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Straight No Chaser at Wolf Trap by Jessica Vaughan

Jessica Vaughan 2013-07-01

Straight No Chaser, the 10-man a cappella phenomenon, put on a great show of top forty hits, enduring classics and crowd favorites on a steamy night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. They rose to...

‘Frozen Planet In Concert’ at Wolf Trap by Erica Laxson

Erica Laxson 2013-07-01

Frozen Planet in Concert is a High Definition Arctic adventure brought to new life with live orchestration performed by Washington’s own talented NSO. Explore a vivid and unbelievably close up look at...

DC Area’s T. Scott Ross, Greg Bosworth, and Carrie A. Johnson on Appearing in ‘Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story’ at Wolf Trap on July 2nd & 3rd

Joel Markowitz 2013-07-01

Three local actors are in the cast of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story which stops at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center tomorrow and Wednesday night. I asked T. Scott Ross, Greg Bosworth, and Carrie A. Johnson...

Edward Staudenmayer on Playing Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in ‘Anything Goes’ by Joel Markowitz

Joel Markowitz 2013-07-01

It didn’t surprise me when Edward Staudenmayer stopped the show with his outrageous performance of “The Gypsy in Me” (with Rachel York) in Anything Goes at The Kennedy Center. I have been a big fan of...

‘Red Herring’ at Silver Spring Stage by Jessica Vaughan

Jessica Vaughan 2013-06-30

Silver Spring Stage puts on a 1950’s screwball comedy murder mystery, espionage, romance – about communists and a whole lot of fish in Red Herring to close out their 2013 season. It’s a sweet and...

‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ at Imagination Stage by Julia L. Exline

Julia Amis 2013-06-30

Imagination Stage presents Peter Pan and Wendy, a musical adaptation of a longtime family favorite by Alyn Cardarelli and Steve Goers. Kathryn Chase Bryer directs this hilarious and enthralling...

2013 Capital Fringe Preview: ‘Thank You for Staring’ by Patrice Gerideau

Guest Author 2013-06-30

You are so Ugly… Can you imagine hearing those words everyday of your life? I can. In my twenties, I developed a skin condition, vitiligo, which caused me to lose pigment on the right side of my face....

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘How to Have it All: The Musical ’ by Jessica North Macie

Guest Author 2013-06-30

Alumni of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts return to the Fringe stage for the fifth straight year, now with a new company name and a brand new musical. Fully Charged Productions debuts How...

‘Ass Chronicles’ at DC Black Theatre Festival by Yvonne French

Yvonne French 2013-06-30

Ass Chronicles is a booty call and a call to booty power. Playwright Empress Joyner was inspired by The Vagina Monologues, for which she was cast in New York. Her own play starts with ‘Musical...

Landless Theatre Company’s Third Annual Mashup Festival: ‘Re-Animated Edition’ by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-29

Landless Theatre Company’s Third Annual Mashup Festival brought two teams of super creative genius together to form one long running festival of hilarity and hysterics, combining the most unlikely...

The Temptations at Wolf Trap by Anne Tsang

Anne Tsang 2013-06-29

Just like in The Temptations song “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” I sure did love the way the Temptations and The Four Tops did the things they do last night at the Filene Center at Wolftrap. The...

Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performance Set for ‘One Night with Janice Joplin’ at Arena Stage by Yvonne French

Yvonne French 2013-06-29

The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc., announced that it will provide audio description of One Night with Janis Joplin, back by popular demand after opening last fall. One Night with Janis Joplin is...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘heady collectables’ by Nicole A. Martinell

Guest Author 2013-06-28

heady collectables is sure to thrill this year’s Capital Fringe goers, as zany dancers bob, float and dart about the stage. This clever representation of American ‘head-slang’ is a fun hour-long...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Kiersten Dittrich

Guest Author 2013-06-28

This year, We Happy Few Productions tackles the perennially-staged ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare at the Capital Fringe Festival. In 2013, which seems like the year of ROMEO AND JULIETs, why...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Godiva Dates & One Night Stands’ by Matthew Ripa

Guest Author 2013-06-28

DOORWAY ARTS ENSEMBLE AND REGIE CABICO PREMIERE HIS NEW SOLO SHOW: GODIVA DATES & ONE NIGHT STANDS AT CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Godiva Dates & One Night Stands is a tour de force of poetic virtuosity &...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories’ by Noa Baum

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Acclaimed Storyteller Noa Baum shares delicious Israeli stories never seen on the news, in her Capital Fringe debut of: Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories. Impossible To...

2013 Capital Fringe Festival Show Preview: ‘The Young Wife’ by K. Brochocka

Guest Author 2013-06-28

A rare one-woman opera crosses the Atlantic Not yet twenty years old, a sheltered girl named Gabriela was forced to marry a greedy lieutenant who only valued her for her dowry. She was miserable and...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Four Women’ by Clarissa McKithen

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Four Women is not a performance, but a journey. Not a performance, but an experience into the multiple dimensions of black womanhood. This production was inspired by Nina Simone’s song with the same...

‘Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration Featuring Warren Haynes’ at Wolf Trap by Mike Spain

Mike Spain 2013-06-27

Warren Haynes made his first visit to Wolf Trap a memorable one as the featured artist in the National Symphony Orchestra’s Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. His blazing guitar and soulful voice cut...

‘Counting Crows and The Wallflowers’ at Wolf Trap by Anne Tsang

Anne Tsang 2013-06-27

It was a scorcher last night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap…and I’m not just referring to the heat. Counting Crows and The Wallflowers put on a hot, hot, hot show! The night started off with a...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘McPherson Madness’ by Kelly Canavan

Guest Author 2013-06-27

McPherson Madness is what happens when revolution hits family, friendships, and romance head-on in a freezing tarp-tropolis on K Street, in in Washington, DC In February 2012, activist and playwright...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ’43 and a ½: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies’ by Emily Crockett and Sun King Davis

Guest Author 2013-06-27

“Exeunt!” It’s a fancy Shakespearean word that means nothing fancier than “everybody leaves.” Yet it brings to mind flourishing capes, actors strutting dramatically into the wings, and velvet curtains...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Polaroid Stories’ by Lauren R. Alexander

Guest Author 2013-06-27

A fucked up love story for a Fringe Festival premiere. After a wildly successful production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories at American University in November 2012, Blind Pug Arts Collective picked...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever!’ by Vanessa Strickland

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Debuting in DC this summer, The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever! (aka “YO“) is an all-ages musical with a story rooted in Greek mythology. Drawing inspiration from pop...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘H Street Housewives’ by Jenny Splitter

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Chickens in the backyard. Flame wars on the mommy listserv. Slutty househusbands and a plot to change H Street forever. H Street Housewives is the story of four housewives – the homeschooling...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera’ by David Dudley and Dave Israel

Guest Author 2013-06-26

Experience the epic rock splendor of the battle that birthed our National Anthem Forget White House Down. This summer’s most thrilling spectacle of executive-mansion destruction is the one about the...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Apples & Oranges’ by Tim Chamberlain

Guest Author 2013-06-26

Rex and Dana have a problem – each other. Apples & Oranges by Jessica Willoughby Apples & Oranges is a play about a married couple with issues. Well, actually Rex doesn’t think so and that is one of...

‘Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat’ at Adventure Theatre MTC by Julia L. Exline

Julia Amis 2013-06-25

Adventure Theatre MTC presents one of the best known works of Dr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat. Adapted for the stage and originally directed by Katie Mitchell, Director Karin Abromaitis throws her own hat...

Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers Featuring Edie Brickell at Wolf Trap by Teal Ruland

Teal Ruland 2013-06-25

Steve Martin, actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, and musician (take your pick of his many skills), has been strumming, plucking, and picking the banjo for over 45 years.The now 67-year-old...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Chronic Single’s Handbook’ by Randy Ross

Guest Author 2013-06-25

The Chronic Single’s Handbook, an original comedy by Randy Ross, is about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world looking for the woman of his dreams. It’s a male spin on Eat,...

‘The 49th Annual Music Hall’ at The British Players by Francine Schwartz

Francine Schwartz 2013-06-25

On Saturday, June 23, 2013, I enjoyed a rousing good time at The British Players‘ Music Hall, the 49th anniversary of a popular event frequented by expatriates and former inhabitants of the British...

Composer George Fenton on ‘Frozen Planet’ at The NSO at Wolf Trap This Friday at 8:30 PM

Joel Markowitz 2013-06-25

This Friday, June 28th at 8:30 PM. Frozen Planet in Concert will turn The Filene Center at Wolf Trap into a wonderland of gorgeous images and sounds of The Arctic Circle. Composer George Fenton will...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Madam Ambassador’ by Duke Ryan

Guest Author 2013-06-25

Madam Ambassador is a comedy of serious intent, but a comedy nonetheless. What I really want people to do is enjoy watching the conniving of Valerie Butts, bored senseless in a prairie town and...

‘An Evening with Bill Payne’ at The Birchmere by Mike Spain

Mike Spain 2013-06-24

Bill Payne started out his show Sunday night stating he was going to play the show like he was in his “living room.” It fit the crowd perfectly that consisted of long-time fans, friends, and even an...

‘Angel Street’ at Olney Theatre Center by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-24

A delightfully twisted suspenseful drama lights up the stage at Olney Theatre Center this summer as they present the classic Victorian thriller Angel Street. Directed by John Going, this sharply...

‘Caesar and Dada’ at WSC Avant Bard by Terry Byrne

Terry Byrne 2013-06-24

“Shakespeare does not need your help,” barks Franz, the jaded, tyrannical director character in WSC Avant Bard’s world premiere of Caesar and Dada. The irony is that repackaging the bard’s trunkful of...

2013 Capital Fringe Festival ‘Rosemary with Ginger’ by Shawna Leonard

Guest Author 2013-06-24

Rosemary with Ginger will spice up the stage at Capital Fringe Festival! Edward Allan Baker’s one-act play, Rosemary with Ginger, raises many questions about the nature of family devotion. How much is...

‘Man of La Mancha’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater by Julia L. Exline

Julia Amis 2013-06-24

Aldersgate Church Community Theater presents Man of La Mancha, a Tony Award-winning musical version of Miguel de Cervantes’ beloved classic Don Quixote. With Book by Dale Wasserman, Lyrics by Joe...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Sanka, Ya Dead Mon’ by Philip Dallmann

Guest Author 2013-06-24

Sanka, Ya Dead Mon is the story of Ben. Ben was an artist who never got to the point of struggling. Giving up his passion of music he followed his heart to Albany to one day marry the woman of his...

‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater by Max Johnson

Max Johnson 2013-06-24

I came into One Night with Janis Joplin asking one major question: how will a production presented as “more of a full on concert than a play” by Artistic Director Molly Smith translate into an...

It’s a Done Deal! ‘The Andrew Keegan Theatre’ Arrives as The Keegan Theatre Purchases Church Street Theater! by Jeff Klein

Guest Author 2013-06-23

THE KEEGAN THEATRE ANNOUNCES PURCHASE OF CHURCH STREET THEATER The Keegan Theatre has closed on the purchase of the Church Street Theater in Washington, DC. The theater, located at 1742 Church Street...