Last night, I had the pleasure to see the the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as performed by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washingto…
Sinister things are lurking just below the surface at the "2018 Students for Life Conference" in Washington, DC, which is where Madeline Burrows' disturbing solo show Mom Baby God, about the…
Expletives, insults, and accusations fly, when an unhappy wife, alcoholic daughter, and gay son gather in the hospital room of their dying husband and father for a farewell verbal slug-fest.…
The musical Lucky Stiff with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty opened March 10, 2017, at Silhouette Stages and performed at Slayton House in Columbia, MD, under th…
From the Mouths of Monsters, a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin, directed by Dougie Irvine, is a gripping, intense glimpse into the mind of …
Temple University Department of Theater's production of the Pulitzer Prize winner Our Town would have pleased its author, Thornton Wilder. This American classic was written in the early 2…
Come look at the freaks Come gape at the geeks Come examine their aberrations Is this any way to begin a Broadway musical? Well, if the subject matter is any individual who has been the vict…
It's So Learning, written and performed by comedic mavericks The Berserker Residents, is a wild, immersive ride through the Berserkers' vision of the K-12 system. Even people who avoid audie…
In a particularly lapel-grabbing scene in Montgomery College's Booty Candy, a preacher tells his congregation that he's tired of hiding from the "what they heard" crowd and shows them who he…
Siblings Elena and Samora Pinderhughes are young, both in their early 20s. Samora is a composer and pianist and sister Elena is a vocalist and flutist. Despite their youth, the pair has been…
Lately I've been thinking that there are two key questions that must be asked of every season-programming choice by every theater's artistic director: 1) Why now? 2) So what? There is no sin…
Intelligence, the new play at Arena Stage about the Valerie Plame CIA scandal, comes at a very timely moment in politics. As Donald Trump appears increasingly clownish, the presidency of Geo…
The Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening (The Musical), with Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater, and Music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind, and directed by Jenny Ma…
In 1998, Arden Theatre Company opened their F. Otto Haas Stage with a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Widely considered one of William Shakespeare's lightest and most accessible pla…
With gentleness and clear affection for an unexpected heroine, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine has written and directed with a disarming touch an endearing new play "with m…
How often are you torn between the demands of a profession and finding a satisfactory work/life balance? James Lapine's book about George Seurat examines the difficulty of finding a solut…
An original prequel based on James Cameron's 2009 blockbuster film Avatar, Cirque du Soleil's touring production of Toruk " The First Flight, now in Philadelphia for a five-day stop at the W…
In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Rachel Pino-Elliot as Schwartzy and John Carter as Leaf Coneyb…
I don’t know all the works of author Penelope Skinner, but based on The Village Bike and the currently running New York production of Linda, I suspect she is now on the short list of t…
John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Richard Seff at a dinner honoring Harold Prince. Photo courtesy of Richard Seff. THE CURTAIN RISES One of the properties for which I tried to get this new team hir…
Is it just me or do the French have a way of taking the most mundane, everyday objects and making poetry out of them? Consider the humble plastic hair-curler, those tiny, porous tubes tha…
I know Playwright Steven Levenson only from his work as librettist on the musical Dear Evan Hansen, so this for me is his first play. It more than fulfills the promise shown in the musical, …
Prince George's County Public Schools are filled with young talent. An excellent example of that talent is Suitland High School's Center for the Visual and Performing Arts' musicians and cho…
It's 2 a.m. His mind is racing, overwrought with memories of situations, conversations, and images of her. Music and film merge with poetry, rap, and movement to explore one half-hour inside…
COME HEAR THE MUSIC PLAY: Memories of My Twenty Years as Agent For John Kander by Richard Seff OVERTURE. John Kander and Fred Ebb have written some fifteen musicals for Broadway as we…