"Wild" featuring Tony Award-winner Shoshana Bean & Paul Alexander Nolan. Pre-Order or Pre-Save The Lost Boys (Original Broadway Cast Recording), coming Friday, July 24th. Pre-save here: TheLostBoys.lnk.to/thelostboysalbum T…
Rockville Musical Theatre’s “Sister Act” is divine. Directed by Duane Monahan, the Alan Menken/Glenn Slater musical (based on the Whoopi Goldberg film) is bright, breezy and slightly c…
“The Great Gatsby – A New Musical,” now at The National Theatre on the DC leg of its tour, is as sumptuous, slick, and larger-than-life as the myth the title character builds about him…
Lumina Studio Theatre is an acting and performance school designed to give kids ages 6-18 enthusiasm for, and experience with, classic drama, especially Shakespeare. Clearly, its primary goa…
All theater-going society is acquainted with "The Importance of Being Earnest" by British wit and aesthete Oscar Wilde, perhaps the finest and funniest comedy of manners ever written. But fe…
"Shrek the Musical"Â is a rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing blast. The show, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony winner for "Kimbery Akimbo") and music by Jeanne Tesori (Tony win…
"The Bravado: A More Humane Mikado in Concert," Victorian Lyric Opera Company's (VLOC) clever reimagining of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic comic operetta, thoroughly delights. Although it…
"Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" has reason to be proud. Every "jukebox musical" (one scored with well-known popular hits by established musicians, rather than origin…
"Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" is based on the life of groundbreaking artist, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and her relationship with the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette. The DC area premi…
The Lamentable Comedie ofJANE ANGER,that Cunning Woman,and also of Willy Shakespeareand his Peasant Companion,Francis,Yes and Also ofAnne Hathaway (also a Woman)Who Tried Very Hard This is a…
The Paul Taylor Dance Company came to the Kennedy Center to celebrate 70 years of presenting innovative, modern dance. The program featured two of Taylor's own 147 dance compositions, "Arden…
We must never forget. But what if forgetting is the only way to survive? That is the question that looms over Diane Samuels's 1993 play, "Kindertransport," about the suffering wrought on two…
The uniformly excellent voices ring out powerfully in the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. By JENNIFER GEORGIA
It's not a fully staged show, with all the intimate, raw emotions of the original, but Jonathan Larson's masterpiece endures and lifts the heart.
Few shows are genuinely not to be missed. 'The Lion King' is one of them.
The dialogue is sharp, witty, and rich, and the actors did their best, with varied results.
A psychological whodunnit for fans of the Agatha Christie style of writing.
It's a rich and nostalgic production, but Bartlett Sher's revival brings us squarely into the present.
In between the comedy and conflict, a sense of communal love and compassion weaves through the show.
The Rude Mechanicals reset this classic Restoration comedy as a sitcom in the 1970s, the decade that taste forgot " and it works.
It takes smart, talented actors to make Tom Stoppard's comedy about chaos theory intelligible, and the cast here is up to the challenge.
If the cast and crew can pick up the pace, the show will be a sweet little diversion to welcome kids to the world of puppetry and live performance.
"You don't say!" "I do. I just did." This is the retort that ricochets through John Morogiello's In the Gutter like bullets from a Colt 45 " No, never mind. I'm not even going to try to imit…
The classic Moliere farce unfolds with the quick grace of a flower blooming in fast motion.
Portraits of church ladies and their hats brought to vivid life, with Gospel music, sass, and heart.
Two hours of loopy delight for the audience and a heaping helping of fun for the cast.
Even more than its spectacular staging and themes of good and evil that give it depth, what's best is the moving story it tells of female friendship.
The production warms with tradition and traces the origins of American holiday music to its Appalachian origins.
It is the rare musical that isn't transmogrified from some other plane of existence. It is not simply a matter of finding inspiration or stories to tell. Given how mind-bogglingly expensive …
When the would-be magician does tricks, weird and wonderful things happen.
The comedy about a cross-country journey is written, directed, designed, acted, and crewed almost entirely by women.
It's like a trip back in time and the young audience loves it.
Arts on the Green and Montgomery Playhouse stage a head-scratchingly absurd musical entertainment, but the cast has a good time with it.
On a perfect summer evening, Tony winners and local favorites star in Signature Theater and Wolf Trap's third annual concert collaboration.
A confection of acceptance and a rocking good time.
A lively revamp with social awareness, feminism, humor, and beautiful voices.
News got you nervous? Quaking over coronavirus? Morose about the stock market? Fed up with the Fed? Sick of the swamp? And yet, do you fear if you take your mind off it all for a second, thi…
Filled to bursting with Warrior Girls, Lost Boys, dastardly Pirates from tiny to extra-large, and flying children, Theatre@CBT's Peter Pan is a treat from start to finish. Director Kevin …
Given that so many plays and films these days are based on, drawn from or inspired by each other, it is worth examining the differences between these media and the treatments they require. T…
Ah, yes, it's that most wonderful time of the year: The tingle of frozen breath on the air, the sparkle of lights on the trees, the warmth of spiced cider, and the sublime silliness of Panto…
Plaza Suite, this is not. In fact, it is about as different as a play can be that shares the same premise: short vignettes about the different people who occupy the same room in, as one char…
Ah, an evening of cabaret in an intimate venue in the swanky Pike and Rose complex. Elegant artists dressed to the nines singing and playing sophisticated classics from the Great American So…
When the audience enters the performance space at Joe's Movement Emporium, they are confronted by three women in period clothing (costumes designed by Julie Cray Leong, assisted by Kyla Carn…
Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013, is a comedy about neurotic, middle-aged, well-off white people whining about thei…
To transmogrify Seuss, What a difficult task! Just how do they do it? And well might you ask! This master of mayhem Who leaps from the page, How could he possibly be Put on the stage? In dra…
It's June, a time for anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations. Where can you simultaneously look back with fond nostalgia at British pluck and cheek, and party for Pride month? How ab…
The question when reviving a classic musical is always how much to preserve and how much to adapt. Audiences can often have fond memories of famous original productions, but times change, an…
As much as modern culture claims to worship novelty, innovation and even disruption, there is a lot to be said for the tried and true. From an imaginative rendition of a beloved Shakespeare …
Silver Spring Stage is known for producing professional-level community theater, garnering more WATCH nominations and awards than any other company in Maryland. The Obie-award winner Appropr…
Farce is a classic form of comedy, based on ludicrous characters, silly situations, mistaken identities, sex, slapstick, and many slamming doors. After centuries of development (refinement w…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Pride and Prejudice is an impeccable dance, an elegant minuet from start to finish. Every element works gracefully with every other, producing a pleasing, …
