The story of Emmett Till is not an easy story to tell. It is a story that is kept out of history books because it is the brutalization of a Black, teenage boy from Chicago who did not return…
Just like lightning, "The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical" is full of energy. Silhouette Stages' production has a talented cast of both high school students and adults who know ho…
Consider "Dance Nation" as a prequel to "A Chorus Line" and you will have a better understanding of the teenage and pre-teen angst of becoming a dancer. Then add "Mean Girls" to the mix for …
 "Witch Wartsmith's Halloween Spooktacular"at The Puppet Co. is a fun, delightfully eerie Halloween event being presented the entire month of October. It can be best described as an Ed S…
 Chicago's Mary Zimmerman is no stranger to the D.C. stage. Her productions of "Moby Dick" at Arena Stage and "Argonautica" at the Shakespeare Theatre Company come vividly to mind. What …
When Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention organizer and cultural historian, Martin Grams, invited me to this year's convention that was held September 15-17, 2022 in Hunt Valley, MD, he told me…
History is a funny thing. How willing are we to stop, reassess and recalibrate what we think of the past "our icons, our shining lights of greatness? There has been a lot of icon-busting the…
In 1990, "Ghost" premiered in movie theaters, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg. Audiences and critics alike enjoyed the movie, which was nominated for five Academy Aw…
Adapted in 1973 by Neil Simon from Anton Chekhov's short stories, most of the vignettes in "The Good Doctor" hold up surprisingly well and still evoke laughter and tears from a modern audien…
TINA " The Tina Turner Musical" is the brand new North American tour just coming off the show's Broadway run. "This new musical reveals a comeback story like no other, of a woman who dared t…
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) kicks off its year-long celebration of their 20th anniversary with a re-staging of their very first production as a professional company"William Shakespe…
Set in the 1950s, American playwright Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" is a meditation on memory, the search for meaning, and the need to belong. Seen through a 21st century lens, it i…
"Arts! by George" is the annual fundraiser held by George Mason University to raise money for scholarships and to support the arts. This extravagant event consisted of three main parts"the p…
Be careful what you wish for. That is the final warning in Rain Pryor's director's comments for the program for the most recent production to open for Spotlighters' 60th season. I could not …
The Brentano String Quartet with Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, will be performing for Candlelight Concert Society on October 9, 2022. The program will include works by Claudio Monteverdi, …
I'll admit that I've been involved in many conversations in which liberals talk about conservatives. They've occurred more and more often since 2016, and they almost always follow the same f…
Rep Stages production of "Songs for a New World" is a collection of songs by Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade, and Bridges of Madison County) and is a retros…
When I heard Center Stage was going to put a Baltimore spin on "Our Town," I wasn't sure what to expect but this production definitely has a Baltimore influence. The result is a play written…
Baltimore's Everyman Theatre launches its new season with a savory world premiere, "Dinner and Cake" by Tuyết Thị Phạm. Director Paige Hernandez skillfully guides an excellen…
When family matriarch Gloria dies, a raucous multi-day wake begins, testing her family's stamina and composure. Depicting the Caribbean tradition called Nine Nights, Natasha Gordon's play "N…
The National Philharmonic has begun its new season which will include great orchestral works from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff, along with Berlioz's "Requiem" and Orff's "Camina Burano." In add…
Wolf Trap Park is the perfect place to spend a late summer evening. The setting is serene, and the music seems to shimmer with the stars. You're always invited to bring a picnic or indulge i…
Lynn Nottage's, "Mlima's Tale" is a beautiful play about the journey of an elephant, Mlima, whose tusks are removed after being illegally poached by hunters in the country of Kenya. It is a …
Co-produced by Bill Hurlbut and Tristan Poje and directed by Rob Gorman, "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker follows an acting class in a small town in Vermont over the course of s…
A dark, wonderful, and unusual musical graces Theater J at the Edlavitch DCJCC this month. "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story" threads the relationship of two refugee Romanian Jews in Canada b…