Saturday, 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 02:41PMSaturday, May 30, 2015
In Tom Stoppard‘s wonderful farce, On the Razzle, the humor relies on mistaken identities, lots of puns and malapropos, pratfalls, sex, and pomposity. Silver Spring Stage’s hila…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Tonight, Laurel Mill Playhouse will be presenting one of Shakespeare’s later comedies, The Tempest. Unlike the Bard’s earlier comedies, The Tempest does not rely on some of his more tra…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMSaturday, May 23, 2015
The Columbia Festival of the Arts is in the 28th year. It began is an offshoot of the Columbia Fair that celebrated the anniversary of the city. On the 20th anniversary celebration they ad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Arthur Miller’s The Price, now playing at Olney Theatre Center, is brilliantly directed by Michael Bloom. The play, which opened in 1968 on Broadway, takes place in the late 1940s. Lik…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55AMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Silhouette Stage’s Godspell, directed by Stephen M. Deininger, opened last night at Slayton House in Columbia. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Te…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PMSunday, May 3, 2015
On Saturday May 2, 2015 the Columbia Pro Cantare choral group, lead by Conductor Frances Motyca Dawson, ended their 38th Season with The Great American Songbook performed at the Jim Rouse T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
What a glorious day to go to tea at a beautiful mansion. The Israeli Tea at the Strathmore Mansion was a special as the beautiful Spring Afternoon. If you get there early, you can browse the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
Little Shop of Horrors opened last night at the Laurel Mill Play House, directed by Michael Hartsfield and produced by Maureen Rogers. This quirky satirical farce has become an American clas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMSunday, April 19, 2015
College theaters have always been forerunners in experimental theater, and Arts Collective at Howard Community College’s zany production of Avery Crozier’s Eat the Runt is no …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:57PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Fools by Neil Simon opened this weekend presented by the APL Drama Club located on the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab campus in Laurel, MD. The members and performers are mostly the sci…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:23PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
The Language Archive at the Silver Spring Stage, is not a play about the language of love but of language and love, or more specifically, communication and emotion. The play centers on the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:20PMSunday, March 29, 2015
I was born and raised in New York City just miles away from the theatre district. However, I find myself jealous of the opportunities many community theater groups around the country, but es…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:49AMSaturday, March 14, 2015
The Heritage Players’ uproarious production of the farce Rumors is written by Neil Simon. Yes, the word farce and Neil Simon usually don’t go together, but if you are old enough y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Silhouette Stages’ hilarious production of Monty Python’s Spamalot opened last night at Slayton House in Columbia, MD. It is based on the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
333 Variations is a drama by Moisés Kaufman that deals with the nearly always fatal disease of ALS and the study, not just of music, but also the variations of life. The main character is D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51AMFriday, February 27, 2015
The intimacy of the recital room at the Strathmore Mansion creates the perfect atmosphere to listen to a piano virtuoso play a night of sonatas. Jenny Lin chose these particular composers, b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
The main emotion I felt last night at Strathmore, while I watched The President’s Own United States Marine Band, was pride. These very talented musicians gave up the chance for a professi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PMSaturday, February 21, 2015
Harvey, currently playing at Laurel Mill Playhoue, and produced by Maureen Rodgers, is a wonderful classic American comedy. It was unique when it opened in the 1940s. First of all, it won a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Epic Productions, Inc.’s inaugural production of the popular musical I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change, with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts, is being…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
I would say that Austin Pendleton’s Orson’s Shadow is the best show I’ve seen all year, even though the year is only about a week old. So, I will state it is the best show I have …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
If George and Mary Bailey, the main couple in It’s a Wonderful Life, time traveled from the 1940’s to the 2010’s, they might have trouble identifying with the young actors cast in thre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:01AMThursday, December 4, 2014
In James W. Rodger’s play adaptation of the Frank Capra film, It’s a Wonderful Life, you have the confluence of many generations from little Zuzu to Uncle Billy. When doing a play that i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32AMMonday, December 1, 2014
When the Arts Collective at HCC (“AC”) decided how to mark its 20th Anniversary with James W. Rogers’ play, It’s A Wonderful Life, Producing Artistic Director Susan G. Kr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMSunday, November 9, 2014
Directed by Mark T. Allen and produced by Maureen Rogers, Death Takes a Holiday follows the fate of a group of aristocrats at the mansion of Duke Lambert, played by Larry Simmons. We hear th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Jean-Paul Sartre was not only a great playwright, but one of the leading philosophers of the 20th Century. He wrote No Exit during the German Occupation of France during WWII, after he had b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25AMFriday, October 31, 2014
The Laurel Mill Playhouse has been more than just a community theatre. It has become a theatre of the community. The Playhouse is the home to Teen Shakespeare, Young Adult One Act Festival a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25PMSunday, October 5, 2014
There is no doubt that the Publick Playhouse for the Performing Arts in Cheverly has its own unique charm. The décor from an art deco period from the last century has been preserved to be a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMSaturday, September 27, 2014
Arts Collective@ HCC began its 20th year on Friday night with an old tradition. The Collective used the format of the Coffee House, put it out on a beautiful patio at the Horowitz Center and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:42PM 
