212 stories by "Kendall Mostafavi"
Imagination Stage is currently playing Anatole: Mouse Magnifique, a musical adaptation of the children's book series "Anatole" by Eve Titus. Book and lyrics are by John Maclay and Lee Becker…
The American Pops Orchestra recently presented their original adaptation of the children's story, An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. Writer, Claybourne Elder, has taken the madcap rhyme and tr…
Pointless Theatre has produced a stage adaptation of Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, City Lights, called Visions of Love. Using the original score, adapted and composed by Chaplin himself,…
J.M Barrie's Peter Pan is a classic tale whose title character first appeared in a 1902 novel from the same author. Peter is a carefree spirit, who never wants to grow up and embodies innoce…
The Castaways Repertory Theatre opened their production of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's better-known romantic comedies, this past weekend. The story is packed with chicanery.…
From the same source of inspiration for the Jimmy Stewart classic, “Shop Around the Corner,” and 1998 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie, “You've Got Mail,” is the 1963 mus…
Synetic Theater produces another visually captivating and emotion-filled journey in their newest show, My Father's Dragon. The story, adapted by Ryan Sellers, is based on the children's book…
Nothing says Christmas like Pirates, am I right?! Well, Encore Stage & Studio's production of Jingle ARRGH the Way follows Captain Braid Beard and his crew as they sail to the North Pole…
The Holidays are upon us and with them comes the rush of themed movies, music, and theater. Olney Theatre Center welcomes the holiday season with their production of Elf the Musical. Based o…
What happens when human imagination runs dry? When the concept of artistic expression and creativity is stifled in a world that has become overwhelmed with frustration, anger, and despair? T…
Reston Community Players has built a reputation of presenting professional-quality theater that surpasses expectations of volunteer-based community theater, and their most recent production …
Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias is a heartbreaking story that exemplifies the female bond and illustrates the resilient strength that bolsters six women from a small southern town throug…
It is officially Fall and nothing says Halloween Season like Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Synetic Theater has taken this American horror classic and adapted the story into th…
Watching young artists perform carries its own level of excitement beyond the entertainment itself. There's the shared love of arts which compels people to participate and support learning t…
In 2012, Hannah Todd and Raven Bonniwell founded a small theater company, We Happy Few, with the desire to revive classic texts and find new ways to interpret and present the material. While…
For the fourth year in a row, Monumental Theatre Company has hosted their annual event, featuring millennial top talent from the DC area. Flip Flop: A Miscast Cabaret is the latest presen…
Rock of Ages is more of a rock concert than a musical. The musical comedy, created by Chris D'Arienzo, is currently running at the Workhouse in Lorton to sold-out audiences, and with good re…
With today's political climate, discussions of race and privilege between those who share opposite views has become near to impossible. Our battles of conflicting perspectives, opinions, and…
Reston Community Players is currently showing the amusing and energetic Thoroughly Modern Millie, with original book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlon, new music by Jeanine Tesori, and new …
One would not expect a tale full of heartbreak, betrayal, abandonment, and death to be labeled as a comedy. But that is exactly what Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's The Winter's…
The Big Apple Circus has come to the DC area for their 40th Anniversary Celebration. Original founders, Paul Binder and Michael Christensen, established the BAC in 1977. Their European style…
NextStop Theatre is reaching the end of their July 2017 to June 2018 "Point and Counterpoint" season. Their third and final show pairing explores the contrasting effects that religious teach…
In 1920, a fourteen-year-old boy in Idaho, named Philo Farnsworth, asked his science teacher for advice on a design he was working on for an electronic television system. Seven years later, …
Have you ever had a day where absolutely every little thing goes wrong? Well, Alexander has. In the musical version of Judith Viorst's book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ve…
Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy presented their student production of Hairspray over the weekend. Young artists, ranging from grades four through twelve, hit the stage with all the energ…
