In 1850 Oregon, Adam Pontipee (a velvety-voiced Da'Von Moody) has come to town to trade some furs and look for a bride. We know he's a romantic because his opening song is "Bless Your Beauti…
Maybe the only way the play Hamlet could ever make sense is to filter it through a teenaged girl perspective. Watching a 30-year-old man galumph and philosophize his way through Elsinore " c…
"These are my friends," Billie Holiday (Anya Nebel) tells her accompanist (LeVar Betts), gesturing at the audience. It is March of 1959, and Holiday will be dead in four months. She's singin…
"Games have rules," Brooklyn-parent Dixon (Zach Brewster-Geisz) tells his wife, Pam (Mindy Shaw). They're playing Boggle, Dixon has tried to play "Slurpee," and both are a little wounded tha…
Douglas Stafford is a very talented juggler. If that is an interest of yours, if you like juggling, and you've got an hour, then you may like this show. Stafford is pretty good as a magician…
Let's get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil's Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat Haan, b…
Over the 65-minute run time of Caroline Bennett's Garbage Person Karaoke, there are moments of painful comedy and bitter emotional connections with that specific kind of heartbreak that kick…
Willie Carlisle is an astonishing performer, and if I were only reviewing his performance of mountain folk music, I'd recommend this show with the entirety of my full heart. Guitar, b…
It is New Year's Eve, 2015, and seven high school seniors have gathered at the home of the twins, Nicole (Skye Lindberg) and August (Zachary Wilcox). There's Maisy (Catherine Anne Gilbert), …
See this show. Stop reading this review, click this hyperlink, buy a ticket, and see it. Don't want to go alone? I'll see it with you. We've never met before? Who cares. I'm your new best fr…
There is a moment in Sean Surla's one-woman piece, Ghouls, (playing at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through July 16) where Emel Haddad " Surla's stand-in for herself, and an extraordinar…
Caveat (written and directed by Ben Lockshin and playing at Gallaudet University's Eastman Studio Theater) is a "One's-a" show, where each character is an idea of a person more than an actua…
​The early 1970s gave us three Bible-themed musicals: Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell (currently in a production directed by Alan Ostroff at Infinity Theatre Company in Annapolis), …
Each time I’ve seen Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, now playing at Montgomery College's Summer Dinner Theatre through July 2nd, is the best time I’ve seen In…