'A Quick 5' with Michael Winther
Michael Winther is currently playing the role of Dan in Next to Normal at Center Stage. The production concludes its run this weekend. He last performed at Center Stage in The Boys from Syra…
Michael Winther is currently playing the role of Dan in Next to Normal at Center Stage. The production concludes its run this weekend. He last performed at Center Stage in The Boys from Syra…
Whether you're a Generation X, a tweeting Millennial, or an emerging Generation Z-er, How We Got On will leave you appreciating these two letters: MC. Â Â That is, feminist Rap pioneer M…
Twelfth Night (the western) at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre is a raucous and enjoyable evening's entertainment. The show is marginally a musical, with entertaining and well-done musical sco…
Deidra LaWan Starnes is currently performing the role of Calphurnia in Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre. She previously appeared in Folger’s production of King Lear. Area credits in…
Lovers of Shakespeare and theatre in general should head over to Folger Theatre for a treat with the chilling Julius Caesar, directed by Robert Richmond. This timeless tragedy resonates toda…
It's exciting for the Shakespeare Theatre Company that distinguished British director Michael Attenborough accepted an invitation to oversee a production. His choice"and the opening show of …
For audiences with a special loathing for the Broadway Musical, from its clichéd plots and characters to its nauseatingly treacly music, Urinetown: The Musical has been an oasis. It is a vi…
Vadim Feichtner is currently the musical director for Elmer Gantry at Signature Theatre. He was last seen on Broadway conducting The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His many Off-…
Families can be some crazy places. Within these primal institutions, where psychological blocks are built and broken down, everyday nagging and picking can build into some life-imploding pre…
To paraphrase a much-more-sarcastic remark by Oscar Wilde about another work of art, one has to have a heart of stone not to cry at least a little at the death of Mimi, La Boheme's consumpti…
VIDEO:Â Mark Beachy interviews members of the creative team of the musical ‘Moses’ at Sight and Sound Theatre in Lancaster, PA. Â Produced and Edited by Mark Beachy. Â Assi…
What better way to spend Halloween night than seeing Faith Prince sparkling the Terrace Theatre stage at the Kennedy Center. On Friday, October 31, Prince lit the stage in front of an NYC ba…
Trusting one's instincts (but backing them up with hard, cold facts) might be the theme of Earth and Sky, a contemporary take on film noir as live theater. This morning, after seeing the pla…
Songwriter Ellie Greenwich earned 25 gold and platinum records during her career, selling a phenomenal 100 million records.  Many of Greenwich’s popular hit songs from the 196…
Carousel, the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, reminds us that in spite of technological advances and a rapidly changing unsettled world, one thing still remains constant, human nature.Â…
1. Richard II at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. “The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's production of Richard II should not be missed because of its historical significance and for its …
Jefferson A. Russell is currently playing the role of Brother Rashid who is a member of the Nation of Islam and the no nonsense bodyguard to Muhammad Ali in Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round…
It’s not often that the pre show announcement states, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please turn on your mobile devices." With the addition of social media technology and fine visual projectio…
After all these years, Hedda Gabler is still the woman who gives you the creeps, the one that makes you want to keep your distance. Mad, bad and dangerous to know, she sucks the life-blood o…
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's Richard II is such a terrific success that I was astonished to learn that it is the first professional production of the play…
It is not every day that many of us find ourselves staring down the nozzle of a gun from either side of the trigger, but if you go see Rage at Ambassador Theater–and you should go s…
Arena Stage's exquisitely intimate Kogod Cradle is home to a new mutli-voiced, multi-authored production, Our War, about the contemporary reverberations of America's own civil war 150+ years…
Mary Resing's world premier production of Visible Language currently performing at Gallaudet University's Eastman Studio Theatre presents a series of historical events within a neighborho…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Macbeth makes a big impact in their new space " a small black-box theatre " that I think is all the better for the feeling like part of the action. And in thi…
Happenstance Theatre returns to the Theatre Project with the fifth iteration of its popular and 2013's Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of Cabaret Macabre. Following its delightful Imp…