Friday, March 27, 2015
RCA Victor catalogue promoting Mexican early sound film star Libertad Lamarque. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
As well as being a research center for The New York Public…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:47PMTuesday, March 24, 2015
“Too much sanity is madness!” This counterintuitive declaration is made by Don Quixote, the iconic lead character in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s current production of Man of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09PMThursday, March 19, 2015
With a glorious mélange of words and music, Freedom’s Song: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War tells the story of America’s struggle to keep our nation together and abolish the wretched …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMSunday, March 15, 2015
This weekend, the classic Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof was brought to life in spectacular fashion at the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Do you love classic Broadway theatre? Do you love the work of legendary Broadway composers? Do you love clever satire, glittering costumes, and talented performers? If so, you will absolute…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMSunday, February 8, 2015
Do you remember when “psychedelic” and “flower power” were prevalent in the American vocabulary? It doesn’t really matter, because Olney Theatre Center’s tuneful and energetic pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMThursday, January 29, 2015
In the world premiere production of The Widow Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, playwright James Still and Director Stephen Rayne create a mélange of fact and fiction, mystery and history, in a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30PMThursday, December 18, 2014
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is both transcendent and transplendent! This fun and funny, family-friendly musical lights up the stage at The Kennedy Center this holiday seaso…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:58PMSunday, December 7, 2014
The game is afoot in Montgomery Playhouse’s light and entertaining holiday mystery, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Goose. Virginia Cate and Duke Ernsberger adapted the narrative from Si…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Donny & Marie: Christmas at the National provides our nation’s capital with a sparkling and joyous holiday celebration. Superstar siblings Donny and Marie Osmond are every bit as charm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMMonday, November 17, 2014
“Why Can’t the English Teach Their Children How to Speak?” laments phonetics professor Henry Higgins upon hearing a cacophonous Cockney accent from a poor flower girl on a rainy night …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMWill we ever get tired of the classic narrative, “boy meets girl—boy loses girl—boy gets girl”? Never! Especially when it’s presented as a singing, dancing, comedic extravaganza su…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07AMThursday, October 16, 2014
“I have principles. I just don’t let them get in the way of what I want.” That’s how Elmer Gantry—a charismatic preacher-salesman-womanizer summarizes himself. But, he falls for S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55PMSunday, October 12, 2014
What do you get when you combine bright and bouncy circus fun with some valuable life lessons? The answer is Not My Monkey, a delightful and highly interactive comedy, produced through a pa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Clifford Odets’ 1935 turbulent drama Awake and Sing! is a stark portrayal of a dysfunctional Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City in the mid-1930s. Set against the backdrop of the Gre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:45PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Is it possible that the bullet that killed JFK was also the one fired from the Lexington and Concord book depository, and took off in a white Ford Bronco? Or that the Bill of Rights was supp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Dirty Dancing is a theatrical thrill ride that is waiting for you at The National Theatre! Based on the 1987 film of the same name, Dirty Dancing explores adolescent love, loss of innocence,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMMonday, August 18, 2014
Theatre lovers can hearken back to the days when “psychedelic” and “flower power” were prevalent in the American vocabulary at the Pasadena Theatre Company’s tuneful and energetic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04AMMonday, August 4, 2014
Where can you find a combination of a fire-breathing dragon, a dozen fairy tale characters, first-rate singing, dancing, and comedy, an ogre, a princess, a king, and a donkey, plus important…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31AMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Few, if any, “Founding Mothers” had a more profound influence on the early history of the United States than Dolley Madison. It would be an honor for any American to meet this legendary…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Sparkling dance numbers, controversial social issues, music, tragedy, romance, and humor combine to make Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s production of West Side Story a fun and thou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19AMSunday, March 9, 2014
The words “tuneful” and “energetic” only begin to describe Magruder High School’s production of the Tony-award-winning musical Hairspray. Based on the 1988 John Waters film of the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMThursday, September 19, 2013
With a new season about to open in Moscow, the world of Russian theater is full of contradictions. A seemingly unrelenting drive by President Putin and his associates to secure their authori…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:55PMSaturday, August 10, 2013
Every summer, like a relative with too much luggage, it arrives on our doorstep: the New York International Fringe Festival, the ungainly cousin to the Edinburgh original. By the time Fringe…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:12AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
Former Olympics sweetheart Cathy Rigby has been slapped with a $2 million lawsuit, charging she stiffed a composer of fees and credit for the music he did for her “Peter Pan” play.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:59PMWednesday, December 26, 2012
It’s Boxing Day, when one typically returns the gifts you don’t want for things you do. Isn’t it a shame you can’t get the same deal at the theater?
If that were the case, we’d ret…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Deanna Jent's
Falling at the Minetta Lane Theatre is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of a family with an autistic child, but the play is so much more than a "disease of the week"…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, October 8, 2012
It's best to approach the Marvell Rep revival of Sholem Asch's 1910 play, God of Vengeance at TBG Theatre, as an historical footnote, since it both portrays the first lesbian kiss on stage a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:47AMSunday, September 16, 2012
If you want to hear the great music of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, you’ll get a wonderful earful at , at 59E59 Theaters. These expert jazz musicians, surrounded by four other excellent players…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMonday, September 10, 2012
Michelle Clunie’s ambitious two-hander, US: A Progressive Love Story, at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, is an attempt to use a tempestuous love affair between two sophisticated adults as a me…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSunday, September 9, 2012
There is a nutty nobility at work in Adam Syzmkowicz's new play, The Why Overhead at the Access Theater, that shows why this highly praised young playwright continues to be someone to watch.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM 
