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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Theatre Review: Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the Kennedy Center by Stephanie House

The Kennedy Center is an institution, inspiring awe from the moment you walk in the door. You get to your seat and the stage is an Elizabethan hall, with light filtering through the latticew…

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Monday, July 18, 2016

Fringe Review: ‘H5x7’ by Barabbas Theatre Company by Stephanie House

Shakespeare’s Henry V famously begins “O for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention, a kingdom for a stage, princes to act and monarchs to behold the swelling…

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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘We Know How You Die’ by Upright Citizens Brigade at Woolly Mammoth by Stephanie House

It seems a little presumptuous to write a review of something so amorphous as improvisational comedy. It was always an enigma to me, being so married to the written word. It was my worst sub…

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Hand to God’ at Studio Theatre by Stephanie House

It’s a lovely Sunday morning in July where Jesus smiles down upon the congregation of Mount Logan Lutheran Church, who’ve just gathered round the basement in order to see the world premi…

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Monday, July 11, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ at Capital Fringe Theater Festival by Stephanie House

When J. Robert Oppenheimer was called upon to discuss his participation in the Manhattan Project and witnessing the destruction wrought by the invention, he recalled a quote from the Bhagava…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:56PM

Theatre Review: ‘Romanov’ at Capital Fringe by Stephanie House

When Lin Manuel Miranda announced at the 2009 White House Poetry Jam that he was planning on writing a rap musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, he was met with outright laughter.…

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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Another Way Home’ at Theater J by Stephanie House

Somewhere towards the middle of Anna Ziegler’s Another Way Home, Philip turns to his wife Lillian after searching for hours for their son and demands, rather than asks of her, “What else…

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Thursday, June 23, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Next to Normal’ at Keegan Theatre by Stephanie House

Even in 2016, far beyond the days of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, mental Illness is a topic that is rarely brought up until it is absolutely necessary, such in instances of unspeakable destruct…

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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Static’ by Tom Horan at the Source Festival by Stephanie House

Sound waves travel through the air around us, molecule by molecule until finally, they reach our ears. There are people that touch our lives in this same most fundamental way, and more than …

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:48PM

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Old Town Music Hall Celebrating Queen and Country’ at Kensington Arts Theatre by Stephanie House

When you walk into the Kensington Town Hall, home of the Kensington Arts Theatre, you are usually greeted with a towering bleacher structure. This show however called for an array of small r…

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Voices the Play’ by Roseprose Productions at Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint by Stephanie House

There are plays that move us, and shake us, and inspire us to act, but then there are those that inspire us to be true to ourselves and use our own voice. Voices the play written and produce…

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Caroline or Change at the Creative Cauldron by Stephanie House

The Creative Cauldron has brought Broadway to the humble town of Falls Church Virginia in their incredible production of Caroline, or Change. Matt Conner directs a cast and crew of absolutel…

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘The Who’s Tommy’ at Kensington Theatre Arts by Stephanie House

“How familiar are you with The Who’s Tommy?” This is the question that directors Carlotta Capuano and Ruben Vellekoop were presented with at the beginning of their journey into this ec…

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Mystery of Love and Sex’ at Signature Theatre by Stephanie House

In the middle of act one of award-winning playwright Bathsheba Doran’s newest play, protagonist Charlotte laments to her friend that “there should be as many words for racism as the Eski…

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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Green Day’s American Idiot’ at Keegan Theatre by Stephanie House

American Idiot the album came out when I was in middle school, and the first time I heard it was surreptitiously in gym class, when I should have been running laps. I thought that the angry …

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Monday, February 8, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘The Laramie Project: A Letter from Judy Shepard, Matthew’s Mother’ at Kensington Arts Theatre by Stephanie House

In their first non- musical, Kensington Arts Theatre presents the drama The Laramie Project, written by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project. In his director’s note, John Nune…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:08PM

Monday, February 1, 2016

Theatre Review: ‘Deathtrap’ presented by The Arlington Players at the Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre by Stephanie House

From the imagination of the man behind Rosemary’s Baby comes one of Broadway’s longest running mystery thrillers: Deathtrap. In his Director’s Note, Andrew JM Regiec expressed the spe…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 10:15PM

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