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There's no one like your mother, as an old song goes. Vagabond Players' production of Motherhood Out Loud, wonderfully directed by Rikki Howie Lacewell, explores that theme and nearly every …
25It's a theme which has appeared in countless books and movies: If we build robots to do all of our work, what would happen if those robots grew smarter and rose up against their masters? T…
Anton in Show Business by Jane Martin opened last night at Silver Spring Stage. The show is produced by Jim Robertson and directed by Erin Bone Steele. The plot is a strange one that satiriz…
"It's Shakespeare! Which is like algebra on stage!" If you've ever struggled with The Bard, you'll appreciate the character Gary Peter Leftkowitz's sentiments on the subject. In I Hate Hamle…
Once again, LiveConnections Presents ("LCP") curator Mary Wheelock Javian’s musical matchmaking has produced a lively evening of musical discovery. This time it was the pairing of the …
For Maggie, life has been, ever since childhood, one crisis after another. Now, as a winter storm is blanketing her New Hampshire hometown, several more crises have struck at once: her car h…
"Peaches" was in the house. Inspired by the spirit of Nina Simone, acclaimed American R&B and jazz recording artist, songwriter and actress, Ledisi performed an eclectic program of bl…
As a novice opera aficionado, I wasn't quite sure what to expect from Masterpieces of Russian Vocal Music: Famous Contemporaries, the Russian Chamber Art Society's most recent offering at La…
I greatly admired both the writing and the acting in Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Mike Bartlett's King Charles III, but to be honest it was the character of Jessica and Michelle…
If you can imagine a play that captures bits and pieces of The Wizard of Oz and Greek Mytholgy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a Tom and Jerry comic, then you will have some idea of what goe…
In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of Sweeney Todd at Olney Theatre Center, meet Frank Viveros. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen …
The Great Depression sure had a great soundtrack. That's one take-away from the debut of a new "jukebox musical" named The Hot New Deal, now through February 25 at Glenelg Country School. Ca…
The very title poses a puzzle. How what? Why what? Yet the definite articles assert certitude. The what. The how. Turns out in this brainy play about two smart women, perplexity and uncertai…
When seventeen-year-old Luke returns home to small-town Kansas after being missing for a year, he must come to terms with what transpired and face the aftermath with his family, church, and …
Whitney Houston is a tough act to follow, especially in a version of the vehicle created just for her to showcase her most popular songs. Deborah Cox, as the star singer Rachel Marron, holds…
Everyman Theatre ("Everyman") continues its 2016/2017 season with an ambitious production: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. A work of literature epic in scope and scale, the most notable…
The How and the Why – Sarah Treem's celebrated play about science, feminism and generational rivalry – has just made its long-awaited DC debut at Theater J. The two-handed play i…
During the 44 years when Eugene Ormandy was music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra (1936 to 1980), he led almost every concert. There was scant need for guest conductors. Now the symph…
Synetic's The Taming of the Shrew is disarming, decadent and a great visual rush. It is also great, dialogue-free storytelling with its own edge and outlook. The Synetic production simply ca…
The Colonial Players' production of Calendar Girls is a screamingly funny, yet it’s also a poignant comedy. Written by Tim Firth, who co-wrote the 2003 movie, and directed by Debbie Ba…
This year's Atlas Intersections Festival has a theme of "where the art world and the real world intersect. The Festival aims to "engage audiences and artists alike by sparking conversatio…
A group of people are seated at a dinner table. They discuss the weather. Meanwhile, their lives are falling apart. With the revealing use of subtext like this, Anton Chekhov and others intr…
The feminist movement has been on the rise for decades, but with our current political and social climate, saturated with patriarchal overreach into women's lives (and even their bodies), ye…
The velvet voice and beautiful love ballads of one of the greatest R &B crooners of all time, Luther Vandross, lives on through the magnetic stage presence of William "Smooth" Wardlaw's …
An effervescent all-star ensemble of fourteen actors and two musicians under the ebullient direction of Abigail Adams bring to life the eccentric characters, madcap situations, and old-fashi…
