250 stories by "Nicole Hertvik"
A native Midwesterner myself, I was eager to see Midwestern Gothic, Signature Theatre's new show that is being touted as Misery meets Fargo, a thriller musical in the vein of Sweeney Todd se…
For a day of family fun, it doesn't get much better than Charm City Players. Charm City's current production, Mary Poppins, continues their tradition of affordable family entertainment helme…
Full disclosure " I've known Jonathan Leaf for a long time. We hung out in New York City in the early 200's when he was a budding playwright and I was finishing up grad school. Since then, J…
Take the Stage Performance Company's latest production, Connected: A Musical Review of the Best Broadway & Movie Musicals, took place last weekend at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington…
International diplomacy is like a game of chess, full of strategy, maneuvering and calculation. You take risks you hope won't prove fatal and you never want to be the pawn. Two Rooms, by pla…
Pop-rock musicals are having a moment. With Dear Evan Hanson ruling on Broadway and Freaky Friday recently debuting at Signature Theatre, fun, upbeat musicals are all the rage. While lesser …
A new professional theater company is coming to Montgomery County, Maryland. Best Medicine Rep, helmed by playwright John Morogiello, will focus on new comedies. This year, Best Medicine Rep…
Friendships between fat girls and gay boys really are a thing, practically a cliché actually"or a trope, as Playwright Morgan Gould dignifies them when referring to just such a queer pairin…
Revenge is sweet as pie in Olney Theatre Center's Sweeney Todd. Director Jason Loewith serves up a grisly production of Stephen Sondheim's 1979 Tony Award-winning musical that captures the e…
There are very few things that could get me to uproot and move to Texas. Actually, there is just one thing, and his name is Lyle Lovett. Luckily, this long tall Texan graced the stage of Mar…
In part four of a series of interviews with the cast of Loves and Hours, meet Taylor Duvall. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform on the stage …
I have often heard Pippin described as a frivolous musical with silly little songs and a thin plot, but to me, Pippin has always told a remarkable story, an essential story, perhaps, the onl…
Allegiance, the 2015 Broadway musical based on the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II, will be shown in movie theaters around the count…
Metropolitan Ballet Theatre's 28th annual production of The Nutcracker is a veritable feast for the senses. With a gorgeous array of costumes, a set that will evoke contented sighs from any …
Productions of Langston Hughes' holiday classic Black Nativity are numerous in the DC area this holiday season, but the joint production by ANKH Repertory Theatre and The Finest! Performance…
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is back at Ford's Theatre in a production that is guaranteed to fill your heart with Yuletide cheer. Michael Wilson's adaptation tells the classic tale of …
Percussion and film enthusiasts, listen up! For five nights only, Constellation Theatre Company presents a unique combination of the silent-film Metropolis set to a new score by renowned per…
For five nights only, world renowned percussionist Tom Teasley is performing an original composition set to Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis. I saw the first performance at Con…
Baltimore's Charm City Players are back with their latest child-friendly production: Disney's Beauty and the Beast. With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and book b…
Taylor Hicks became a household name in 2006 when he won the fifth season of American Idol, becoming one of the most beloved winners of that iconic TV program. Over 200 million viewers watch…
Rockville Musical Theatre's Shrek, the Musical is a large-scale, glitzy, theatrical extravaganza. This production has got it all: Belting performers, elaborate sets and eye-catching costumes…
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center's Dinner with Friends, meet Director Bob Kleinberg. Joel: Please tell our readers where they may have seen yo…
Residents of the DC Metro Region are in for a treat this weekend. For two performances only at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn, Maestro Simeone Tartaglione will be conducting Peter and the Wolf. …
I'm not ashamed to admit it"I love pirates. In fact, there is a bumper sticker on the back of my car that reads "Always Be Yourself, Unless You Can Be a Pirate. Then Always Be a Pirate." Bec…
In Act One of Cabaret, Cliff Bradshaw tells Sally Bowles that he loves Berlin because it feels like a city full of children behaving badly, getting wilder and wilder because they know that a…
