Dana Roberts
7 posts
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Sterling Playmakers gets away with an entertaining ‘Catch Me If You Can’
Buckle up for a musical about one of the greatest con men of all time.
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In eye-opening ‘The Jam: Only Child,’ a son and grandson tells it like it was
In The Jam: Only Child — now streaming on demand from Signature Theatre — Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts recounts his life as the only child of a single mother: a latchkey kid who grows up with...
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‘Genderosity’ by Gay Men’s Chorus is a lovely many-gendered sing
By now, you have likely seen a song performed by a “virtual choir,” a group of singers who recorded his/her/their part as a solo video, then a technical person edited the sound and video together to...
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A charming trip down the rabbit hole in Chalice Theatre’s ‘Alix in Wonderland’
In 1865, Lewis Carroll created the classic children’s tale, Alice in Wonderland, a journey into a fantasy world of kooky creatures that exhibit traits of both good and bad in their examples of human...
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A sexless sex comedy in ‘No Sex Please, We’re British’ at Kensington Arts Theatre
Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott’s farce No Sex Please, We’re British premiered in London’s West End in 1971. It was unanimously panned by critics, although it played to full houses until 1987 at...
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Creative Cauldron successfully “finishes the hat” in ‘Crowns’
“Hats reveal and they conceal,” Crowns playwright Regina Taylor states in an interview. Crowns is derived from a book of photographs and stories of African American women, compiled by journalist Craig...
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Laughs aplenty in Ken Ludwig’s ‘The Game’s Afoot’ at Reston Community Players
Reston Community Players’ production of The Game’s Afoot is a lighthearted, murder-mystery comedy. The comedy was written by American playwright and Tony Award winner Ken Ludwig, of Lend Me A Tenor...
