Tag: Washington DC Theate

This review comes after I saw the final performance of Venus Theatre’s remarkable, inspiring, supremely artistic vision: Selections From: The Methuen Drama Books of...

Voltaire once said, “Doubt is not a comfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.” Playwright John Patrick Shanley notes that “Certainty is a...

Two young black men stumble upon an expensively dressed but badly beaten young white woman in the ghetto. What do they do? If it’s...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest program with The Philadelphia Orchestra was an intelligently thought-out adventure. The central work was Alternative Energy by Mason Bates, in its...

The message of Easter came early this year as Encore Stage & Studio’s (Encore) Musical Theatre Intensive presented John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell....

It doesn’t take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a  witty script that isn’t in a hurry...

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with being formulaic when the formula mixes crowd-pleasing song selections, fresh and stylish musical arrangements, and knock-out performances. That pretty...

A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter lit up the floorboards at Silver Spring Stage on Friday, April 7, 2017. Produced by Andrea...

The Lyceum Theatre on Broadway is playing host to a most unusual guest.. It has brought in the Cornley University Drama Society’s production of...

I envy the folks lucky enough to have attended the opening night performance of George Bernard Shaw’s brand new play Pygmalion in 1913. They were...

Based on a charming French film, Amélie the musical begins with a narrator letting us know we’re going to be in Paris and its...

In the less than two years since it was founded, Submersive Productions (“Submersive”) has established so positive a reputation that tickets to many performances...

There's just no tune As exciting As a showtune In two-four... For Jerry Herman, the lyrics of this early composition, “Showtune,” represent a kind of mission statement. In...

Sometimes it’s easier to let a puppet speak for you, when you know the truth about how you feel will not be well received...

I lost count of how many orgasms are in this show. They keep, um, coming and coming. And each one is performed stunningly by...

George Bernard Shaw loves words. Even his stage directions are wordy. He also loved ideas, philosophy, aesthetics, politics... In Back to Methuselah Part 3: As Far...

Grammy Award-winning, R & B superstar Brandy Norwood brought her razzle and dazzle to the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, reprising her Broadway debut as...

“I am a giant surrounded by ants!” exclaimed Walter Lee Younger in a scene from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is the embodiment...

In a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet Roger Stone who plays Alfred Doolittle. Please introduce yourself and...

There's no doubt in my mind that all of the attendees at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts were there because of the 1977...