358 stories by "Keith Loria"
There are plenty of ways to celebrate New Year's Eve; you could watch the ball drop on TV with family, you could be packed in a bar drinking champagne with strangers or you could be partying…
I promised myself before seeing the Kennedy Center's current production of Flashdance: The Musical that I would stay away from any obvious "What a Feeling" puns with the review, but that doe…
It seems every December, theaters are packed with plays and stagings of the Nativity story, but The Anacostia Playhouse is putting on a version like no other with Raquis Da'Juan Petree's mus…
Olney Theatre Center has just announced an extended run for its holiday production of The King and I. Keith Loria talks with two of the reasons why audiences have so embraced this musical: P…
Whenever theatregoers see Jackie Hoffman on stage, they know laughs are coming. Whether it's in her three scene-stealing roles on Broadway"Prudy Pingleton in Hairspray, Calliope, Aphrodite i…
When Jennifer Frankel takes the stage as courtesan Gymnasia in the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, she's following in her mother's…
There's never a shortage of productions of A Christmas Carol this time of year, but for those looking for something a little different, MetroStage continues its popular holiday tradition of …
The summer's Capital Fringe Festival is always an exciting time for theater lovers, but thankfully, you don't need to wait 12 months for another peek at some of the most original and thought…
Unlike productions aimed at adults, where a myriad of biases and opinions tend to create arguments over what worked and what didn't in a new play, I have always found the easiest way to judg…
Can humor be found in the somewhat-deranged threats of a 79-year-old woman peppering her home with bottles of flammable photography liquid in an attempt to keep her family from taking her to…
It was eight years ago when Rachael Bail, president of the McLean Drama Company, came up with a unique contest idea for local playwrights to pen a 10-minute play, with the winning entries be…
Václav Havel is well known for having been a political dissident, but he was also a well-regarded playwright in his time. His writings were banned by the Communists in the '70s and he bec…
A confession: As a twenty-something living in Manhattan in the early '90s, I second-acted Miss Saigon on Broadway nearly a dozen times. What a shame it would have been for someone to have tr…
It was back in the summer of 2000 when Arena Stage held a conference entitled, "Who Needs New Plays," designed to get the theater community talking about the importance of new works. It was …
A conversation with playwright Martin Blank and director Elise Thoron There's plenty to be excited about in the upcoming Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center, but one play that’…
Capital Fringe has become a major force in DC and the Source Festival has been surging of late, so the appetite for new work in the theatre community is increasing every year. It's no surpri…
As the father of two daughters, ages 7 and 16, I have seen an endless amount of live children's programing over the last decade and a half, and the tally includes approximately 50 puppet sho…
A collection of 25 new works will be performed as part of Washington D.C.'s Sixth Annual Source Festival, scheduled for June 7-30, and producer Jenny McConnell Frederick compares the three-w…
In the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, playing at the Studio Theatre until June 30, the audience is given an uncomfortable glimpse into the lives of a London-based couple who…
