358 stories by "Keith Loria"
While most people might hear the title "Mary Poppins" and instantly think it's a kid's musical, Olney director Jason King Jones doesn't feel that way at all. "I think, for me, it's…
When Adam Immerwahr was asked to make his D.C. directorial debut with The Last Schwartz as the new artistic director for Theater J, he knew the actor he wanted to cast as Gene, the youngest …
When Olney Theatre Center decided to stage Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's Tony-winning The Diary of Anne Frank this season, Derek Goldman seemed like the perfect choice to direct. …
When Urinetown first played the New York Fringe Festival in 2001, it became one of the most buzz-worthy musicals to hit the Big Apple in years. With an outrageous original story by…
More than 50 theaters from the D.C. area will take part in the Kennedy Center's 15th annual Page-to- Stage New Play Festival, Sept. 3 to Sept. 5, fulfilling the festival's mission to produce…
Full disclosure: I have seen Phantom of the Opera on Broadway four times, dating back to my formative theatergoing years during its inaugural season on Broadway in 1988. AÂ decade later, a…
When Ryan Shinji Murray was 10, he made the short trek from his home in Ashton, Maryland to Washington, D.C. with his family to see a performance of Cirque du Soleil. A decade later, he did …
In 2005, activist and award-winning playwright Julia Steele Allen was volunteering in the Bay area for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, when she met and befriended Sara (Maripos…
Director Nataki Garrett remembers studying the script of Dion Boucicault's 1859 antebellum melodrama The Octoroon in college. While working with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins o…
Two dozen new works will be on display as part of Washington D.C.'s Ninth Annual Source Festival, running June 8 through July 3, and theater fans will surely be intrigued by what's bei…
Escape rooms have been all the rage recently, and Spooky Action Theater is getting in on the trend with Happy Hour, a production created by German theater collective machina eX, which offers…
Even though City of Angels was a Broadway smash in 1990, taking home Tony's for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score, here it is 26 years later and it's still yet to…
Rex Daugherty, the new Artistic Director of Solas Nua’s theatrical productions, wanted to plan something original for his first season. Not only did he come up with a play that's diffe…
DC native Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists in New York City, and over the last seven years, has seen her star rise with a Helen Hayes Award for the 2009 staging o…
In The Mystery of Love & Sex, currently playing Signature Theatre, it's quickly established that long-time friends Charlotte and Jonny share a love that's deep and special, but is it "lo…
Keith Hamilton Cobb's award-winning solo play, American Moor, was one of the most talked about plays last season when it was staged at The Anacostia Playhouse, fresh off a critically accl…
The last time I saw a full production of Annie on stage, I was only 8 and Andrea McArdle was playing the titular redhead on the Great White Way. And it was my first-ever Broadway show and th…
If you happen to notice a deeper than normal camaraderie between the characters of Tunny and Johnny in Keegan's upcoming production of American Idiot, it's no coincidence. While the chara…
There's a line in the musical 110 in the Shade where the central character, Lizzie Curry, describes her perfect husband: "I want him to stand up straight"and I want to be able to stand up…
As the 2016 Atlas Intersections Festival celebrates its sixth anniversary, two events will add to the excitement.  H Street’s newest restaurant will donate all of its we…
When Josh Lamon and Noah Racey were at what would be director Gary Griffin’s final callback for Signature's upcoming performance of Road Show, both actors felt an immediate bond wit…
Despite being one of the area's go-to talents for mature-themed productions"netting her four Helen Hayes nominations in the process"Felicia Curry has always had a soft spot in her heart for …
Aaron Davidman, whose Wrestling Jerusalem is onstage now at Mosaic Theater, is no stranger to the issues affecting Israel, having been a frequent visitor over the years, and it was always…
After opening weekend of Marcus Gardley's The Gospel of LovingKindness at the Mosaic Theater of DC, Deidra Lawan Starnes took a few days to reflect on the play and admitted it was even mo…
In the spring of 2014, Theater J presented a concert reading of Stars of David: Story to Song, based on Abigail Pogrebin's best-selling book, for a benefit, and those involved saw somethi…
