Reviews

‘From Here to There’ at Imagination Stage by Julia L. Exline

Imagination Stage presents From Here to There, a show all about playtime! Brought to the North America for the first time through England’s Tell Tale Hearts Company, actors Megan Dominy and Bradley...

Looking Back: An Interview with Valerie Harper on ‘Looped’ and Her Theatre Career by Joel Markowitz

When I heard that Valerie Harper had dropped out of the National Tour of Looped, (replaced by Stephanie Powers) I knew that it had to be something terrible that would keep this trouper off the stage,...

Gretchen Parlato at WPAS at the 6th and I Synagogue by Francine Schwartz

Gretchen Parlato, winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, has toured internationally with her own band and as a guest of many world-renowned artists; notable...

‘Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon’ at YAA and MCYO at The Music Center at Strathmore by Miriam Urquhart

The heat was truly on in Saigon at The Music Center at Strathmore on Sunday, March 10, 2013, at Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon – a spectacular joint-production between Young Artists of America and...

‘The 2013 Dance Connect Commissioning Project Showcase’ at INTERSECTIONS at Atlas by Rick Westerkamp

This past December, Dance Metro DC, a community building and sustaining organization centered on dance, awarded five choreographers (Sarah J. Ewing, Laurel Victoria Gray, Sara Pearson, Dr. Janaki...

‘Norma’ at Washington National Opera by Jessica Vaughan

Washington National Opera mounts a dazzling production of Bellini’s Norma. American soprano Angela Meade makes her debut with WNO. Norma is the role of a lifetime; the Everest of female opera roles,...

‘Les Illuminations’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at U of MD by Tiffany Draut

A concert program that consists of Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler could be considered just another classical concert in a town filled with classical music. Yet when that program includes a...

Performers Announced for Tomorrow Night’s La-Ti-Do at 8 PM at Black Fox Lounge by Don Michael Mendoza

It’s that time of week again: time for Washington Blade’s “Best of” nominated cabaret series La-Ti-Do! Guest performers: David Landstrom, Samantha Keogh, Shayna Blass, Caroline Mahoney, Samuel...

‘Hair’ at The Lyric Opera House by Amanda Gunther

Make peace! Not war! Harmony and understanding! It’s all about flowers and love! It’s a live “be-in” at The Lyric Opera House in Baltimore this weekend as The 2013 National Tour of Hair: The American...

Elaine Paige at The Birchmere by Doug Poms

Musical Theatre lovers in the DC area were given a big treat on this past Thursday evening when Elaine Paige made an appearance at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, as part of her first American...

‘Copenhagen’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Terry Byrne

Forget, for the moment, all you know about quantum physics. It’s history that matters in Copenhagen, Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning, World War II drama. Make that revisionist history, which, after...

A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine at Glenelg Country School by John Harding

If audiences selected the Cappies Award winners, Glenelg Country School might as well start making room for another trophy in May. To borrow one of the lyrics from the current Glenelg program, its...

La-Ti-Do Announces “Songs by Mike & Rob” Performers for This Monday, 3/11@ 8 PM by Don Michael Mendoza

It’s that time of week again: time for Washington Blade’s “Best of” nominated cabaret series La-Ti-Do! Guest performers: David Landstrom, Samantha Keogh, Shayna Blass, Caroline Mahoney, Samuel...

‘Cardinal Points’ by Rebollar Dance at INTERSECTIONS at Atlas by Rick Westerkamp

Cardinal Points by Rebollar Dance is an undertaking that not every choreographer would be willing to experience. Choreographers, for the most point, come into the rehearsal studio with a vision, and...

Helen Reddy at The Barns at Wolf Trap by Keith Tittermary

“I used to wonder where the stars go, well now I know, so I’ll tell you.” The lyric from “The Stars Fell On California” from Helen Reddy’s 1981 album, Play Me Out was a fitting lyric to open a heart...

‘Fanny and Alexander’ at Nordic Cool 2013 at The Kennedy Center by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

An audacious four-hour stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-winning feature film – Fanny and Alexander by Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theater highlights the Nordic Cool 2013 Festival in its U.S....

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/CLOSE/R by EDGEWORKS Dance Theater at INTERSECTIONS at Atlas by Rick Westerkamp

As the audience filed into the Sprenger Theatre at the Atlas Performing Arts Center at INTERSECTIONS, Helanius J. Wilkins was already nonchalantly performing upstage, facing away from the audience....

‘Cirque Zíva’ at The Music Center at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

Strathmore’s Concert Hall is usually a venue for some of the area’s finest music. But on Thursday night, the conductor’s baton was traded in for human gyroscopes and a troupe of Chinese acrobats that...

Zeola Gaye’s ‘My Brother Marvin: The Stage Play’ at The Warner Theatre by Audrey Thornton

The life and music of D.C.’s own native son, Marvin Gaye (Keith Washington), one of the most gifted musical talents of the twenty-first century, came alive for a few brief hours at The Warner Theatre...

‘The Last 5 Years’ at Spotlighters Theatre by Amanda Gunther

A pedestrian love story like you’ve never heard it before. Two sides to every tale when there’s a boy and a girl involved. But what if the boy told his story from the beginning to the end and the girl...

Kristofer Sanz on Conducting YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterfly & Miss Saigon’ This Sunday @4 PM at Strathmore

In our final interview and article about Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ joint production of Madama Butterfly & Miss Saigon on Sunday, March 10th at 4 PM at Strathmore,...

‘Looped’ at Hippodrome Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Looped lands at the Hippodrome Theatre as a co-production between Broadway Across America and Tony Cacciotti, Ann Cady Scott, and The Tallulah Organization in association with The Pasadena Playhouse....

‘Into the Woods’ at Shenandoah Conservatory by Mark Dewey

Into the Woods Showcases Shenandoah Talent Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods, must pose a tempting challenge for directors. The musical interweaves the plot lines of four familiar fairy tales,...

‘Home’ at Rep Stage by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Who says you can’t go home again? Think about the word home, and what it means to you. Home can be the place that you grew up in, or any place that you spend a significant amount of time. More than a...

Rate Your Show on ‘TrueTheatergoer’ by John Hauge

Editor’s note: For the past two years whenever I saw those colorful TrueTheatergoer ads in our local theatres’ playbills I wondered who the mystery person(s) was/were behind this site that asked local...

‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ at Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace by Julia L. Exline

Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace presents Peter Pan and Wendy, an artsy adaptation of a beloved classic. ArtSpace’s Our Learning Theater program brings together a group of 35 child actors for this...

Carousel at Act Two @ Levine by Francine Schwartz

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Tony Award-winning Carousel is one of the most celebrated and longest running musicals in history. The production by Act Two@Levine was a good choice, providing many parts...

‘Next to Normal’ at Reston Community Players by Mike Spain

Reston Community Players continued their season of strong women with the award winning musical Next to Normal. The multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize- winning musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt...

‘Soul Encounters: Flamenco Meets Jazz’ at INTERSECTIONS at Atlas by Colleen Sproull

Watching Soul Encounters: Flamenco Meets Jazz featuring the dancers of Furia Flamenca and music performed by the jazz trio Unit Three was an enjoyable way to spend my Sunday. The fusion of flamenco...

‘I Too Sing America: The Life and Poetry of Langston Hughes’ at Howard University by Veronique MacRae

In celebration of the prolific poet, novelist, social activist, playwright and columnist, James Mercer Langston Hughes, a proponent of racial consciousness and cultural nationalism devoid of...

‘Hexagon 2013: A Raucous Caucus’ at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center’ by Kim Moeller

What do politics, Spandex body shapers, Washington area traffic, and colonoscopies have in common? They are all satirical targets in Hexagon 2013: A Raucous Caucus. If you’re not familiar with...

‘The Wiz’ at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore by Amanda Gunther

Dancing tornados. Pop-modern munchkins. And a traffic-light color collision in Emerald City that will blow you away. Think you know Oz? Think again! Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore has got Dorothy...

‘Once on This Island’ at Montgomery College by Keith Tittermary

Once on This Island, with a score by composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime) the Caribbean inspired retelling of The Little Mermaid, is a bright and vibrant story of a peasant...

‘Manon Lescaut’ at Washington National Opera by Tiffany Draut

Washington National Opera’s revival of John Pascoe’s production of Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s passionate opera, had a thrilling opening tonight at the Kennedy Center. Patricia Racette triumphed in her...

‘A Streetcar Named Desire (The Opera) at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts by Audrey Thornton

Virginia Opera’s third installment in their 2013 American series, A Streetcar Named Desire, an opera in three acts premiered at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on Friday, March 1, 2013...

‘The Producers’ at Silhouette Stages by Amanda Gunther

When you got it, flaunt it! And boy do they got it. And they flaunt it too! Who, you ask? Why Silhouette Stages with their dazzling and titillating production of The Producers. As it turns out you can...

‘The Socky Horror Puppet Show’ at Nu Sass Productions by Justin Schneider

Sing it with me! “It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights…” Oh, no, wait. That’s those other singing puppets. The Socky Horror Puppet Show is the second presentation of Nu Sass...

‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ at Clarice Smith Performance Arts Center by Tiffany Draut

There is a fine group of young actors in the cast of Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a surrealistic and sometimes confusing play (I wish there were more production notes to help make the play more...

National Symphony Orchestra: Pekka Kuusisto, Violin, Plays Lindberg at Nordic Cool 2013 by Keith Tittermary

As part of The Kennedy Center’s Nordic Cool 2013 Festival, The National Symphony Orchestra presented an evening of Nordic music of the past and present. Book ending the evening was two pieces by...

‘Berlin to Broadway’ at The In Series at Source by Jessica Vaughan

The In Series mounts another fabulous production in their stellar 2012-2013 season, tripping through 30 years of superior opera by composer Kurt Weill in his journey from Berlin to Broadway. This is...

‘The Apple Doesn’t Fall’ at The Mobtown Players by Amanda Gunther

A play-within-a-play, that’s been done. But a play about a theatre company trying to find start-up capital to take their unconventional methods on the road? That might be what you’re getting with The...

‘Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by Amanda Gunther

As the old saying goes, bros before…well you get the picture. As it turns out Shakespeare was the inventor, trying to prove to us that two friends thick as thieves should never let a woman come...

Jane Franklin Dance at INTERSECTIONS at Atlas by Colleen Sproull

Jane Franklin Dance lit up the Kogod Lobby, as the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival continued this evening with Young Professionals Happy Hour and more performances in the theatres. The fiery company of...

Student Vocal Soloists of YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterly & Miss Saigon’ on 3/10@4 @ Strathmore by Joel Markowitz

Meet the the student vocal soloists (who are high school students) who will be singing the roles in Miss Saigon at Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ production of Madama...

Hedda Gabler at Nordic Cool 2013 at The Kennedy Center by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

The Kennedy Center’s Nordic Cool 2013 Festival’s month long programming offerings of a variety of Scandinavian art have been the tip of the iceberg . . . until now! Nothing may be cooler than the...

‘The Cemetery Club’ at Vagabond Players by Amanda Gunther

Three feisty widows don’t let the fact that their husbands are all dead get in their way of carrying on in the usual fashion of a marriage. No they aren’t holding séances or anything bizarre, they’re...

Meet The Guest Soloists of YAA & MCYO’s ‘Madama Butterly & Miss Saigon’ on 3/10@4 at Strathmore by Rolando Sanz

Meet the performers and guest soloists of Young Artists of America and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ production of Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon which will be performed at The Music Center at...

‘Superior Donuts’ at Greenbelt Arts Center by Amanda Gunther

The Great American Novel. Everyone talks about it, every writer thinks they’ve written it or are going to write it. But what if I told you that a young twenty-something boy from uptown Chicago has...

‘The 1940’s Radio Hour’ at Dundalk Community Theatre by Amanda Gunther

December 21, 1942— the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on New York’s WOV radio station. The gang’s all here and the only thing missing is you, but you can fix this...