2015

Magic Time! ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by John Stoltenberg

Now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a depiction of eroticism so intimate and artful that it left me woozy with awe and wonder. No one takes their clothes off. There are no phony porny...

‘Lights Rise on Grace’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by Robert Michael Oliver

Lights Rise on Grace, the world premiere by Chad Beckim, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, has all the elements of a compelling drama. The play takes us into the dynamics of an intricate set of...

‘Ghosts’ at Everyman Theatre

Wonderfully directed by Donald Hicken, the production of Ghosts at Everyman Theater is a moving drama set in the distant past, but updated with a new attitude and understanding for modern audiences....

Meet the Cast of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Rockville Little Theatre: Part 4: Kevin Page

In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast and director of To Kill a Mockingbird at Rockville Little Theatre. Meet Kevin Page. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have...

Adventure Theatre MTC’s Reimagined ‘The Wizard of Oz’ by Jacqueline Lawton Opens

ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC REIMAGINES THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ IN A WORLD PREMIERE BY JACQUELINE LAWTON Adventure Theatre MTC takes us on a reimagined journey through Oz in a world premiere play by...

‘Wicked’ at Hippodrome Theatre at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center

Have you ever wondered what happened before Dorothy’s arrival in the Land of Oz in the classic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz? How did the Wicked Witch become so wicked? How did the Good Witch become so...

‘Filichia on Friday’: ‘If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion …’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion … ______...

Meet the Cast of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Rockville Little Theatre: Part 3: Stuart Rick

In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast and director of To Kill a Mockingbird at Rockville Little Theatre. Meet Stuart Rick. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may...

‘The Nemo Effect and Music for Grand Guignol Theatre: Horror, Horror Everywhere’ by Gregory Thomas Martin

Horror is one of my favorite genres to compose music for. It is always an exciting challenge to compose something that the audience not only has certain expectations for, but also is still something...

Meet the Cast of ‘Nunsense’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company: Part 6: Francine Kent

In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of Nunsense at Wolf Pack Theatre Company, meet Francine Kent. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us where local theatregoers may have seen you...

Meet the Cast of ‘August: Osage County’ at The Highwood Theatre Part 7: Laura Goldberg

In Part 7 of a series of interviews with the cast of August: Osage County at The Highwood Theatre, meet Laura Goldberg. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen...

Author Gretchen Rubin at Sixth and I Synagogue on Her New Book ‘Better than Before’

Gretchen Rubin is on a mission to change people’s lives for the better. Her insight for learning and curiosity is benefiting millions. One day she realized her life was passing her by and she didn’t...

Meet the Cast of ‘August: Osage County’ at The Highwood Theatre Part 6: Elena Meiman

In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of August: Osage County at The Highwood Theatre, meet Elena Meiman. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you...

Ari Roth’s Mosaic Theater Company Takes Off: Serge Seiden, Jennifer Nelson, Lorna Mulvaney, and T. Chase Meacham Join the Mosaic Theater Team

MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC TAKES GIANT STRIDES ON PATH FROM VISION TO LAUNCH Key financial support and acclaimed leadership team of Founding Artistic Director Ari Roth and Producing Director Serge...

Meet the Cast of ‘Nunsense’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company: Part 5: Jamie Crowne

In Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of Nunsense at Wolf Pack Theatre Company, meet Jamie Crowne. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us where local theatregoers may have seen you...

Meet the Cast of ‘August: Osage County’ at The Highwood Theatre Part 5: Shannon Leach

In Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of August: Osage County at The Highwood Theatre, meet Shannon Leach. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending March 31, 2015 Part 1

Here is Part 1 of our favorite ‘Scene Stealers’ in March 2015. Congrats to our honorees! ______ Alex Alburqueque, as Leporello, in Don Giovanni at The In Series singing “Lovely Lady” “Don Giovanni...

‘Barefoot in the Park’ Plays at McLean Community Players May 1-16, 2015 by Cathy Farnsworth

Barefoot in the Park is about Corie and Paul, two newly-weds who move into a New York City apartment five flights up, with no elevator and plumbing problems. Besides having to cope with the...

‘In the Moment’ An Interview with Choreographers Erica Rebollar and Helanius J. Wilkins on ‘Everything for the First Time’ at Atlas on 4/11 at 8 PM

The artistry and craft of two masterful choreographers are coming together for a stimulating, one night only performance at the Atlas Performing Arts Center with the tantalizing title, Everything for...

Visual Arts Viewpoint: Interview with Artist Joan Belmar

Before you make your way to a table at the new Busboys and Poets in Takoma Park, allow yourself generous time to walk around the space and contemplate the worlds inside Joan Belmar’s paintings hanging...

Enter by Tomorrow-Thursday 4/2 at Noon-to Win Two Pairs of Tickets to Bob McDonald’s Cabaret at Strathmore’s New AMP This Saturday, April 4th at 8 PM

We Are Giving Away 2 Pairs of Tickets to: BOB MCDONALD’S CABARET THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2015 AT 8 PM AT STRATHMORE’S NEW AMP 11810 Grand Park Avenue Suite 400 North Bethesda, MD 20852 A short walk...

‘Slow Falling Bird’ at Georgetown University

The final production of the 2014-2015 Georgetown University Theatre season is Slow Falling Bird, as part of the 2014-15 Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program’s “Where We’re From:...

‘Don’t Die in the Dark’ Plays April 11-26th at Studio 1469 in Columbia Heights by Joe Brack

History lessons typically share the tale of the victor. Perhaps, the wrong side has a lesson as well. This new play is a glimpse into the wrong side of Our Great Emancipation. During America’s civil...

Meet the Cast of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Rockville Little Theatre: Part 2: Kieran Duffy

In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast and director of To Kill a Mockingbird at Rockville Little Theatre. Meet Kieran Duffy. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may...

‘The Island’ at MetroStage

There are so many way to demand justice. In 1973 South Africans Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona found their voices to take on South Africa’s apartheid through the words of and connections...

Directing Molotov’s ‘The Margins’ – The Rules (?) of the Ghost Story by Carl Brandt Long

I’ve wanted to direct a thriller for years, so I jumped at the chance to direct Molotov Theatre Group’s upcoming production of The Margins by David Skeele (opening April 2 at DCAC in Adams Morgan; for...

Interview with Musician and Contestant on ‘The Voice’ Jack Gregori

DC based musician Jack Gregori is a self-described “singer-songwriter, guitar picker, and the creator of Human Country Jukebox” whose music focuses on “rabble-rousing outlaw country bands from the...

Meet the Cast of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Rockville Little Theatre: Part 1: Nancy Lark

In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast and director of To Kill a Mockingbird at Rockville Little Theatre, meet Nancy Lark. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have...

Signature Theatre Announces its 2015-2016 Season

Signature Theatre Announces 2015/16 Season Season features two world premiere musicals: Cake Off and Girlstar plus The DC Premiere of Annie Baker’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner The Flick The DC Premiere...

Magic Time! ‘The Norwegians’ (‘Da Norvegians’) at Scena Theatre by a Norvegian

So dere’s dis play goin’ on in town called Da Norvegians, and it’s set in Minneapolis and it’s got Norvegian characters in it, so I tought I should go check it out, on accounta I vas born dere and...

Post-Play Palaver: A Passionate Response to Forum Theatre’s ‘Passion Play’ by Michael Poandl and John Stoltenberg

After Michael Poandl and John Stoltenberg, both DCMTA writers, saw a recent performance of Passion Play at Forum Theatre, they found themselves chattering back and forth trying to figure out why the...

‘Cinderella’ at The Russian National Ballet Theatre at Hylton Performing Arts Center

I attended the Russian National Ballet Theatre’s enchanting Cinderella on Friday night at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Cinderella moves to George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on April...

‘Sense & Sensibility’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company

Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s Sense & Sensibility is the ultimate tale of First World problems. While the story predates both hashtags and the concept of the First World, it is tale of the rich who...

‘Cinderella’ at Ballet Theatre of Maryland at the Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric

Entering the closing phase of this season, Maryland’s premier ballet company –Ballet Theatre of Maryland (‘BTM’)- returned to the scene of last season’s major artistic triumph in Swan Lake for a...

‘The Merchant of Venice’ at The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory

In sooth I know no other way to write my thoughts of seeing friends both here and past bestride the open boards of a holy cockpit to speak a muse of fire in the music of its day. If ‘twere enough to...

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...

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...

‘The Secret Garden’ at NextStop Theatre Company

Weary of winter, Washingtonians? NextStop Theatre Company has your antidote. Instead of a resurrection-vague Jesus Christ Superstar timed to Easter, this praiseworthy playhouse subbed in Marsha Norman...

‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ at Spotlighters Theatre

With Director Greg Bell at the helm, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest made a strong premiere at Audrey Herman’s Spotlighters Theatre Friday night. Written by Dale Wasserman and adapted from the novel...

Audra McDonald at the Music Center at Strathmore

The amazing vocal talent of Audra McDonald was a like a breath of the most enchanting spring air and perhaps the first real sign of spring in the DC area as Audra sang from the “Great American Song...

‘The 2015 Spring Young Adult One Act Festival’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse

I was born and raised in New York City just miles away from the theatre district. However, I find myself jealous of the opportunities many community theater groups around the country, but especially...

‘After the Revolution’ at Centerstage

Introducing its wide-ranging audience members to the work of a talented young playwright on the rise, Baltimore’s Centerstage premiered the “Amy Herzog Festival”: the first time Herzog’s After the...

‘Hairspray’ at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

If you like big and beautiful Broadway musicals with colorful costumes and sets, and a double-dose of talented performers, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s production of the Tony-award-winning...

‘Willy Wonka Jr.’ at KAT 2nd Stage and The City of Gaithersburg at The Gaithersburg Arts Barn by Jenna Jones

Chocolate lover? Fond of seeing talented kids on stage? Well, rush over to The Arts Barn in Gaithersburg for KAT Junior and The City of Gaithersburg’s co-production of Willy Wonka Jr., and catch one...

‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ With The National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center

For more than 30 years, the music of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg has uplifted, inspired, and invoked passion in audiences and artists alike. Under the baton of conductor Steven Reineke,...

Barbara Cook Spotlight Series: ‘Malcolm Gets: Come A Little Closer’ at The Kennedy Center

Malcolm Gets is one of the most underrated stars in musical theater today. Fortunately, he got a well-deserved chance to display his exceptional talents during his solo cabaret show, Come a Little...

‘utopia parkway’ at Single Carrot Theatre

“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution (Paul Cezanne).” Today, that carrot is Charles Mee’s Utopia Parkway. On his website, the playwright Mee offers up...

Cassandra Wilson-Coming Forth by Day: A Tribute to Billie Holiday at The Kennedy Center

The legacy of the brilliant and iconic jazz legend, Billie Holiday, coupled with the cool, classic styling of the very contemporary and experimentally-inclined jazz artistry of Cassandra Wilson fused...

In The Moment: ‘Call Me William: The Life and Loves of Willa Cather’

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop. In her Death Comes for the Archbishop Cather she also wrote, “Where there is great love, there...

In the Moment: The Northern Virginia Review’s 29th Volume Unveiled

Searching out the unusual or off the regular trail is one of the joys of having this column with DCMetroTheaterArts. Recently I attended the unveiling of the 29th volume of the Northern Virginia...