite ‘Scene Stealers’ from August through December 2013. Here’s Part 1 of our selections. Congrats to all our Scene...

‘The Pillowman’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

There are no happy endings in real life. Only the cold harsh slap of reality and how its disappointed you in the end. The dark and sinister black humor of Martin McDonagh comes to life in a twisted...

‘The Pillowman’ Opens This Friday, November 1st at Silver Spring Stage by Lennie Magida

Provocative Dark Comedy The Pillowman Opens November 1st at Silver Spring Stage Lars Klores, who plays Detective Tupolski in Silver Spring Stage’s new production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman,...

‘The Baltimore Waltz’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

It is a common misconception that there are five stages of grief that a person can cycle through when coming to terms with something as severe as a terminal illness. Denial, anger, bargaining,...

An Interview with the Director and Cast Members of Silver Spring Stage’s ‘The Baltimore Waltz’ by Lennie Magida

Bob Scott says that when he first read The Baltimore Waltz, “it shouted, ‘Direct this one, Bob!’” Scott heeded that inner voice, and now he’s directing Waltz as it opens the Silver Spring Stage...

‘Red Herring’ at Silver Spring Stage by Jessica Vaughan

Silver Spring Stage puts on a 1950’s screwball comedy murder mystery, espionage, romance – about communists and a whole lot of fish in Red Herring to close out their 2013 season. It’s a sweet and...

Frost/Nixon at Silver Spring Stage by Keith Tittlermary

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal” – Richard Nixon, in his 1977 interview with David Frost. In 1977, British tabloid journalist David Frost set out to become the first person...

Here are the Winners of the 13th Annual WATCH Awards

Here are the winners of the The 13th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (THE WATCH AWARDS). There were 126 productions (43 musicals, 83 plays) that were adjudicated in 2012. Thirty-three...

‘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...

‘Expecting Isabel’ at Silver Spring Stage by Miriam Urquhart

I didn’t know what to expect from Expecting Isabel. The Idea that a comedy could be built around such a painful issue as infertility seemed like a pretty strange idea until Silver Spring Stage’s...

‘These Shining Lives’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

It isn’t a fairytale, though it may start like one. And it isn’t a tragedy, though it does end like one. It’s a story, and more than that it’s Silver Spring Stage’s fall offering of Melanie Marnich’s...

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,...

Friday Fire Sale at ‘Farragut North’ at Silver Spring Stage by Michael Kharfen

From Michael Kharfen from Silver Spring Stage: This just in on the wire: “the polls have been extended for Farragut North with two more shows this Friday October 12 and Saturday October 13!” As you...

‘Farragut North’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

Vote Morris! Vote Pullman! Vote corruption! However, if you intend to vote – Silver Spring Stage is your polling place with their production of Beau Willimon’s Farragut North. A neck-and-neck race to...

‘Stop Kiss’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

To end the season with a heart-stopping, deeply emotional show is to go out with a bang and Silver Spring Stage does just that with their production of Stop Kiss. Director Chris Curtis brings to the...

Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival: ‘The Pundit’ by John Feffer

Ambitious Washington pundit Peter Peters is an expert on everything, even things he’s never heard of. His slick media appearances put him on the fast track…until one of his interviews blows up in his...

‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ at Silver Spring Stage by Amanda Gunther

Come take the high road, or in this case Martin McDonagh’s dark and twisty low ride to Leenane county, Ireland and see Silver Spring Stage’s production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Directed by Seth...