2013

La-Ti-Do Announces Performers for Tomorrow-Monday, 4/1/13 at 8 PM by Don Michael Mendoza

It’s that time of week again for La-Ti-Do WINNER of DC Theater Arts’ Special Award for Best of 2012! Our April Fool’s Day Show. MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013 at 8 PM At The Black Fox Lounge 1723 Connecticut...

The Lunch and Judy Show: ‘It Was Soooo Different Then!’ by Judy Stadt

I am the host and creator and writer and editor of The Lunch and Judy Show. For six years DCMTA’s Joel Markowitz and I have been schmoozing about theatre in DC, Philly, and NYC and other things…like...

Filichia on Friday: ‘March’s Leftovers and April’s Brainteaser’ by Peter Filichia

Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.‘ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMTA. This week: March’s Leftovers...

‘The New Adventures of Alice in Wonderland’ at Other Voices Productions at The Weinberg Center by Mike Spain

Other Voices Productions’ presentation of The New Adventures of Alice in Wonderland at the Weinberg Center for the Arts has it all – a large cast, special guests, dancers, spectacular lights, changing...

Nibbles And Sips Around Town: Easter & Passover, Peacock Café, Curious Grape & Garden Cafe by Jordan Wright

Greek Orthodox Easter Festival at Zaytinya Jose Andres’ popular spot, Zaytinya, is planning a five-week festival beginning March 31st and ending on Greek Orthodox Easter, on May 3rd. Head Chef,...

[title of show] at AU Players at American University by Colleen Sproull

How is it that we can dream and then get in our own way of achieving the very same dreams? A relevant question raised by the AU Players in their production of [title of show] at American University....

Sally Struthers on ‘The Full Monty’ at Riverside Center Dinner Theater by Joel Markowitz

Riverside Center Dinner Theater favorite Sally Struthers has returned to play the role of the feisty Jeanette in the musical version of The Full Monty. Joel: You have performed at Riverside Center...

‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater by Mark Dewey

Arena Stage Explores the Lincoln White House Tazewell Thompson’s new play Mary T. & Lizzy K., now playing at Arena Stage, is based on the unlikely friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth...

Predict The Helen Hayes Awards Winners on TrueTheatergoer and Win $100 of TIX Certificates

TrueTheatergoer is offering its readers a chance to pick the winners of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, and to win $100.00 for selecting the most winners. The person who submits the entry with the...

‘Emma’ at The George Washington University by Alexa Kelly

I have never lived in the eighteenth century, but, in my mind’s eye, I see a quiet era of classical music and gentle manners. In many ways, The George Washington University’s production of Jane...

‘Are You Ready To Get ‘Naked’?’ by Rachael Murray

What is Naked Theatre Company? Let’s be clear: Naked Theatre Company is not a Vegas-style burlesque show, a theatre of nudists, an organic juice performance art collective, or a thinly-veiled live...

‘New York City Ballet Program B’ at The Kennedy Center by Colleen Sproull

New York City Ballet knocks it out of the park again with an elegant, exciting, contemporary performance for New York City Ballet Program B at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House. The production opens...

‘Reaching the NextStop’ Part 1: An Introduction by Evan Hoffmann

My name is Evan Hoffmann. I am the newly appointed Producing Artistic Director of Elden Street Players, soon to be rechristened the NextStop Theatre Company. Elden Street Players is a twenty-five year...

David Bosley-Reynolds on Playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre by Amanda Gunther

It may be one of Broadway’s most popular musicals, but there’s no stronger a tradition than mastering the role of Tevye for more than twenty years. I sat down with Baltimore-based actor David...

‘New York City Ballet Program A’ at The Kennedy Center by Colleen Sproull

A full house at the gorgeous Kennedy Center Opera House anxiously awaited the opening of New York City Ballet Program A tonight. Tchaikovsky’s unbeatable score, played triumphantly by New York City...

Actors’ Equity to be Honored at The Helen Hayes Awards on April 8th

Actors’ Equity Association to Receive Helen Hayes Tribute at the 29th Helen Hayes Awards, Monday April 8 The prestigious Helen Hayes Tribute – presented every year at the Washington’s annual...

‘Duke Ellington School of the Arts presents An Evening with Patti LaBelle’ by Mike Spain

Patti LaBelle performed at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall last night., as part of the Performance Series of Legends to benefit the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The concert is the school’s...

‘Les Belles Soeurs’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre by Amanda Gunther

They say you shouldn’t count your chickens before they hatch. You also shouldn’t cash in your stamps for prizes before you have them all glued down. And Germaine Lankowski discovers that the hard way...

‘Something Different 2013’ at Elden Street Players by Julia L. Exline

Elden Street Players Theatre for Young Audiences presents Something Different 2013, an annual production of fables and folklore for children. This year’s choices were Hans Christian Anderson’s The...

Neil Berg’s ‘101 Years of Broadway’ at The Music Center at Strathmore by Mike Spain

Neil Berg was a great narrator weaving stories about artists, musicals, and the history of the Broadway Musical throughout his 101 Years of Broadway last night at The Music Center at Strathmore. Berg...

‘Never the Sinner: The Leopold & Loeb Story’ at 1st Stage by Yvonne French

In 1st Stage’s gripping production of Never the Sinner: The Leopold and Loeb Story, seven actors explore homosexual power struggles, murderous thrill-seeking, and reportorial sensationalism in the...

Part 1: Behind the Scenes of ‘Pride & Prejudice’: Meet Annapolis Shakespeare Company by Terry Bouma

Introducing the Annapolis Shakespeare Company The Annapolis Shakespeare Company is a new, not-for-profit, emerging professional classical theatre company located in Annapolis, Maryland. ASC was...

The New York City Ballet Comes to The Kennedy Center 3/26-31 & Interview with Dana Jacobson by Carolyn Kelemen

Do I hear a waltz? A waltz is a waltz is a waltz unless, of course, it’s the New York City Ballet dancing the beautiful Vienna Waltzes this weekend at The Kennedy Center. Then it’s something special!...

Kevin Roland Begins his New Column ‘A View From the Pit’

I didn’t choose to be a Musical Director. It chose me. And thank God it did, because I can’t imagine much else I would be good at. I told my mother for years I didn’t want those silly piano lessons...

Patti LaBelle @The Kennedy Center Tonight @7:30 PM For Duke Ellington School of the Arts Benefit By Mike Spain

The legendary award-winning singer Patti LaBelle is coming to The Kennedy Center for a special benefit concert tonight March 25, 2013. The concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in...

‘4000 Miles’ at The Studio Theatre by Rick Westekamp

Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles at The Studio Theatre opens with an unexpected reunion between Vera, a leftist in her eighties played by Tana Hicken, and her grandson Leo (Grant Harrison), a twenty-something...

‘Voodoo Macbeth’ at The American Century Theater by David Friscic

The American Century Theater (TACT), under the Artistic Direction of Jack Marshall, pulls it all together with a stunning and audacious production of “that Scottish play” – William Shakespeare’s...

‘Jason Invisible’ at The Kennedy Center by Yvonne French

Jason Invisible is a cross between Sesame Street and an A.A. meeting with all the best parts of each playing across the sweet face of lead actor Mark Halpern, especially his slowly dawning looks of...

‘The Art of the African-American Spiritual’ at National Chamber Ensemble by Jane Coyne

The National Chamber Ensemble presented The Art of the African-American Spritual at Artisphere on Saturday evening. It was a delightful concert with talent abounding, and the setting was most...

Film Review: ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ by Erica Laxson

If you think the sequester hit DC hard, just wait til you see what the terrorists have in store for the capitol in Olympus Has Fallen, written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. With...

La-Ti-Do Announces Performers for Tomorrow-Monday, 3/25/13 at 8 PM by Don Michael Mendoza

It’s that time of week again for La-Ti-Do WINNER of DC Theater Arts’ Special Award for Best of 2012! MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 at 8 PM At The Black Fox Lounge 1723 Connecticut Avenue Northwest...

‘U Probably Think This Play Is About U’ at Strand Theater Company by Amanda Gunther

Love is merely a madness. Quoted by the Bard and then put into action like you’ve never seen it as Strand Theater Company presents a compelling new one-woman show, U Probably Think This Play is about...

‘Spotlight 2013’ at Adventure Theatre MTC by Joel Markowitz

I had such a good time today watching 37 of the most talented local young singers and dancers perform at Adventure Theatre MTC’s Spotlight 2013, which featured 22 songs from Broadway shows of the past...

‘Peter Pan’ at The Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric Opera House by Amanda Gunther

Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning! It’s flying into town for a limited engagement but every child and child at heart will want to race down to The Lyric Opera House and see Cathy...

‘Word Becomes Flesh’ at Atlas Performing Arts Center and Theater Alliance by Jessica Vaughan

“Welcome to the spoken world.” Thus begins a one of a kind performance piece piece by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an artist, poet, dancer and activist named by the United States Artists Rockefeller...

‘Las aventuras de Don Quixote de La Mancha’ at Gala Hispanic Theatre by Andrew L. Baughman

Las aventuras de Don Quixote de La Mancha, Patricia Suarez’s adaptation of Cervantes’ novel (Bilingual Adaptation by Cornelia Cody), is currently delighting young audiences at GALA Hispanic Theatre at...

‘I, Jack, am the Knave of Hearts’ at DC Arts Center (DCAC) by Nicole Cusick

One man, one hour, one mission: to figure out where in the world does he belong. Although B. Stanley pulled himself out of hell as Jack in I, Jack, am the Knave of Hearts, he pulled the audience right...

‘The Full Monty’ at Riverside Center Dinner Theater by Julia L. Exline

Riverside Center Dinner Theater presents The Full Monty, a side-splitting musical comedy written by Terrence McNally, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek. Patrick A’Hearn directs this (revealing!)...

Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround’s ‘The Chemistry of Lime Trees’ by Rick Westerkamp

Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround’s The Chemistry of Lime Trees is an evening of dance theatre the likes of which I have never experienced. From the deep investment of all of the performers, to the...

‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ at The Catholic University of America by Justin Schneider

Is it possible for two people be irrevocably connected, regardless of action or distance? Can we ever really be certain about where our lives are headed? And can we ever grow as people without taking...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Can You Say L’esprit de l’escalier?’ by Peter Filichia

Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.‘ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMTA. This week: Can You Say L’esprit...

‘Deafhood Monologues’ on April 5th at Atlas Performing Arts Center by Yvonne French

Anyone who wants a rare chance to absorb a different language and culture should go to Deafhood Monologues on April 5th at Atlas Performing Arts Center. All 14 actors are deaf. They will perform 22...

‘Cinderella’ at The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center by Colleen Sproull

The Washington Ballet’s production of Cinderella at the Kennedy Center is fun for the whole family. All the elements of storytelling combine, with incredibly impressive scenic design by James Kronzer...

‘A Behanding in Spokane’ at The Keegan Theatre by Kim Moeller

A Behanding in Spokane is an unexpected guilty pleasure. Unexpected, because the play is promoted as a macabre tale full of grisly surprises. Although there are a plethora of blood-soaked amputated...

Mark Owen Martin’s New Chamber Opera “Sweeter Than Roses’ Tomorrow Night & Saturday@8 at Lab at Convergence

Mark Owen Martin presents a new chamber opera Sweeter Than Roses, tomorrow night March 22nd and Saturday, March 23rd at 8 pm in the Lab at Convergence – 1819 Quaker Lane, in Alexandria, VA. Free...

Spotlighters & Artisphere present ‘The River and the Mountain’-Controversial Ugandan Play TONIGHT & Saturday

The American Debut Reading of the Controversial play THE RIVER AND THE MOUNTAIN In August 2012, one line from one play changed Ugandan history. “I’m gay” was uttered by the main character from The...

Free ‘American Musical Voices Project’ Concert at Signature on Monday, March 25th at 8 PM

AT SIGNATURE THEATRE – 4200 Campbell Ave, in Arlington, VA

Capital Fringe Awarded The Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community

The Washington Post and theatreWashington announced today that Capital Fringe will receive The Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community at the 29th Helen Hayes Awards...

Jack Marshall Remembers How Georgetown University Law Center’s Theater Company Became an Institution!

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the only graduate student-operated theater company in the U.S., once dubbed by Newsweek, “the only theater company with its own law school.” The Georgetown...

Shakespeare Theatre Co. Adds ‘A Funny Thing,’ ‘Mies Julie’ & Baryshnikov in 2013-1014 Schedule by Lindsay Tolar

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY FINALIZES THE 2013-2014 SEASON Additions Include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Presentations of Mies Julie and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Man in a Case The...