On December 14th at 8 pm, escape the holiday hustle and bustle with this special evening of carols for the season, called Carols by Candlelight! Music at historic St. Anne's Church in Annapo…
Creative Cauldron Honors Memory of Cay Wiant With Holiday Production Christmas Cabin of Carnaween Creative Cauldron will honor the memory Catherine Wiant with its holiday production o…
With Nicky Silver's The Lyons we are presented a typical dysfunctional family. We have the dying, cancer-filled, angry father who openly despises his homosexual son; the loveless, …
1. Lyle the Crocodile at Imagination Stage. “I'm not sure what to start with " everything is incredibly well done.” – April Forrer. READ April Forrer’s review. …
There are two stage versions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that I consider to be the definitive telling of the story. The Ford's Theatre production is easily the one to beat f…
The quintessential theatre-lover's play, Noises Off arrives at 1st Stage Theatre in Tysons as distinctly fun escapist fare for the holiday season. It is loaded with F's…frantic, frolicking…
Great composers have to start somewhere and, for Giacomo Puccini, it was a one-act called Le Villi. He submitted it for a competition. It didn't win or place. Still, he reworked it, added to…
Pointless Theatre, DC's premiere puppet company, announces its 2013-2014 season, featuring new adaptations of two previous productions from Pointless:Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher and…
A joyous, tuneful 25th anniversary cabaret called A Labor of Love took place at Howard the Smith Theatre of the Howard Community College Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on Decembe…
It seems to me that people have forgotten lately about what the true meaning of the holiday season is. We are so interested in getting that 60 inch flat screen or getting toWalmart at three …
My fellow readers, the holiday season has officially started and among all of the theatrical attractions to choose from, the musical Elf is fast becoming an alternative to the standard produ…
For the press opening of The Apple Family Plays, a two-play repertory of Richard Nelson's That Hopey Changey Thing and Sweet and Sad, Studio Theatre invited the audience to attend a…
One Night Only Screening featuring David Tennant on December 2 at 7pm Folger Shakespeare Library will present a special preview screening of RSC Live's production of Shakespeare's Richard II…
Lyle the Crocodile books, by Bernard Waber, had not been the first choice for bedtime reading in our house. My boys always wanted to hear more adventures of Captain Underpants, and my da…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Toby’s Dinner Theatre with their holiday musical production of Miracle on 34th Street. And what famous store in NYC is located on 3…
1. 'Sweet and Sad' at Studio Theatre “Studio Theatre's The Apple Family Plays is a repertory worth seeing in its entirety.  It is truly a unique piece of theatre.”Â�…
Usually when a production is put together the director stages the show, it opens and the stage manager keeps the show in shape for the remainder of the run. But what happens when the product…
Note: To view a video of each master class session discussed, click on the appropriate link then click watch and listen. All of the master classes were documented with the exception of Count…
Sweet and Sad, the title of the second play in Richard Nelson's Apple Family Plays, comes from Walt Whitman's "The Wound Dresser," a poem he wrote in reflection on the time he served a…
There are many things that move us when we listen to a song. More often than not, it's the vocal performance. The American Voices concert at the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall this past weeke…
Before The Ambassador Theater's inventive rendition of Vaclev Havel's Protest even begins, the set transports you to another place and time. Café tables are scattered around the black box t…
A Broadway Christmas Carol, now playing at Old Town Alexandria's intimate MetroStage, is a must see for the Broadway musical lover.  An inventive and professional cast of four bring…
When Brazilian theatre artist Augusto Boal brought his politically revolutionary theatre of the oppressed to Europe and the United States several decades ago, he discovered that his…
With hours and hours of reading books about Gerald and Piggie's adventures to my children over the years, I often wondered what would these engaging elephant and pig characters would look li…
I was a little skeptical that the intimate, in-the-round stage at the Spotlighters Theatre would be able to do justice to the action-packed musical production Into the Woods. Failing to lear…