17 stories by "Patrick (pj) McMahon"
The Arlington Players have put on a delicious production of the musical She Loves Me. The 1964 musical by Fiddler on the Roof Composer Jerry Bock and Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and book …
Something about the RMS Titanic's sinking has, for the past hundred or so years, always struck a chord with the American public. There have been many books, movies (particularly the 1997 Jam…
Here's something I bet you never wanted to think about again: the '80s and your hairstyle. Good. Now that I've unlocked a horror all too unimaginable, let's revisit a sexier time in our hist…
Last night, I had the pleasure to see the the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as performed by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washingto…
I don't even know how to describe what took place at Theatre on the Run last night. All I know is that it was one of the most fun nights I had in the theatre in a very long time. Evil Dead: …
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a story that has fascinated and moved people for the last hundred years, from the original novel, to the various film adaptations, and a Broad…
FringePOP has started its run at Capital Fringe in Washington, DC. POP stands for Performance over Projection. The evening blends theatre and film, with 4 short plays and 4 short films that …
In the early 1600s, Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes wrote what would become his masterpiece, the novel Don Quixote. The novel was a huge success and has become a staple in the literary wo…
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene… For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. A man, walking onstage with a vacuum, rec…
Dixie Lee Mills takes the stage at the extremely tight quarters of upstairs at The Argonaut Tavern on H Street NE. The first words that come out of her mouth: "So I was at my yearly check up…
A pink haired special agent singing covers of Jefferson Airplane, Beyoncé, and Four Non Blondes aboard her spaceship in the midst of intergalactic civil war. I can't make this up. This is t…
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is a play that has both fascinated and confused audiences since the play first premiered in 1953. A production of the first act of Godot, directed byÂ�…
Parade is a musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Alfred Uhry. Although the original Broadway production had a short-lived run. the show is now often remembered as …
David Mamet's Oleanna is a play that has split many people over the years. What is it about exactly? Is it about power balance or sexual assault? Who is the villain? The sexist, pedantic tea…
Truth and illusion, George; You don't know the difference. This line in the third act of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? best shows the play's major theme: what is truth and w…
When I walked into the Reston Community Center at approximately 7:30 to see Reston Community Players' production of Our Town, there was an immediate sense of theatricality that was taking ef…
"I want to be happy / But I won't be happy / Till I make you happy too." So sings Uncle Jimmy to the show's titular character. These are also the last lines, sung by the ensemble, of No, No,…
