Luke Frazier, American Pops Orchestra founder and Music Director, kicked off the Orchestra's third season with a delightful concert featuring acclaimed jazz legend, Marilyn Maye. Maye was ba…
The nominations for the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre for the 2016-17 season have been announced by Theatre Philadelphia. A total of 23 companies were recognized across…
Did you ever wonder why Picasso chose to paint in blue? The earliest stage of his famous career is known as his Blue Period, and this new play by Tanaquil Márquez shows how and why he mad…
This month we focus on two more shows that opened on Broadway this year and are currently running. War Paint (Ghostlight Records) War Paint is an old-fashioned show, in the best sense of tha…
Silver Spring Stage kicks off its fiftieth season with a festival of one-act plays showcasing homegrown writing and acting talent and the can-do spirit of the best of local theater. Though n…
Every great play by Shakespeare takes on altered shades of meanings depending on a production’s directing, design, and acting. That’s a theater truism. Also well-known to practit…
Six-part guest-hosted series merges audiences and art forms Baltimore, MD " Everyman Theatre and the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF) are pleased to announce "Everyman at the Parkway," a season…
In Appropriate, the 2014"2015 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play, playwright (and Princeton alumnus) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins boldly explores family relations, racism, religious bigo…
What a rush. DC area playwright Kathleen Akerley has aced her way through the hottest of "au courant" identity politics in her newest work, the penetrating Whipping, Or the Football Hamlet. …
Now in its 58th season, The Nerd is Prince George's Little Theatre's 192nd production. Scripted by Larry Shue, the zany comedy is directed by John Degnan, a long-time area director and retir…
Silver Spring Stage opened its 2017 One-Act Festival which has been part of their season for fifty years. Each weekend several short plays from the past and present are produced. There is us…
It is not often that a program offers heartfelt imagery that is brilliantly optimistic, and also brings in dark, often sad scenarios. That is the beauty of traditional fairy and folk tales, …
"My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire." " Anne Sexton Each performer in Sweet Spot Aerial's Smoky Mirrors places great faith in materials: fabric, rope, chains, muscle. There's al…
Featured this summer in producer Ed Miller's No Ransom To Be Paid four-part series at Pangea, the presented works of writer/composer/musician/actor Erik Ransom include songs from More Than A…
Legendary Oscar and multi-Grammy-winning pianist and Kennedy Center Honoree Herbie Hancock solidified his avant-garde artistry on the Concert Hall stage Tuesday night, highlighting "smatteri…
When The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari hit German movie screens in 1920, it baffled and delighted audiences who had primarily been entertaining themselves with annual Film Festivals of Fred Ott's …
Conceived by Composer and Director Jaime Lozano as a loving tribute to the women in his life and his matriarchal upbringing, A Never-Ending Line, produced by Maribel Escobosa, Martha Orendai…
An awful lot goes on in William Shakespeare’s dream play, but here’s all you really have to know. It’s set in Athens at first, later moves into the woods, for that’s …
The musical Big Fish is by any measure a feel-good show for the whole family, as evidenced by the buoyant and beautiful production now playing at The Keegan Theatre. But the main narrative a…
Taking its name from the romantic wartime ballad famously recorded by Marlene Dietrich in 1945, and which, in its earlier German and English versions, had become uniquely popular with both N…
Family-friendly musicals are relatively rare these days. Family-friendly musicals that have adult themes are even rarer. Big Fish, with book by John August and music and lyrics by Andrew Lip…
No sooner did some aerial apparatus drop from the fly space"ropes, straps, silks, hoops, trapezes"but what some artist-athletes would take hold of it and make acts of suspended animation. Th…
Join members of The King and I's royal court as they step out of character for good fun and a good cause at One Night in Bangkok, a one-night only cabaret benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity F…
Part of the first Summer Family Theater Festival at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Gruff!, a co-presentation by Vital Theatre Company and Doppelskope, is everything that great children's theater…
Barbara Goldman was married to the Academy Award winning playwright/screenwriter/novelist James Goldman; she’s been called Bobby through their 23-year marriage, which ended when he die…