32 stories by "Andy Arnold"
An energetic vibe lifts up the rock opera's 50th-anniversary tour. By ANDY ARNOLD
The play is two hours of silly, slapstick humor disguised as a murder mystery and international spy thriller. By ANDY ARNOLD
Acting performances shine in this psychological drama set in DC high society.
Mitchell tells her story of coming of age as a latchkey kid in the 1960s and '70s and reckoning with dreams and disappointment into adulthood.
Veteran director John Cusamano leaves Maryland with a triumph.
I hate using terms like comedy and drama together, but they aptly describe Christopher Chen's The Late Wedding. The play, inspired by the whimsical stories of Italian writer Italo Calvino, e…
A young boy's fantasy has a lesson: Enjoy your youth, death is coming.
In this tongue-in-cheek British comedy, two eccentric ladies come together as frenemies.
The dazzling score by Irving Berlin features well-known standards that invite feet to dance.
The musical may have a weak plot but this production is excellent.
If you enjoy using your mind, this play is for you.
DC theater veteran B. Stanley returns to the stage as the fast-talking spirit of the former president " because 'Our democracy is in a dire strait.'
The Rude Mechanicals stage realistic jury-room strife at Greenbelt Arts Center.
Exhilarating music, dance, orchestration, and fine acting make for a winning opera.
Dancing sets the tone for this iconic musical that brings life and humanity to Jewish peasants facing antisemitism in pre-revolutionary Russia.
It's 1939 and film studio chief David O. Selznick has staked his career on adapting Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone with the Wind for the screen. Still, Selznick shuts down produc…
Chris Dwyer uses Walt Whitman's poetry and his many hospital visits to bring vivid accounts of the Civil War to life in Leaves of America: Walt Whitman's Stories of the Civil War. Whitman fa…
Agatha Christie's A Daughter's a Daughter at The Arlington Players features the character of Sarah Prentice: the most hateful, self-centered, pampered, jealous, possessive, resentful, rotten…
Is racism a taboo subject in the arts? Of course not. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Porgy and Bess to the whitewashing of the Oscars, artists have used their platform to convict American society…
You know it's going to be a long night when Santa Claus goes missing. Either Stage Manager Meaghan Leahy made a whopper of a mistake, or some fiend stole jolly ole St. Nick, thus threatening…
If you know a bored child who doesn't know what to do with their time, a trip through Susan Nanus' The Phantom Tollbooth just might be the answer. It certainly works for Milo in Greenbelt…
Viewing Aquila Theatre's adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 at the Center for the Arts at George Mason University, I couldn't help but wonder which came first "newspeak" or "alternative fact…
The set and staging steal the show at 2nd Star Productions' A Christmas Carol: The Musical. That is almost a shame because the acting, singing, and dancing are also first-rate; however, the …
If you are into corsets, fishnets, glitter, high heels, bold makeup, sexual innuendo and cussing as art, Wolf Pack Theatre Company's (WPTC) rendition of Richard O'Brien's cult classic Rocky …
If you are looking for some enjoyable entertainment before the holiday rush sets in, see The Drowsy Chaperone by the Goddard Music and Drama Club at the Barney & Bea Recreation Center. T…
