Tag: Nick Olcott

The tension in the gay camp moments of winks and caricature, alongside a heated love relationship that cannot be public, ultimately makes the play. By CAROLINE BOCK

“I’ve never laughed so hard in rehearsal,” said Nick Olcott, describing some of the antics performed by a tiny but talented cast — four...

The In Series at GALA Theatre has succeeded in brilliantly breathing life into a treasured zarzuela – a blend of song and dance –...

As a parent, it’s hard to watch yet another adaptation of Peter Pan without fixating on the fact that he essentially kidnaps children and...

The In Series’ An Operetta Holiday, written and directed by Nick Olcott, is a charming aural journey through the era between opera and musicals....

From the beginning of the 1st Stage production of My Name is Asher Lev, we are told that the young Asher is an amazingly...

If you’re a Mozart fan – and if you aren’t, you should be – you probably have your favorite ‘conspiracy theory’ about why the...

“I’m stuck with writer’s block!” Who among us—be we beginners, practitioners or professionals, list makers, blog posters, PhD thesis or diary writers—has not been visited...

Welcome to the rehearsal hall. You are a student at a prestigious school for the performing arts. You have mastered your technique, but you...

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees: David James for A Christmas...

Here is the staff of DCMetroTheaterArts' first series of 'Take A Bow!' Fall 2016 honorees: ____ Edwin Aparicio, as Choreographer, Flamenco Dancer, and Co-Director of Salvador, at...

To the delight of children and children at heart, Adventure Theatre’s 2016/17 season kicked off yesterday with Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical. Based on Mo...

The In Series’ production of Who’s the Boss? is a fusion of two comic operettas, Giovanni Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and Gilbert and Sullivan’s...

The In Series ends their season with Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, a surprisingly modern tale of faith – particularly between husband and wife. This...

“No more plowing a hard-scrabble field, I just know it’s my lucky day!” Evan Casey’s voice rings through the 1st Stage Theater as he...

It's one of my favorite musicals and I am thrilled that Nick Olcott is directing 1st Stage's production of Floyd Collins, which plays through...

The annual Maryland Opera Studio New Works Reading has a twofold mission – to give young artists the opportunity to collaborate with living composers...

Garfield: The Musical With Cattitude Provides Plenty of Laughs for All Ages Adventure Theatre MTC serves up the charm for all ages with its original...

GARFIELD, THE MUSICAL WITH CATTITUDE IS PLAYING NOW AT ADVENTURE THEATRE/MTC Through August 23, 2015 Based on the characters created by Jim Davis Book by Jim Davis and...

It can be hard for a modern audience to relate to opera. It’s not often in our lives that we encounter a countess, death...