ARENA STAGE ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO CREATE A PLAY WITH YOUNG ADULTS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES THROUGH THREE-WEEK VOICES OF NOW INSPIRED PROGRAM IN ZAGREB, CRO…
"Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…" Jo is the central character in the classic novel Little W…
     Regie Cabico is a master slam poet/stand up comic. He is currently performing in a return engagement of  his solo show at fallFRINGE after a successful run thi…
A Staged Reading with Acclaimed Actress Kathleen Chalfant Performance of Lynn Redgrave's Shakespeare for my Father Tony Award® nominee Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit) will p…
1. 'The Iceman Cometh' by Quotidian Theatre Company at Bethesda's Writer's Center. “…a working class camaraderie and bohemia that comes alive on stage like bubbles in a bottle.”…
The ghost story, the horror movie, Fright Night! When one thinks of theatre, one does not usually turn one's mind toward theatre as a good vehicle for the spine chiller. Words can we…
LEAN & HUNGRY THEATER ANNOUNCES ITS 7th SEASON WAMU 88-5 FM's Favorite Shakespeare Troupe Announces Its 2013-2014 Audio Season Lean & Hungry Theater, the audio Shakespeare troupe tha…
A classic 1950s musical, Guys and Dolls is based on two short stories by Damon Runyon that brings to light the New York underground of gangsters and gamblers. The music and lyrics were origi…
I've never come in contact with a character that has made me feel a surge of emotions in such a short period of time as much as Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf in I Am My Own Wife.  Directed …
WALT WHITMAN HIGH SCHOOL TO SUPPORT ACTIVE AND VETERAN U.S. MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS WITH MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF MISS SAIGON Walt Whitman High School's Drama Department (Whitman Drama) is thr…
Dawn Ursula is currently playing Desiree in Love in Afghanistan where she is making her Arena Stage debut with this role. Some recent Washington area appearances include Prudence in…
Signature Theatre is the only theatre in the area that is constantly producing world premiere musicals; so for the first attempt of the 2013/2014 season, they have chosen to present a musica…
Montgomery College Communication and Performing Arts Department at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus presents Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam The Communications and Performing Arts De…
Let us now praise the Quotidian Theatre Company, which dedicates itself to classics, and crafts performances so good they remind us why the works are considered classics in the first place. …
Every once in a while there is a show I want to see, but for varying reasons I am not able to. In the case of the funkalicious musical Disco Jesus and the Apostles of Funk there was a very g…
A GALA PERFORMANCE FEATURING THE YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA YOUTH ORCHESTRA AND VOCAL ENSEMBLE Bethesda, MD: Young Artists of America, Inc. (YAA), founded in 2011 by operatic tenor Rolando San…
"Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" shouts Sir Richard Plantagenet to a gawking audience. Medieval war profiteer and closest thing to virtuous protagonist in this cynical yet am…
Singer/songwriter Carole King's songs have been a part of the American landscape for over 40 years now; so it seems right that someone would put together a tribute show to her for their late…
Master storyteller, David Gonzalez is the proud recipient of the 2011 International Performing Arts for Youth “Lifetime Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence.” His work Doub…
Idina Menzel will return to Broadway for the first time since winning the Tony Award for Wicked in If/Then, an original Broadway musical which reunites Tom Kitt (music),…
AT THE MEAD CENTER FOR AMERICAN THEATER NOVEMBER 7, 2013, 10:00 A.M."2:00 P.M. Motivated by the overwhelming public response to last February's Looking For Good People job fair, which …
"A rose is a rose is a rose." Gertrude Stein's famous line spoke to the reality of the object: the object in its materiality trumps the symbolic name we offer it. Hence, "a rose by a…
Sister Act started out as a blockbuster film starring Whoopi Goldberg, and then spawned a successful sequel as well. It is only natural that you would capitalize upon your success and turn a…
1. Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill at Signature Theatre “What makes this deluge of unhappiness so special is its fierce combination of exquisite comedy and agonizing pain.  …
Delightful is probably not the expected adjective for a show called Cabaret Macabre, except probably for those who have seen earlier editions of the show by Happenstance Theatre. At a time w…