DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #13: Best Direction and Musical Direction in...
The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts Best Direction and Musical Direction in Musicals and Best Direction of Plays of 2016 in Community Theatres in DC/VA/MD Are: BEST DIRECTION AND MUSICAL DIRECTION IN...
View ArticleCharlie Bethel on His One-Man Show ‘The Call of the Wild’ at Baltimore...
Tomorrow – Thursday, January 12, 2017, master storyteller Charlie Bethel returns to Charm City to perform his newest adaptation – a one-man show of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild at Baltimore...
View ArticleDCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #14: Best Design in Professional and...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #14: Best Design in Professional and Community Theaters in DC/VA/MD Are: John Alexander for his lighting for Blackberry Winter at Forum Theatre. John Alexander for his...
View ArticleReview: ‘Mamma Mia!’ at Hippodrome Theatre
Countering the brisk winter temperatures outside, Tony-nominated Broadway jukebox musical sensation Mamma Mia! unleashed flash bolts of pulsating heat with bold bright lights, zesty dance numbers and...
View ArticleBest of 2016 #15: Best Performances in Plays in Community Theatres in DC/MD/VA
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #15: Best Performances in Plays and Ensembles in Community Theaters in DC/MD/VA Area Area Mark T. Allen as John Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet at Laurel Mill Playhouse....
View ArticleReview: ‘Grey Gardens’ at StillPointe Theatre
Grey Gardens is the latest show in StillPointe Theatre’s 2016 – 2017 season. This musical is based on the eponymous 1975 documentary about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) and her...
View ArticleHere Are This Year’s WATCH AWARD Nominations
Announcement of Nominations 16th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors THE WATCH AWARDS Nominations Announced January 15, 2017 – 7:30 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA Award Ceremony...
View ArticleReview: ‘Blackbird’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre
When Una, the 27 year-old British woman at the center of David Harrower’s startling and complex play Blackbird, tells a man named Ray, 15 years her senior, that he made her into a ghost, there is no...
View ArticleReview: ‘Exit Pluto’ at Strand Theater Company
Continuing “The 100 Percent Season” – an entire season consisting exclusively of works written by women – Strand Theater Company. (“the Strand”) presented the World Premiere of Amy Bernstein’s Exit...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Call of the Wild’ Starring Charlie Bethel at Baltimore Theatre...
A man with a club is a lawmaker. Charlie Bethel walks casually onto the stage, a metal coffee cup in hand, and gazes into the distance. He strolls past the shiny dog food bowl at center stage to a...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Three Penny Opera’ at Spotlighters Theatre
Ever-willing to mount bold musicals with large casts you’d never expect to see in such an intimate, cozy space (remember last year’s gorgeous Evita?), Fuzz Roark at Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre...
View ArticleTODAY – Spotlighters Theatre Taking Part in the National Ghostlight Project
TODAY at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community theaters – will come together...
View ArticleReview: ‘Samsara’ at Single Carrot Theatre
Samsara isn’t a person’s name (despite seeming like a blend of “Sam” and “Sara.”) It is defined as either the process of coming into existence as a differentiated, mortal creature (Buddhism) or the...
View ArticleReview: ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ at The Hippodrome Theatre
Little Carol Klein of Brooklyn, New York, did herself proud when she blossomed into songwriter Carole King. In 2013 her hit-parade of a life came to Broadway as Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. A...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Tempest’ at The Baltimore Annex Theater
It’s only the end of January and, with its production of The Tempest, The The Baltimore Annex Theater (“Annex”) has already set a very high bar for my 2017 theater viewing. Founding Artistic Director...
View ArticleCenter Stage Has A New Name, A New Logo, And A New Website
Center Stage Announces Name Change, New Logo and Website Center Stage is pleased to announce several changes in advance of its grand re-opening—an updated name, new logo and new website. From Artistic...
View ArticleReview: Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ at Everyman Theatre
Charles Dickens career as a writer, journalist, and editor was well-established when he wrote Great Expectations. He did not disappoint. Originally published in All Year Round, a weekly magazine edited...
View ArticleReview: ‘Fucking A’ at Iron Crow Theatre
There is so much than can be talked about when it comes to Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2000 riff on The Scarlet Letter, the half-jokingly entitled Fucking A. There is the unsettling setting, the surprising...
View ArticleReview: ‘Richard III’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
It’s notable that a play based on England’s War of the Roses has many parallels to power plays that take place today, both in everyday life and TV and film. Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s (CSC)...
View ArticleReview: ‘Trust’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre
What’s the nature of trust? What specifically makes a person choose one partner over another? These questions and more are brought up by Fells Point Corner Theatre’s production of Trust, by Steven...
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