49 stories by "Eric Denver"
This isn't the first time that Greenspring Players have focused their expertise on one act plays, nor the first time I have reviewed such shows for our website. Each show was about 45 minute…
DC Audiences are cramming into a Dupont Circle Hotel to catch this monthly show. After experiencing this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious performance of abracadabra, I still don't know the…
You might want to "Take me Home, Country Roads" to the latest production Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver, which for the first time is playing in the Washington, DC metropolitan area i…
One Act plays comprise a three-course menu of The Greenspring Players for their Washington, DC community 2016 Spring Trio. It's another home run for these theatrical mavens. When I pondered …
How many magic shows have you seen where the magician spends an inordinate amount of time making up magic words to distract you while performing his trick? Big news… David London does not …
As one of the early arrivals to the Village Theater complex last night, I watched as the many residents of the Greenspring retirement community entered the venue for the first of four perfor…
So, how many magic shows have you been to in your life? You know, the ones that use coded words like “Abracadabra” while the magician swings around a wand decked out in a black t…
As I strolled into the Smithsonian's Dillon Ripley Center complex (shared with the Sackler Museum of Asian Art and the National Museum of African Art), I was surprised  to see over 100…
Summer Hummer IV: Foreplay! made its two-show debut last night at Signature Theatre. If you didn't plan properly or were on vacation, you missed a provocative evening of fun and frolic at Si…
"Hello – my name is … and I am an alcoholic." These powerful words reverberated in the Clifton Town Hall as myself (and I am sure each member of the audience) recalled our pe…
The Meeting is an original play by local playwright Greg Powell and directed by Lori Muhlstein. It will be performed by The Clifton Arts Council on Friday and Saturday evenings, July 24th…
The Meeting is an original play by local playwright Greg Powell and directed by Lori Muhlstein. It will be performed by The Clifton Arts Council on Friday and Saturday evenings, July 24th…
Welcome to Focus‘Â 100th birthday party where over 60 folk music fanatics were in the audience to help celebrate the group's centennial concert in Alexandria, VA. This is DCMTA's fir…
Derek John Tatum has been in the Washington, DC acting circuit for about ten years. Last year, he moved to New York City. Here, Derek discusses his experiences and challenges working and liv…
On the evenings of November 14, 15, 21, and 22, 2014 Isaac Solomon performed the role of Link in Hairspray at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD. I had a chance to talk with I…
The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible, now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House, is not your typical abracadabra magic show, and when you leave after the show is over�…
It's that time of the year where the Halloween spirit becomes a major player in what the subject matter of theatrical events around town hang their hat on. What a fitting selection for Green…
For those who are fans of folk music, there was only one place to be in the Washington, DC Metro area on Saturday night in order to be folkin down memory lane. The World Folk Music Associati…
I walked into NextStop Theatre Company’s Industrial Park Theatre (where Johnna Adams’ riveting Gidion's Knot has recently taken up residence after a critically acclaimed ru…
The Three Stooges made over 200 appearances in shorts – those knuckle-headed 15-minute misadventures – and full-length feature films with their usual trademark of hysterical mayh…
"I hear that old piano…". These famous words open Garrison Keillor's weekly program every Saturday night throughout the year. Wolf Trap has returned to tradition once again as it premiers …
I was so impressed by the quality of H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program‘s production of Les Misérables School Edition that I asked Director/Producer/Musical Director Bill …
 Les Misérables School Edition played at H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program in Arlington, VA on January 30, 2014 to a sold-out four-performance run. Under the capable and expert lea…
La Cage aux Folles, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly! and Mame), and book by multiple Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy and Kinky Boots), opene…
In the small intimate confines of the blackbox theater within the Strathmore complex, Saturday afternoon was a spectacular day for Chapter 39 of Genesis. First Act, a new program of Act Two …
