247 stories by "Jeffrey Walker"
"It's really raw and really real." That is the quick summation offered by Johanna Day, one of the actresses helping tell the story of what happened in Reading, Pennsylvania when the economic…
Some plays are like symphonies or pops concerts, with many players, working in sync to tell a grand story. Others are like chamber music, smaller affairs where the ensemble has to be even mo…
The City of Conversation fits Arena Stage like a glove. The play itself brims with intelligence, bristles with conflict, and presents the fine art of political discourse in a town where such…
When considering the new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream now weaving a spell of enchantment and romance at the Folger Theatre, three words come to mind: fun, sexy and magical.…
Between Riverside and Crazy presents a world of shades, uncertainties, and complicated relationships. Between the exchanges of rapid fire, often profanity laden dialogue and sometimes scathi…
Call me an old softy, but I get pretty sentimental during the holidays. As I look back on theatre for the year 2015, my cup runneth over with blessings " performers and productions that touc…
Have you heard about the new musical now onstage at Signature Theatre? It’s name: West Side Story. West Side Story's been around nearly 60 years, and everyone knows it was an updated, …
An Irish Carol is a tale of Christmas redemption that tastes not of sugar cookies and eggnog, but salted peanuts and shots of Jameson. The spirits here are of the earthbound, liquid variety …
I have one complaint about A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage. What took me so long to discover this hilariously festive show? Certainly it was no fault of the folks at MetroStage. Beg…
Relive the Golden Age of Broadway and the magical moments from TV's past with Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews,Carol Burnett and many more as we look at the history of…
Before donning Victorian garb once again as Ebenezer Scrooge for the annual "ghost story of Christmas," A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre, Edward Gero has unfinished business in Dublin. Th…
The sinewy vamp beckons your ears to step inside. What follows is a compact one act revue of infectious melodies, perfectly married to the song lyrics which could be about unbridled joy, a b…
"Forty is old to have a baby." Those words rang in the ears and down to the depths of Ginna Hoben's soul as a skinny, way too young nurse pronounced her sentence over the actress desperately…
What do we have here? Raised hemlines, bobbed hair, bathtub gin, and women who take the bull by the horns. Clearly, we are bee's knees deep in the Roaring Twenties. And it is a heady time fo…
Just give in already. With a charming hero, lechery and vice on parade, a cross-dressing femme fatale, and comic timing to beat the precision of any Swiss watch, One Man, Two Guvnors at Mary…
The short answers to my two biggest questions about Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age are yes and yes. The questions themselves were as follows: Does the white hot, love at first sight rom…
Look what the stork dropped off: a nice bundle of joy all wrapped up in the musical Baby. It's happily cooing away at Infinity Theatre Company in Annapolis. And this baby does not just crawl…
Kristen LePine's new play Leto Legend offers a feminine perspective on the male-dominated world of comic books and the heroes that populate them. With an emphasis on the comic, the play pres…
Among the many lines quoted from the films of Mel Brooks, one gem is the one the producer/director/actor himself uttered impersonating King Louis XIV while ogling a voluptuous lady of the co…
Could a feeling send a jolt through the fabric of time and space and make the universe shiver? And is the material that weaves our past, present and future merely and illusion? Rebecca Bosse…
"I am the greatest loser of the world!" So claims Marjorie Taub in the twisted comedy The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. But she is such a lovable loser. Boasting impeccable timing by its sup…
Years ago, when Storyville, the famous red light district of New Orleans was closing down, Mayor Martin Behrman said this about prostitution: "You can make it illegal, but you can’t ma…
How does the old song go? "If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." That sums up Margaret Walsh, whose hand to mouth existence is as normal for her as breathing. Margie (that's …
One thing I will say about Robert Bolt's political drama A Man for All Seasons – it is a lot funnier than I remembered. Perhaps it is our changing sensibilities but I think it al…
For a couple of guys for whom death is inevitable, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are having a pretty good time. Prince Hamlet's school chums are of course the title characters in Tom Stoppard…
