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Fans of Rent, it's time to "Occupy Baltimore" once again. Hook yourselves up with tickets by any means necessary to that 20th Anniversary Tour making a brief, flash-point stop inside the …
Director Leslie Jacobson has book-ended Shakespeare's dark tragedy King Lear with lyrical and lovingly-lit tableaux of the mad king's court as if in a fairy-tale photo op"Lear regal on his t…
In the new Beauty and the Beast at Toby's Dinner Theatre, it's not just the accursed Beast and his castle of talking knickknacks that appear caught in a magic spell of enchantment. So did lu…
Religion, gun control, and the impact of social media are the hot-button issues addressed by playwright Jason Odell Williams in Church & State, a political dramedy now making its New Yor…
In The Empty Space Peter Brook declared that the stage has "two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen." In Battlefield, his collaboration with Marie-Hélène Estienne,…
From Bert the chimney sweep's offstage introduction of the Bank's stately home on London's Cherry Tree Lane, the audience at Walkersville High School's auditorium knows there's magic in the …
In this production, John Neumeier adapts the classic 1837 tale by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid. The production, not only explores the story of a young woman who wishes to have…
Something about the RMS Titanic's sinking has, for the past hundred or so years, always struck a chord with the American public. There have been many books, movies (particularly the 1997 Jam…
This is the play that introduced me to the writings of Tennessee Williams long ago, in 1945! That was the original production at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway, and it contained the now l…
The Columbia Figure Skating Club put on its annual spring show at the Columbia Ice Rink last Saturday and Sunday. The theme this year was Sing into Spring with two distinct parts. The first …
It's not always easy to decide who you are and what you want to be when you grow up, especially if your father, ex-boyfriend, new date, and society at large, in both Canada and the US, are p…
This is the second installment of In the Moment columns focusing on the Pipeline Playwrights. Pipeline Playwrights is a small collective of accomplished Northern Virginia women playwrights. …
Mozart's Idomeneo is a landmark opera. It is undeniably a great achievement by a 25-year-old composer in the early stage of his career. Unlike the later Mozart operas, Idomeneo was written i…
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, directed by Jen Sizer and produced by Maureen Rogers, opened at the Laurel Mill Playhouse on Main Street in Laurel on Friday, March 24. The scr…
I've seen some harrowing-to-watch theater in my time, but I recall nothing as excruciating as a particular scene in Dry Land, now running at Forum Theatre. The play by Ruby Rae Spiegel is se…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheaterArts writers who saw the same production"in this case the same two productions, Chekhov's Three Sisters and A…
For a day of family fun, it doesn't get much better than Charm City Players. Charm City's current production, Mary Poppins, continues their tradition of affordable family entertainment helme…
In a scene of fierce confrontation between Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell in Providence Players' production of To Kill a Mockingbird, Ewell insults Atticus in such a vicious way, that one wonde…
Producer Jack Viertel and his merry band of music makers at Encores! have unearthed another great example of the beginnings of American dominance in the field of musical theatre. Our heritag…
It may be more by chance, rather than design, that Everyman Theatre's production of Los Otros, with book and lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh and music by Michael John LaChiusa, takes on an urgen…
Wiseguys, also known as those certain individuals the U.S. Government considers a bit more organized than they should be, descended on the quaint restaurant Germano's Piattini in Baltimore, …
Despite affecting nearly one in every five Americans, including '70s soul singer and songwriter Donny Hathaway (perhaps, best remembered for his chart-topping collaborations with Roberta Fla…
"Social ills" is a term often used to name a problem without caring about the people affected by it"as in the phrase "racism and other social ills."Â It's a way of keeping one's distance …
Acclaimed vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith and Montego Glover joyously hopped the A train to Harlem along with the NSO Pops in tribute to the Queen of Jazz in Sophisticated Ladies:Â 1…
More than sixty years after its debut, The King and IÂ remains one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most popular and enduring musicals. The handsome national touring company of the recent Broa…
