27 stories by "Gina Dalfonzo"
Read by strong and compelling casts, the plays explore the intersection of faith with some of humanity's darkest and most desperate moments.
Lively and brilliant letters between George Bernard Shaw and the original Eliza Doolittle from before there was Zoom.
Washington Stage Guild continues its run of online performances with a one-act comedy from George Bernard Shaw, whose works they perform so frequently that he's affectionately known as their…
Dear Elizabeth, performed by a two-person cast and streamed online by Vienna Theatre Company, is a feast for fans of 20th-century literature, or even just those interested in stories of frie…
When J'Nai Bridges made her triumphant debut in Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah Sunday night, it was the fulfillment of a dream. The young mezzo-soprano's star has been rapidly…
Hollywood, 1939. The production of Gone with the Wind " arguably the most eagerly anticipated movie of the decade " is in chaos. Producer David O. Selznick (Griffin Voltmann) has just fired …
Love is a game"or deadly serious"or both at once, depending on which character you ask in NextStop Theatre Company's production of Pride and Prejudice. The game motif is evident early on, as…
Eternal questions are being hotly debated in the back room of the Italian Café in Falls Church, where the Providence Players of Fairfax have once again set up shop for a "pop-up production"…
One doesn't generally think of Beauty and the Beast as a dance show first and foremost. But in this lively production by The City of Fairfax Theatre Company and Truro Anglican Church, featur…
How do you replicate perfection"especially when it involves dumping gallons of water onstage? Any theater company that undertakes a production of Singin' in the Rain, the beloved movie music…
If you never thought the words "theological comedy" could go together, think again. The Savannah Disputation, playing now at The Little Theater of Alexandria, bills itself as just such a com…
In 2017, the Broadway musical Amazing Grace opened its national tour with a stint at the World Stage Theater at Washington, D.C.'s Museum of the Bible. (DC Metro Theatre Arts' review of that…
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks had a legendary 42-year Off-Broadway run (and then an 11-year revival), suggesting that there's something strangely captivating about this swee…
Ryan Speedo Green is a man with a story. Many opera fans first learned his name through Daniel Bergner's 2016 book Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family. The New York Times …
Giacomo Puccini never met a foreign culture that he didn't try to set to music. His operas set in Japan (Madama Butterfly) and China (Turandot) are celebrated as masterpieces. Less celebrate…
I have a perpetual soft spot for Crazy for You, which was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. What with George and Ira Gershwin songs, Tony-winning choreography by Susan Stroman, and the …
The story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., was first brought to America's attention in Steven Spielberg's 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. It gained a new lease on life in 2011 with the Broadway musica…
With a wealthy aristocratic family that refuses to acknowledge him, and a money-hungry girlfriend who refuses to marry him, what's an impoverished young man to do? The unfortunate relatives …
Probably no other cast in the D.C. metro area works harder for a laugh, or enjoys it more when it comes, than the cast of A Broadway Christmas Carol, now playing its sixth consecutive season…
From its opening number, Arena Stage's innovative new production of Lionel Bart's Oliver! is bursting with excitement and emotion. Director Molly Smith has stripped the classic musical based…
Put 1630s Spain and 1920s America into a cocktail shaker, shake well, and you get WSC Avant Bard's sparkling update of MarÃa de Zayas y Sotomayor's 1632 play Friendship Betrayed. Translat…
Forget everything you learned from the recent PBS miniseries Wolf Hall. Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, currently playing at Herndon's NextStop Theatre, tells a very different tale of S…
It's not always easy to figure out what view of life George Bernard Shaw is trying to express in Major Barbara. Though he was a freethinker, he gives us a witty, tolerant, idealistic heroine…
"Golf is not a game, but a way of life. A religion, if you will," intones Henry Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club, in Ken Ludwig's The Fox on the Fairway, playing now at Re…
Having successfully adapted C. S. Lewis' classic The Screwtape Letters into a two-character play, Max McLean and his group Fellowship for Performing Arts have gone for an even bigger challen…
