CENTERSTAGE

‘Mary Poppins’ Flies Into Reston CenterStage This Friday, February 19th through March 12th

Mary Poppins will be flying into Reston CenterStage February 19-March 12, 2016 as the Reston Community Players present the seven-time Tony Award nominated musical. Mary Poppins combines the charm of...

Review: ‘As You Like It’ at Centerstage

Embarking on a $32 million, year-long renovation project that features major renovations to Centerstage’s two-stage complex while adding a new 99-seat theater, the last two shows of its season are...

‘X’s and O’s’ at Centerstage

Testing the theory that anything critically examined from multiple perspectives will spark conflict, Centerstage’s latest production, X’s and O’s, theatrically highlights America’s love affair with...

‘The Secret Garden’ at Center Stage

When I was a child, I read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, The Secret Garden. Like many other children my age, I relished the loveliness of the story and wished for a garden of my own....

In the Moment: Stephen Lang on Performing in ‘Beyond Glory’ on 11/10@8pm at Reston Community Center

There are many ways to commemorate Veteran’s Day and the over 21 million veterans of military service. Attending a live theater performance about Medal of Honor recipients is certainly one way to...

‘Pride and Prejudice’ at Centerstage

Jane Austen’s mastery of manners and morals was on luxurious display in Centerstage’s world-premiere production of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice, the first show of its 2015/16 Season....

‘Marley’ at Centerstage

Director/Book writer Kwame Kwei-Armah showcases the three most productive years of Bob Marley’s career (1975-78) in a jukebox musical experience nearly as electric as the legend and his Wailers...

‘4000 Miles’ at Centerstage

Sometimes, odd couples make the perfect pairings, such is the case in Amy Herzog’s Obie Award-winning play 4000 Miles (finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Time Magazine ‘s #1 Play or...

‘After the Revolution’ at Centerstage

Introducing its wide-ranging audience members to the work of a talented young playwright on the rise, Baltimore’s Centerstage premiered the “Amy Herzog Festival”: the first time Herzog’s After the...

‘Rent’ at Montgomery College

Director David Gram has handed his audiences quite a treat with this faithful adaptation of the ground-breaking Jonathan Larson musical. Working with Music Director Jonathan Tuzman and Choreographer...

‘One Night in Miami…’ at CENTERSTAGE

Playwright Kemp Powers takes a haphazard historical happening, a meeting between civil-rights leader Malcolm X, Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown, singer-songwriter Sam Cooke and newly-crowned...

‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ at CENTERSTAGE

Following its successful runs of the epic play Amadeus and the rock musical Next to Normal, CENTERSTAGE lines up a fantastic family rendering of Frank Capra’s beloved holiday classic film, It’s a...

‘Next to Normal’ at CENTERSTAGE

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....

‘Amadeus’ at CENTERSTAGE

Under the visionary leadership and cultivation of Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, CENTERSTAGE kicks off its 2014/15 season in high gear with an epic new revival of Peter Shaffer’s Tony...

‘The Complete History of America (abridged)’ at Reduced Shakespeare Company at Reston Community Center

Is it possible that the bullet that killed JFK was also the one fired from the Lexington and Concord book depository, and took off in a white Ford Bronco? Or that the Bill of Rights was supposed to be...

In the Moment: Reduced Shakespeare Company Brings ‘Extravaganza’ to Reston Community Center’s CenterStage September 12-21st

The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) has been performing in the DC area for well over two decades, thanks to the folk at the Reston Community Center’s CenterStage and The Kennedy Center. Coming soon...

‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ at CENTERSTAGE

Quickly becoming a household name when it comes to quirky comedies, Christopher Durang’s latest Tony Award-Winning play hits CENTERSTAGE as they approach the end of their 2013/2014 season. Vanya and...

‘Twelfth Night’ at CENTERSTAGE

While not reinventing the wheel with one of the Bard’s more tried and true comedies, CENTERSTAGE’ Twelfth Night uses some intriguing approaches that rise to the surface in this production, directed by...

‘Stones in His Pockets’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

People don’t go to the movies to be depressed that’s what they have the theatre for, or so says Centerstage’s production of Stones in His Pockets; a darkly humored Irish comedy that will tickle your...

‘dance of the holy ghosts: a play on memory’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Their memories will be in your eyes. It’s a fickle thing, memory; the way it flits in and out of our minds, sometimes so clear it cuts like a knife and other times just a wisp of blurred images or...

‘Beneatha’s Place’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

As it turns out you still can’t live in a principle. The parallels are drawn here between Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-Winning play Clybourne Park and CENTERSTAGE’S Artistic Director Kwame...

‘Clybourne Park’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

You can’t live in a principle. It’s well and good in theory, but at the end of the day, it comes down to the reality of existence and how despite the passage of time some things never change....

‘Mud Blue Sky’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Tender compassion and wicked wit come to CENTERSTAGE as the world premier of Marisa Wegrzyn’s Mud Blue Sky rounds out the remainder of their 50th Anniversary Season. In this funny new play by Wegrzyn,...

‘The Mountaintop’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

The final moments of a man’s life can be profound and deep, especially when they are the final moments of one man who touched humanity in a deeply profound way, leaving his legacy to change the...

‘Bus Stop’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

March is sure coming in like a lion! Or so you’ll see as William Inge’s Bus Stop pulls into CENTERSTAGE for the holidays. Directed by David Schweizer, this charming story brings a blizzard to a little...

‘The Completely Fictional-Utterly True-Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Once upon a midnight dreary there came a production that spoke quite clearly of a haunted poet whose tale is known forever more; the madness of a man quite clearly haunted by his ending nearly,...

‘An Enemy of the People’ at CENTERSTAGE by Amanda Gunther

Without power what good is the truth? To celebrate the opening of its 50th Anniversary Season, CENTERSTAGE presents Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Ibsen’s classic An Enemy of the People. Directed by...

‘The Whipping Man’ at Centerstage by Amanda Gunther

They say it’s the dark tales that start out on stormy nights and this story is no exception. Centerstage’s production of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Manis a chilling tale of justice and freedom come...

Erik Liberman on Playing The Baker in Centerstage’s ‘Into the Woods’ by Joel Markowitz

Erik Liberman has had a very busy year on and off the stage. When I heard he was going to play The Baker in Centerstage’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, I jumped on the opportunity...

‘Into The Woods’ at Centerstage by Amanda Gunther

Once upon a time the great Stephen Sondheim tried his pen at fairytales. Cinderella is on the run from the prince, Jack’s beanstalk adventures leave him cow-less, and Little Red Riding Hood is a...