A jammed parking lot at the normally quiet Drama Learning Center says all you need to know about the new production going on inside. The TYA Teen Professionals troupe has a genuine hit on it…
A man who refuses to budge often makes for fine drama. Does the same go for a man who cannot budge because he weighs 600 pounds? That's the first question posed by Samuel D. Hunter's The Wha…
Have yourself a little "Mary" Christmas this year, courtesy of Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia. Mary Poppins"The Broadway Musical borrows a "little" here, a "little" there, but it all adds…
You know you're in for a special evening of theater when half the audience arrives in pajamas. But the comfy-cozy opening night of A Year With Frog and Toad at the Red Branch Theatre Company…
If it has been gnawing at you since 1953 that you missed your big chance to go to the CBS Desilu Studios in Hollywood and watch a live taping of I Love Lucy, take heart: Baltimore's Hippodro…
Don't go to Columbia's Drama Learning Center just now looking for children's theater. Triumph of Love, the new Red Branch Theatre Co. production playing there through October 18, is by an…
Rep Stage returns from a busy summer makeover with a new production team and a five-star season-opener, Venus in Fur. David Ives's 2010 comedy-drama scores big points with its fresh, two-per…
Musical theater doesn't get more challenging than Stephen Sondheim " for audiences and performers alike. So hurrah for Columbia's fearless Red Branch Theatre Co. for bringing us the Sond…
Memphis"The Musical may have won the 2010 Tony on Broadway but it seems made-to-order for Toby's Dinner Theatre. Here is a show that dazzles with performers rather than spectacle, and reache…
Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre unfurls a fresh season with a rowdy millennial musical about star-crossed lovers set in the big, blue-collar heart of Ireland. Once is the 2012 Tony Awar…
Columbia's Red Branch Theatre Company is out to test just how spare and lean a musical can get and still hold an audience in a magical spell. The company's new staging of the off-Broadway 19…
Miss The Last Five Years at your peril. If you fail to catch this season-opener by the Red Branch Theatre Company, you'll never know exactly when this hard-working Columbia playhouse made it…
Fans of Spamalot may want to hop to and check out a similar boatload of zaniness known as Moby Dick! The Musical, with book by Robert Longden, and music and lyrics by Longden and Herewar…
If you somehow missed the first 24 annual Putnam County spelling bees, can you spell u-n-l-u-c-k-y? Well, you still have a chance to catch The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in a won…
In the Flashdance smackdown between fresh new show tunes and nostalgia-laden 1980s soundtrack hits, the title decision at The Kennedy Center isn’t even close. Showtunes lose the match,…
Can a single character carry an entire feature-length movie with success? Arguments for both sides of that issue will be found in All Is Lost, the lean but brutal, one-person survival-at-sea…
With Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote one of the seminal musicals of the modern age " though he didn't live long enough to savor his triumph nor to give the world a chance to know him better. Now…
Director Jonathan Munby has set his fabulous new staging of Measure for Measure in a fanciful 1930s, pre-war Vienna. But it could as well be taking place in any society where the preva…
The VisArts Center in Rockville is a rather respectable venue for a program titled Pasties & Popcorn. But there you are, amid a nearly full house in the upstairs convention room on Fr…
George Plimpton was called a pioneer of "new journalism" by no less a literary master of the art than Tom Wolfe. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Plimpton traveled in celebrat…
Sometimes the biggest talents come in the youngest packages, and there are plenty of both in the new staging of Songs for a New World by TYA (Teaching Young Artists) at the Drama Learn…
The amazing Seth Rogen proved he could hold his own against the force of nature known as Barbra Streisand in The Guilt Trip. But is he ready to meet the Apocalypse? The answer is contained i…
It's touch-and-go at times for the latest big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby. But in a hotly contested three-way wrestling match between Baz Luhrman, 3D technology, and novelist F. Sc…
True devotees of the art of live cabaret would go a thousand miles for a fresh serving of Andrea Marcovicci. Witness Saturday night in The Barns at Wolf Trap, where Ms. Marcovicci had only t…
Terrence Malick takes us To the Wonder, and beyond Terrence Malick may be America's most fuel-efficient filmmaker. Even when one of his movies is average-length it can seem like it …