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In the austere functional office of head nun and principal Sister Aloysius, order reigns supreme. People know where to sit and when to speak. And decisions are made based on the rules of the…
At last there is a musical for those who enjoy horror movies. Creative Cauldron in Falls Church has premiered an original musical which may be in a genre all its own. Based on Henry James's …
Audience members waited in the lobby of the quaint Highwood Theatre in Silver Spring, MD for the opening night production of Other Desert Cities  When entering the theatre, don't let the …
Back in the 1980s, playwright Barbara Wiechmann used to marvel at the bombed out surroundings of New York's Coney Island. Caught between the ruins of the past and promise of future redevelop…
It is kind of ironic that a new Baltimore-based theatre company which call themselves Epic Productions has chosen a small, modest musical with only a cast of four to be their inaugu…
Throughout its history, theater has not only entertained but has been used to put a spotlight on injustice and spark change. Lynn Nottage's powerful 2009 drama, Ruined, won a Pulitzer Prize …
Susan W. Flanigan, President of Everyman Theatre's Board of Directors, is pleased to announce that Jonathan K. Waller has been named Managing Director of Everyman Theatre. He will transition…
Anyone who enjoys an intimate Shakespeare experience should head over to Taffety Punk Theatre’s presentation of The Tempest at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Directed by Lise Bruneau,…
This is the third annual Most Enthusiastic and Supportive Audience Member Award I have bestowed on someone as part of our Readers’ Choice Awards. The first two went to our favorite …
Olney Theatre Center launched its 77th season with a joyful and uplifting production of the musical Godspell. Â With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz who went on to write Pippin and Wi…
Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood at Adventure Theatre MTC takes us on an exciting trip down the swampy bayou in Louisiana. A little white duck in a bright red cape named Rouge (red in F…
Andrew Rally is an actor. John Barrymore is an ACTOR. Andrew is experiencing a career crisis, and John Barrymore is… well, dead. I Hate Hamlet follows Andrew, a popular television actor, a…
There is no other play in Shakespeare’s canon that conjures the power of fear and superstition the way Macbeth does. From the first appearance of the witches, it’s made clear tha…
Bowman Wright is currently playing King in King Hedley II at Arena Stage, where he was last seen as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Mountaintop. Select theatre credits includeÂ�…
Nice Work If You Can Get It is a throwback to all those bubbly musical comedies that provided escapism during the Depression/prohibition era. The inspiration for Joe DiPietro's book takes a …
Gina Gionfriddo's dramedy about five flawed characters struggling with ideas of feminism and anti-feminism (and lots of liquor) as well as their own personal and interpersonal conflicts has …
1. One Night in Miami at Center Stage. “This play is a knockout that clearly should not be missed.” – Steve Charing. READ review. Synopsis:Â February 25, 1964. Twenty-two…
I had misgivings about this assignment. Murder in the Cathedral, directed by Lucinda Merry-Browne and written by Nobel Laureate T. S. Eliot, by its very title and author had someth…
Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart, a modernized version of which by Peter Oswald, is now playing at the Folger Theatre, is a taut historical drama about two of the fiercest Queens in…
Liz Boyer Hunnicutt, a local Baltimore actress and Resident Director of the Children's Playhouse of Maryland (CPM) was kind enough to share her thoughts about Philip and although I never …
From Grease to Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? to High School Musical, there has been no shortage of teen-oriented musicals. And in recent years, another entry, the aptly named 13…
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is opening on Feb 5th, 2015 for a limited run of 7 performances at Ciao Bella Restaurant, 236 S High Street, Baltimore, MD in Little Italy. The cast co…
How is it that a musical so predictable, that you are having thoughts of your psychic abilities, can leave you so thoroughly enchanted, so completely mesmerized? This is the conundrum that w…
Humans have a regrettable instinct oftentimes to avoid a recent widow " what can one say to the grieving? How to act? This apparently worked against both Mary Todd Lincoln nearly 150 years a…
As a reviewer and as a patron of theatre I see many wonderful performances in a season. Some are in productions I get to work on as a technician and some are from shows that I go to just for…
