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DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #2: Best Musicals in Professional Theatres

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Musicals at Professional Theatres honors go to: The Addams Family at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre. The Addams Family at...

Filichia on Friday: ‘It’s the Most Ticket Scarce Time of the Year’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Steven Gross Has 7,655 Songs For You’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser’

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: November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser....

Filichia on Friday: ‘Duddy Kravitz: The Other Best Musical of 2015’

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: DUDDY KRAVITZ: The OTHER Best Musical of 2015....

In the Moment: Reflections on ‘Sons of the Prophet’ at Theater J

At the heart of Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet are his Old-Testament Job-like questioning of an unseen, unknown higher presence. Questions abound around the matter of why do we (and, of course,...

‘Sons of the Prophet’ at Theater J

Theater J’s first triumph of the season was Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ semi-autobiographical Queens Girl in the World. Its second is also loosely autobiographical: Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet—a...

Filichia on Friday: ‘From Reams with Love: HELLO, DOLLY’!

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Filichia on Friday: ‘We Can Always Go Back to Before ‘

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Revisiting The Boys in The Band’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Seating Plans’

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Adam Immerwahr Named the New Artistic Director of Theater J

Adam Immerwahr has been named the new Artistic Director of Theater J. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J. He will begin this new position at...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Remembering The Rothschilds’ Hillard Elkins’

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: Remembering THE ROTSCHILDS’ Hillard Elkins....

Filichia on Friday: ‘The Return of The Rothschilds — & Sons’

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Magic Time!: Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at Theater J

Theater J has just extended the run of Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ semi-autobiographical Queens Girl in the World through October 18, and my viewing of the play last night left no doubt in my mind about...

Filichia on Friday: ‘September’s Leftovers and October’s Brainteaser’

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The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Queens Girl in the World’ at Theater J

Find my place in the world is a major question at the center of Queens Girl in the World now playing at Theater J. It is a beautifully engaging, semi-autobiographical personal and political memory...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The Other THE SEASON’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘My Favorite Story from the Summer’

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A Report from Page-to-Stage: Theater J’s ‘Falling Out of Time’ and ‘Love Godfrey/Love George’

Theater J offered a first look at its adaptation of Falling Out of Time, David Grossman’s powerful saga of parental loss, at this year’s Page-to-Stage Festival held at The Kennedy Center last weekend....

Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers’

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: The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers...

Meet the Director and Cast of ‘Kiss Me Kate’ at NextStop Theatre Company: Part 3: Emily Levey

In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Kiss Me Kate at NextStop Theatre Company, meet Emily Levey. Where have local audiences seen you on the stage? I’ve had the good fortune to perform...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Jennie Berman Eng’s ‘Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick’ Opens September 17, 2015

Did the one who got away really get away? Does the right match come down to timing, or compatibility, or courage to take a leap? In this tale of a friendship-turned love affair, two friends from...

Filichia on Friday: ‘August’s Leftovers and September’s Brainteaser’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Give Us Liberty Smith!’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam’

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: The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam....

Filichia on Friday: ‘The Wiz That the Wiz Was and Is’

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: The Wiz That the Wiz Was and Is August 7, 2015:...

Filichia on Friday: ‘July’s Leftovers and August’s Brainteaser’ by Peter Filichia

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: July 31, 2015: July’s Leftovers and August’s...

Filichia on Friday: ‘It’s Kristin’s Birthday!’ by Peter Filichia

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Filichia on Friday: ‘June’s Leftovers and July’s Brainteaser’

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Filichia on Friday: ‘A Classic(s) Saturday’ by Peter Filichia

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Filichia on Friday: “Hail to Thee, North Shore Music Theatre!’

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: Hail to Thee, North Shore Music Theatre! Editor’s...

‘The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife’ at Theater J

A hit Broadway comedy, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, rounds out Theater J’s 2014–2015 season in a production smartly directed by Eleanor Holdridge. Written in a mainstream mode by Charles...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Welcome 2015-2016!’ (‘Merman’s Apprentice’ coming to Birdland on June 17th at 7 PM!)

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: Welcome 2015-2016! Editor’s Note: I attended a...

Filichia on Friday: ‘May’s Leftovers and June’s Brainteaser’ by Peter Filichia

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‘Filichia on Friday’: The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam Answers’

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‘Filichia on Friday’: ‘Give Your Regards to Cagney and Creighton’

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‘The Call’ at Theater J

Tanya Barfield’s play The Call seeks to give dramatic expression to the stark chasm between first world problems and third world problems. In so doing it tackles a topic with vast global consequence...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam’

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: The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam ______...

Theater J Announces its 2015-2016 Season

From Amy Friedman, Director of Marketing & Communications, Theater J: Theater J today announces its 2015-2016 season, a lineup of seven diverse plays ranging from personal, intimate explorations to...

Filichia on Friday: ‘April’s Leftovers and May’s Brainteaser’

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Filichia on Friday: “Paris Makes Me Thorny” by Peter Filichia

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Filichia on Friday: ‘Gigi’s New Gig’

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DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending March 31, 2015 Part 2

Here is Part 2 of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Scene Stealers ending March 31, 2015. Congrats to our honorees! ______ Charles Edwards as Charles in a Ghostly Encounter he National Theatre “Not even Angela...

‘G-d’s Honest Truth’ at Theater J

Illusions and dreams are often enough the stuff needed to help us keep on truckin’ through life. Certainly Prospero in The Tempest and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon suggested it was so. But, neither...

Magic Time! A Hard Look at the Theme of Pornography in ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’

I knew I would be bummed if I missed the Round House Theatre production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn. Everything I read told me, “John, you gotta see this.” So when I caught its...

‘Fires in the Mirror’ at Howard University

Anna Deavere Smith’s classic Fires in the Mirror is getting a fascinating production this weekend by a very talented ensemble of student actors at Howard University. And on two counts this iteration...

How the Writer of ‘Life Sucks’ Reimagined the Women of ‘Uncle Vanya’: A Q&A with Aaron Posner, Judith Ingber, and Monica West

John Stoltenberg: It’s great that Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage, and Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of Signature Theater, have initiated what will become the Women’s Voices Theater...

‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ at Round House Theatre

Consistent with its mission to “captivate audiences with stories that inspire compassion, evoke emotions, and demand conversation,” Round House Theatre welcomed back DC native, award-winning...

Filichia on Friday: Catching Up: ‘Is the Third Time the Charm – or Strikeout – for ANNIE on Film?’; ‘Into The Woods’ Goes into the Nation’s Cinemas;’December’s Leftovers and January’s Brainteaser’ and ‘An Evening with Dame Diana Rigg’ by Peter Filichia

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. Time to catch up: December 19, 2014: Is the Third Time the...