News: Ruby Griffith Award Winners 2013-2014
The 2014 Ruby Griffith Award winners were announced on Sunday, July 13, 2014 during a ceremony held at Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD. The awards honor the best performanc…
The 2014 Ruby Griffith Award winners were announced on Sunday, July 13, 2014 during a ceremony held at Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD. The awards honor the best performanc…
1. Stone Tape Party at Atlas Performing Arts Center. “Everything comes together inParty: fantastic writing, talented acting, great directing (Angela Pirko) and wonderful song choices.�…
Live Action Theatre in partnership with Preferred Arms presents The Tournament as part of the Capital Fringe Festival. Â Written by Kyle Encinas and directed by Lex Davis, The TournamentÂ…
I do! I do! is a musical medley about marital bliss, marital strife, and marital longevity. Co-Producing Artistic Directors Alan and Anna Ostroff of Infinity Theatre Company create another w…
This past theatre season has been a banner year for actress Erin Driscoll. She started the season out in a supporting role in Miss Saigon at Signature Theatre and then graduated big time to …
When Sara Bareilles was initially approached by a record label executive directing her to create a love song in attempts of appealing to the mainstream pop culture, what turned out to be a w…
Unless you are an alien who just arrived from another planet, there is no question that Christopher Walken is one of our most hard-working, revered, quirky " and imitated " stage and screen …
There are shows where you get exactly what the program offers; the plot unfolds as promised, and the write-up for critics is as simple as can be. Then there are the shows that go deeper,…
As a teenager, I was a huge fan of the TV show Love, American Style, an anthology-style sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974. The show served up two or three mini stories of romance featuring p…
The names Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison are synonymous with classic Rock 'n' Roll. They unfortunately all have something else in common…
Maybe it's because I grew up in the Washington DC area and we regard all Phillies and Eagles fans as thugs, but I've always been leery of driving through Philadelphia. Sure the cheese-st…
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on that tablet, along comes another robot with a built-in diabolical scheme to destroy your life. We now have a Russian tycoon, Dmitri Itskov, w…
With a name like Stone Tape Party and a synopsis of, "Sex, drugs, jazz: y'know, the classic ghost story," I think it is easy to question how good this Capital Fringe show is going to be. Â�…
Séance, Save MacGuffin's! Featuring the World Famous Crimson Herring, presented by Borealis Theatre and directed by Steve N. Bradford, invites the audience into Madame Minerva MacGuffin's M…
Dracula, A Love Story by Tim Treanor and Directed by Christopher Henley and Jay Hardee is a modern retelling of the classic Bram Stoker novel of 1897, Dracula,. Treanor's Dracula is "married…
One of the nice things about theatre festivals in general is that there is something for everyone. In the case of this year's Capital Fringe Festival, there is a Tony Award winning play as o…
If you are looking for an exhilarating, raucous, hilarious, roller-coaster ride of a show, a genuine gem from start to finish, you must drop whatever you're doing and run to see Chisa Hutchi…
"Ye, Gods!" Rockville Musical Theatre's production of The Music Man at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre is here! Heavily influenced by his own childhood in Mason City, Iowa, Meredith Wilson's…
There will be many plays on the Iraq war and its aftermath, but few (if any) have the compassion and the seasoned eye for dialogue of Charles Fuller's One Night. A tightly wound, poignan…
The Monster Songs, written and performed by Dr. Dour (vocals, "crappy" 10-string touch guitar) and his assistant/accompanist, Peach (cell, banjo, cute), is a five song cabaret about the very…
A roll of thunder, a flash of lighting and a scream. Thus begins the passionate and imaginative Intrigue, a mystery on marley…, an original play performed entirely through dance, and a who…
The Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theatre finishes off their 37th season with Les Misérables, after a successful run of Seussical the Musical. Since the performance rights have…
La Petite Famillie is a theatre company based out of Souillac in the south of France. Their performers are all between the ages of 15 and 22. The company's entry into this year's Capital Fri…
You have to applaud anyone who is willing to get up onstage alone and tell his or her story. David Kleinberg's story is one that is compelling and sometimes moving. In his current solo piece…
The Capital Fringe production of Macbeth: the instruments of darkness, based on Macbeth by William Shakespeare and directed by Joshua Engel, is an example of how not to produce a Shakespeare…