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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Review: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘Season 3 Opening Celebration! With Marilyn Maye’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Thea by Gary McMillan

Luke Frazier, American Pops Orchestra founder and Music Director, kicked off the Orchestra’s third season with a delightful concert featuring acclaimed jazz legend, Marilyn Maye. Maye was …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19AM
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Review: The Rainbow Theatre Project Presents ‘Historias’ by Gary McMillan

The Rainbow Theatre Project premiered a new work, Historias, on Monday night, a show crafted from the experiences of its remarkably talented cast members. Director Tony Koehler led his actor…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PM
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Review: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘You Spin Me ‘Round: An ’80s Dance Party’ at Lisner Auditorium by Gary McMillan

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with being formulaic when the formula mixes crowd-pleasing song selections, fresh and stylish musical arrangements, and knock-out performances. That…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:25AM
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Review: ‘Donizetti’s Don Pasquale’ presented by The In Series: Opera & More at GALA Hispanic Theatre by Gary McMillan

Happiness is a theatrical adaptation that successfully reinvents the original. The In Series’ production of Gabriel Donizetti’s 1843 comic opera Don Pasquale now playing at GALA …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AM
Monday, January 16, 2017

Review #2: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade: 75 Years Of Streisand’ at Lisner Auditorium by Gary McMillan

8-track tape: It’s the only medium of Barbra Streisand recordings that I do not own. LP, cassette, VHS, CD, DVD, mp3, mp4 … I have purchased some of Streisand’s work in two…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:04PM
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Review: ‘Naughty & Nice’ at Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC by Gary McMillan

Jumpstart your holiday spirit with Naughty & Nice, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s warmhearted, sassy and sexy extravaganza. For traditionalists, there’s Irving Berlin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Review: ‘Let’s Misbehave! True Confessions of GMCW’ at The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC by Gary McMillan

I can’t vouch for the truth of the confessions, at Let’s Misbehave! True Confessions of GMCW (The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC), but having each performer bare a bit of…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23AM
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Review: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘I’ll Be Seeing You: A World War II Love Story’ at Lisner Auditorium by Gary McMillan

I’ll Be Seeing You is a delightful portrait of the love and sacrifices of a newlywed couple separated by military service during World War II. The letters between Spark and Charley whi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43PM
Monday, August 15, 2016

Philadelphia GayFest! 2016 Review: ‘My Favorite Husbands’ at Studio X by Gary McMillan

In 2003, Massachusetts fired a shot heard ’round the world when it became the first state to legalize gay marriage. For Mark (Thomas-Robert Irvin), the central character in Andrew Marv…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12PM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman: A New Musical’ by Gary McMillan

Something joyously funny is happening at Tropicalia Lounge. How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman: A New Musical, produced by Golden Ginger Productions, is a romantic musical comedy with a fresh t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:45PM
Thursday, July 7, 2016

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Tragedy of Mario and Juliet’ by Gary McMillan

The Tragedy of Mario and Juliet, presented by Dead Cat Productions/Wayne Nicolosi (as well as written and directed by Nicolosi), reinvents well-known Shakespearean characters and plots to ex…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54PM
Friday, July 1, 2016

Review: ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ at The Kennedy Center by Gary McMillan

The Bridges of Madison County is a romantic, sexy, and unapologetically sentimental musical. Most likely you know The Bridges of Madison County from either Robert James Waller’s 1992 n…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:01PM
Monday, May 23, 2016

Review: ‘The Merry Death of Robin Hood’ at LiveArtDC by Gary McMillan

The Merry Death of Robin Hood, written by Paul Resiman, (based on the stories by Howard Pyle), is my first experience of LiveArtDC and it was choice. I hadn’t thought of Robin Hood si…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31PM
Monday, May 9, 2016

Review: The American Pops Orchestra Presents ‘Make Someone Happy: A 60’s Cocktail Party’ at Lisner Auditorium by Gary McMillan

For 90 minutes last Friday night (May 6, 2016), orchestra founder and Music Director Luke Frazier, Director Nathan Brewer, and Choreographer Kelly d’Amboise transformed Lisner Auditorium i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PM
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The Women’s Voices Theatre Festival: ‘Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway’ at Spooky Action Theater by Gary McMillan

It is intriguing to see a work in progress that has real merit. Sandra Kamman’s Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway, a play with music, straddles time and space to metaphysically inter…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45PM
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

‘American Pops Orchestra Presents Stairway to Paradise: A Gershwin Spectacular’ at Lisner Auditorium by Gary McMillan

American Pops Orchestra presented Stairway to Paradise: A Gershwin Spectacular, starring Christine Ebersole, directed by Nathan Brewer, at George Washington University’s Lisner Audit…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM
Friday, October 16, 2015

‘The Basilisk of Barnagasso’ at The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance by Gary McMillan

An exuberant troupe of seven players (and some ad-libbing stage hands) fabricated a screwball, madcap adventure of star-crossed lovers and lost fortunes, vagabonds, soldiers, bandits, hired …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:46PM
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Mark Nadler: ‘Runnin’ Wild: Songs and Scandals of the Roaring ’20s’ at Starthmore’s AMP by Gary McMillan

Raconteur. A word seldom used nowadays. In the era of Twitter and short attention spans, good luck finding “a person who excels in telling anecdotes.” But flip open the Merriam-W…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PM
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Next to Normal by Gary McMillan

Out on a limb, up on a tightwire, off the high dive — Brian Yorkey (librettist and lyricist) and Tom Kitt (composer) took a bold challenge in constructing a musical around an otherwise…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PM
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

A Broadway Christmas Carol by Gary McMillan

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the old chestnuts of the holiday season without a doubt,  as evidenced by the scads of adaptations whether radio play, film, movie musical…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:48PM

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