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‘The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover’ at The Baltimore Annex Theater

Letricia Loftin 2014-10-22

Hectic, hectic day! To top it off, my vehicle was under the weather but I HAD to get into the city, you see – the name of the play alone – had me intrigued and I couldn’t dare miss a minute of it. So...

‘WORDLESS!’ at Lisner Auditorium

David Siegel 2014-10-22

There was a cool visiting professor in town the other evening. You know the one, in his 60’s, an ex-hippie, still in the prime of life. He came with a vibrant presentation of a topic of great personal...

‘Girls Night: The Musical’ at The Warner Theatre

Gina Jun 2014-10-22

Girls Night: The Musical, an off-Broadway show, described as Desperate Housewives meet Mamma Mia with Sex in the City bawdiness, made its Washington, DC premiere at the Warner Theatre Friday night,...

‘A Few Good Men’ at The Colonial Players

Danielle Angeline 2014-10-20

Utilizing a minimalist set and military issued uniforms, (by Set Designer Terry Averill and Costume Coordinator Beth Terranova), Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men, directed by Jeff Sprague, is an...

‘The Wolfe Twins’ at The Studio Theatre

Sophia Howes 2014-10-20

Crying Wolf; ‘The Wolfe Twins’ at Studio Theatre The Wolfe Twins, by Rachel Bonds, is a World Premiere by Studio Lab, which features scaled-back productions of provocative new plays. First-rate acting...

‘Ain’t Misbehavin” at The Vagabond Players

Joel Markowitz 2014-10-20

The joint was jumpin’ yesterday as The Vagabond Players wisely chose The Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr. Tony Award-winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’ filled to open their 99th Anniversary Season...

‘Danny Boy’ at Unexpected Stage Company

Leslie Weisman 2014-10-20

It’s not often that theatergoers have the rug of common assumptions pulled out from under them and enjoy both the trip and—as the dust and a few loose threads settle to the ground beside them—the...

‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’ at Reston Community Players

Yvonne French 2014-10-20

Reston Community Players’ You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is a sweet and serious show that will warm the cockles of your heart. This delightful 1967 musical comedy has music and lyrics by Clark...

‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ at The Puppet Co.

Julia Amis 2014-10-20

The Puppet Co. presents The Three Billy Goats Gruff, a classic children’s tale brought to life with impressive marionettes, written by Len, Pat and Christopher Piper and directed by Allan Stevens....

‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Unquiet Theatre Company

Julia Amis 2014-10-20

Unquiet Theatre Company presents the cult classic musical The Rocky Horror Show! with Book, Music, and Lyrics by Richard O’Brien. Katy Chmura directs this campy production, with Music Direction by...

‘Sex with Strangers’ at Signature Theatre

David Siegel 2014-10-19

Let’s get this out of the way. Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason (at Signature Theatre) is a slam-dunk champ. It is an easy crowd-pleaser on its polished comic surface, but, oh what a delicious depth...

‘The Rocky Horror Show’ at Spotlighters

Winters Geimer 2014-10-19

The Rocky Horror Show first premiered in June of 1973 at a 63-seat theater in London. Since then, the show has been staged all over the globe in ever larger theaters. Perhaps the most famous version...

‘Grounded’ at Everyman Theatre

Gina Jun 2014-10-19

Everyman Theatre soars high with the Baltimore debut of Grounded, gluing audience members to their seats with an absorbing, emotionally-brimming, one-woman drama by multiple award-winning American...

‘La Vida Breve (A Brief Life)’ & ‘Viva Zarzuela’ at the In Series

Jessica Vaughan 2014-10-19

Have you ever seen a show and heard something you know you’ve heard before and thought, “That’s from an opera?” So it was with La Vida Breve, the In Series charming production of this iconic but...

‘A Thurber Carnival’ at Vienna Theatre Company

Diane Jackson Schnoor 2014-10-19

Vienna Theatre Company Stretches Its Boundaries With A Thurber Carnival Vienna Theatre Company deserves credit for stretching the boundaries and bringing A Thurber Carnival to the DC metro area. Many...

‘The Canterville Ghost’ at Children’s Theatre of Annapolis

Danielle Angeline 2014-10-18

Children’s Theatre of Annapolis is kicking off a spooktacular season with The Canterville Ghost by Claudia Haas, a tail about a rambunctious American family that buys a haunted manor in England....

‘Carousel’ at Catholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music

Jessica Vaughan 2014-10-18

Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s favorite musical and Catholic University returns it to its glory days with a full orchestra, a big cast, and talented stars. It’s one of the reasons I love...

‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse

Anne Vandercook 2014-10-18

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf is a play written by Ntozake Shange in choreopoem, or a piece combining dance, music, and poetry. This form of artistic...

‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Pallas Theatre Collective

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-10-18

Shakespeare’s Shrew is always a challenge. Misogynistic in sentiment, slapstickishly machismo in design, its story of how to tame a headstrong, stubborn woman couldn’t be more ethically risky,...

‘Vanishing Point’ at The George Washington University

David Siegel 2014-10-17

The George Washington University Department of Theatre and Dance is presenting the world premiere of Vanishing Point. This production has a clear purpose well beyond providing students the opportunity...

‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – A New Musical’ at American University

Douglas Lloyd 2014-10-17

Talent on the Verge American University’s Department of Performing Arts is currently presenting the Washington DC premier of the Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Although...

‘Next to Normal’ at CENTERSTAGE

Gina Jun 2014-10-17

CENTERSTAGE soars to new heights with its electrifying production of the multiple Tony Award-winning, contemporary rock musical, Next to Normal, launching the second show of its 2014-15 Season....

‘Elmer Gantry’ at Signature Theatre

Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell 2014-10-16

“I have principles. I just don’t let them get in the way of what I want.” That’s how Elmer Gantry—a charismatic preacher-salesman-womanizer summarizes himself. But, he falls for Sister Sharon...

‘I Love Lucy Live on Stage’ at Hippodrome Theatre at The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center

John Harding 2014-10-16

If it has been gnawing at you since 1953 that you missed your big chance to go to the CBS Desilu Studios in Hollywood and watch a live taping of I Love Lucy, take heart: Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre...

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons at Strathmore

Wendi Winters 2014-10-16

Just too good to be true, we can’t take our eyes off Frankie Vallie and his crew The Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons show at Strathmore last night was sold out and so is tonight’s performance. For...

‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House Theatre

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-10-15

How do two unlikely celebrities become friends? Everyone has a public persona, but that persona is not necessarily their entire being. “I snuck in the back door,” Stepin Fetchit says sternly to...

Spine: Ontologically Speaking (Perhaps) Absolutely!

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-10-15

In Luigi Pirandelo’s most famous play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, the frustrated theatrical director demands that the father of the wandering character-clan stop his endless theorizing and...

Dramatic Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Opens the McLean Orchestra Concert Season

David Rohde 2014-10-14

A number of orchestras and ensembles in the Washington suburbs are looking to graduate from pure local or community status to regional recognition. There’s nothing like using one of the biggest pieces...

‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Rockville Little Theatre

Anne Vandercook 2014-10-14

Want to see typical southern gentility conquered by raw human desire? Well, look no further. Rockville Little Theater with Director Seth Ghitelmen deliver with their season opener, Cat on a Hot Tin...

‘Murder on the Nile’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater

Julia Amis 2014-10-14

Aldersgate Church Community Theater presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile, a suspenseful who-dun-it directed by Roland Branford Gomez, with original music composed and performed by Joseph...

‘ABSOLUTELY! {perhaps}’ at Constellation Theatre Company

Michael Poandl 2014-10-13

One of my favorite movies of all time is Clue, a mystery comedy (based on the board game) starring Tim Curry that is chock full of over-the-top characters and zany, slapstick farce. As I laughed my...

‘Sweeney Todd’ at Virginia Opera Company

Michael Poandl 2014-10-12

Fog was already filling the vast Concert Hall at the George Mason University Center for the Arts when I settled in to watch the first show of Virginia Opera Company’s 2015 season, Sweeney Todd: The...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending 10/12/14

Joel Markowitz 2014-10-12

Here are our new DCMetroTheaterArts Scene Stealers. Congrats to all our honorees. ______ The Cast of University of Maryland’s The Me Nobody Knows ‘Singing “Numbers,” “Take Hold the Crutch,” and “If I...

‘Not My Monkey’ at InterAct Story Theatre at The Gaithersburg Arts Barn

Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell 2014-10-12

What do you get when you combine bright and bouncy circus fun with some valuable life lessons? The answer is Not My Monkey, a delightful and highly interactive comedy, produced through a partnership...

Mike Epps’ ‘After Dark Tour’ at The Warner Theatre

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-10-12

What you see is what you get when it comes to Mike Epps doing standup comedy. On October 10 and 11, 2014, Epps performed for DC audiences his brand of “comedy for the grown and sexy” in his After Dark...

‘Vanishing Point, A New Musical’ at StillPointe Theatre Initiative

Danielle Angeline 2014-10-11

At the bottom of the Playbill, there is a profound note from Director Ryan Michael Haase, referencing the three women characters in StillPointe Theatre Initiative’s production of Vanishing Point, A...

‘The Me Nobody Knows’ at University Of Maryland School Of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Ramona Harper 2014-10-11

The plight of urban youth took a contemporary turn in the University Of Maryland School Of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ opening night revival of the 1970s Broadway hit, The Me Nobody...

Chatting ‘Horror’ with Craig Colletta and Mike and Lori Travis at Yellow Sign Theatre

Lucrezia Blozia 2014-10-11

I miss the weekly hosted horror movie shows like Elvira’s Movie Macabre. If you also have fond mammaries, er, memories of those shows you should get to the Yellow Sign Theatre in Baltimore over the...

‘The Goddess Diaries’ at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts

Michael Poandl 2014-10-10

Like the circle of birth, death, and re-birth that is such an important symbol in the work, Carol Campbell’s The Goddess Diaries is back in a new incarnation at George Mason University. Directed by...

‘Oedipus the King’ at Catholic University

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-10-10

Oedipus the King has long been considered the archetypical tragedy. Jam packed with irony, Sophocles lays bare the heartbreak of the human condition. People and especially the ruling elites, no matter...

‘Hope Operas’ Week One at the Comedy Spot

Sea Griffin 2014-10-10

Back in the ‘30s they called ‘em Cliffhangers. They were weekly serials that played before a main feature at the movies. They turned into serials, first on the radio and then on television evolving...

National Symphony Orchestra: David Zinman, conductor: Angela Hewitt, piano, plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 / Works by R. Strauss & Schoenberg at The Kennedy Center

Kim Palchikoff 2014-10-10

Last night, the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman with a solo performance by the famed Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, delved into the works of three separate composers including...