Reviews

‘Water by the Spoonful’ at The Studio Theatre

Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful is set in 2009 and takes place mainly in Philadelphia but also travels to San Diego, Japan, and Puerto Rico. Two characters hold the...

‘Night Mother’ at Rockville Little Theatre

Spring may be calling you outside to bike and run and savor the sunshine, but do yourself a favor…spend ninety minutes with the Rockville Little Theatre’s production of ‘Night Mother before you do....

‘Ding. Or Bye Bye Dad’ at Venus Theatre

Society has a collective concept of normal that we think everyone experiences, but as it turns out everyone has a unique experience and no one’s experience is quite the same as anyone else’s. This is...

‘Oliver’ at Silhouette Stages

Consider yourself a part of the theatrical family if you find yourself headed out to Silhouette Stages to see their latest musical production, Oliver! With Music, Lyrics, and Book written by Lionel...

‘Normal’ at Molotov Theatre Group

Molotov Theatre Group has an uncanny knack for converting its tiny black-box nook into an auditorium-scale operating theater for surgical dissection of the dark side of human nature. With its new...

National Chamber Ensemble: ‘Happy Birthday Vivaldi: The Extraordinary Four Seasons’

National Chamber Ensemble put on a truly exceptional concert on Saturday when, along with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, they honored the genius and artistry of Antonio...

‘Proof’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria

The powerful The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Proof takes us into the complex world of mathematics and mental illness, where the combinations are alarmingly similar in the way that the...

‘Blithe Spirit’ at Prince William Little Theatre

Lift your spirits with Prince William Little Theatre’s (PWLT) production of Noel Coward’s comedic play, Blithe Spirit. Taking place in the 1940s at the stunning British home of Charles (Matthew...

‘Xanadu’ at Reston Community Players

Reston Community Players presents Xanadu, a silly, decadent treat written by Douglas Carter Beane, with music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. Joshua Redford directs this hilarious production...

Here are the Winners of the 14th Annual WATCH AWARDS Awards

Announcement of Winners 14th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors THE WATCH AWARDS Award Ceremony Sunday, March 9, 2014 – 7:00 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA And now for the Winners...

‘Hairspray’ at Magruder High School

The words “tuneful” and “energetic” only begin to describe Magruder High School’s production of the Tony-award-winning musical Hairspray. Based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name, with...

‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ at The Highwood Theatre

Who is the man on the twenty-dollar bill? The Highwood Theatre answers that question with Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson to the beat of some catchy rock music. Alex Timbers wrote the book and Michael...

Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Brian d’Arcy James at The Kennedy Center

With precise control and an air of cosmopolitan confidence, the prolific Brian d’Arcy James captivated The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in his unique concert Friday night. Careening through a set...

‘Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bridge’ at The Music Center at Strathmore

St. Patrick’s Day came early to the Music Center at Strathmore when six singers, five Irish dancers, and two musicians took the stage for international hit Celtic Nights: The Emigrants Bridge. This...

‘Five Course Love’ at Spotlighters Theatre

There’s trouble in the kitchen! Of course there’s bound to be trouble when you mix romance and restaurants, but audiences across Baltimore never knew trouble could taste this delectable to their comic...

‘Urinetown’ at Act Two @ Levine’s Pre-Professional Program

Do you suppose composer Mark Hollamann and writer Greg Kotis got the loo-dicrous idea for Urinetown while waiting in line for the facilities during intermission at the theater? The campy, satirical...

Composer Jason Robert Brown on ‘Songs for a New World’ on 3/15-16 at Young Artists of America and His Cabaret “I Could Be In Love with Someone Like You” on 3/17 at Red Branch Theatre Company

Composer Jason Robert Brown will be coming to Potomac, MD and to Columbia, MD next weekend to conduct and perform Songs for a New World with talented young singers and musicians at Young Artists of...

Dudley Saunders performs’ In These Boxes’ Tomorrow, Saturday, March 8th at BloomBars

LA singer/songwriter Dudley Saunders’ IN THESE BOXES is an uncommon – and uncanny – mix of live music, narratives and video art that explores the human need to keep the dead from disappearing by...

‘Moby Dick! The Musical’ at Glenelg Country School & Jason Brown Visits Red Branch Theatre Co. by John Harding

Fans of Spamalot may want to hop to and check out a similar boatload of zaniness known as Moby Dick! The Musical, with book by Robert Longden, and music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward Kaye, at...

Round House Theatre Announces its 2014-2015 Season by Sarah Pressler

Round House Theatre announces its 2014/15 season: FOOL FOR LOVE By Sam Shepard FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN By Will Power The NUTCRACKER By Tommy Rapley, Jake Minton, Phillip Klapperich, and Kevin O’Donnell...

Nibbles And Sips Around Town: José Andrés Kicks Off Oyamel’s Tequila & Mescal Festival

The Greatest Mexican Fiesta in DC James Beard Award-winning Chef José Andrés and his partner Rob Wilder are at it again with the seventh annual Oyamel Cocina Mexicana’s Tequila & Mezcal Festival...

Tonight at 8:45 & 11 PM: House of Sweetbottom: Blues and Burlesque at The Black Cat

“The blues and the jazz are … original, American music. And that’s what the burlesque entertainers used.” – Dixie Evans (1926 – 2013), “The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque”, founder of the Miss Exotic...

‘Lysistrata’ at Towson University

No sex! No fun! Not ‘til there’s peace for everyone! Not sleeping with our men until they all find peace again! The age old protest of Lysistrata cries out in a new hybrid fashion of modern freestyle...

‘Dark Passages’ at Bowie Community Theatre

We all have shadows, secrets that we don’t want to admit to others. And when those shadows creep through darkened windows into the unsuspecting lives of those around us things can get dark and...

‘Dollars for Dainty’ at The Black Cat

On the last day of January, a group of big-hearted burlesquers got together for two shows at the Black Cat to raise money for GWU’s LGBT Health Program. The GW LGBT Health Certificate is the only...

National Chamber Ensemble Presents ‘Happy Birthday Vivaldi: The Extraordinary Four Seasons’ This Saturday, 3/8@7:30 pm

Oh the weather outside has been frightful, but … on Saturday, March 8, 2004 at 7:30 PM NBC4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer is predicting 54° | 34° and all because … National Chamber Ensemble, in...

‘Mamma Mia!’ at The National Theatre

The music of ABBA never fails to get toes tapping and listeners dancing. Last night at The National Theater was no different. Mamma Mia! is the ultimate love story written by Catherine Johnson, around...

The Washington Chorus: ‘The Essential Verdi’ at The Kennedy Center

The Washington Chorus, marking the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth with a series of concerts, offered the sixth on Sunday evening, with a program of arias, scenes and choruses from his...

‘Beaches’ at Signature Theatre

It’s not often that you see a musical selling souvenir tissues in the lobby, but Beaches does—so be sure and pick up some! This emotionally-charged musical now having its world premiere at Signature...

The Kennedy Center Announces Over 2,000 Performances in 2014-2015

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces its 2014–2015 Season 2014 with More Than 2,000 Performances of Theater, Dance, and Music of All Kinds Highlights include: Iberian Suite:...

Washington Performing Arts Society/Young Concert Artists: Julia Bullock, Soprano, With Renate Rohlfing, Piano by Leslie Weisman

Sunday afternoon’s recital at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Concert in the Young Concert Series, was a musically and intellectually adventurous expedition that...

Attending ‘The Velocity of Autumn’ Meet the Press at Sardi’s Today by Joel Markowitz

It was an exciting morning at Sardi’s as the cast, producers, and the director of The Velocity of Autumn were introduced to the NYC press. I was so thrilled to be there and to see my friends...

‘Rock of Ages’ at The Warner Theatre by Diane Jackson Schnoor

On Sunday afternoon, Washington theatre goers packed the Warner Theatre for the headbanging, sex, drugs, and rock and roll debauchery that is the non-Equity tour of Rock of Ages. The plot doesn’t...

‘The Secret Case of Sherlock Holmes’ at Encore Stage & Studio by Julia L. Exline

Encore Stage and Studio presents The Secret Case of Sherlock Holmes. Written by Craig Sodaro and with artistic direction by Susan Alison Keady and executive direction by Sara Strehle Duke, Holmes is a...

‘I and You’ at Olney Theatre Center by Amanda Guther

Pronouns are particularly important to every day grammatical use as well as to one of America’s greatest poets, Walt Whitman. And when the figurative ‘you’ becomes everyone and everything the...

Sweet Honey in the Rock: ’40th Anniversary Celebration: Forty & Fierce’ at The Music Center at Strathmore by Jessica Vaughan

Sweet Honey in the Rock returned home for a stop on their 40th anniversary celebration tour they call Forty & Fierce. The four-woman a cappella group started at the D.C. Black Reparatory Theater...

Matt’s Movie Rank Tank – ‘Special Oscar Edition-Part 5: Best Picture’ by Matt Baughman

It’s OSCAR Weekend!!! And in honor of this joyous time of year, leading up to the telecast on March 2nd, I will be positing a series of rankings of the nominees for Supporting Actor, Supporting...

‘The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin’ at Howard University by Ramona Harper

The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Howard University Department of Theatre Arts’ current musical production, is a champagne toast to keeping it real. Authenticity and self-acceptance are...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ‘Off The Cuff CSI: Mozart’ at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the young age of 35 in 1791, and there was a lot of mystery surrounding his death. Did he succumb to rheumatic fever? A kidney disease? Or was he poisoned? Mozart was a...

‘Next Fall’ at Port City Playhouse by Carl Nubile

You can’t get more intimate theater than at Port City Playhouse with their production of Next Fall. The very personal story of a tragic relationship is brought to life up close and personal and uses...

‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ at Vagabond Players by Amanda Gunther

I’ll tell you what I know. What I saw, what I heard; the events as I would recall them as I witnessed the Vagabond Players’ production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a new adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher....

‘The Dresser’ at Everyman Theatre by Amanda Gunther

There is danger in covering up the cracks. You can only hide behind a painted face for so long before the stuffing all comes flooding out and the truth is revealed. A hilarious and heartbreaking tale...

‘Spring Awakening’ at University of Maryland at Clarice Smith Performing Arts by Jessica Vaughan

Myth and metaphor collide in the University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ production of Spring Awakening. Three directors create layer upon layer of design, dance, and...

Interview with the Cast and Directors of ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ at The Highwood Theatre by Kevin Kearney

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is The Highwood’s Theatre‘s first mixed-cast production, featuring professional and student actors. The production will play at the Katzen Arts Center at American...

Vocal Arts DC Presents: Hei-Kyung Hong, Soprano, in Recital at The Kennedy Center by Leslie Weisman

The Kennedy Center’s 500-plus-seat Terrace Theater was filled nearly to capacity Wednesday night for soprano Hei-Kyung Hong’s recital of German and Korean art songs, the latter as cherished by and...

‘Pilobolus’ at The Music Center at Strathmore by Bev Fleisher

Founded in 1971 as a dance collective by Dartmouth College students, this company still wears its revolutionary stripes on its sleeves. Pilobolus was named after a barnyard fungus that propels its...

‘Orlando’ at WSC Avant Bard by Sophia Howes

Orlando: Right You Are, if You Think You Are In Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, on the lam after witnessing a mob killing, pose as girls in an all-girls band...

Here Are the Winners of Our ‘Mamma Mia!’ Ticket Giveaway-And We Are Giving 2 Pairs Away!

HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF TWO PAIRS OF TICKETS TO THE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014 AT 7:30 PM PERFORMANCE OF AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE 1321 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NW, IN WASHINGTON, DC ____ GARY FONTAINE AND...

‘Spring Awakening’ at Montgomery College by Paul M. Bessel and Barbara Braswell

Teenage sexuality and rebellion; adult cruelty and hypocrisy; deeply intense drama and moments of humor; alternative rock music and folk ballads — these are just some of the elements in the Tony...

‘The Lost Songs of Broadway: 1980s’ at Signature Theatre by Derek Mong

Clearly, I was born in the wrong decade. The Lost Songs of Broadway: 1980s at Signature Theatre had me tapping my toes and slapping my thighs all night as three of Signature’s powerhouse...