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‘Bearlesque’ From The City of Brotherly Love at Town Dance Boutique

Lucrezia Blozia 2014-07-10

WHERE THE BOYLESQUERS GRRR… On a recent Friday night at Town Dance Boutique a large group of gentlemen gathered to watch a group of large gentlemen “bear” it all. Visiting from the City of Brotherly...

Attend The Tale: Cast Announcement for Landless’ Summer of Rock productions of ‘Sweeney Todd – Prog Metal Version’ and ‘Rock Bottom’ [A Rock Opus] by Landless Theatre Company

Andrew L. Baughman 2014-07-07

The Landless Theatre Company announces casting for Summer of Rock productions at Warehouse Theatre: Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd – Prog Metal Version and Rock Bottom [A Rock Opus]. Both productions...

‘The King and I’ Opens This Wednesday at Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre-Cast Interviews Part 1

Diane Jackson Schnoor 2014-07-07

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s timeless classic, The King and I, boasts one of the most luscious scores of all time. Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre opens this romantic musical about tolerance and cultural...

Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Offering Pay-What-You-Can Previews Until July 10th

Guest Author 2014-07-06

Expanded this year! CATF’s Pay-What-You-Can Preview series allows you to experience the 2014 repertory of plays before they open at whatever price you care to pay. While the playwrights, directors,...

A Report on ‘Les Misérables’ at Howard County Summer Theatre

Amanda Gunther 2014-07-04

The question of ,‘Do you hear the people sing?’ is being heard all throughout the Baltimore and Washington area this summer as Les Misérables makes its way across the professional and community...

CFTC Performs Rollicking ‘Pippi Longstocking: The Family Musical’ July 18-26, 2014 at Lanier Middle School

Diane Jackson Schnoor 2014-07-03

Grab your hat and join the fun as pirates, circus entertainers, a few cops and robbers, and the world’s most popular whippersnapper come to life this summer in the City of Fairfax Theatre Company...

‘Guys and Dolls’ Opens July 11th at McLean Community Players at Alden Theatre by Cathy Farnsworth

Guest Author 2014-07-02

The McLean Community Players (MCP) present Guys and Dolls, considered by many the perfect musical comedy opening July 11, 2014, in McLean’s Alden Theatre. Guys and Dolls has music and lyrics by Frank...

Contemporary American Theater Festival Interviews Part 2: An Interview with ‘The Ashes Under Gait City’ Playwright Christina Anderson by Sharon J. Anderson

Guest Author 2014-06-29

In Part 2 of a series of interviews, Sharon J. Anderson, The Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) Trustee and Professional Storyteller, interviews Christina Anderson whose play The Ashes...

Preview of ‘Abominable’ at The Hub Theatre by David Siegel

David Siegel 2014-06-27

Hub Theater is producing the world premier of Abominable written by Playwright and Hub Artistic Director Helen Pafumi. The director is multi-Helen Hayes Award nominee Kirsten Kelly. The Hub describes...

Jon Jon Johnson on ‘Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield’-Which Plays Through This Sunday at Writer’s Center

Guest Author 2014-06-27

I had been approached to audition for projects with Flying V before, and I had always been busy. When I was approached to audition for Flying V Fights, it felt like the stars and planets all aligned....

Opening This Friday at Silver Spring Stage: ‘Good People’: It’s a Complicated Concept by Lennie Magida

Guest Author 2014-06-25

When a playwright calls his play Good People, we can assume that the characters will be…you know…good people. Can’t we? In David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, opening this Friday at Silver Spring...

Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘The Hello Girls: A Surprising WWI Story’ by Ellouise Schoettler

Ellouise Schoettler 2014-06-24

Last year as the 2013 capital Fringe closed Iwas already beginning to wonder what I would be telling in 2014. My show Arlington National Cemetery: My Forever Home had gone well and I knew I would be...

Exclusive! Attend The Tale of Landless Theatre’s Sondheim Approved Prog Metal Version of ‘Sweeney Todd’: Announcing The Arrangers-THE FLEET STREET COLLECTIVE

Andrew L. Baughman 2014-06-24

DC’s Landless Theatre Company, currently developing a Prog Metal Version of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, announces that the prog metal orchestration is being written by a team of arrangers known as The...

Top Scene Stealers of the Week-The Week Ending June 21, 2014

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-22

Here are our Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 21, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees! ______ (1) Aurora Beckett, as Jojo, singing “It’s Possible” in Seussical at Montgomery Playhouse Summer...

Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘Perfect Liars Club’ by Layla McCay

Guest Author 2014-06-21

It isn’t impossible to get tickets to Perfect Liars Club. But when the smash-hit underground story interrogation pops up in Washington, tickets do sell out fast. “I set my phone alarm to go off 3...

Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘Sage of Blackwell’ by Arthur Luby

Guest Author 2014-06-20

Much has been written about the travails of the labor movement, virtually all from a macro level stressing the political implications. One need only pick up a paper to read this decline celebrated as...

A Celebration for Jerry Manning Is Set for Monday, June 23rd at 6 PM at Arena Stage

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-14

A celebration of Jerry Manning‘s life will take place at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater on Monday, June 23 at 6:00 pm. The gathering, organized by Gary Phillips—a longtime friend...

5 Top Scene Stealers of the Week-Week Ending 6/13/14

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-13

Here are our 6 (We have a tie) Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 13, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees! A Special Scene Stealer of The Week: Frank Britton Returns as Pontius Pilate in The...

Marquise Dre White on His New Musical ‘My Choice to Change’ Which Plays This Weekend at Notre Dame of Maryland University

Amanda Gunther 2014-06-12

Baltimore is the city for up-and-coming new theatre. Be it newly inspired personal works, new musicals, or new companies, Charm City has it all. Featuring a tried and true performance company— J.C....

An Evening of Theater Celebration at the 15th-Annual Cappies Gala

Charles Miller 2014-06-12

While the Tony Awards were celebrating the nation’s top theater talent, the Washington capital area hosted its very own celebration of up-and-coming theater talent. The National Capital Area Cappies...

‘The Pirates of Penzance’ Opens Tonight at Victorian Lyric Opera Company

Guest Author 2014-06-12

The article is by by Ed Vilade & Courtney Kalbacker. Pirates, police, and the lovely daughters of a modern Major General combine in the topsy-turvy whirl of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most popular operetta,...

“After the Storm” Benefit Concert for Victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines This Sunday at 8 PM at The Kennedy Center

Guest Author 2014-06-11

WORLD RE-KNOWNED VIOLINIST, JOSHUA BELL AND GLEE STAR, DARREN CRISS ADDED TO THE ALL-STAR LINE-UP CELEBRATING THE PHILIPPINES JOINED BY PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED CAST: LEA SALONGA, LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS,...

Meet the Cast of ‘Ghost The Musical’ at Drama Learning Center Opening This Friday 6/13-Seth Fallon, Claire Cerand, and Josh Altenburg

Guest Author 2014-06-11

TYA (Teaching Young Actors) at Drama Learning Center present the area premiere of Ghost the Musical. After getting special permission from Theatrical Rights Worldwide to present this title prior to...

Bravo Productions’ ‘Into the Woods JR’ plays This Friday thru Sunday at Randolph Road Theatre

Joel M. 2014-06-11

This Friday June 13th through Sunday, June 15, 2014, Producing Director and Choreographer Darnell Morris, is directing Into The Woods, JR for Bravo Productions, with a special artistic design with...

Frank Britton Returns as Pontius Pilate Beginning Tomorrow Night Through Saturday Night in ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-10

Forum Theatre has announced that Frank Britton, recovering from injuries sustained in an attack on Tuesday, May 30th, is returning for the final 5 performances in the role of Pontius Pilate in The...

Attend the Tale of Landless Theatre’s Prog Metal Sweeney Todd: Announcing New Venue, Tickets on Sale, and More!

Andrew L. Baughman 2014-06-08

Attend the Tale of Landless Theatre’s Prog Metal Sweeney Todd: Announcing New Venue, Tickets on Sale and More! The Landless Theatre Company announces that the premiere production of Sweeney Todd –...

SeeNoSun OnStage’s ‘Killer Joe’ Plays Through June 29th at DCAC

Guest Author 2014-06-08

It’s press night tonight for SeeNoSun OnStage Brings Rarely Produced production of Tracy Letts Dark Comedy at the DC Art Center. DC actor Sun King Davis taking on the title role of Killer Joe Cooper...

5 Top Scene Stealers of the Week-Week Ending 6/5/14

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-05

Here are our 5 Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 5, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees! ______ (1) Florrie Bagel as Sister Mary Patrick singing “Sunday Morning Fever” in Sister Act at...

Alan Paul on Directing ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ at Urban Arias

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-05

Performances begin tomorrow night, June 6th at 8 PM for two short comic operas –Bastianello and Luxrezia– at Urban Arias at Artisphere. Director Alan Paul gives us a short preview of what we will see...

‘Bat Boy: The Musical’ at 1st Stage

Keith Tittermary 2014-06-01

In 1992, the Weekly World News supermarket tabloid published an article with the headline “Bat Child Found In A Cave”. Over the past 20 years Bat Boy has been seen everywhere from running for the...

Film Review: ‘Madame Parliamentarian’: A Film by Rouane Itani

Leslie Weisman 2014-05-31

Rarely do we see the poetically evocative adjective “arabesque” outside the ballet. So being invited to “An Arabesque Event” held an irresistible charm. As it turned out, the title was more figurative...

Nibbles and Sips: Taberna del Alabardero Celebrates 25 Years, Toro Toro Opens, New Farmers Market Opens in Mosaic District, Cassatt/Degas Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Great Taste of Tyson’s, and “Fed Up” Makes the Case Against Sugar

Jordan Wright 2014-05-31

Taberna del Alabardero Celebrates 25 Years, Toro Toro Opens, New Farmers Market Opens in Mosaic District, Cassatt/Degas Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art, Great Taste of Tyson’s, and “Fed Up”...

‘Speaking of Shakespeare, Falstaff, and King Henry IV’ with Stacy Keach and Edward Gero at the Woman’s National Democratic Club

Leslie Weisman 2014-05-31

What’s the best place to enjoy a scrumptious lunch surrounded by ever-changing exhibits by local artists, while hearing celebrated actors and writers engage each other in stimulating, illuminating...

Suspect Arrested Tonight in the Frank Britton Assault

Joel Markowitz 2014-05-31

Tonight 18-year-old Elijah Jeremiah Smith of Washington, DC, was arrested in the assault and robbery of actor Frank Britton earlier this week in Silver Spring, MD. According to Montgomery County...

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society Holding Auditions on Sunday & Monday, 6/1-2 for “The Electric Pharoah” and ‘Gründlehämmer’ Video

Lucrezia Blozia 2014-05-30

The Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS) is holding auditions this Sunday and Monday, June 1 and 2 for “badass” actors, singers and dancers for their upcoming world-premiere, The Electric Pharaoh....

Hungarian Opera Star Andrea Rost Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain Tomorrow at 5:30 PM at the Warner

Guest Author 2014-05-28

Andrea Rost performs Tomorrow Night, May 29th at 5:30 PM at the Warner for the Hungarian American Coalition gala celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain and of a free and...

Win a Free Pair of Tickets to ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ at Quackensteele Theatre Company;Enter by Noon Tomorrow

Joel M. 2014-05-28

We are giving away one pair of tickets for each one of these performances of tick, tick…BOOM! at Quackensteele Theatre Company For These Performances: Friday May 30th @ 8PM Saturday May 31st at 8PM...

Actor Frank Britton is Assaulted and Injured on His Way Home From the Cast Party of ‘Judas Iscariot’ Last Night

Joel Markowitz 2014-05-27

Actor Frank Britton was mugged and beaten on his way home last night from the cast party after the opening of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at Forum Theatre. He is in Holy Cross Hospital in Silver...

Nameless’ ‘Happy Hour Theater’ Opens ‘Last Call’ This Thursday May 29th at 6 PM

Guest Author 2014-05-27

NAMELESS THEATRE PREMIERES, LAST CALL A PROVOCATIVE LOOK AT A GENTRIFYING DC Last Call, by A’Leighsha C. Butler, directed by Nia M. Barge May 29th and June 5th Happy Hour Starts at 6 pm. Show Starts...

‘An Evening With Danny Kaye’ With Brian Childers Returns to The American Century Theater July 16-August 18th

Guest Author 2014-05-27

The American Century Theater (TACT) wishes to announce a change in its scheduled production lineup for July/August 2014. In place of The American Century Songbook, TACT is thrilled to welcome Helen...

The McLean High School Choral Society, Threatened by Budget Cuts, Stages What May Be its Last Production-‘The Secret Garden’-This Thursday Through Sunday

Guest Author 2014-05-26

The McLean High School Choral Society (MCS) stages the enchanting musical The Secret Garden. Led by Performing Arts Department head, Linda Martin, the group brings this captivating classic of...

‘GI Film Festival’ Opens Tonight and Runs Through May 25th at the Old Town Theater

Marlene Hall 2014-05-19

The GI Film Festival (GIFF)-nicknamed ‘Sundance for the Troops’-is back in the DC area for the eighth year. GIFF showcases the military’s stories authentically through film while featuring receptions,...

Tomorrow Night at La-Ti-Do: Cast Members of Quackensteele’s ‘Tick, Tick, Boom! and VIjai Nathan and Jamie Hardin at 8 PM

Joel Markowitz 2014-05-18

TOMORROW MAY 19TH at 8 PM! A FAHBAHROUS La-Ti-Do Birthday! It’s that time of week again for La-Ti-Do: WINNER of DCMetro TheaterArts’ Special Award in 2012 and 2013. This month we feature multiple...

This Sunday @4 PM Tony Award Winner Laura Benanti Joins GMCW for “A Gay Man’s Guide to Broadway’ at The Kennedy Center-Tickets Still Available

Joel M. 2014-05-15

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC presents A Gay Man’s Guide to Broadway with special guest Tony Award winner Laura Benanti This Sunday, May 18th at 4 PM at The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall The...