University Shows

On stage, a man tosses and turns in his sleep. Nearby in an overstuffed leather chair, a woman rests. The view from the audience,...

There is no annual holiday celebration in Louisiana without Mardi Gras! According to historians, Mardi Gras, a one-day prelude to Lent dates back thousands...

It’s a play that willfully does not want to make sense. It revels in the absurd. At every turn, it asks us—hey, just go...

The last local production of Jesus Christ Superstar I attended was Open Circle Theatre Company’s acclaimed 2004 production. It boasted a brilliantly original concept...

What's a nice Jewish Boy playing Jesus Christ in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar at Anne Arundel Community College? Benjamin Lurye gives us the...

When I attend a showcase of multiple artists’ works, I expect that the program will be distributed evenly between those that intrigue, and those...

Savion Glover, artist, actor, choreographer and tap dance superstar extraordinaire, is widely known to everyone, young or old, who loves tap. His latest offering,...

At first glance, I took Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac for a comedy about a misbegotten wretch whose every chance for happiness is thwarted...

The Nomadic Theatre's production of The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesca is a very funny play and a wonderful production. Lorrie Damerau's surrealistic set...

Doing the right thing will always start a war. In a time plagued with controversy, a thought-provoking intensely profound new work comes out of...

Getting dressed up and then bundled up to venture out into the weather to see The Nutcracker with family, friends ,or a date during...

On December 11th, an article by James Gardiner and his cast of Putting It Together: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim from George Mason University...

This is my second semester as an adjunct professor of theatre at George Mason University, where I teach a Musical Theatre Workshop. Edward Gero,...

  A Celebration of African American Holiday Traditions Through Music and Spoken Word The premiere was, as they say, “all that.” Before an appreciative fully engaged audience...

This is my second semester as an adjunct professor of theatre at George Mason University, where I teach a Musical Theatre Workshop. Edward Gero,...

For The Washington Revels 30th anniversary Christmas Revels, the company pulls out all the stops, tripping through the centuries in England from medieval times to the 1920s...

Straight to the Source In true Dance Exchange form Artistic Director Cassie Meador and Sarah Levitt will be conducting Straight to the Source - a...

Collision Course - a.k.a. Pillow Talk, choreographed by Maida Withers and performed by the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (MWDCC), is a beautifully complex...

Did we hear you right? Did you say “Bah-humbug..(groan).. Not another A Christmas Carol?!!!  Hold your sleigh horses! This adaptation of Dickens’ beloved story has a not-to-be-missed unique...

Maida Withers is an artist with extraordinary gifts for dance and choreography. She loves not know and is as interested in the discovery as...