Long before the recent shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Derek Goldman had planned to direct a production of Our Class with student actors at Georgetown University. It is…
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It's about one moment " the moment before it all becomes clear. Jason Robert Brown succinctly sums up his own production in this line from the opening number of Songs for a New World, now pl…
The DC playwright collective The Welders bills itself as "the only playwright collective devoted exclusively to developing and producing new work." When the second grouping of The Welders &#…
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Time Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. A belov…
You can't miss Betelgeuse. A star in the constellation Orion, this supergiant is red as flame and one of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky. At approximately 10 million years old, Betel…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Kander and Ebb's classic Cabaret is an intimate experience, with wonderful singing and choreography. Based on Christopher Isherwood's stories, t…
Female Vietnam veterans are saluted as actors give their whole hearts in Bowie Community Theatre's A Piece Of My Heart, through November 18th. It seems likely that every veteran fights two w…
Following its highly-acclaimed premiere in the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland's Druid theater company closes its worldwide tour of the award-winning production of Samuel Be…
Full disclosure: I love fairy tales. All of them. I always have, despite also being a girl who asked myself one day why Rapunzel couldn't just make a ladder with all her own hair and escape …
Below a luxurious burgundy velvet curtain, Rockville Musical Theatre's Brigadoon Orchestra delivers the Overture under the Musical Direction of Joseph Sorge. The curtain opens as traveling N…
In 1968, Pop artist Andy Warhol made his much-celebrated observation, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." The future is now, and Andy was right. With the advent of…
"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…
Children's theatre is almost always adorable but not necessarily a place where you will see fantastic performances. Peter Pan and Wendy at Creative Cauldron succeeds in telling the classic s…
By Kylie Miller Fringe Festivals are a great platform for shows that push boundaries and challenge the norm. 50 Shades of Gay does exactly that. Ike Avelli, a 52-year-old single gay man, is …
The small, low-ceilinged theater at the Greenbelt Arts Center, with intimate seating arrangements and limited space for sets, is a natural habitat for The Toxic Avenger, a quintessential sma…
Lisa Hayes brings one of her acclaimed one-woman shows to Baltimore with NURSE!, a compelling story of a labor strike from a variety of perspectives. Embodying numerous distinct characters, …
Halloween may be over, but the horror season is still in full swing. We Happy Few Theatre Company invites you to "listen to the children of the night" with Dracula, a repertoire production, …
Nobel laureate Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay! (one of several English language renderings of the original title, Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga!) opens as Antonia (Francesca Ma…
By Kylie Miller The play on words of the show's title, Un-a-parent, perfectly sets up this comedic solo show. The life experiences of Joe Minchik, the writer and performer, are both hilariou…
The mental province that stretches from magical thinking to ordinary self-delusion is given a new survey in Callie Kimball's Things That Are Round, now having its world premiere via the Equi…
Annapolis Opera's production of The Barber of Seville is a hilarious spectacle of a show. Directed by Braxton Peters, with Artistic Director Ronald J. Gretz conducting, it combines beautiful…
I doubt there was one person in the entire Carl Freeman Auditorium who hadn't seen some version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast (either the original animated film from 1991, the live-action…
What is Fringe? Today begins the Seventh Annual Charm City Fringe Festival, a celebration of new and emerging independent theatre that will continue through November 11th. The festival offer…
"You don't have use? You don't have power? They will erase you from your own story."Â -Larry Yee Lauren Yee has a problem. And it's kind of a big one. Not Lauren Yee the writer, whose very…