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Monday, March 28, 2022

Two plays online from Essential Theatre offer reflections on faith by Gina Dalfonzo

Read by strong and compelling casts, the plays explore the intersection of faith with some of humanity’s darkest and most desperate moments.

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

Shavian wit meets its match in ‘Dear Liar’ from Washington Stage Guild by Gina Dalfonzo

Lively and brilliant letters between George Bernard Shaw and the original Eliza Doolittle from before there was Zoom.

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Thursday, May 20, 2021

A highly entertaining ‘How He Lied to Her Husband’ from Washington Stage Guild by Gina Dalfonzo

Washington Stage Guild continues its run of online performances with a one-act comedy from George Bernard Shaw, whose works they perform so frequently that he’s affectionately known as the…

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Saturday, April 3, 2021

Poignant ‘Dear Elizabeth’ at Vienna Theatre pens a true friendship by Gina Dalfonzo

Dear Elizabeth, performed by a two-person cast and streamed online by Vienna Theatre Company, is a feast for fans of 20th-century literature, or even just those interested in stories of frie…

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

J’Nai Bridges’ debut in ‘Samson and Delilah’ is a dream come true by Gina Dalfonzo

When J’Nai Bridges made her triumphant debut in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah Sunday night, it was the fulfillment of a dream. The young mezzo-soprano’s star has been rapid…

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Sunday, March 1, 2020

‘Moonlight and Magnolias’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria blends comic antics and human drama by Gina Dalfonzo

Hollywood, 1939. The production of Gone with the Wind — arguably the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade — is in chaos. Producer David O. Selznick (Griffin Voltmann) has just fi…

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Sunday, October 6, 2019

Review: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Gina Dalfonzo

Love is a game—or deadly serious—or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company’s production of Pride and Prejudice. The game motif is evident early …

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Friday, September 6, 2019

Review: ‘Bobby Gould in Hell’ by Providence Players of Fairfax by Gina Dalfonzo

Eternal questions are being hotly debated in the back room of the Italian Café in Falls Church, where the Providence Players of Fairfax have once again set up shop for a “pop-up productio…

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Saturday, July 20, 2019

Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at the City of Fairfax Theatre Company by Gina Dalfonzo

One doesn’t generally think of Beauty and the Beast as a dance show first and foremost. But in this lively production by The City of Fairfax Theatre Company and Truro Anglican Church, feat…

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Review: ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ by NextStop Theatre Company by Gina Dalfonzo

How do you replicate perfection—especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin’ in the Rain, the beloved movie m…

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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Review: ‘The Savannah Disputation’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Gina Dalfonzo

If you never thought the words “theological comedy” could go together, think again. The Savannah Disputation, playing now at The Little Theater of Alexandria, bills itself as just such a…

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Review: ‘Amazing Grace’ at the Museum of the Bible by Gina Dalfonzo

In 2017, the Broadway musical Amazing Grace opened its national tour with a stint at the World Stage Theater at Washington, D.C.’s Museum of the Bible. (DC Metro Theatre Arts’ review of …

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Friday, January 18, 2019

Review: ‘The Fantasticks’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Gina Dalfonzo

Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s The Fantasticks had a legendary 42-year Off-Broadway run (and then an 11-year revival), suggesting that there’s something strangely captivating about this …

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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Review: ‘2018 Marian Anderson Vocal Award Winner: Ryan Speedo Green in Concert’ at the Kennedy Center by Gina Dalfonzo

Ryan Speedo Green is a man with a story. Many opera fans first learned his name through Daniel Bergner’s 2016 book Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family. The New York Time…

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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Review: ‘The Girl of the Golden West’ at the Virginia Opera by Gina Dalfonzo

Giacomo Puccini never met a foreign culture that he didn’t try to set to music. His operas set in Japan (Madama Butterfly) and China (Turandot) are celebrated as masterpieces. Less celebra…

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Review: ‘Crazy for You’ at Signature Theater by Gina Dalfonzo

I have a perpetual soft spot for Crazy for You, which was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. What with George and Ira Gershwin songs, Tony-winning choreography by Susan Stroman, and the …

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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Review: ‘Catch Me If You Can’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Gina Dalfonzo

The story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., was first brought to America’s attention in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. It gained a new lease on life in 2011 with the Broadway mu…

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Friday, January 15, 2016

Review: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ at The Kennedy Center by Gina Dalfonzo

With a wealthy aristocratic family that refuses to acknowledge him, and a money-hungry girlfriend who refuses to marry him, what’s an impoverished young man to do? The unfortunate relative…

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Sunday, November 29, 2015

‘A Broadway Christmas Carol’ at MetroStage by Gina Dalfonzo

Probably no other cast in the D.C. metro area works harder for a laugh, or enjoys it more when it comes, than the cast of A Broadway Christmas Carol, now playing its sixth consecutive season…

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

‘Oliver!’ at Arena Stage by Gina Dalfonzo

From its opening number, Arena Stage’s innovative new production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! is bursting with excitement and emotion. Director Molly Smith has stripped the classic musical b…

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

‘Friendship Betrayed’ at WSC Avant Bard by Gina Dalfonzo

Put 1630s Spain and 1920s America into a cocktail shaker, shake well, and you get WSC Avant Bard’s sparkling update of María de Zayas y Sotomayor’s 1632 play Friendship Betrayed. Transl…

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

‘A Man for All Seasons’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Gina Dalfonzo

Forget everything you learned from the recent PBS miniseries Wolf Hall. Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, currently playing at Herndon’s NextStop Theatre, tells a very different tale …

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Saturday, May 16, 2015

‘Major Barbara’ at Pallas Theatre Collective by Gina Dalfonzo

It’s not always easy to figure out what view of life George Bernard Shaw is trying to express in Major Barbara. Though he was a freethinker, he gives us a witty, tolerant, idealistic heroi…

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Saturday, April 25, 2015

‘The Fox on the Fairway’ at Reston Community Players by Gina Dalfonzo

“Golf is not a game, but a way of life. A religion, if you will,” intones Henry Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club, in Ken Ludwig’s The Fox on the Fairway, playing now…

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

‘The Great Divorce’ at Lansburgh Theatre by Gina Dalfonzo

Having successfully adapted C. S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters into a two-character play, Max McLean and his group Fellowship for Performing Arts have gone for an even bigger chall…

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Saturday, October 25, 2014

‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ at George Mason University’s School of Theater and School of Music by Gina Dalfonzo

Charles Dickens left his novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished when he died in 1870. Over a hundred years later, Rupert Holmes took advantage of that ambiguity to create a unique music…

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

‘Dailey & Vincent LIVE: A Live Recording Event’ at Hylton Performing Arts Center by Gina Dalfonzo

Award-winning bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent explained onstage at the Hylton Performing Arts Center Saturday night that they usually model themselves after The Statler Brothers (a member…

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