394 stories by "Susan Galbraith"
Usually, I am not one for concert opera or musicals, but the concert-style staging this weekend of Boys from Syracuse by Rogers and Hart at the Shakespeare Theatre Company is a delight…
Blanca Ziska, Artistic Director of Philadelphia's Wilma Theatre is this year’s recipient of the Zelda Fichandlert Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SD…
George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man was first produced in 1894, yet his attack on his country's romanticizing of war, misplaced heroism, and overzealous patriotism strikes a timely chord.…
It must be Matt Month. How else can you explain not one but two musical productions in the area featuring the music of composer Matt Connor? Creative Cauldron, celebrating the company's long…
Why Shakespeare without words? And can it be done well?  People are still asking that. But Synetic Theater, now in its tenth season, with no less than seven of its signature wordless …
Opening night of the Washington National Opera celebrated both a new leader at the helm and a new partnership with The Kennedy Center. Like a marriage ceremony, there is now a commitment on …
Since its inception in 1975, the Glimmerglass Festival has grown from a small summer stock opera in rented digs in a local high school auditorium to a state-of-the-art theatre on beautifu…
There is a special feel when you take in performances at a festival. You get the excitement of discovery, a pilgrimage, and celebration all at once. It has as much to do with the juxtapo…
Every generation has its musical, and all lovers of musicals remember that first big show that knocked their socks off and whose songs they were singing months afterwards. Judging by the app…
In Peter Marks’ article in the Washington Post this weekend, Molly Smith, Artistic Director of Arena Stage, was quoted as saying that in theater today to survive is to thrive. Down alo…
Most theatre companies line up as either devotees of drama or musicals. Keegan Theatre stakes its reputation on embracing and producing both. The company's work is often strong and compellin…
Washington boasts so much music-theatre these days that it's not surprising the conversation has returned about what is opera, what is a musical, and what is music-theatre. People bring thei…
Enda Walsh, the featured playwright of The New Ireland Festival at Studio Theatre, defies easy classification. But one thing is sure: whether he grabs part of the myth of Odysseus and resets…
As many in the music-theatre world will tell you, three main genres of musicals are being produced today.  There's your "classic" fare from the golden days of 30's and 40′s Am…
Signature Theatre and The Shen Family Foundation have made a commitment to develop new works representing the American Musical Theatre through its groundbreaking American Musical Voice Proje…
I first saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1973 in London before it moved to the west end. It still had some of the enthusiasm and roughness of a school production, which in…
Cymbeline is a rarely performed play by William Shakespeare. Washington's own Shakespeare Theatre Company had never previously mounted it before its current production. Now there are two…
Sometimes you just get lucky.  A small theatre, a new play, a young actor, a sleeting night. Going out to theatre can seem a gamble not worth the pains. But tonight it all came togeth…
Take advantage of the brief opportunity to see The In Series' opera, I Pagliacci. Even if you don't know opera you might discover that you are already familiar with one of the best known…
