Sunday, March 19, 2023
Lauren Gunderson's play left stars in my eyes. It reminds us not only of the importance of equality but of life itself.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:46AMMonday, March 13, 2023
The clever children's play invites audience members young and old to enjoy the promise of spring and the simplicity of enthusiasm.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:51PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
Kimberly Bellflower's enchanting play — directed by Aaron Posner at American University — asks what happens to a lonely girl after her first big crush.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:32AMMonday, April 28, 2014
I love Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so when I saw the opportunity to review it in Purcellville at Main Street Theater Productions, I thought, “I’ve got a golden ticket! Whereas,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52AMSaturday, March 29, 2014
A great play is sweet solace, and there’s a relief in knowing that all the love and hard work you’ve just witnessed culminated into a success. American University’s production of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09AMSaturday, November 16, 2013
In order to spend some time with my overworked best girlfriend, I let her pick a show and she chose A Dream Play – a show she knew nothing about. She’s in the midst of – what …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Fish Outta Water is a whacky and wonderful part-jam session, part-biographical narrative. More appropriately, lets call it the life story jam session. Ron Litman is the microphone and Tom Pi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMDark House, written by Tarpley Long, is the original title of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and the current title of her take on it. It’s the bleak account of a prominent Washingt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:20AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
An estimated 291,521 people in the US are living with, or are in remission from, leukemia. An estimated 48,610 new cases of leukemia are expected to be diagnosed in the US in 2013. Approxima…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39AMThursday, July 11, 2013
The Golden Age of the Circus was from 1870-1950. During those years is when the Circus swelled into the largest show-biz industry in the world. It wasn’t just for the kids in those days. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:54PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
There used to be a time when going to the county fair was the highlight of everyone’s summer. There’s be the agricultural and livestock show for Pop, the arts and crafts for Ma (or vice …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
“Sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behavior distributed over a large area and number of people” is the definition of Widespread Panic and, co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:58PMSunday, May 12, 2013
If you’re not yet familiar with Ramin Karimloo, best known for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End, his tour…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMFriday, May 3, 2013
I attended Opera Lafayette’s Acteon at The Kennedy Center and the production opened with lovely excerpts from Les Fetes de L’Hymen et de L’Amour; ou Les Dieux d’Egypte (1747) in the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59AMMonday, April 29, 2013
There are shows that are good and there are shows that are bad. There are countless shows that land somewhere in the middle. We all have various reasons we attend the plays we do: invitation…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:10PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Walking through the auditorium doors at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center at Montgomery College to see The Department of Theatre’s production of Charles Mee’s Big Lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:44PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Born in the shadow of our parents, it is every child’s journey to discover the source of light shone on them that ignites the inspiration for prosperity in order to, ultimately, cast one&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
The innate impulse to creatively express and share the life force that pulses to the rhythm of our own beating hearts is age-old and universal. It makes sense, then, that drums are mans ol…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Flamenco dance combines choreography with improvised solos to a three-part harmony of guitar, singing, and dancing with the rhythm of handclaps, known as palmas, and of the dancers’ step p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:27PMSunday, February 17, 2013
Although Sexo, Pudor Y Lágrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears) is a charming comedy. I found it a thoughtful meditation on sex and how it has, does and always will separate men and women. Beyond …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PMSleeping Beauty Dreams, a puppet show performed by Marionetas de la Esquina of Mexico, at The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater is a true treat for the little and big ones alike. It’s a de…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMSunday, January 13, 2013
I always suffer a little committing to a classical show – especially Shakespeare. When they’re bad, it’s torture. When they’re good, it’s always still a bit painful for m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
Getting dressed up and then bundled up to venture out into the weather to see The Nutcracker with family, friends ,or a date during the Christmas season is a tradition as uplifting, rich, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMSunday, December 16, 2012
Engaging with the Christmas Spirit on 12/15/12, just one day after the massacre in Connecticut, in which 26 were killed – the least of which were 20 children for whom the holiday is tr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:48PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
I am an actress, but improv – although entirely and absolutely necessary to act organically – was not something I had ever tackled in and of itself, on it’s own turf. Thinkin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AMMonday, December 3, 2012
A Killing Game was weird, stirring, uncomfortable, frightening, funny, illogical, confusing, upsetting, light-hearted and gay – and collectively all so vaguely familiar. The clowni…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMMonday, November 26, 2012
My family always bought a live tree. It was trimmed with wood ornaments from far away lands, candy canes, tinsel, and was topped with a wax angel in a burgundy dress. But the finishing touch…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26AMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Because Ward Recital Hall at Catholic University is an old ecclesial building originally intended as a facility for liturgical music, there will always be an undeniable piety in it’s struc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Finding Mahan Theatre to see Titus Andronicus proved to be as difficult as finding anything not to be impressed with in this humble production – which was my general persuasion upon en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:47PM 
