159 stories by "Kelly McCorkendale"
The Seven Year Itch" that moment when you get bored with your spouse and cheat"is best known as the film that nearly shows Marilyn Monroe's underpants beneath a billowing white halter dress.…
Dracula moonlighting as a blood-sucking lobbyist in downtown DC? Brilliant. A young Washingtonian concerned life should be more than the humdrum of laws, policies, and phone calls. Accurate.…
With no-holds barred-performances from ladies unafraid to play the fool and with the resonant, seasoned, mature pipes it takes a lifetime to perfect, Menopause The Musical delivers"on laughs…
How far would you go to rescue what you've lost"be it a watch, an hour, or sanity? Directors Colin Hovde and Nathaniel Mendez and the superb company of actors deftly blend humor and horror t…
Freddie Mercury, the legend, may as well have invented rock flair, and his fist-pumping anthems play just as well in a theatre as at Live Aid. But this is a musical where story, plot, and ch…
A celebration of all things swingin’ ’60s. A cultural mish-mash from go-go boots to the pill. One, long "Dear Abby" column. And, a rainbow of fun. Literally. SHOUT! The Mod Music…
In 1931, Peter Kurten terrorized Germany with little reason. Other than it sexually gratified him. Trolling Dusseldorf, he raped, beat, and murdered without prejudice. Men, women, and childr…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? bites"with wit and cruelty"and, at times, is touching in a completely sad way. But mostly, it's offensive. Unpleasan…
While Imagination Stage has produced a top-notch show"ingenious set, magical ambiance, quirky costumes, music and excellent actors"its decision to perform this "old as old" tale without taki…
Charles Dickens' classic yarn seems less of a carol, as we call it, and more of a campfire tale, yet it has come to represent all that is wonderful about the holidays: redemption, joy, forgi…
Lyle's a class-act. He cleans, serves and can save the day"that is, if you are willing to look beyond his reptilian snout and sharp incisors. He may be green, but he's an extraordinary croco…
Google's proliferation has made technology feel less like magic and more commonplace, like in 2004 when Gmail launched online storage limits, how much we could "save" of our lives"became obs…
Seriously, a musical about nuns and Nazis? The only other musical I know of about Nazis is the fictional Springtime for Hitler. And yet The Sound of Music is a vital part of the American can…
In 1998, Matthew Shepard was beaten and hung from a fence in rural Wyoming, just outside Laramie. With nothing but the sky, sun, stars, moon, and mountains looking on, he wasted into a coma …
Two one acts from Flying V: All Apologies and Me and the Devil Blues In an ethereal forest between heaven and hell, rigid rules govern the day-to-day of the heroin loving, hard-drinking 27 C…
Artful. Brilliant. Irreverent. Simple, yet genius. Everything"from the writing to the stage direction and the acting itself"is a marvel to watch in the Alliance for New Music-Theatre's salut…
A tense vulnerability rings throughout A Young Lady of Property. It is both draining and riveting, and left me feeling as if I'd relived the million moments from youth when we all struggled …
One word, and only one word, captures the Maryland Ensemble Theatre's production of Completely Hollywood (Abridged): Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. Tedious minutes tick away without a whit …
When your marriage commendation sounds as if it's really a funeral eulogy, run. If you can't, then vomit. As 7-year-old Alice tells it, "If you keep bad things inside, they make you ugly." Y…
Imagine Election Day November 2016. Imagine Presidential candidates committing to reformed taxes. Transparent government. Peace. It's not hard. Every election since we, the people, chose FDR…
As The Third Breast opens, the cast sings, accompanied by acoustic guitars, tambourines, and a flute, as if around a mid-summer bonfire, and they invite the audience into the fold of their v…
Raucous. Rowdy. Rebellious, with a yell: this isn't your 7th grade version of American history. 1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera highlights three important things about the US of A. It kicke…
In the Garden, Mother Eve readies a celebration of family and faith. She opens her doors to all: the downtrodden, the wicked, the faithful, the loved, and unloved. Equally. Not surprising"sh…
Brynn Tucker enters her show with nerve.And instantly, she exercises a rawness you'll see often in the course of 60 minutes"and not just the rawness of exposed flesh, but of emotion, joy, as…
The scene is set: a heavy rain pours and the black gauze of deception hovers over Detective Pimbley as he drowns his sorrow. Whiskey neat is his drink of choice, and Jim Beam's the only frie…
