Sunday, July 10, 2016
‘Saudade; the one where I miss you‘ is a heartwarming play that deals with not only personal loss, but complex family relationships. It underscores the need for family ties and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson has created a wonderful idea for cultural immersion. They incorporated food and a musical theme night as part of their …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts Summer, Silk Road Stories begins to blossom this upcoming Friday, June 10th with a reprise of Stoop Storytelling at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
A powerful production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Next to Normal, opened Friday night at Silhouette Stages. With music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Ne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2016
Christopher Durang's outrageous Miss Witherspoon opened last night at Silver Spring Stage. The show is directed by Kevin O'Connell and produced by Devon Seybert. Durang's black comedy …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
There are always community gems we rarely hear about, but Encore Chorale, which was founded in 2001, has become a treasure chest of talent. They began as a study to see what the impact of pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director Todd Olson, presented a Mark Edwards, Classical Spanish Guitar at the historical Oliver's Carriage House on Sunday, April 17, 20…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson, presented an evening of Latin American music, Dos Por Uno on Saturday, April 16, 2016, featuring the bands Las Cafeter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
The Silhouette Players – more known for their wonderful musicals – will be presenting a evening of entertainment and fun at Cabaret Night on April 23, 2016 at 8PM at Slayton Hous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
On Friday, April 8, 2016, the fourth and final performance this season of W.I.G., ("What Improv Group?!") – the improvisational group that is part of Howard Community College’s A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 –Â V…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Offut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 02:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 John…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
Silhouette Stages’Â 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 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 playwr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 01:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 06:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
This Rude Mechanicals' production of one of Shakespeare's ‘problem’ plays – All’s Well That Ends Well –Â is an example of the fact that if you have great writ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Ji…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 06:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 11:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 ha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PM[SHARE] 
