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Currently performing the titular role in EgoPo Classic Theater's Anna " an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Russian epic Anna Karenina, written and directed by Brenna Geffers " Colleen Corcoran h…
About midway through Mosaic Theater’s A Human Being Died That Night, Eugene de Kock, serving two life sentences for murder and assassination, turns to his interviewer, Pumla Gobo…
Awakening spring with rollicking laughter, the Vagabond Players revive Neil Simon's Tony Award-winning, classic comedic The Odd Couple, recreating the brilliant magic and pandemonium of the …
Steve Underwood earned his M.A. in Theatre at Villanova University, and holds B.A. in English from Temple University. As an active writer and actor, he completed his oral thesis at Villanova…
There are moments in this gripping, challenging, and deeply thought-provoking drama when the smallest of gestures by the two actors say what the play is about more than words can. A Human Be…
Oh, what fine comic talent and an attuned director can do to bring pleasure. Under the sure hands of NextStop's Evan Hoffmann and a talented six-member ensemble, there is enjoyable life to a…
Americans don't know much about the details of the myths and folklore of the Middle and Far East. Many of those stories, which can be found in Sir Richard Burton's translation of "One Thousa…
This review comes after I saw the final performance of Venus Theatre's remarkable, inspiring, supremely artistic vision: Selections From: The Methuen Drama Books of Suffrage Plays. But in my…
Voltaire once said, "Doubt is not a comfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one." Playwright John Patrick Shanley notes that "Certainty is a closed door.” His play Doubt is in…
Two young black men stumble upon an expensively dressed but badly beaten young white woman in the ghetto. What do they do? If it's Detroit in 1967, you certainly can't involve yourself with …
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's latest program with The Philadelphia Orchestra was an intelligently thought-out adventure. The central work was Alternative Energy by Mason Bates, in its East Coast …
It doesn't take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a witty script that isn't in a hurry (not a 90-minute mini-play, but a full-size evening that keeps you …
There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with being formulaic when the formula mixes crowd-pleasing song selections, fresh and stylish musical arrangements, and knock-out performances. That…
A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter lit up the floorboards at Silver Spring Stage on Friday, April 7, 2017. Produced by Andrea Spitz and directed by Matt Ripa, some will find it a com…
The Lyceum Theatre on Broadway is playing host to a most unusual guest.. It has brought in the Cornley University Drama Society's production of The Murder at Haversham Manor and because of a…
I envy the folks lucky enough to have attended the opening night performance of George Bernard Shaw's brand new play Pygmalion in 1913. They were afforded an unfiltered observation of cla…
Based on a charming French film, Amélie the musical begins with a narrator letting us know we're going to be in Paris and its surroundings for the next 90 minutes, and as he and the music b…
In the less than two years since it was founded, Submersive Productions ("Submersive") has established so positive a reputation that tickets to many performances of its new immersive theater…
There’s just no tune As exciting As a showtune In two-four… For Jerry Herman, the lyrics of this early composition, "Showtune," represent a kind of mission statement. In song aft…
Sometimes it's easier to let a puppet speak for you, when you know the truth about how you feel will not be well received by your small southern Christian community. That's exactly what happ…
I lost count of how many orgasms are in this show. They keep, um, coming and coming. And each one is performed stunningly by a student actor with such precisely differentiated paroxysms and …
George Bernard Shaw loves words. Even his stage directions are wordy. He also loved ideas, philosophy, aesthetics, politics… In Back to Methuselah Part 3: As Far as Thought Can Reach, …
Grammy Award-winning, R & B superstar Brandy Norwood brought her razzle and dazzle to the Kennedy Center's Opera House, reprising her Broadway debut as "Roxie Hart" in the touring produc…
"I am a giant surrounded by ants!" exclaimed Walter Lee Younger in a scene from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is the embodiment of how society, family members, and internal struggle can defer …
In a series of interviews with the cast of Pygmalion at The British Players, meet Roger Stone who plays Alfred Doolittle. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have s…