Thursday, May 18, 2017
This isn’t the first time that Greenspring Players have focused their expertise on one act plays, nor the first time I have reviewed such shows for our website. Each show was about 45 minu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:40PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
DC Audiences are cramming into a Dupont Circle Hotel to catch this monthly show. After experiencing this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious performance of abracadabra, I still don’t know t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMSunday, June 12, 2016
You might want to “Take me Home, Country Roads” to the latest production Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver, which for the first time is playing in the Washington, DC metropolitan area…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21AMThursday, May 19, 2016
One Act plays comprise a three-course menu of The Greenspring Players for their Washington, DC community 2016 Spring Trio. It’s another home run for these theatrical mavens. When I pondere…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AMFriday, November 27, 2015
How many magic shows have you seen where the magician spends an inordinate amount of time making up magic words to distract you while performing his trick? Big news… David London does not …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
As one of the early arrivals to the Village Theater complex last night, I watched as the many residents of the Greenspring retirement community entered the venue for the first of four perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:06PMMonday, November 9, 2015
So, how many magic shows have you been to in your life? You know, the ones that use coded words like “Abracadabra” while the magician swings around a wand decked out in a black t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
As I strolled into the Smithsonian’s Dillon Ripley Center complex (shared with the Sackler Museum of Asian Art and the National Museum of African Art), I was surprised to see over 100 p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Summer Hummer IV: Foreplay! made its two-show debut last night at Signature Theatre. If you didn’t plan properly or were on vacation, you missed a provocative evening of fun and frolic at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMMonday, July 27, 2015
“Hello – my name is … and I am an alcoholic.” These powerful words reverberated in the Clifton Town Hall as myself (and I am sure each member of the audience) recalled our pe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
The Meeting is an original play by local playwright Greg Powell and directed by Lori Muhlstein. It will be performed by The Clifton Arts Council on Friday and Saturday evenings, July 24th, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMFriday, June 26, 2015
The Meeting is an original play by local playwright Greg Powell and directed by Lori Muhlstein. It will be performed by The Clifton Arts Council on Friday and Saturday evenings, July 24th, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Welcome to Focus‘ 100th birthday party where over 60 folk music fanatics were in the audience to help celebrate the group’s centennial concert in Alexandria, VA. This is DCMTA’s f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Derek John Tatum has been in the Washington, DC acting circuit for about ten years. Last year, he moved to New York City. Here, Derek discusses his experiences and challenges working and liv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PMThursday, January 29, 2015
On the evenings of November 14, 15, 21, and 22, 2014 Isaac Solomon performed the role of Link in Hairspray at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD. I had a chance to talk with Isa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13AMFriday, January 9, 2015
The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible, now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House, is not your typical abracadabra magic show, and when you leave after the show is over�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
It’s that time of the year where the Halloween spirit becomes a major player in what the subject matter of theatrical events around town hang their hat on. What a fitting selection for Gre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:17PMMonday, September 29, 2014
For those who are fans of folk music, there was only one place to be in the Washington, DC Metro area on Saturday night in order to be folkin down memory lane. The World Folk Music Associati…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
I walked into NextStop Theatre Company’s Industrial Park Theatre (where Johnna Adams’ riveting Gidion’s Knot has recently taken up residence after a critically acclaimed run …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PMTuesday, September 2, 2014
The Three Stooges made over 200 appearances in shorts – those knuckle-headed 15-minute misadventures – and full-length feature films with their usual trademark of hysterical mayh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:40PMSaturday, May 24, 2014
“I hear that old piano…”. These famous words open Garrison Keillor’s weekly program every Saturday night throughout the year. Wolf Trap has returned to tradition once again as it pre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:33PMSunday, February 9, 2014
I was so impressed by the quality of H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program‘s production of Les Misérables School Edition that I asked Director/Producer/Musical Director Bill Podolski …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07AMFriday, February 7, 2014
Les Misérables School Edition played at H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program in Arlington, VA on January 30, 2014 to a sold-out four-performance run. Under the capable and expert leadership …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
La Cage aux Folles, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly! and Mame), and book by multiple Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy and Kinky Boots), opened o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30PMSunday, January 12, 2014
In the small intimate confines of the blackbox theater within the Strathmore complex, Saturday afternoon was a spectacular day for Chapter 39 of Genesis. First Act, a new program of Act Two …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMMonday, August 19, 2013
If you were unable to participate in the “Magic to Do” that The Theatre Lab had percolated during this weekend’s four performances of Pippin, then you missed the opportunity to wit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMMonday, August 12, 2013
So, it’s a Friday night and you had it with a week of work and all you want to do is crash. Now, it’s Saturday night and you want to find a great place to go on a date. Fret … Cont…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04PMFriday, August 9, 2013
The very talented Derek Tatum is a member of ‘the line’ in Olney Theatre Center’s production of the Tony Award-winning A Chorus Line. Derek takes us behind-the-scenes of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13AMThursday, August 8, 2013
“Dance: Ten; Looks: Three” is one of the songs from A Chorus Line, but doesn’t quite fit the Wolf Trap production Ballroom with a Twist at all. The best way to describe what was happe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
With a packed house of 250 audience members, Max Major made his appearance for Arlington, Virginia patrons at the Arlington Drafthouse at 7:30 on June 29, 2013 for a one-night only performan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:32AMMonday, July 22, 2013
With 100 million records sold by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons (worldwide since its inception), this is the first time I was able to appreciate their music in-person. In 2009, I was in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:17PM 
