BLACK BOX THEATRE

by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2024

Montgomery County-based Perisphere Theater has appointed Gerrad Alex Taylor and Lizzi Albert as co-artistic directors, effective April 1, 2024....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 14, 2023

Monumental Theatre Company will host its second annual Sunday Funday, a wintery-disco bottomless drag cabaret on December 17, 2023....

by Peter Rouleau - July 10, 2023

For a variety of logistical reasons, immersive or environmentally-staged theatre, in which the audience is seated in the midst of the action, is rarely undertaken. Prior to seeing the show I'm reviewing, the only such performance I recall was in college at Salisbury University. An ambitious directin...

by Pamela Roberts - May 01, 2023

Fashioned from the real words and personal experiences of DC-area asylum seekers, Theatre Prometheus’s new work, The Cassette Shop, explores the magical sensory connection of music to link us with others and transport us through time. The devised theater work was created in partnership with the loca...

by Elliot Lanes - February 17, 2023

Something I have said many times is that I wish audience members would fully realize the amount of work and the amount of people it takes to put on a production. The things I have heard in theatre lobbies are both scary and laughable at the same time. Things like 'Oh, I want a chance to crash that c...

by A.A. Cristi - January 24, 2023

Monumental Theatre Company will stage Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening. Based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play of the same name, the story follows a group of German teenagers who discover and explore their sexual identities....

by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2022

Flying V will kick off their 2023 season with a week-long developmental workshop of the new coming-of-age musical Vanishing Girl by local writers William Yanesh (music and lyrics) and Hope Villanueva (book) and directed by Eric Jordan Young....

by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2022

Flying V will kick off their 2023 season with a week-long developmental workshop of the new coming-of-age musical Vanishing Girl by local writers William Yanesh (music and lyrics) and Hope Villanueva (book) and directed by Eric Jordan Young....

by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 27, 2022

Flying V will host the New York Neo-Futurist's at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre the weekend of August 26, 2022. The residency will include two productions of the Neo-Futurist's The Infinite Wrench and one 3-hour workshop for arts creators entitled: The Basics of Neo-Futurism...

by Stephi Wild - May 18, 2022

The 2022 ArtsFairfax Arts Awards, to be held on Friday, October 28, 2022, will honor Capital One Hall; philanthropists Gary and Tina Mather; actor, director, and playwright Mark Brutsché; and Fall for the Book for their visionary contributions in Northern Virginia. The annual event supports ArtsFair...