Center Stage Announces Name Change, New Logo and Website Center Stage is pleased to announce several changes in advance of its grand re-opening"an updated name, new logo and new website. Fro…
The first-year members of the Maryland Opera Studio present a semi-staged New Work Reading every year, but this year's reading is unique. On February 10, the Maryland Opera Studio premieres …
"Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean…." Delaware County's Media…
Movement and merriment abound in Mariinsky's The Little Humpbacked Horse Restraint and sutlety are generally not traits associated with Russian comedy ballet, and that proved true last ev…
Now playing at the Folger Theater, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch and produced in association with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festiva…
We in DC theater community are constantly on the prowl for new voices with diverse mindsets and new plays on emerging issues to be open to the upcoming generation of possible theater-goers. …
I first encountered Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies five months ago, when it was presented at the Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival. Hearing the play at that first public reading wa…
In a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre's The Miracle Worker, meet Lena Winter. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perfor…
In a series of interviews with the cast of Rockville Little Theatre’s The Miracle Worker, meet Meredith Abramson: Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may ha…
I was so thrilled when Olney Theatre Center announced that David Benoit and E. Faye Butler were cast as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in their new production of the iconic pie-filled Tony Awa…
Children's Theatre of Annapolis' production of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure story Treasure Island is a rollicking, exciting spectacle. Adapted by Ken Ludwig and directed by Jef…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's production of Our Town, their first show at their new location on West Street, is a thoughtful, creative take on Thornton Wilder's classic American play. Dire…
Gaye Taylor Upchurch's appealing direction gives Folger Theatre's As You Like It a warm flirtatious essence with buffoonery galore masking over Shakespeare's initial soulful melancholic core…
There is a laugh track with this show. As in a prerecorded TV sitcom where the studio audience was cued to be amused, there's an overhead LAUGH sign that flashes intermittently accompanied b…
Virginia's own Mason Bates is the current composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center and now playing the second season of his collaborative KC Jukebox series. The series presents out-of-the…
This past weekend, The Arlington Players opened a solid production of the dark comedy, The Lion In Winter, by Playwright James Goldman. For those unfamiliar with the play, it is a work of fi…
I was fortunate to recently spend some time with accomplished acting coach and Director Larry Moss to talk about his new role as director of the play Breathing Under Dirt. Moss is well known…
An updated classic that rocks! Shakespeare's comedy, As You Like It, is the icing on the Folger Theatre's 25th season and its observance of the 400th anniversary of The Bard's passing.…
Patience Malarkey was alive and kicking and under the new direction of award winning Director Larry Moss, at the January 24th industry reading of Breathing Under Dirt at Cherry Lane Theatre …
Blue Herons and Other Good Omens Come to Roost in the Castaways Repertory Theatre's Current Comic Delight If you aren't familiar with Christopher Durang's popular comedy Vanya and Sonia and …
When is too much of a good thing, too much of a good thing? Is romantic love the most reliable form of love? These questions and more arose in The Highwood Theatre's production of the classi…
Now in its American premiere after performing in London and Edinburgh, Love for Sale takes us to Paris, 1934, for a "cabaret-play" woven around the music of Kurt Weill and contemporary songw…
It’s only the end of January and, with its production of The Tempest, The The Baltimore Annex Theater ("Annex") has already set a very high bar for my 2017 theater viewing. Founding Ar…
On a train rumbling eastward from Los Angeles in 1940, a young man in uniform invites himself to sit down next to a pretty young woman absorbed in her book. As it turns out, they are both fr…
Marcus Garvey and Emma Goldman were known for their stirring, provocative speeches. But I doubt that, in any of her speeches, Goldman ever said anything as provocative as "Solidarity is sexy…