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It's hard to believe but 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of Sight and Sound Theatres biblical spectaculars. It's theatre done on a grand scale without ever forgetting about the true messages…
Theater J’s Associate Producer Delia Taylor has four sides to her. The first three are what you probably already know if you have been around DC theatre the past 25 years. The first is…
In an age when ideological purities of both the left-and right-wing variety have come to dominate our presidential politics, and when utterly normal words are constantly re-defined by left a…
When you first enter Olney Theatre Center's intimate black-box space you're struck by the comforting, tony, contemporary home designed by Misha Kachman. Floor-to-ceiling windows offer a …
VIDEO: Mark Beachy from MD Theatre Guide interviews Josh Enck, the President and Chief Creative Officer of Sight and Sound Theatres and Matt Neff, the Chief Executive Officer from Sight and …
American Idiot the album came out when I was in middle school, and the first time I heard it was surreptitiously in gym class, when I should have been running laps. I thought that the angry …
I am not a Shakespeare fan. I know. Gasp! How less than honorable of anyone who dares to claim himself or herself a true lover of theatre. So, when approached to review The Complete Works of…
Nora Achrati makes her Theater J debut this evening in the world premiere production of Falling Out of Time where she portrays The Midwife. Some select area credits include Henry IV, Part…
Leave it to Irish playwright Martin McDonagh to make a case for being the Brothers Grimm of the 21st century. The playwright has carved out a niche market for himself with such grotes…
In 1976 the beloved family musical Annie premiered at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut. At the time no one thought a musical based on a comic strip would run on Broadway. Pr…
1. Noises Off at Silhouette Stages. “The Silhouette Stages is community theater at its best, illustrated by its current production of the 1982 farce, Noises Off…” –Â Ly…
If you think that movie theaters are for sitting quietly and enjoying a film, playwright Annie Baker will prove you wrong. Real drama unfolds after the credits roll and the theater employees…
Review submitted by Julian Perez-Garcia of Montgomery Blair High School. Tastefully tackling a storyline that contests societal norms of the 1960s regarding race and body size is difficul…
Review submitted by Samuel Intrater of Albert Einstein High School. When the cast and crew of Bullis School were called to the stand to put on Legally Blonde, they did the show justice…
When we listen to music from the movies outside of the original films, we generally do it in a concert hall with a big symphony orchestra. We are also use to hearing the music played with a …
Two sails rose from the stage, protruding at jaunty angles away from the instruments that surrounded them. Overlapping videos projected onto the sails depicted children telling of their pare…
In case you haven't noticed, we're in the middle of probably the most contentious presidential election in a generation. Once the trash-talk dies down, we might actually get to talk abou…
The Silhouette Stages is community theater at its best, illustrated by its current production of the 1982 farce, Noises Off, written by Michael Frayn and directed by Conni Ross. This award-w…
CSC has rediscovered Wild Oats, a rarely performed play by Irish-born playwright John O'Keefe and it is quite the little gem. It has all the trademark devices of mistaken identity, romantic …
What makes a lion a lion? Identity is the question of the hour in The Lion, a roaring one-man musical show written, sung and strummed by Benjamin Scheuer and directed by Sean Daniels, …
Lights out to pitch black as the audience ever so patiently waits in sheer anticipation for the soulful pop-country idol queen to enter the venue's dynamic stage. On February 25, 2016…
The nominations were read on January 17th at 7:30 PM.  The award ceremony took take place Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 7 PM. 110 productions (38 musicals, 72 plays) were adjudicated in …
It’s no mystery that the Dundalk Community Theatre has been producing top-quality live shows for over forty years. Now in its forty-second season, DCT is producing The 39 Steps, an …
The first thing one notices about Brazilian Director Ron Daniel's production of Othello is the bank of gigantic fans high up on the upstage wall–huge, overpowering industrial machines …
