Tag: DC Theater Arts
Review: ‘Clue On Stage’ at Bucks County Playhouse
Wanna play a game?
Clue On Stage is a show that doesn’t ask deep, profound questions of its audience. Instead, it simply asks, whodunit? Who...
‘The Show Must Go On!’ Preview, Part 1: Interview with Everyman...
In conjunction with their last show of the 2016/17 season – the classic farce, Noises Off – Everyman Theatre is partnering with Stoop Storytelling...
Review: ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ at the Kellar Theater...
Delightful and charming. Those are the words I would use to describe Rooftop Production’s current offering You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown which comes...
Review: ‘Come Together: A Celebration of John Lennon’ at The Kennedy Center
At a time when we can only imagine a world without walls of division and exclusion, the Annual Kennedy Center’s Spring Gala concert, Come...
Review: ‘Marry Harry’ at The York Theatre Company
With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company (“York Theatre”) for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I...
Dangereuse: ‘A Macbeth for the 21st Century’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Samuel Taylor Coleridge said that seeing Edmund Kean play Shakespeare was like “reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.” Acclaimed Director Liesl Tommy brings us...
Review: ‘The Arabian Nights’ at Constellation Theatre Company
One Thousand and One Nights, the collection of classic Islamic tales upon which Mary Zimmerman built The Arabian Nights, now playing at Constellation Theatre...
Review: ‘The Secret Garden’ at Memorial Players
If you’re looking for a musical of Broadway quality in the Baltimore area, look no further than some of the work being produced by...
Review: ‘Barnaby Rudge’ at Lumina Studio Theatre
Of Charles Dickens’s fifteen novels, there are few, if any, that are less well-known than his first historical, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the...
Review: ‘Book of Days’ at Rockville Little Theatre
Written in 1998, Book of Days is one of the final writings from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson. The play is set in a...
Review: ‘White’ at Theatre Horizon
White is pure gold.
James Ijames’ audacious and hilarious new play takes on racism, sexism, and a handful of other isms. It's a comedy, but...
Review: ‘Master Class’ at MetroStage
Welcome to the rehearsal hall. You are a student at a prestigious school for the performing arts. You have mastered your technique, but you...
Review: ‘The Arsonists’ at Azuka Theatre
Haunting and primal, Azuka Theatre’s rolling world premiere of The Arsonists, the final installment in Philadelphia playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s “Southern Gothic Trilogy” (following the...
Review: ‘5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche’ at Monumental Theatre Company
Much to my tickled surprise, last night I found myself shouting out that I am a lesbian—I along with an entire audience in Lab...
Review: ‘Madame Butterfly’ at The Kennedy Center
Gorgeous, ravishing arias by the legendary Puccini, an ethereally beautiful performance by Soprano Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio San (Butterfly), and an exceptionally ingenious concept...
Report: CityDance’s 2017 DREAMscape Benefit Gala
Moments into a dimmed house at the historic Lincoln Theatre, an off-stage voice over a loudspeaker made a promise to a buzzing audience: “We’re...
Review: ‘My Name is Asher Lev’ at South Camden Theatre Company
A sensitive young man struggles with his heritage as he tries to make his own mark on the world. A predictable story, you might...
Review: ‘Hairspray JR.’ at the Bowie Community Theatre Youth Theatre Program...
Tracy Turnblad reminds us that “You gotta think big to be big” as Bowie Community Theatre ("BCT") delivered a big success with Hairspray JR....
Review: ‘Laura Bush Killed a Guy’ at The Klunch
I didn't know that Laura Bush had killed a guy. It really had never crossed my mind.
Well, after seeing Ian Allen's Laura Bush Killed a...
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Presents Leonard Bernstein’s First Major Composition
Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 was the major undertaking at The Philadelphia Orchestra’s concerts of May 3, 5 and 6, 2017. Yannick Nézet-Séguin led...