223 stories by "William Powell"
Like TV’s “Seinfeld,” [title of show] is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. [title of show] is a musical about four friends creating a musical—the one the aud…
Driving Miss Daisy, at Anacostia Playhouse, tackles many subjects: growing older, race relations, and all sorts of personal drama encountered by its Southern protagonists over a 25-year peri…
This isn't your mother and father's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this present day version, Ebenezer Scrooge's father Andrew runs the charitable Scrooge Family Foundation. Tim Cra…
The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie's Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young girl, Magda, and a band of actors searching…
The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre's Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel's lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes define the characters nearly as much as…
A more dazzling display of heart-warming family entertainment and memories may not be found this Christmas Season than Charm City Players' A Christmas Story, The Musical. With deft direction…
"People that love money, they never have enough," said a character from Director and Playwright Fay Brake's engaging stage play, The Benjamins. With themes of overreaching ambition, greed an…
Can one escape the sins of their ancestors? Can one choose their own course and overcome an evil background? These questions are explored in NextStop Theatre Company's glorious new adapta…
Silver Spring Stage's spectacular and engrossing show, The Crucible, under Director Craig Allen Mummey's expert guidance, tackles many contentious subjects, including sexism, racism, religio…
Dinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong. Serving under the contemporary ha…
"I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it," said the character Shug Avery in novelist Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color …
It's been said that family is a foundation—the one area in which failure can cause permanent heartache. Director and writer Gill Nelson's amazing stage play No Time, the tagline of whi…
"Motown is the soundtrack of people's lives," intoned Mack Leamon in his portrayal of legendary Motown record label founder Berry Gordy in Director/Writer/Choreographer Kashi-Tara's musical …
Steel Magnolias, by playwright Robert Harling, tells the southern-style story of a group of women who grow close while hanging together in a small-town, northwest Louisiana beauty shop. Truv…
Who can resist entertaining theater on a warm, summer night? An outdoor performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is especially apropos for such nights, and Chesapeake Shakespea…
The Promised Land is entertaining, thought-provoking, unsettling, and at times disturbing. Director and Playwright Lane McLeod Jackson has written and directed a dystopian tale in which the …
The Golden Age of D.C. area shows this spring continues with the opening of Ragtime by 2nd Star Productions. Excellent performances by Carl Williams, Ashley Lyles, Stephen Yednock, Heathe…
The first thing you notice about Deathtrap is its busy and detailed set. The set contains posters of plays by the fictional playwright Sidney Bruhl on the wall; a skull with a pipe between i…
Holy Mother of all that is funky! SOUL The Stax Musical is the most fun I've had as a reviewer. A musical this magnificent comes around once in many a shady blue moon. SOUL The Stax Musical …
There's a powerful scene in MAD Theater's Weird Romance in which a computer-simulated woman, who may or may not contain a reincarnated spirit, bemoans the precarious fate of her newly born c…
Gayle Carney has played a myriad of roles in her many years as an actress. She's been seen most recently in The Dog Must Die at Highwood Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. That play is a dy…
Big Brother. Newspeak. Thoughtcrime. Doublethink. Orwellian. Those words have floated around the public lexicon for years, and at a time when the political zeitgeist contains phrases like "a…
The Russians have a folktale called Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden). Prominent in the 19th Century, many versions of the Snow Maiden folktale centered around the appearance of a young girl who…
In its sixth year, Fells Point Corner Theatre's 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights, is a feast for theater lovers. The setup of this must-see show …
On April 3, 1968, a rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee, in a dingy hotel, there was a man working on a speech. This man had missed birthdays and anniversaries in pursuit of his dream. He was …
