Monday, February 3, 2020
A high energy musical premiere blasts onto the stage in the FrederickTowne Players production of Loserville. Excellently directed by Matt J. Bannister, with rocking musical direction from Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMThursday, November 21, 2019
A Christmas Story: The Musical at Toby’s celebrates the classic charm, innocence and nostalgia of a child’s Christmas in the 1940s with plenty of high energy production numbers from the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:36PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage is a bittersweet and brilliantly acted dramedy at Silver Spring Stage, featuring insightful direction from Seth Ghitelman for this period piece with a modern…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMSaturday, December 1, 2018
You can skip your one-hundredth viewing of A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker this holiday season and, instead, laugh the evening away at the delightfully original musical comedy, The Crate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:57PMSunday, October 29, 2017
For a fantastic evening of dark comedy with hysterical individual performances that bring quirky characters to life, don’t miss Arsenic and Old Lace at Other Voices Theatre! Nicely d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:20AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Excellently directed by Kimberli Rowley with crisp musical direction from Daniel Chambers, Carrie: The Musical is an intensely emotional show not to be missed at Cumberland Theatre this Hall…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
An unusual choice and subject matter for a musical, Grey Gardens tells the story of the dysfunctional relationship between mother Edith Bouvier Beale and daughter “Little” Edie Beale. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:41PMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Excellently directed by Laura J. Martin with crisp musical direction from Mat Levine, Mel Brooks’ The Producers at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater is an exceptional even…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:16PMSunday, November 20, 2016
Expertly directed by Scott Ruble to evoke every last bit of comedy, A Tuna Christmas, written by Jason Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, features the charming and often chaotic holiday ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:01PMSunday, November 6, 2016
With music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein, La Cage aux Folles running at Other Voices Theatre is a splendid spectacle stuffed with laughs and many poignant moments…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:04PMSaturday, October 22, 2016
The recently opened Whiskey-Shine & Pantomime theater organization in Shepherdstown makes a stunning debut with an updated, modern day, and outdoor adaptation of William Shakespeare̵…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSunday, October 16, 2016
One of the opening lines to last evening’s performance of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, uttered by the world’s most famous detective, was “You see, but you do not obser…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:52AMSaturday, October 1, 2016
Get ready to rock out at the Apollo Civic Theatre with a rocking and energetic production of Rock of Ages! With a book by Chris D’Arenzo and orchestrations and arrangements by Ethan Po…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:49PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
If you have to take a gamble with your theatrical options this weekend, this reviewer bets you will thoroughly enjoy the classic musical comedy Guys and Dolls at the Old Opera House Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38PMSunday, September 11, 2016
We all have those childhood cartoons and characters we loved in our youth, whose innocence and wholesome comedy are branded in our memories and popular culture. But what happens if those who…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:52AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, better known to theater goers as the Jones Hope Wooten comedy team, The Dixie Swim Club at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:16PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre’s (SSMT) production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance breathes fresh and hysterically contemporary life into an older operett…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:19AMSaturday, July 2, 2016
In an interestingly unusual choice for the typical light-hearted summer stock musicals at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre, Sweeney Todd is an exceptional production with strong perf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Be careful what you wish for! This weekend, Into the Woods JR. opens at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater and Children’s Theater, featuring talented students from the tri-…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PMSunday, May 8, 2016
Perfect Wedding at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater and Children’s Theater is a laugh-out-loud riot. Written by Robin Hawdon and directed by Shawn R. Martin, Perfect Wedd…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05AMSunday, May 1, 2016
Skin Deep at the Old Opera House proves love comes in all shapes and sizes and the message is easily displayed with some outstanding performances from the small ensemble cast in this clever …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMMonday, April 11, 2016
The cast of Dogfight at the Apollo Civic Theatre tackles an unusually difficult subject, especially for a musical, with great aplomb, assisted by excellent direction and unique technical eff…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMMonday, February 15, 2016
One of the American theatrical classics, Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, and well-directed by Amanda Hartman, comes to life in a charmingly simplistic and emotionally resonant producti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47AMSaturday, February 13, 2016
Written by Aaron Posner and “sort of adapted from Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull,” Stupid F**king Bird is a highly imaginative and humorous depiction of the love triangles and life l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PMSunday, February 7, 2016
One Slight Hitch at The Old Opera House, directed by Glenn Frail, is a wonderfully romantic comedy. In this delightfully sharp farce by Lewis Black, it’s 1981 and Courtney’s wedd…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
In time for Valentine’s Day, Other Voices Theatre presents a hysterical look at modern relationships, set to some catchy songs, in a series of vignettes forming the musical I Love You,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMSunday, January 31, 2016
Theater critics can sometimes be vicious and bloodthirsty…… and that’s before one of them gets employed by a bloodsucking vampire in the Washington Stage Guild production o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PMSunday, January 17, 2016
A play-within-a-play, a comedy and a thriller, individually, are all standard forms of theater easily accepted by audiences today. But can they successfully be combined into a single enterta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01PMSaturday, December 5, 2015
It is normally difficult to translate classic Christmas movies to the stage because comparisons with the beloved films are inevitable. However, It’s A Wonderful Life at Toby’s Di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Fantastically directed by Susan Thornton and excellently musically directed by Pete Meyers, Other Voices Theatre’s Legally Blonde: The Musical is an extremely high-energy show with ou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMMonday, September 28, 2015
In a moving production and stark departure from its usual light-hearted dinner theater offerings, Cabaret at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater and Children’s Theater is br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:27AM 
