183 stories by "Bob Ashby"
There are potholes in the road not taken. So discover many of the characters in Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn, now being presented by the Maryland Ensemble Theater (MET) in Freder…
"There is nothing whatever beneath my exterior." So proclaims a character in Death by Design, now playing at the Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT) in Alexandria. How right he is, no…
Frederick's Other Voices Theatre puts a very large cast and a complex technical scheme to excellent use in its production of the 1971 Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock operetta Jesus Christ …
The theme of a man and a woman who can't live without each other and can't live with each other is as old as theater. Often enough it has been played for comedy, as in the couples in Noel Co…
The audience for Workhouse Theater's production of Avenue Q (music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Mark, book by Jeff Whitty), loved every minute. And what's not to love? The 2003 Tony A…
An apt subtitle for Of Mice and Men, adapted from the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck, might be "the futility of hope." In the small, corrosively lonely, universe of a California ranch during…
Attention Anglophiles: If you loved The Queen, and if you avidly follow The Crown on Netflix, then by all means, join the audience for The Audience at the Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA).…
The current Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) production in Rockville is a very lively effort both the musical and staging aspects of which succeed delightfully.