Studio Theatre

2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Out of Silence: Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign’

Abortion: A ten-ton word that sends shockwaves rumbling across a twenty food radius wherever it is uttered. But why? It’s a contentious political issue for sure, perhaps the most contentious, but it’s...

2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Stuff’

Upon entering the Eastman Studio Theatre venue at Gallaudet University, I did not quite know how to respond as I was handed a book entitled Daybreak in Korea by Robert L. Sheldon. As I looked around,...

2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘mostly the VOICE: a black lesbian journey’

There are many delightful and poignant moments in mostly the VOICE: a black lesbian journey. This engaging autobiographical amalgam of poetry, original music, and storytelling—written and performed by...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #38: A Look at ‘Dust to Dust’

Where did they get the music? Why haven’t I heard of this musical before? Who are these amazing young performers? These are the questions you—like others who’ve seen the play—will ask after seeing...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #29: ‘Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing Presents: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?’

“Hungry like a Woolf”: Europe’s Angry Avante-Garde Comes to Capital Fringe Atonin Artaud, founder of the “Theatre of Cruelty” and godfather of many of the more disturbing theatrical experiments of the...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview # 17: ‘Out of Sync’ by Amanda DiMartini

Love and Depression powerfully collide in ‘Out of Sync’ “Sometimes love isn’t enough…and somehow you still have to keep going.” In a production seamlessly fusing text and movement, Doorway Arts...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #15: Motion X Dance DC’s ‘Altered Archives’ by Lindsay Benson Garrett

History has always affected the future. But what if we could reshape our past? Altered Archives World premiere at the 10th Annual Capital Fringe Festival July 11 – 25, 2015 Contemporary dance and...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #12: ‘Stuff’ by John Feffer

It’s a rite of passage: dealing with all the stuff your parents leave behind when they die. What do you keep, and what do you give away? How much do you fight with your siblings over that brooch that...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #11: ‘Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign’

“It’s really important that we are able to hear our stories on the stage,” said Marie Byrd Sproul as we talked about the show she directed—Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #9: ‘Cold As Death’

“People ask me ‘where do you find these plays?’ says Catherine Aselford, Artistic Director of Guillotine Theatre, “and I always wonder why they don’t ask me ‘why do you find these plays?’ I can’t help...

2015 Capital Fringe Preview #6: Preview Article: ‘Girl Versus Corinth’ by Danny Baird and Michael Windsor

Medea’s back and she’s putting the pulse back in expulsion! The feminist revolution is in full swing, and Medea’s been resurrected by a band of feminist specters who are ready to riot grrrl. In Girl...

In the Moment: 2015 Capital Fringe Festival Preview #1: ‘BOND: An Unauthorized Parody’ first at Workhouse Performing Arts Center and then at The Capital Fringe

Looking at the upcoming Workhouse (Lorton, VA) Performing Arts Center calendar and the Capital Fringe Festival performance schedule, I spotted a show from Tasty Monster Productions that is crossing...

‘Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love’ at The Studio Theatre

Mallery Avidon’s Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, now playing at Studio’s Milton Theatre, is many things. It is a poetically funny exposé on 21st century culture. It is a lyrical landscape on the lonely...

‘Our Town’ at Faction of Fools

Faction of Fools does it again with an innovative production of Thornton Wilder’s revolutionary and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, which originally debuted in 1938 about a New Hampshire town at...

Magic Time! ‘Theater from the Heart’: A Q&A with ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ Playwright Tom Wells

The morning after Jumpers for Goalposts opened at Studio Theatre, I sat down to talk with its very talented playwright, Tom Wells. He had been in town watching the last few weeks of rehearsals,...

Spine: ‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ at The Studio Theatre

Life’s endless struggles — from the daily variety, like getting your mates to behave appropriately, to the emotionally cataclysmic, like the death of a loved one — such is the subject of Tom Wells’...

‘Jumpers for Goalposts’ at The Studio Theatre

There have been some great plays set in locker rooms that lay bare the anxieties underlying men’s lives. After all, the sports locker room is the archetypical site of respite from the male-male combat...

‘Hamlet’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

If Hamlet as a character is historically—and enduringly—shrouded in fog, the scene that greets us as we enter Lumina Studio Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s eponymous play is more than a match...

Watch the 69th Annual Tony Award Nominations Being Announced: ‘An American in Paris’ and ‘Fun Home’ Lead Musicals with 12; ‘Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2’ Leads Plays with 8

HERE ARE THE 2015 TONY AWARD NOMINEES Best Play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Author: Simon Stephens Producers: Stuart Thompson, Tim Levy for NT America, Warner Bros. Theatre...

‘The Lady’s Not For Burning’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

No, she is not. But in the year “1400, either more or less exactly,” per playwright Christopher Fry’s prefiguratively imprecise formulation, written in the aftermath of the, for many, apocalyptic...

Spine: ‘Murder Ballad: Liquor and Love, with Child’ by Robert Michael Oliver

There’s nothing like hot sex to get the blood pumping. There’s nothing like lasting love to swoon the heart. There’s nothing like a child to turn the world upside down. And there’s nothing like a...

Magic Time! ‘Murder Ballad’ at The Studio Theatre by John Stoltenberg

The fourth-floor black box at Studio Theatre has housed some extraordinary original storytelling. Recent productions of Terminus and Moth leap to mind. The space, called Stage 4, seems like a magnet...

‘Murder Ballad’ at The Studio Theatre (Review) by David Siegel

Let yourself be seduced into a dark reverie as a love triangle, or perhaps a rectangle, goes way wrong. Musical pulp-fiction has come to 14th and P Streets pushed forward by electric guitar power...

‘Doctor Faustus’ at Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program

A steampunk staging of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus without any spoken or signed language? Just movement and mime and lighting and scenic effects? Sounds crazy, right? Well, depending on the...

‘Eat The Runt’ at Arts Collective at Howard Community College

College theaters have always been forerunners in experimental theater, and Arts Collective at Howard Community College’s zany production of Avery Crozier’s Eat the Runt is no exception. The play is a...

Arts Collective @ Howard Community College Presents ‘Eat the Runt’ April 17-May 3, 2015 in HCC’s Studio Theatre

Arts Collective @ Howard Community College presents EAT THE RUNT April 17 – May 3, 2015 in HCC’s Studio Theatre An outrageous, delicious, comic satire – Audiences choose the cast every night Howard...

‘Laugh’ at The Studio Theatre

To be sure, name a play Laugh and the gauntlet is thrown. Laugh or die trying. The Studio Theatre’s world premiere production of Beth Henley’s new play, based on the antics of silent films from the...

Today’s Theatre Closings-March 1, 2015

Here are the latest Theatre Closing for Sunday, February 22, 2015 As of 2 PM ____ The Arts Barn is closed. Beoing, Boeing is cacelled. The Colonial Players “Watch on the Rhine’ is cancelled. Damascus...

‘Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign’

No girl grows up dreaming of terminating a pregnancy. There are plenty of aspirational fantasies out there—some good for her, some not—but to be in a situation where she decides to have an abortion is...

‘Our Mutual Friend’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

“Part mystery, part romantic comedy, part moral fable, Our Mutual Friend justly earns its place among Dickens’s most brilliant novels.” With these words, Directors Kelly Newman O’Connor and John...

‘Choir Boy’ at The Studio Theatre

At the heart of Tarel Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, the new play at Studio Theatre, is the question of what it means to be a man. Actually, it’s less of a question than a command. Set in the fictional...

Magic Time! ‘Choirboy’ at The Studio Theatre

There comes a scene in Choir Boy at The Studio Theatre when five young black men stand naked in dimly lit separate shower stalls singing “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” in glorious harmony....

‘Ascendance’ at CityDance

This weekend in the CityDance Studio Theatre at Strathmore, CityDance Onstage Ignite presents Robert J. Priore‘s Ascendance. CityDance Onstage Ignite is a program geared toward showcasing the work of...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: High School and Training Programs

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Performances in High School and Training Programs go to: HIGH SCHOOLS PRODUCTIONS: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling...

‘Twelfth Night’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

All the world’s a stage, and much of life’s a circus. Shakespeare may not have said the second part, but his whirlwind, identity-switching, gender-bending, who’s-on-first 1602 comedy Twelfth Night,...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending 11/27/14-Part 1

Here is Part 1 of our new list of Scene Stealers honorees for the week ending 11/27/14. ______ Brian Lyons-Burke as Henry Higgins in His Final Scene in My Fair Lady at Damascus Theatre Company...

Meet the Assistant Director of 1st Stage’s ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’: Part 4: John Dellaporta by Alex Levy

This is part 4 in a series of interviews with the cast and Assistant Director of 1st Stage’s One Man, Two Guvnors.‘ Meet Assistant Director John Dellaporta. Alex: How did you get involved in theatre?...

Hit Musical ‘Visible Language’ to Livestream on HowlRound Tomorrow, November 16th at 2 PM

Hit Musical Visible Language to Livestream on HowlRound TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 16, 2014 AT 2 PM WSC Avant Bard and the Gallaudet University Theatre and Dance Program announce today that their...

‘The Rez Sisters’ at American University

Had you asked me moments before The Rez Sisters, American University’s tremendous and thought provoking new play, began, I would have told you I didn’t think bingo was all that interesting. Well, that...

Magic Time! Heard About the Rainbow Theatre Project? A Q&A With Artistic Director H. Lee Gable

The Rainbow Theatre Project, Metro DC’s very own LGBTQ theatre company, has just begun its second season. If that sounds intriguing but you’ve never heard of it, small wonder. As H. Lee Gable,...

‘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...

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...

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...

Meet the Cast of ‘Southern Crisis’ at Howard Community College by Jenny Male

The Theatre Program at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland will soon present Southern Crisis: Two Short Comedies by Christopher Durang. The two comedies are For Whom the Southern Belle...

The Playwright’s Playground: Playwright Rachel Bonds on the Athleticism of Writing and Her World Premiere Production ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre

Rachel Bonds’ play The Wolfe Twins is the first commissioned play to be produced by Studio Theatre. The funny and heartbreaking glimpse into life centers on two siblings who have drifted apart since...

HCC’s Arts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!?!” HALLOW-SCREAM show, Friday, October 24, 2014 by Susan G. Kramer

HCC’s Arts Collective’s “What Improv Group?!?!” HALLOW-SCREAM show, Friday, October 24, 2014 AC’s improv group (W.I.G.) returns for a Halloween 1-Night-Only Improv Show, featuring its popular, unique...

‘The Wolfe Twins’ at The Studio Theatre

Crying Wolf; ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre The Wolfe Twins, by Rachel Bonds, is a World Premiere by Studio Lab, which features scaled-back productions of provocative new plays. First-rate acting...

Meet the Cast of ‘Danny Boy’ at Unexpected Stage Company: Part 2: Meet Justus Hammond

In Part 2 in a series of interviews with the cast of Danny Boy at Unexpected Stage Company, meet Justus Hammond. Joel: Introduce yourself to our readers and tell them where you received your theater...

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...

‘Belleville’ at The Studio Theatre

Life is Beautiful is more than an Academy Award-winning film title; that savored notion is a mantra generations of Americans are nurtured to hope, dream, and believe. The adventure and escape to the...