Sunday, April 10, 2016
If Frederick Knott had only written the classic thriller, Dial M for Murder, it would have been enough. Knott actually went on to write only two great mystery dramas – Write Me a Mu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts has changed its format from an early summer (or very late spring) one month format to a quarterly themed one. This year’s Spring Festival – Viv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMSaturday, April 2, 2016
William Shakespeare’s great comedy, Much Ado about Nothing, is playing at Silver Spring Stage. The show is directed by Andrew Greenleaf and produced by Greenleaf and Katherine Offutt. O…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMFriday, April 1, 2016
Maybe you could not dance all night, but on Thursday, March 31, 2016, when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed Broadway Divas at the Music Center at Strathmore, I could not stop tappi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AMSaturday, March 12, 2016
House., an original comedy written and directed by Daniel Johnston, opened last night at Howard Community College’s Arts Collective at the Horowitz Center in the Studio Theatre. This is Jo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Silhouette Stages’ play-within-a-play Noises Off by Noises Off, produced by Jeremy Goldman and directed by Conni Ross is playing at Slayton House in Columbia, MD. If you have never se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PMSunday, February 21, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts stretched its more traditional boundaries to bring Black Lives Black Words on Saturday, February 20, 2016. This was a dramatic reading of Black playwright…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMSaturday, February 20, 2016
Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph, produced by Star Johnson and directed by Brandon Rashad Butts, is now playing at Silver Spring Stage, the perfect venue for this intimate drama which …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson, continues to bring the Howard County Area some of the greatest performers of our time. Since the Festival started 30 y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project, and produced by Craig Pettinati and directed by John Nunemaker, opened at the Kensington Arts Theatre on F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMSaturday, January 30, 2016
When Todd Olson began his present position as Executive Director of the Columbia Festival of the Arts in 2013, he decided to change the format of the program to include a program for every s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:50AMSaturday, January 16, 2016
This Rude Mechanicals’ production of one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ plays – All’s Well That Ends Well – is an example of the fact that if you have great wr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMSaturday, January 9, 2016
Humble Boy, written by Charlotte Jones, is obviously based on the plot of Shakespeare’s famous Dane, Hamlet. The parallels are purposefully obvious. A young man comes home to his mother. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AMMonday, October 26, 2015
On Saturday October 24, 2015 the Columbia Pro Cantare Choral group, lead by Conductor Frances Motyca Dawson, opened their 39th Season with Northern Lights, performed at the Jim Rouse Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22AMMonday, October 19, 2015
The Tony Award-winning musical Damn Yankees, with Book by George Abbottt and Douglass Wallop, and Words and Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, opened this past weekend at the Heritage Pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:34PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
9 to 5 is based on the 1980 movie of the same name, with Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, and Book by Patricia Resnick. Parton not only was one of the stars of the movie (her costars were…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PMMonday, October 5, 2015
On Saturday, October 3, 2015 the Columbia Festival of the Arts, as part of their Fall Festival: The British Invasion, presented the Hub Opera Ensemble’s production of The Turn of the Screw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PMSunday, September 13, 2015
Opening their 2015-2016 season, Howard Community College’s Arts Collective presented an evening of improvisations by their own improv group called What Improv Group?!?! or W.I.G?!?! This …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMSunday, August 30, 2015
Everyone at Wolf Trap tonight must have oiled their hips tonight as just about the whole audience was dancing in the aisles by the end of the evening to the Latin beats coming from the stage…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMSaturday, August 22, 2015
A night of One-Act Plays is always interesting. It gives new or little-known playwrights a chance to shine. It gives new directors a shot at showing their talent. Actors who may never have h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
Disney’s High School the Musical, at Laurel Mill Playhouse, is directed by AJ Lukacsina, and is produced by Maureen Rogers and Laila Riaz. This is the 12th year that LMP has given …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
If you think you know everything about Lincoln, you may be surprised to find out that there is a great deal of information out there that is not in text books. The Springfield Boys, now play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Venus in Fur directed by John Dellaporta opened last night at Silver Spring Stage, literally with a bang. The play opens during a thunderstorm that is a metaphor of the action to come, and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMMonday, June 29, 2015
The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley opened this weekend at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, and is directed by Patrick Pase and produced by Julie Rogers. Maureen Rogers is the Executive Pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMSunday, June 28, 2015
What do Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, Joan Rivers, Jim Bulushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Steven Colbert and Steve Carrell have in common? Well, they are all very funny,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMSaturday, June 27, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015 was a night of laughter at the Smith Theatre. First, the Columbia Festival of the Arts, presented The Stoop Stoop Storytelling Series: Kitchen Confidential which was …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PMSunday, June 21, 2015
Imagine you are in a West Virginia coal mine, and there is a cave it. It is cold, and the only light is from the tiny one on top of your helmet or the helmet of a coworker. That is what Azt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38AMThe indoor performances of the Columbia Festival of the Arts began on Friday, June, 20, 2015 at the Jim Rouse Theatre in Columbia, MD. It could not have picked a more inspirational group t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMMonday, June 15, 2015
Mother Nature was kind to the Festival this weekend. Thunderstorms were predicted but there was only one close call. So, though many were sweltering, it was a wonderful day to listen to good…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42PMSunday, June 14, 2015
It was a hot day and a hotter night at the Lakefront but that did not keep the crowds away. Good music, especially free for the listening, is always a way to attract an audience. Folks liste…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Last night the Columbia Festival of the Arts began on the Lakefront in Columbia. (This review is of the last two performances of the evening as those were the ones that were viewed and not t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PM 
