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Spine: ‘Milk Like Sugar’ at Mosaic Theater Company
America is but an expensive iPhone.
If you've got that, and its Pink with a sexy ringtone, then you're in, as in the "in" crowd.
Now,...
Review #2: ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ at The Keegan Theatre
In John Guare’s wonderfully enigmatic and slightly precocious play, Six Degrees of Separation, now playing at The Keegan Theatre—the ripples of interconnection run rampant...
Review: ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ at The Keegan Theatre
We’ve all heard of this idea before—that there are six degrees of separation between everyone in the universe, from the president of the U.S....
Review: ‘Where Words Once Were’ at The Kennedy Center
This past weekend, The Kennedy Center opened a newly commissioned show for young audiences from Playwright, Finegan Kruckemeyer. The piece titled, Where Words Once Were,...
Review: ‘Working: a Musical’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre
Working isn’t a typical musical. There’s no plot, no resolution, no love story. Yet the tale it tells is an absorbing one. By using...
Review: ‘Falsettos’ at The Walter Kerr Theatre in NYC
We must thank Andre Bishop and his staff at Lincoln Center Theatre for gifting us with a very early Christmas present called Falsettos, composer...
Charm City Fringe Review: ‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
The Shoemaker’s Holiday: A Firking Funny Production at BSF
This weekend, I had the good fortune to be at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (“BSF”), as part...
Review: Sheila Jordan at the KC Jazz Club
Sheila Jordan loves jazz. Sheila Jordan loves singing. Sheila Jordan really loves jazz singing.
And we feel truly blessed to have spent an evening in...
Review: ‘Milk Like Sugar’ at Mosaic Theater Company of DC
Milk Like Sugar, the Obie Award-winning play that just opened at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, starts off as badass comedy, the kind where...
Review: ‘The Wild Party’ at the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and...
Dim lights, warm hues and the soft murmur of conversation and clanking glasses lured us into Queenie’s – the decadent speakeasy formerly known as...
Review: ‘The Migration Project: live performance art installation’‘ at Jane Franklin Dance Company
The Migration Project is a live music, multi-media event directed and developed by Jane Franklin of the Jane Franklin Dance Company that raises many...
Review: ‘Out of the City’ at Passage Theatre
Leslie Ayvazian’s comedy Out of the City opens in the lobby of a Bed and Breakfast in the Poconos. Carol and her husband Matt...
Who’s in Town?: American Idol Winner Taylor Hicks, Performing at The Hamilton in DC...
Taylor Hicks became a household name in 2006 when he won the fifth season of American Idol, becoming one of the most beloved winners...
Review: ‘Mary Poppins’ at Olney Theatre Center
How do you make a stage musical from a movie that was "Practically Perfect in Every Way"? A movie that won five Academy Awards,...
Review: ‘Tick, Tick…Boom’ at The Highwood Theatre
Originally a one-man show written in 1990, Tick, Tick…Boom was reconceived after Jonathan Larson’s untimely death by David Auburn and produced off-Broadway in 2001....
Meet the Cast of ‘Children of Eden’ at Damascus Theatre Company. Part 1: Cheryl...
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Damascus Theatre Company's Children of Eden, meet Cheryl J. Campo.
Joel: Where have local...
Review: ‘Girl in the Red Corner’ at The Welders
Among the adages that keep women put down and passive is the one that goes, “Good girls don’t fight.” It’s a specious presumption that...
Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Other Voices Theatre
With music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein, La Cage aux Folles running at Other Voices Theatre is a...
Review: ‘School of Rock’ at Beyond the Page Theatre Company at West Potomac...
It’s hard not to leave the theater humming Stevie Nicks or exclaiming “Stick it to the man!” after seeing Beyond the Page Theatre Company...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 3: Jill Tighe
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet Jill Tighe.
Joel: Where have local audiences...