The Lusty Month of May like the song says It's time to do a wicked thing or two It's May, the time when spring brings that hot-blooded, four letter word lust. Musicals have had a steady hist…
The founding fathers are looking spry and lively at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia right now as they once again fight for independence in the musical 1776. It's a masterpiece, I say, and …
The colorful history embellisher Lettice Douffet is poised to charm the husk right off of the corn of unsuspecting tourists visiting Britain's most lackluster stately home. Douffet should al…
"Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams," John Merrick offers to an attractive visitor, one of the first women he ever encountered who did not recoil in horror a…
Simply Sondheim is a match made in musical heaven. The pedigree alone is promising. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the famed composer known as Signature Theatre's signature, has pr…
Emma Stone's star is on the rise. The 27-year old actress has been a sought after leading lady for several years. Her Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role…
The late Nora Ephron said in an interview once, "What you wear and what happened to you are indelibly connected." The writer of such films as "Julie & Julia," and “When Harry Met S…
Eddie Redmayne is having a very good year. The 33-year old actor is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for playing physicist Stephen Hawking in THE THEORY OF EVERYT…
How fitting to share an evening with the kooky, creepy and lovable Addams Family on one of their cherished holidays, Friday the 13th. The night was as cold as a tomb but Toby's Dinner Theatr…
The grip of a bitter, Arctic chill may be gripping much of the country tonight, but the heat is on in Gotham City when the circus comes to town. Tonight, episode 16, The Blind Fortune Teller…
Faith and politics. God and king. Those are the weighty affairs teetering in the balance of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Compass Rose Theater recently turned its intimate space into…
Keegan Theatre's Church Street home may be still under construction but the show must go on. The show is Keegan’s annual seasonal offering An Irish Carol. Thanks to a generous partners…
The holidays are certainly a time for theatre to tap into the spirit of the season. There is always a chance (or four) to see Ebenezer Scrooge's redemptive journey of self-discovery, of cour…
Want to see joy personified? Look no further than Black Nativity, now blazing the stage of the Anacostia Playhouse with light, love, hope and more joy to the world than any Scrooge could wit…
How’s this for a headline for Donny and Marie: Christmas at the National? “Singing siblings prove mythical fountain of youth is real?” Sure, that opening might be more …
My heart was pretty pumped when I received the assignment to cover one of my favorite musical revues. And then, it sank. Years ago, I had the pleasure of seeing a first class tour of the Lou…
The dark genius of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and poetry can be enjoyed on your own, reading by flickering candle light just to add to the experience. Another way to enjoy a selection o…
It's a dog's life for Sherry Berg. Well, not really, but as she pointed out recently, when she is hired by NextStop Theatre Company, she goes to the dogs. Currently, she is the title role in…
“Intimate and intelligent” is how Laura Eason's Sex with Strangers has been described. And, yes, it's about sex. But according to actors Luigi Sottile and Holly Twyford, that onl…
Are you ready for Annalise Keating's last nine words that closed tonight's episode of HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER Those words, plus more murder clues and a case of insider trading filled up …
During the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Era, two men forged an unlikely friendship. Former movie star Lincoln Perry was better known in his heyday as the comical, stereotypical carica…
Driving Miss Daisy is a lovely play. And it's a magnificent family album. Look at the cover: Simple and understated, Uhry's award-winning script was inspired by his own car-wrecking 72-year …
A tiny revolution has been going on for a couple of years in the Northeast DC's Stronghold neighborhood. A patch of alley space was transformed into a thoughtful, self-contained community of…
There is a scene in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark drama A Raisin in the Sun where the troubled, young husband and father Walter Lee Younger feels he has lost any chance of finding his dream.…
The triumph and courage seen in Colossal, now onstage at Olney Theatre Center, is played out in a manner unlike most well-made plays. It's not only centered on a former college football play…