175 stories by "Jessica Vaughan"
The In Series mounts another fabulous production in their stellar 2012-2013 season, tripping through 30 years of superior opera by composer Kurt Weill in his journey from Berlin to Broadw…
Split This Rock is a non-profit organization that teaches and performs spoken word poetry or slam poetry. A huge part of the organization is focused on young people and one of their major of…
The Real Thing in Silver Spring Stage's production of the Tom Stoppard's play of that name refers to love. It is the love of two long-married couples when one partner of each is …
Catholic University spoofs musicals everywhere in a hilarious production of The Drowsy Chaperone, the show-within-a-show that lovingly satires the best and worst in musical theater and the p…
Dan Kohler is in the Ensemble of Flashdance-The Musical, playing at The Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD through this Sunday, February 17th. His previous roles include Jesus in Godspell a…
Shakespeare Theatre Company has a quiet hit with Eugene O'Neill’s one-act Hughie. It is a deceptively simple production about an old guy, Erie Smith (Richard Schiff) who returns to his…
The Pirate Laureate of Port Town by one-year-old DC Company Flying V Theatre is flat out hilarious and great fun. I love the DC metro area because companies like this can thrive her…
For the Taffety Punk Company's latest production of Twelfth Night, calling it by Shakespeare's complete title makes the best sense, Twelfth Night or What you Will. You know something new and…
The In Series wishes happy birthday to Mozart with a fresh, modern take on his opera La Clemenza de Tito. This classic story of a conspiracy to take down a leader by a woman scorned is set i…
Rockville Little Theatre‘s production of Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein‘s last play Third is layered, powerful, and very funny. It’s set the year we went to war in…
Dominion Stage's Avenue Q is hilarious and touching. The musical debuted Off- Broadway in 2003 and the story of a young English major drifting through his first year out of college is …
The Moscow Ballet delivers a sweet production of this holiday classic for their 20th anniversary tour. They work with over 3,600 children around the U.S. to fill many of the roles of the bal…
The Keegan Theatre's An Irish Carol is destined to become one of the not-to-be missed DC holiday institutions that everyone sees whenever Keegan deigns to put it on. This production, the sec…
For The Washington Revels 30th anniversary Christmas Revels, the company pulls out all the stops, tripping through the centuries in England from medieval times to the 1920s as they …
An impressive gathering of American tap convened at The Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater for JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance. The Chicago Rhythm Project collected twelve p…
Faction of Fools Theatre Company combines Charles Dickens and Commedia Dell'Arte this Christmas for an inspired production of A Commedia Christmas Carol. The larger than life fable with its …
Eileen Ivers brought down the Barns at Wolf Trap in an evening of blazing fiddles and holiday classics with her fantastic band Immortal Soul. Eileen Ivers is a fiddle player from the Bron…
Six tap dancers brought the house down at The Music Center at Strathmore in a spectacular performance of the Aussie sensation Tap Dogs. It is a surround sound and sight experience as six …
Quotidian Theatre Company’s powerful and moving production of James Joyce's The Dead is their first musical, or, as Director and company co-founder Jack Sbarbori puts it, a "play with …
The In Series mounts a lovely and powerful production of two operas to open their thirtieth consecutive season. Producing Artistic Director Carla Hübner, who founded the Series in 1982 h…
In the Red and Brown Water is a stunning piece of theater by the School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland at the state of the art Clarice Sm…
Catholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music mounts a fabulous production of Finian's Rainbow for its fall musical, with additional actors from Howard University and Duke Ell…
Ambassador Theater takes on trespassers and unexpected visitors with two madcap one-acts by Egyptian playwright Alfred Farag. The first, The Visitor, tells the story of an actress and …
American University’s Department of Performing Arts puts on a slick, fast, and fun production of Guys and Dolls to kick off their 2012-2013 season. Karl Kippola is both the director an…
If you find yourself taking this election season as little too seriously, are sick of self-important talking heads on TV, or if you want a few good-natured laughs, POTUS Among Us by th…