78 stories by "Steve Charing"
Olney Theatre Center launched its 77th season with a joyful and uplifting production of the musical Godspell. Â With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz who went on to write Pippin and Wi…
What perfect timing for Center Stage to present Kemp Powers' outstanding play One Night in Miami! The fictional story of four African-American icons who were also friends"Cassius Clay, M…
The set of Samuel D. Hunter's 2012 The Whale, currently playing at Rep Stage's Studio Theatre on the campus of Howard Community College screams, "I don't care anymore." Â An unkempt…
One Night in Miami, written by Kemp Powers, will be opening at Center Stage on January 14. It offers a fictional account of what may have happened in a tiny Miami hotel room on February …
Any actor will tell you that playing a role is not simply memorizing lines from a script and following the play's director. One needs to do research and delve into the character's qualities …
In keeping with the Iron Crow Theatre Company's tradition of staging unconventional, thought-provoking, often dark dramas, the kick-off to their three-play 2014-2015 Season did not disappoin…
Anyone who had lived through the Great Depression could tell you how difficult and scary that time was. Not only was there real concern that one day you would lose the roof over your head or…
The timing of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere production of Colossal could not be better. The play is about football (the new season has just begun); it's abo…
For a musical to be successful, all the components must jell. Of course, there must be a good a score and lyrics as the starting point. But then you need a solid ensemble, good techn…
If you never contemplated your purpose in life, raise your hands. Not that many rose I see. Identifying one's purpose in life is the central theme in Avenue Q"a clever, funny, poignant a…
There are three groups of theatergoers who will particularly enjoy the Iron Crow Theatre Company's production of Bareback Ink: aficionados of Greek mythology, gay men, and folks who apprecia…
June is LGBT Pride month, which commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising regarded by most historians as the beginning of the modern day gay rights movement. To salute LGBT Pride month, I am …
Ce qu'est un grand spectacle! A kaleidoscope of lovable characters in a town on the French Riviera, zany humor, high camp, splashy costumes, chromatic sets, superb music, stellar perform…
A booming storm yet again rocks this vulnerable Caribbean island, which happens to be Haiti, "The Jewel of the Antilles."Â And in a matter of 90 minutes"the length of a typical wind-swept…
It was an ambitious undertaking for the Iron Crow Theater Company's founder and artistic director Steven J. Satta to create a production inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe and present …
I don't think anyone wants to return to the time when the workplace was rife with sexism and sexual harassment was a normal occurrence. Nor does anyone want to see a business setting whe…
"Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona, where we lay our scene/From ancient grudge break to new mutiny/Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean./ From forth the fatal loins…
A joyous, tuneful 25th anniversary cabaret called A Labor of Love took place at Howard the Smith Theatre of the Howard Community College Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on Decembe…
I was a little skeptical that the intimate, in-the-round stage at the Spotlighters Theatre would be able to do justice to the action-packed musical production Into the Woods. Failing to lear…
It is so fitting that a play about the British cryptanalyst and trailblazing mathematician, Alan Turing, who shortened World War II by breaking Hitler's U-boat Enigma codes and is consid…
Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman felt compelled to write about his own experiences as a witness to the ghastliness of the General Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in his country from 1973-1990.…
"Hi, I'm Jeff. Can I buy you a drink? I'd like to take your picture…of poses and stuff. I can pay $50." These were the pick-up lines that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer used in b…
"It's hard to overstate the genius of the Marx Brothers," says Center Stage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah during rehearsals for Animal Crackers. "This is high-flying, laugh-a-minute lun…
If you ever wanted to be part of solving a murder mystery then you will have that opportunity if you attend the Beth Tfiloh Community Theatre's production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. …
It may have been 1975 with the birth years of the dancers auditioning for a fictional Broadway musical ranging from 1942 to 1955, but the competition for such chosen roles by "gypsies," as s…
