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Special 25% Off Discount to See Mark Nadler’s ‘Runnin’ Wild: Songs and Scandals of the Roaring 20’s’ at AMP on Fri 5/29 at 8 PM

We have a 25% off discount for Mark Nadler’s’ ‘Runnin’ Wild: Songs and Scandals of the Roaring 20’s’ at Strathmore’s new AMP next Friday, May 29th at 8 PM. Use CABARET and get 25% off tickets here:...

‘Filichia on Friday’: The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam Answers’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Here are the answers to The 2015 Broadway...

‘Filichia on Friday’: ‘Give Your Regards to Cagney and Creighton’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Your Regards to Cagney and Creighton ______...

‘Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage’ at The Hippodrome Theatre at The France-Merrick Performing Arts Center

If you absolutely adored the movie Dirty Dancing and wouldn’t change a thing about it, Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre has just the show for you. Dirty Dancing — The Classic Story on Stage is easily...

Daisha Graf and Alicia Graf Mack Share Their D(n)A with Local Dancers on May 17th in Columbia, MD

Sisters Daisha Mack and Alicia Graf Mack, co-creators of D(n)A Arts, will host The D(n)A Xperience, which aims to draw aspiring dancers from across the region. They have achieved extraordinary success...

‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ at Sandy Spring Theatre Group and The Arts Barn

Consider, if you will, a 15-year-old boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York who longs to be a baseball star with the Yankees, but would give up that dream if he could see a naked woman for two and a...

‘Mary Poppins’ at Oakton High School

Everyone’s favorite Nanny has flown into the halls of Oakton High School. This toe tapping production will get everyone energized as the cast performs iconic songs from the classic Disney movie, as...

Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam ______...

DCMetroTheaterArts Columnist Richard Seff is Elated that Julie Halston and Brad Oscar are the 2015 Richard Seff Award Recipients

In a phone call earlier today, DCMetroTheaterArts’ columnist Richard Seff was elated that Julie Halston and Brad Oscar were named this year’s recipients of the award that bears his name. I am so very...

2015 Kennedy Center Spring Gala: ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing… A Celebration of Swing’ at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts rolled out the red carpet on Sunday evening with a star-studded salute to the swing era of the 1930s and ‘40s. Under the direction of Grammy-winning...

‘Memphis’ at The Warner Theatre

Hockadoo! After a few toe-tapping hours at The Warner Theatre with the cast of Memphis and their inspired singing and dancing, I still have no idea what “Hockadoo” means, but I know—without a...

‘Fun Home’ Receives 12 Tony Nominations

The glittering prizes keep coming for Fun Home, a mainstream musical about a young lesbian and her closeted gay father. Fun Home received 12, that’s right 12, Tony nominations, for Best Musical, Best...

Filichia on Friday: ‘April’s Leftovers and May’s Brainteaser’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: April’s Leftovers and May’s Brainteaser ______...

‘Something Rotten!’ at The St. James Theatre in New York City

It doesn’t sound like much of an epitaph for a Broadway season, but Something Rotten is indeed the title of the last show to open before the deadline for a 2015 Tony nomination. Happily, the title is...

‘Take the Stage’ is Offering 8 Pairs of Free tickets to their Broadway Showcase for tonight -5/1, tomorrow-5/2, and Sunday-5/3. Enter DCMTA2015 Online and Grab a Free Pair of Tickets

Take the Stage is giving away 8 pairs of free tickets for tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday’s production of their Broadway Revue Showcase ‘Loud and Clear’ at the Rockville Jewish Community Center. It’s...

In the Moment: Meet the Encore Chorale

Ideas for this column can come from unexpected encounters. This column was sparked over a dinner with some good friends a few nights ago. Let’s call them Rayna and Ed. We were at the neighborhood...

Watch the 69th Annual Tony Award Nominations Being Announced: ‘An American in Paris’ and ‘Fun Home’ Lead Musicals with 12; ‘Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2’ Leads Plays with 8

HERE ARE THE 2015 TONY AWARD NOMINEES Best Play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Author: Simon Stephens Producers: Stuart Thompson, Tim Levy for NT America, Warner Bros. Theatre...

‘Wolf Hall’ at The Winter Garden Theatre in New York City

Hillary Mantel is a novelist, dramatist and critic whose best known works are her two novels about the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell. The play Wolf Hall is the collective title of two long plays...

‘The Addams Family’ at West Potomac High School

Feeling Trapped? Move Towards the Darkness and go out to see The Addams Family at West Potomac High School. Entering the theater, the audience is greeted by the gate to the Addams Family estate – a...

‘Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival’ at Wolf Trap

There was a lovefest last night at Wolf Trap with the traveling Hawaiian Slack Guitar performance in front of a full-house of aficionados many of whom could sing along in Hawaiian due to their...

‘Dr. Zhivago’ at The Broadway Theatre in New York City

This will be a short review because I have respect for the creative team behind Doctor Zhivago, but disappointment in their relentlessly moving musical now at the Broadway Theatre. Boris Pasternak was...

Filichia on Friday: “Paris Makes Me Thorny” by Peter Filichia

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Paris Makes Me Thorny ______ Read Richard Seff’s...

‘Finding Neverland’ at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City

I suggest that producers, composers, writers, stars and others with lots of money earned from their work other than in theatre, those who have done no apprenticeship in theatre, who have never trained...

‘The King and I’ at The Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City

When all the elements fuse, when a director is clearly in charge and on the right track, it is such a pleasure to be out front watching everything come together, to make magic from first light to...

‘The Visit’ at The Lyceum in New York City

Full disclosure: I have known and loved Chita Rivera and her talent since we were virtually toddlers. I was then (we’re talking the early 1950s) a baby agent and she had just emerged from the choruses...

‘Living on Love’ at The Longacre Theatre in New York City

In the 1940s and ’50s summer theatres popped up all over the place, particularly in New England, where every other town boasted of one. Westport, Ct. had two; Hyannis, Falmouth, Dennis, all on Cape...

‘Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye – The Farewell Tour’ at National Theatre by Jordan Wright

A fresh breeze blew into town last night and she was wearing rhinestone-encrusted cat eye glasses out to there, and a hot pink fringe gown glittering with Swarovski crystals. Yes, you guessed it – –...

An Interview with Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey

The Burlesque scene in DC and Baltimore is now a pretty vibrant one but once upon a time, about a baker’s dozen years ago, it was the landscape, and not the folks on stage, that was bare. Then a...

The Soul Crackers at The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club

33 years after they began, The Soul Crackers deliver tight, in-the-pocket covers from all-star soul, Motown and 70’s Funk bands. For over three hours, the band drove from one song directly to the...

‘Side by Side by Sondheim’ at Vagabond Players

Some of Broadway’s biggest hits have merged into one show and found their way to Baltimore, occupying our own South Broadway in Fells Point. Side by Side by Sondheim is a musical revue featuring the...

The National Theatre Announces its ‘Broadway at the National’ 2015-2016 Lineup

Broadway At The National 2015-16 Features Washington Premieres Of Motown The Musical, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, And The Wizard Of Oz, Featuring New Songs By Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber...

Take The Stage Performance Company Presents Broadway Revue Showcase ‘Loud and Clear’ May 1-3 at Rockville JCC by Elizabeth Gensler

Take The Stage Performance Company is proud to announce their second annual Broadway Revue Showcase Loud and Clear. Last year’s inaugural season was such a success that this coveted group of...

Filichia on Friday: ‘Gigi’s New Gig’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Gigi’s New Gig ______ Recent ‘Filichia on Friday’...

‘An American in Paris’ at The Palace Theatre in New York City

“Fresh as paint” kept buzzing through my head as I sat, enthralled, as this latest “new musical based on a famous film” sang and danced its way across the boards of the famous Palace Theatre. Soon I...

‘Candice Bergen In Conversation with Madhulika Sikka’ at Sixth and I Synagogue

Candice Bergen is strongly linked to her famous character Murphy Brown. After Madhulika Sikka, the Executive Editor for NPR News, interviewed her Monday night, the similarities between the character...

‘It Shoulda Been You’ at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City

If you leave your sense of disbelief checked in the cloak room at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, you might just have a fun time as you watch this marriage romp unwind, filled with twists and...

‘Old Wicked Songs’ at 1st Stage

Occasionally, a show blows me away and I want to grab the arm of people walking by on the street and steer them to the production. “Come. Join in experiencing this beautiful piece of art.” This is the...

‘Drunkle Vanya’ at LiveArtDC

When I arrived to see Drunkle Vanya last night, the first thing I did was order a vodka. I don’t typically drink before I review, but in this circumstance it seemed part of my job, since the show was...

‘Skylight’ at The Golden Theatre in New York City

For those of you who love live theatre enough to cherish the teamwork of two major acting talents, Skylight by David Hare should motivate you to book yourself a seat this spring, for the run is...

‘Gigi’ at The Neil Simon Theatre in New York City

The current stage revival on Broadway of Lerner and Loewe’s film Gigi is lovely to look at. It’s filled with principal performers in supporting roles, who have played leads on Broadway, and for those...

“What, Mr. Todd, What is that Sound?” Arranging The Prog Metal Version of ‘Sweeney Todd’: Part Two: Andrew Lloyd Baughman

It has been over a year since Stephen Sondheim gave DC’s Landless Theatre Company unprecedented permission to create a Prog Metal orchestration of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The...

DCMTA Scene Stealers-Week Ending March 31, 2015 Part 2

Here is Part 2 of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Scene Stealers ending March 31, 2015. Congrats to our honorees! ______ Charles Edwards as Charles in a Ghostly Encounter he National Theatre “Not even Angela...

‘Wicked’ at Hippodrome Theatre at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center

Have you ever wondered what happened before Dorothy’s arrival in the Land of Oz in the classic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz? How did the Wicked Witch become so wicked? How did the Good Witch become so...

‘Filichia on Friday’: ‘If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion …’

It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion … ______...

Audra McDonald at the Music Center at Strathmore

The amazing vocal talent of Audra McDonald was a like a breath of the most enchanting spring air and perhaps the first real sign of spring in the DC area as Audra sang from the “Great American Song...

‘Hairspray’ at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

If you like big and beautiful Broadway musicals with colorful costumes and sets, and a double-dose of talented performers, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s production of the Tony-award-winning...

Barbara Cook Spotlight Series: ‘Malcolm Gets: Come A Little Closer’ at The Kennedy Center

Malcolm Gets is one of the most underrated stars in musical theater today. Fortunately, he got a well-deserved chance to display his exceptional talents during his solo cabaret show, Come a Little...

‘Big Fish’ at Act Two @ Levine

Big Fish is a production of the Pre-Professional Program at the Act Two @ Levine, derived and adapted from the Broadway production with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by John August....

Introducing September Song Musical Theatre by Allen Cross

About September Song Musical Theatre September Song Musical Theatre (SSMT) has organized and performed a Broadway musical for the past 41 years. Founded by two educators, Arnie Hayes and Robert “Doc”...

‘Paint Your Wagon’ at City Center’s Encores

I’m sending you this note on the City Center’s staged reading of Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon even though its brief 6 performances scheduled ended earlier today. I was at yesterday’s matinee...