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In the world premiere of A Real Boy, presented by Ivy Theatre Company in association with Athena Theatre at 59E59, playwright Stephen Kaplan significantly reimagines Italian writer Carlo Col…
Spring Awakening (co-created by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik and now playing at the Arts Barn in The Kentlands) has a circular tragedy to it. Teens, struggling through youth and confusion a…
Despite the torrential downpour Thursday night, Blondie and Garbage devotees came in droves to Wolf Trap, with rain ponchos and umbrellas in hand, to hear two distinctively powerful and icon…
Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman’s The Secret Garden boasts one of the most gorgeous scores in the history of musical theatre, but is rarely undertaken by community theatre groups due to i…
Red Branch Theatre Company continues to amaze with its 2017 season premiere of the perky and impertinent Lysistrata Jones. Thanks to savvy staging and choreography, this short-lived 2011 Bro…
The rise and fall of the largely forgotten 19th-century American artist John Banvard is the subject of Georama, an irresistible bio-musical by West Hyler (book) and Matt Schazt (book, music,…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Alice and the Book of Wonderland is an entertaining treat for all ages, with delightful acting, colorful costumes, a creative use of technology,…
Atomic Doll Productions Presents: Shocked and Amazed! was inspired by James Taylor’s Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, the world’s leading journal on weirdness in ent…
Harry Dietzler, the executive and artistic director of Upper Darby Summer Stage, one of America's oldest and most successful theater programs for young adults, founded the Summer Stage in 19…
Catching Up With Atomic Doll Productions! Sideshows and carnival acts have always offered normies a safe space to vicariously scratch that thrill itch. It's equal part "I want to watch and a…
Is "star viola player" an oxymoron? Not if the viola player " a "violist" as opposed to a violinist " casts her net as wide as Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt. Milena, who last appeared in Washin…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) production of Legally Blonde is a laugh-fest for summer audiences. Gauging from the hoots and cheers of appreciation at the curtain call, this campy mu…
Anne and Emmett, by Janet Langhart Cohen, is a play about an imagined conversation between two figures from history – teenagers, who were the victims of institutional terrorism. MetroS…
When you enter the home of the Princeton Summer Theater to see The Crucible, you may wonder at first whether you've wandered into the right place. After all, Arthur Miller's legendary play t…
Last night was a miracle of sorts. The heavy rains forecast to wash out the Aretha Franklin concert at The Filene Center of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts didn't show up. A…
Since 2011, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has presented one play a year in its "Extreme Shakespeare" series. The concept is to try to recreate in part the process believed to have be…
Who could guess that a play about the life of the renowned comic book artist, Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), would be filled with so much humor, pathos and fact-dropp…
The exhilarating musical The Gospel at Colonus returns, Lauren Gunderson’s fiery genius Emilie makes her DC debut, and Shakespeare’s fantastical The Tempest takes the stage by st…
Tony Kushner divided his epic play, Angels in America, into two parts. The second half, subtitled Perestroika, was beamed live to cinemas worldwide on July 27 from London's National Theatre …
From its origins in L. Frank Baum's1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to its adaptation in MGM's blockbuster 1939 film The Wizard of Oz to its annual TV broadcast on CBS beginning in 1956…
Hurry to see Seussical the Musical! This may be one of our area's most popular theatrical events in no small part because it invites performers of all ages. Yet this particular performance s…
Warning: You don't have much time left! Nearly one third of Theater With a View's performances of Rabbit Hole have been rained out (including the earlier one I was supposed to attend.) There…
Coriolanus has a reputation for being one of Shakespeare's least accessible plays. Its title character, a Roman warrior turned reluctant politician, can be hard to get a bead on " and hard t…
Whenever a musical group has the name "brothers" or "sisters" (as in "Smothers" or "Andrews") you can expect a tight, controlled sound with seamlessly blended harmonies. Close harmony (even …
Angels in America remains a sad, hilarious, hallucinogenic theatrical achievement. The juxtaposition of those seemingly-opposite qualities is what makes the play memorable. It has even great…
