If you were unable to participate in the "Magic to Do" that The Theatre Lab had percolated during this weekend’s four performances of Pippin, then you missed the opportunity to witness…
So, it's a Friday night and you had it with a week of work and all you want to do is crash. Now, it's Saturday night and you want to find a great place to go on a date. Fret … Continue…
The very talented Derek Tatum is a member of ‘the line’ in Olney Theatre Center’s production of the Tony Award-winning A Chorus Line. Derek takes us behind-the-scenes…
"Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" is one of the songs from AÂ Chorus Line, but doesn't quite fit the Wolf Trap production Ballroom with a Twist at all. The best way to describe what was happening…
With a packed house of 250 audience members, Max Major made his appearance for Arlington, Virginia patrons at the Arlington Drafthouse at 7:30 on June 29, 2013 for a one-night only performan…
With 100 million records sold by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons (worldwide since its inception), this is the first time I was able to appreciate their music in-person. In 2009, I was in …
As Dance of the Wasp and Spider opens, there is a five-minute monologue by the leading actor Tyler Brody who provides a more in-depth analysis as to the play's title. As the wasp dominat…
As Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to NIBROC opens, it is December 28, 1940 and you hear the sound of train whistles and May (Lena Winter) is sitting on one of two chairs stage right.…
Although Encyclopedia has played throughout the DC area, tonight is my first exposure to the Washington's ABCs of theatrical education. Each show is a vaudevillian extravaganza and focuses o…
History 101 is a great place to begin to understand the ramifications of a Perfect Arrangement, which opens in the Spring of 1950.We find ourselves at the play's outset smack in the middl…
"A Fiddler on the Roof, sounds crazy, no?" That quote is the book’s first line of this classic musical which opened on September 22, 1964 on Broadway. One may ask…how could you possi…
You "Open a New Window" at the beautiful and newly renovated historical landmark – Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) in New Hope, PA., and look what happens- a fabulous production of Jer…
Shakespeare's famous quote " "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves" certainly rings true to the Greenspring Players. Within the Greenspring Retirement Community the…
I have attended in the past year an American Ballet Theatre Production at The Kennedy Center, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in the Big Apple, a Boshoi Ballet HD Production at a loca…
You didn’t have to take Amtrak to Broadway this past weekend to find "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York."Â All you had to do was to drive out to Vienna,…
The packed Holly Near concert last night  at the Barns at Wolf Trap was a coming home for me. The last time I saw Holly was in the exact same venue about ten years ago. The 90-minute stop…
Back in November 2012, “about 250 student/Signature meetings ago,” playwright Joe Calarco and director and Signature Theatre's Education Department Director Dave Zobell beg…
"Joseph he was one of Jacob's favorite sons," are the words of the lead song of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and they were meandering around in my head as I walked up the…
It was a ‘Montgomery County High’ at The Music Center at Strathmore last night as five musicians took to the stage along with John Denver on video shared a heart-rendering evenin…
On December 11th, an article by James Gardiner and his cast of Putting It Together: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim from George Mason University was posted on DCMetroTheaterArts. In it, they t…
Last night, Signature Theatre continued the second day of its sixth annual ‘Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret' series with an outstanding solo performance by Will Gartshore (with a surprise).Â�…
Last night, Signature Theatre opened its annual ‘Sizzlin' Summer Cabaret’ series with a smashing performance by Matthew and Kristen Scott. This is the first cabaret out of the…
I was honored to be in the audience last night to catch this last production under the stewardship of Artistic Director Blake Robison. What a way to complete his seven year tenure as Produci…
American Century Theater (ACT) is currently producing a  powerful production of On the Waterfront - about the shenanigans of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the …