Review: ‘Jacques Brel: Songs From His World’ at Source Theatre
Time has not dimmed the impact or abundant love for the musical works of Jacques Brel; even now, nearly 40 years since his untimely...
Review: ‘Amok Monologues: All Pucked Up’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
"Everyone has at least one story that can break your heart." - Claudia Shear, "Blown Sideways Through Life"
Fringe festivals offer a bumper crop of one-person...
Review: ‘Magnificent Machines & Astonishing Tales’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Steampunk fans! Your moment has arrived on the deck of a time traveling airship in Night Watch Paradox’s Magnificent Machines & Astonishing Tales. With...
Review: ‘Godly Chaos’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Oh, gosh. What to say about Godly Chaos? This show, produced by QuaQuaQua, is highly ambitious. It takes place, primarily, on a large screen...
Review: ‘A Tuna Christmas’ at Bowie Playhouse
Satire can be both salve and mirror in tough times and in good. A Tuna Christmas, written by Tony-nominated Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and...
Review: ‘Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking’ at Charm City...
Cody Clark is obsessed with magic. At the start of Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking, the audience is handed a Rubik's cube...
Review: ’Foodless Food’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
For every good ad there are a hundred bad ones. This is where Foodless Food by BlueShift Dance starts. The projections of advertising for...
Review: ‘The Big Thank You’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
"and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing"
-- Anne Sexton, "Welcome Morning"
Every day for a...
Review: ‘Don’t Come In’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
It's best to start with the description of Don't Come In from the catalog:
Love is scary. And it just might kill you. Stubborn lovers Em...
Review: ‘Little Women’ at Annapolis Opera
Little Women, composed and with a libretto by Mark Adamo and based on the book by Louisa May Alcott, sweeps into the Annapolis Opera...
Review: ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ at Rep Stage
It took way too long for Baltimore gal Billie Holiday to make the 20-odd mile trip out to Howard County for a live performance....
Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival: What to See and Where...
The Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival is in full swing! Today alone (11/4/17), there are TEN different shows for you to enjoy. And after...
Review: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Vagabond Players
The timing of Vagabond Players’ production of Little Shop of Horrors is fortuitous, opening Halloween weekend when thoughts turn to the spooky and macabre,...
News: DC Performing Arts Organizations Rally to Support Puerto Rico After...
When Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico on September 20th, the storm left millions of American citizens with no electricity, drinkable water,...
Review: ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ at Kensington Arts Theatre
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’,” wrote poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The themes of...
Review: ‘Lost In Yonkers’ at Peace Mountain Theatre Company
I had a Great Aunt whose fourth floor walk-up apartment was very much on display when I entered the performance space at Har Shalom....
Review: ‘Omnium Gatherum’ at Silver Spring Stage
In keeping with performing plays from five different decades in celebration of their 50th Anniversary Silver Spring reached back to right after Sept. 11,...
Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival: What It Is, How It...
What is Fringe?
This weekend marks the beginning of the Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival, a celebration of new and emerging independent theatre that...
Review: “Inherit the Wind” at Compass Rose Theater
Compass Rose Theater’s production of Inherit the Wind is a powerful work of theater. Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee in 1955,...
Review: ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ at Other Voices Theatre
For a fantastic evening of dark comedy with hysterical individual performances that bring quirky characters to life, don't miss Arsenic and Old Lace at Other Voices...