Tag: Washington DC Metro Theater
Review: ‘Picnic’ at The Catholic University of America
Picnic comes to Catholic.
And by the time it’s over, lives are overturned, dreams are rekindled, and who knows what will happen next.
William Inge, master playwright...
Review: ‘Jib: or, The Child Who Went Forth to Learn What...
A multimedia synthesis of music, film, and drama, Jib: or, The Child Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was traces the rise and fall...
Review: ‘The Second Shepherds’ Play’ at The Folger Theatre
Well beyond just comfort and joy, The Folger’s production of The Second Shepherds’ Play, a medieval English mystery about the ultimate power of faith to...
‘Magic Time!’ ‘The Second Shepherds’ Play’ at The Folger Theatre
Watching the Folger Consort’s robust and warmhearted staging of this medieval mystery play, I was struck by how curiously it connects us today to...
Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by Ovations Theatre
The cast of Ovations Theatre’s production of Spring Awakening could sing the phone book and still be entrancing. Director Darnell Patrick Morris brought a...
Review: ‘Christmas Inn’ at Westchester Broadway Theatre
Christmas time, as it says in the famous song, "is the most wonderful time of the year." So during the month of December, Westchester...
Review: ‘Merlin: A Traditional British Panto’ at The British Players
If your kids squirm through The Nutcracker, it might be time to consider a new Christmas theater tradition: the annual British Pantomime produced by...
Review: ‘Foxfire’ at Bowie Community Theatre
Foxfire is a heartwarming and poignant story that will have audience members laughing and teary-eyed in the same moment. Currently in production at Bowie...
Review: ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ at Adventure Theatre
Once again I was faced with the question: “How are they going to pull this off?” I mean a two person cast with easily...
Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ at Center Stage
“Love and revenge, two of your favorites.”
It’s the eve of the French Revolution and the crème of the French aristocracy – the “original one...
Review: The Capital Hearings at AMP by Strathmore
I came to review the venue as well as the performance so I need to share a bit about both. First of all AMP...
Review: ‘Mary Poppins’ at the Players Club of Swarthmore
The Players Club of Swarthmore’s new production of Mary Poppins may surprise some devoted fans of the movie. This stage adaptation, which had a...
Review: ‘Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka’ at NextStop Theatre
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka opened at NextStop Theatre in Herndon to a sold-out house this past weekend. The cast included professional actors, alongside local...
Review: ‘The Dancing Princesses’ at Pumpkin Theatre
My wee littles stopped being wee little some time ago so, until yesterday, it’d been a number of years since I’d been to see...
Review: ‘A Year with Frog and Toad’ at Arden Theatre Company
A smash hit for Arden Theatre Company in 2004 and 2009, A Year with Frog and Toad is back for its third run and...
Review: ‘The Comedy of Errors…at Colonus’ at Lumina Studio Theatre (Blue...
The Comedy of Errors at Colonus: Uauthorized by William Shakespeare and Sophocles, adapted and directed by David Minton on December 3, 2016, at 7 PM,...
Review: ‘The Magi’ at The Hub Theatre
“A simple tale of love and hope,” is the way local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi describes her new work, The Magi. That is an understatement.
In...
Review: ‘A Philly Pops Christmas’ at The Kimmel Center for the...
A Philly Pops Christmas is a delightful concert of Christmas Carols, humor and lights, which rings in holiday cheer. The POPS orchestra, conducted by...
Review: ‘Antagonyms’ at Curio Theatre Company
An antagonym is a word with two opposite meanings, such as “left” which can mean “remaining” or “departed.” Rachel Gluck’s world premiere Antagonyms at...
Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Rooftop Productions
It’s been said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas. He didn’t, but A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, certainly transformed people’s attitudes about the celebration....