71 stories by "Diane Jackson Schnoor"
Todd Ellison and Friends delivered an early Valentine to audiences at George Mason University's Center for the Arts Sunday afternoon. In The Romance of Broadway, delivered a charming musi…
Last night, thanks to the generosity of Washington Performing Arts, DC audiences had the rare opportunity to see Wynton Marsalis in the fullest sense " as consummate performer, as bandleader…
Kennedy Center's World Premiere of Mockingbird Is a Must See Play for All Ages Brilliant: very bright, flashing with light; very impressive or successful; extremely intelligent. Moving: havi…
Reston Community Players heats up the winter with the thrilling whodunit Rehearsal for Murder, January 16-31, 2015. Audiences are invited to test their wits as they enter a world of backstag…
Reston Community Players opens the thrilling whodunit Rehearsal for Murder This Friday, January 16th. Audiences are invited to test their wits as they enter a world of backstage drama whe…
"In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines." With that familiar phrase, Creative Cauldron's cast of Madeline's Christmas musically …
NSO Pops Electrifies with An Evening With Sutton Foster at The Kennedy Center When two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster takes the stage, anything goes, and she served up a delightful …
Little Dancer Offers a Glorious, Unique Addition to the World of Musical Theater Little Dancer is sheer perfection for ballet and musical theater fans alike " enchanting dancing, a glorious …
L.A. Theatre Works delivered a searing, disturbing, and flat-out brilliant rendition of In the Heat of the Night " John Ball's sizzling 1965 noir thriller, adapted for the stage by acclaimed…
Vienna Theatre Company Stretches Its Boundaries With A Thurber Carnival Vienna Theatre Company deserves credit for stretching the boundaries and bringing A Thurber Carnival to the DC metro a…
Fall is in the air, and it's perfect weather for tangling kites in trees, trying to finally win a baseball game, and hoping against hope to finally kick the football without having it pulled…
Fall is in the air, and it's perfect weather for tangling kites in trees, trying to finally win a baseball game, and hoping against hope to finally kick the football without having it pulled…
The Game's Afoot, and the evening promises suspense, hilarity, and entertainment for all who brave the McLean Community Players' romp of a whodunit. Ken Ludwig's The Game's Afoot, or Holmes …
In the first  in a series of interviews with the cast and director of Reston Community Players’ You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, meet Alana Sharp, who plays the psychoanalyzing Luc…
One of the challenges of staging Godspell, Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's charming and oft-revived production of the Gospel according to Matthew, is to find ways to reinvent the…
Last week, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre opened the regional premiere of the practically perfect musical Mary Poppins to thunderous standing ovations. Mary Poppins continues its run throug…
Last week, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre opened the regional premiere of the practically perfect musical Mary Poppins to thunderous standing ovations. Mary Poppins continues its run throug…
(The Best of the Capital Fringe) The Fever, a tour de force solo performance featuring Patrick O'Brien from last year's Fringe hit, Underneath the Lintel, is everything a Fringe show should …
Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre opens the regional premiere of the practically perfect musical Mary Poppins, this Wednesday, July 23. In part two of a three part interview series, we meet tw…
Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre hosts the regional premiere of the practically perfect musical Mary Poppins, opening July 23. In part one of a three part interview series, we meet two of the…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Love Letter Lost, presented by Tut'Zanni Theatre Company, is everything a Fringe show should be: fast paced, highly entertaining, and a wonderfully comic way to …
Rodgers and Hammerstein's timeless classic, The King and I, boasts one of the most luscious scores of all time. Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre (SSMT) plays through this Sunday. In the third…
History Made Interesting: Contrafact of Freedom We've all heard "The Star Spangled Banner" sung at sporting events. Most of us know that the national anthem was written by Francis Scott Key?…
Allow the Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre to transport you back in time to an exotic land ruled by a stubborn King who is confronted by an even more stubborn schoolteacher. Under the able di…
Shall We Dance? Meet Jenna Pinchbeck, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre's Anna in The King and I, Opening Tonight, July 9th Rodgers and Hammerstein's timeless classic, The King and I, boasts o…