Monumental Theatre Company's annual Gender Bender Cabaret, Sex Swap, is back for a third time! This year, we are making the one-night event bigger and better than ever. Monumental Theatre Co…
In part two of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Pamela Northrup as Rona Lisa Peretti and Jim Adams as Vi…
F. Scott Fitzgerald was among the first to take an editorial whack at Ernest Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises (then called Fiesta). Among other things cut out by Fitzgerald was th…
The Elevator Repair Service’s production of The Select (The Sun also Rises) opened at the Lansburgh Theatre Monday, and I’m certain that Earnest Hemingway’s 1926 debut nove…
It's hard to accept the realization that your BFFs aren't really F, especially if you're the single, and more-than-somewhat-neurotic, Jordan Berman. Feeling increasingly alone and abandoned …
Coming out of the Howard University Department of Theatre Arts production of Ain't Misbehavin': The FATS WALLER Musical Show, we checked googlemaps to be absolutely sure we hadn't accidental…
Come April 7th, it will be a full century since the United Stated entered World War I or The Great War as it was known until WW II came along. The Air and Space Museum here in DC is having a…
In 1983, experimental theatre director Lee Breuer wrote and directed a musical that became a worldwide sensation. Blending Black church gospel music and Motown with a story of Greek tragedy,…
Words like breathtaking, awe-inspiring, and touching only begin to describe the epic journey experienced in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, currently playing at the Academ…
Full disclosure " I've known Jonathan Leaf for a long time. We hung out in New York City in the early 200's when he was a budding playwright and I was finishing up grad school. Since then, J…
Fans of The Bodyguard, The Musical are legion. And boisterous. Also very loyal. Large numbers of them turned out for opening night in Baltimore February 28, when the national tour arrived fo…
Take the Stage Performance Company's latest production, Connected: A Musical Review of the Best Broadway & Movie Musicals, took place last weekend at the Bender JCC of Greater Washington…
The Philadelphia Orchestra set of concerts during the last weekend of February was one of the most imaginatively conceived in recent memory. The program consisted of selections from Brahms's…
The characters in Sh*theads don't mind being called shitheads. True, that may not be a word you'd use in polite company… but these people aren't polite company. They're the employees of…
In part one of a series of interviews with the cast of Greenbelt Arts Center’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, meet Director Jeffery Lesniak. Joel: Please introduce yoursel…
Making the transition from high-school graduation into adulthood can be a challenge, especially for teens who haven't quite yet found themselves. Ken Urban's Nibbler, a world-premiere produc…
It is certainly a "Dark Night of the Soul" (St. John of the Cross) for Sister Helen Prejean in the contemporary opera Dead Man Walking. A meditative, spiritually resonant study of our common…
I recently had the privilege to interview the music legend, Dionne Warwick. The occasion for the interview is to celebrate Ms. Warwick's illustrious career, ask some related questions, an…
Robert Holman is a British playwright whose plays have been done under the auspices of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he’s had productions of his many plays at…
At first consideration, there doesn't seem to be anything particularly Chekhovian about Mario, the iconic red capped plumber whose mustachioed visage has been imprinted on the mind of every …
The fun, and perhaps coyness, of The Gift, Will Stutts's gentle and constantly engaging play at the Walnut Street Theatre's Independence Studio through March 19, is the way it uses the perso…
One More Performance " See Colorblind: The Katrina Monologues at Arena Players TODAY at 4:00 PM This Friday, it was my good fortune " courtesy of Artistic Director Donald Owens " to experien…
Ballet Theatre of Maryland's production of The Little Mermaid, at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, is a gorgeous spectacle of storytelling through dance. Based on the Hans Christian Ande…
Fangs for the Memories The Women by Clare Booth Luce, which opened on Broadway Christmas week in 1936 after its premiere in Philadelphia three weeks earlier, and included an actress named Do…
When I hear the words "British" and "Farce" together, I usually think of the stereotypical over-the-top show involving: a. slamming doors, b. cheating spouses, and c. people running around a…