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Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Synetic Theater

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens with a chorus announcing the fate that will befall the title characters in just two hours’ time. Synetic Theatre’s wordless Romeo and Juliet, distills that...

Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Part 1: Annalisa Dias

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Annalisa Dias. Joel: Where have local audiences seen you perform recently on the stage?...

In the Moment: A Look at Synetic Theater’s ‘As You Like It’

Synetic Theater continues to winningly upend The Bard’s canon with its 12th production in the speechless, though far from silent, series that had its start in 2002 with Hamlet…the rest is silence....

‘As You Like It’ at Synetic Theater

Synetic Theater’s As You Like It is what W.H. Auden called an “inverted pastoral”—the outlaw theme of Shakespeare’s play is enhanced by the transformation of the Forest of Arden into a dystopian urban...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Synetic Theater (Review #2)

If you were looking for a local troupe to put Alice’s fabled Wonderland on stage, your top choice would have to be Synetic Theater. And no wonder. Synetic’s trademark physical theater enthralls one’s...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Synetic Theater

Yes, a high time to be had. All you need to do is follow the simple directions; “eat me”; then “drink me.” And whoosh, with music building into powerful, echoing crescendos, I found myself swirling...

National Symphony Orchestra: ‘The Music of John Williams’ at Wolf Trap

It was as good as it gets. A glorious DC area midsummer, low-humidity evening. There was a full house at the Filene Center; with demographically and generationally diverse picnickers filling the lawn...

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Synetic Theater

The music is pulsing; the performers are insanely flexible, and everything from set to costumes to lights is drenched in the fantastical for Synetic’s latest Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The...

Little Butterfly Theatre Company Presents Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ on July 23-26th at 1st Stage

Just off her success for McLean High School with Big Fish, which rose to local and national prominence, Director Amy E. Poe is leading a cast of young adults in American Idiot. The rock musical...

‘A Tale of Two Cities’ at Synetic Theater

If only Alex Mills was available to tell stories to my now 31 year old daughter when she was a baby. While I read to her aplenty, she would have marveled and communicating happily through gurgles at...

Synetic Teen Company’s ‘Hamlet…the rest is silence’ at Synetic Theater

Fans of Synetic Theater: it’s time to celebrate! While the original company members of Hamlet…the rest is silence are maturing, the new generation of brilliant performers is being groomed for...

Meet Cast Members of Synetic Teen Company’s ‘Hamlet…the rest is silence’

Let me introduce you to these young, talented, and athletic cast members of Synetic Teen Company’s production of Hamlet…the rest is silence, playing through April 18, 2015. Joel: Please introduce...

Studio Theatre Announces its Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 Line-Up

SEVEN PLAYS ANNOUNCED FOR STUDIO’S FALL AND WINTER 2015-2016 LINE-UP The inaugural year for Studio X programming The creation of Studio Cabinet, Studio’s affiliated artist program A new slate of...

Magic Time! Passion for a Play: A Q&A With Michael Dove, Director of Forum Theatre’s ‘Passion Play’

Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play is an epic three-part play set in three eras—Queen Elizabeth’s England, Adolf Hitler’s Germany, and Ronald Reagan’s America. It’s a fancifully sprawling story, and each act...

In The Moment: Paata Tsikurishvili and Nathan Weinberger on ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Synetic Theater

Synetic Theater’s terrific “silent” production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing had me wondering about the many technical design element decisions made long before an audience stepped into the...

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at Synetic Theater

“Synetic” is a word that has come to mean more, at least in the parlance of DC theatre, than the Crystal City-based company which it names. It has come to mean a theatre that is physical, sexy,...

‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Synetic Theater

Synetic Theater has brought forth an earthy, musically rich, sophisticated retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. At its heart, this appealing production harks back to the darker roots of...

Top Scene Stealers of the Week Ending 10/24/14

Here are our new group of Scene Stealers. Congrats to all our honorees! ______ Linda Baird as Lucia Singing “Time Stood Still” and “Invisible” in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at American...

‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ at Synetic Theater

Synetic continues to plumb classic literature to find new sources of inspiration for its physical theater productions. Opening its new season, Paata Tsikurishvili and his team of artistic and...

On Monday, 8/18@8 at Synetic Theater: ‘Dark Night Showcase,’ Presented by KG Dance, in Memory of Freeman Carden Fletcher by Philip Fletcher

Dark Night Showcase, Presented by KG Dance, in Memory of Freeman Carden Fletcher!! What’s with the name? The term “Dark Night” is a theatrical colloquialism used to describe times when a theatre venue...

Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘SELF’

There are countless plays (and movies, songs, paintings, stories….) about people falling in love with other people. But what about loving yourself? If you can’t love yourself, are you even capable of...

‘Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)’ at Synetic Theater

Cultish musical enthusiasts have The Rocky Horror Show, movie-goers have Night of the Living Dead, 60’s rockers had The Grateful Dead, and literary enthusiasts have Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing...

Nibbles And Sips Around Town: Brunch Before the Matinee: City Tap House, The Partisan, Malmaison, Jaleo Brunch, Peach Brandy at Mount Vernon

City Tap House, The Partisan, Malmaison, Jaleo Brunch, Peach Brandy at Mount Vernon Brunch Before the Matinee On an unseasonably warm Sunday we tried out the new brunch menu at Jaleo. We chose the...

‘Inherit the Wind’ at American University

A great play is sweet solace, and there’s a relief in knowing that all the love and hard work you’ve just witnessed culminated into a success. American University’s production of Inherit the Wind, the...

World Stages: International Theater Festival: Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble: ‘Not by Bread Alone’

The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...

World Stages: International Theater Festival: Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble: ‘Not by Bread Alone’

The delicious aroma of bread fills the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center World Stage Festival as a talented ensemble of deaf-blind actors from Israel bakes bread and dishes up ten short sketches....

‘Hamlet…the rest is silence’ at Synetic Theater

“The rest is silence” are Hamlet’s last words before he dies, but you won’t hear them in this production because the whole play is conveyed in movement. Not a word is spoken. Synetic Theater first...

‘Where The Whangdoodle Sings’ at Generous Company at The Baltimore Theatre Project by Amanda Gunther

Does your story matter? Will it be remembered and recorded in vivid Technicolor with all of the deep anguishing pains of its existence or will it be swallowed whole by the myth eaters and rearranged...

‘Twelfth Night’ at Synetic Theater by Christina Frank

There’s nothing particularly innovative about setting Shakespeare in the 20’s. Look around town and you’ll find a number of companies hauling out the flapper dresses. There’s also nothing new about...

Catch The Holiday Spirit(S) At The Theatre by Jordan Wright

A DASH OF SHAKESPEARE FOR THE TEEN IN YOUR LIFE Family holiday shows are everywhere. But where can you find one that’s tailor made for teens…and non-denominational too? This year the Synetic Theatre...

‘Teen A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Synetic Theater by Jane Coyne

On Friday night, December 6, 2013, with only two months of training and rehearsals to ready its young performers, Synetic Theater staged an impressive opening night Teen production of A Midsummer...

Synetic Theater’s Teens’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Opens This Thursday at 8 PM by Alysa Turner

See the next generation of Synetic superstars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Beginning this Thursday, December 5th at 8 PM at Synetic Theater-1800 South Bell Street, in Arlington, VA. Synetic Theater’s...

Synetic Theater and Dorian Gray to Host The Vampire’s Ball by Alysa Turner

Synetic Theater and Dorian Gray to Host The Vampire’s Ball Friday, November 1, 2013 at 8pm Tickets to Synetic Theater’s Annual Halloween Party to Include a Performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray...

Paata Tsikurishvili on Directing ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ at Synetic Theater by Joel Markowitz

Synetic Theater’s Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili talks about his new production of The Picture of Dorian Gray. What makes this production so new and exciting? Why is The Picture of Dorian Gray...

Adapting ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ for Synetic Theater’s Production by Nathan Weinberger

My first instinct when adapting Dorian Gray was that it would be easy—never a good sign. That being said though, come on: Synetic and all the creepy, gothic elements that everyone associates with...

Magic Time!: ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by John Stoltenberg

The notorious aesthete Oscar Wilde believed that beauty is be-all and end-all. After The Painting of Dorian Gray met with moral outrage upon its publication in 1890, he appended a Preface to the novel...

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ at Synetic Theater by Yvonne French

The main character of Synetic Theater’s new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on Oscar Wilde’s only novel, is a handsome young man who sits for a portrait by a painter named Basil....

Dallas Tolentino on Playing Dorian Gray at Synetic Theater by Joel Markowitz

As he is preparing to star as Dorian Gray at Synetic Theater, Dallas Tolentino takes us behind the scenes of preparing for his role. Joel: Why did you want to play the role of Dorian Gray? Dallas: The...

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Synetic Theater by David Friscic

Synetic Theater weaves a fusion of theatrical elements to bravura and mesmerizing effect in their current production of their acclaimed past Helen Hayes Award-winning hit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream....

‘The Three Musketeers’ at Synetic Theater by Natalie McCabe

In his Director’s Notes, Paata Tsikurishvili quotes a line from Hamlet: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” In its latest show, The Three Musketeers, written by brothers Ben Cunis...

‘The Three Musketeers’ Opens Tonight at Synetic Theater

Synetic Theater opens a new adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas’ novel, The Three Musketeers in Crystal City. Brothers Ben and Peter Cunis have worked on the new adaptation for over 10 months. The...

Synetic Theater Announces its 2013-2014 Season

Synetic Theater Announces Its 2013-2014 Season The Picture of Dorian Gray Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Sept. 26, 2013 – Nov. 3, 2013 Fearing the ravages of time and realizing the impermanence of...

‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Synetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble by Nicole Cusick

The Teen Ensemble of the Synetic Theater is taking over Crystal City this weekend with their performance of Taming of the Shrew. They are remounting the production that was a part of Synetic’s “Silent...

Synetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble Performs ‘Taming of the Shrew’ 4/12-4/14 by Monica Jillings

Synetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble Storms Into Spring With The Taming of the Shrew Synetic 2012 comedy hit is back! The Synetic Teen Ensemble will remount Synetic’s “Silent Shakespeare” hit – The Taming...

‘The Tempest’ at Synetic Theater by Natalie McCabe

A squall. A gale. A storm. A tempest. Synetic Theater’s production of The Tempest, the latest installment of their Silent Shakespeare Series, can be described using all of the above words. Indeed, the...

‘Not By Bread Alone’ at Nalaga’at Theater Ensemble at New York University’s Skirball Center by Mark Dewey

Not By Bread Alone: Extraordinary Food Before taking my seat for Sunday’s performance of Not By Bread Alone, I stepped into the men’s room and blew my nose — really honked it. The guy at the next sink...

Enter to win a pair of tickets to ‘The Screwtape Letters’ at The Lansburgh Theatre

Win two free tickets to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS!! Send an email to dcmetrotheaterarts@gmail.com (Paste this email address into your email) and tell us why you want to see the show. You can select the...

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ at Synetic Theater Teen Ensemble by Jennifer Perry

4 stars (3 ½ stars for production execution; 4 ½ stars for the teen performances) Synetic Theater’s teen company’s production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is an example of a case where a...

‘A Trip to the Moon’ at Synetic Theater by Jane Coyne

It was an evening of pure and light-hearted fun in Crystal City last night as Synetic Theater presented its latest offering, A Trip to the Moon. The show combines George Méliès’ 1902 film Le Voyage...

‘The Jungle Book’ at Synetic Theater’s Teen Ensemble by Jennifer Perry

Like its adult (mainstage) counterpart, the Synetic Theater Teen Ensemble clearly has a knack for adapting well-known works of literature, highlighting the salient themes for today, and presenting the...