2014

‘Ragtime’ at Arts Collective@HCC

The wheels are turning, the dream is burning; justice and love and a time where the music inspired the world to build a better hope for tomorrow. They call it Ragtime, and it’s on the stage for a...

‘Perfect Wedding’ at McLean Community Players

McLean Community Players continues its tradition of producing shows that most people have not heard of with aplomb. The area premiere of British playwright Robin Hawdon’s Perfect Wedding–an...

Filichia on Friday: The Outrageous Tony Snubs – of 1963-64 by Peter Filichia

Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This week: The...

‘Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)’ at Synetic Theater

Cultish musical enthusiasts have The Rocky Horror Show, movie-goers have Night of the Living Dead, 60’s rockers had The Grateful Dead, and literary enthusiasts have Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing...

‘Smokey Joe’s Café – The Songs of Leiber and Stoller’ at Arena Stage

Arena Stage is raising the roof with a rollicking journey through the golden age of rock, rhythm, and blues with Smokey Joe’s Café – The Songs of Leiber and Stoller. Director Randy Johnson,...

McLean Community Players’ ‘Perfect Wedding’ Ends Tomorrow Night

Perfect Wedding— McLean Community Players Presents: this British Farce/Romantic Comedy in McLean’s Alden Theatre Tomorrow night is the final performance of McLean Community Players (MCP) area premiere...

‘Nero/Pseudo’ at WSC Avant Bard at Fort Fringe

Celebrities are the new royalty; rock stars are the new idols. With bacchanalian excesses on both sides of the equation, is it any wonder that someone decided to make the comparison literal? In the...

A Report on The Concert Reading of ‘Yank! A New Musical’ at Rainbow Theatre Project

For it’s final play reading of the season, Rainbow Theatre Project delighted an SRO audience at Source on Monday night, May 4, 2014, with the off-Broadway hit Yank! A New Musical. Successfully...

The National Symphony Orchestra: ‘New Moves Symphony + Dance: From Schuman to Bernstein’

New Moves: symphony + dance delights both dance fans and music aficionados. Give a MacArthur “Genius” award to the person who came up with the idea to merge music and dance in the National Symphony...

NextStop Theatre Company Announces New Summer Cabaret Series With Broadway’s Sally Mayes and Karen Mason

NextStop Theatre Company announces Broadway headliners for their new Summer Cabaret Series Broadway veterans Karen Mason and Sally Mayes will be among the performers for six weeks of intimate concerts...

RAGTIME Opens Tonight and Plays Through May 18th at Arts Collective@HCC

Arts Collective @ Howard Community College presents the Monumental Tony Award-Winning Musical RAGTIME OPENS TONIGHT AND PLAYS THROUGH 18th Tonight- Howard Community College’s (HCC) Arts Collective...

‘Killer Joe’ Cast is Set For SeeNoSun OnStage Production

Killer Joe Cast is Set Sun King Davis to Play Title Role in Tracy Lettsʼ Play Actor Sun King Davis taking on the title role of Killer Joe Cooper in this gritty southern gothic black comedy. Killer Joe...

Save $25 on Tickets to ‘Blue Man Group’ For Thurs-Sunday at National Theatre

Save more than $25 on tickets to BLUE MAN GROUP! Use code: FAMILY and get tickets for $49.75 (regular price is $73-$78) Discounts available at all points of purchase for TONIGHT, Fri, Sat 9 pm, Sun...

SPINE: Theatre, Culture, and History in the Belly of the Beast: “THE ADMISSION: The Theatre of War and National Identity, Lovely or Otherwise”

I recently experienced Motti Lerner’s The Admission, Theatre J’s production remounted by Busboys & Poets at Studio Theatre (my review is here). The controversy that the play generated was surprising...

‘The Miser’ at Rockville Little Theatre

It is often difficult to engage modern audiences with classics like Moliere’s The Miser. However, Rockville Little Theatre’s production succeeds with its unique take. Originally performed in 1668,...

ENTER BY MIDNIGHT TO WIN 1 of 5 pairs of tix for WSC Avant Bard’s brand new, scorching hot glam rock musical NERO/PSEUDO, For TOMORROW NIGHT! 5/8@7:30 PM at Fort Fringe

WIN ONE OF 5 PAIRS OF TICKETS (10 TICKETS TOTAL) for WSC AVANT BARD’S BRAND NEW, SCORCHING HOT GLAM ROCK MUSICAL: NERO/PSEUDO FOR TOMORROW NIGHT-THURSDAY, 5/8 AT 7:30 PM AT FORT FRINGE-THE SHOP 607...

‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at Hippodrome Theatre

Glowing! Ringing! Flying! That can only mean one thing! Peter and the Starcatcher has landed at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre as a part of the Broadway Across America— CareFirst Hippodrome Broadway...

Meet The Director and Cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s ‘Les Misérables’ Part 4: Harrison Smith (Marius)

In Part 4 of our series of interviews with the director and cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s Les Misérables, meet Harrison Smith. Joel: Please introduce yourself and tell us who you play and where...

‘Blue Man Group’ at National Theatre

What do you get when you mix 10 gallons of blue paint, 360 pounds of Jell-O, 15 pounds of Cap’n Crunch cereal, 30 boxes of Twinkie Lights, 550 feet of PVC piping, and 40 drum heads? A theatrical...

‘Brother Hal’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

I was so impressed by Lumina Studio Theatre’s Brother Hal, adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry V by David Minton and Jamie Raskin, which was performed on Sunday, May 4th at Round House Theatre in Silver...

‘Boeing Boeing’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria

The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s latest production, Boeing Boeing, by French playwright Marc Camoletti with English translation by Beverley Cross, is marketed as “a non-stop comedy,” and after a...

‘The 39 Steps’ at Dignity Players

After nine years of excellent theatre, Dignity Players will be closing their doors, but they aren’t going out without a bang. Action! Excitement! Romance! Special Effects! Chases! Deception! Murder!...

Introducing QuackenSteele Theatre Company, LLC

INTRODUCING QUACKENSTEELE THEATRE COMPANY, LLC Contemporary. Compelling. Challenging. Those are the three C’s newly formed QUACKENSTEELE THEATRE COMPANY, LLC hopes to thrive by. Founded by Laura...

‘Shout! The Mod Musical’ at Creative Cauldron

I attended Shout! The Mod Musical braless. TMI? Well, Creative Cauldron invited us to dress like something out of the Sixties-Seventies, so there we were, women in our 50s and 60s, grooving to the...

‘The Admission’ at The Studio Theatre

In playwright Motti Lerner’s provocative and relevant play, The Admission, now playing at The Studio Theatre (as originally produced by Theater J), the question of when does the personal become the...

‘The Fantasticks’ at Rep Stage

Try to remember, four months before September when Rep Stage mounted The Fantasticks to close their season. A classic love fable springs to mind; the Music by Harvey Schmidt, the Book and Lyrics by...

Screening of Web Series Shot in DC Metro Area Screened at Anacostia Arts Center Tomorrow at 8 pm

Washington has long had a strong film community from over 70 annual festivals (including ROSEBUD which exclusively honors DC, Maryland and Virginia filmmakers) to professional networking organizations...

‘Woody Allen, Woody Allen’ at The Montgomery Playhouse

I am a huge Woody Allen fan and not just for his films. I’m a fan of his early plays and it was a treat to watch two talented casts having a blast yesterday performing two of his plays: Central Park...

‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ at West Potomac High School-Saturday, May 3, 2014 Matinee Cast

This is a review of the Saturday matinée cast of West Potomac High School’s production of Monty Python’s Spamalot, with the following changes in casting from ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ at West Potomac...

Montgomery Playhouse and Silver Spring Stage Win Awards at ESTA’s One Act Festival

The Eastern States Theater Association (ESTA) One Act Festival was held May 2-4, 2014 in Ridley Park, PA. One act plays representing New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland competed for top...

Tonight at 7:30 PM at Source: Concert Reading of Off-Broadway Musical ‘Yank!’ at Rainbow Theatre Project

TONIGHT at 7:30 PM, The Rainbow Theatre Project presents the final installment of their inaugural season — a concert reading of the much-touted Off Broadway musical YANK! by brothers David and Joseph...

‘The Magic Flute’ at Washington National Opera

Brightness and color abounded in the Kennedy Center Opera Hall on Saturday night as the Washington National Opera debuted its second-to-last show of the season: Mozart’s The Magic Flute, in a truly...

‘Pinocchio’ at The Puppet Co.

The Puppet Co. presents Pinocchio, the classic story of a wooden puppet’s adventurous quest to become a real, live boy! Directed by Allan Stevens, this production is adapted from Carlo Collodi’s Book...

‘Into the Woods’ at NextStop Theatre Company

Happy Ever After: NextStop’s Innovative Into the Woods Gloriously Updates a Classic for a New Generation NextStop Theatre Company’s Into the Woods is a glorious reinterpretation of the Stephen...

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

When Spamalot director Kevin Kuchar delivered the ubiquitous pre-show curtain speech, he emphasized a focus on process over product that serves as the foundation for the Act Two @ Levine’s...

‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at Fairfax High School

You Deserve a Break Today We’ve all heard those jokes about the corporation. In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation, came out as “Pepsi will bring your...

‘Les Misérables’ at Kensington Arts Theatre

I dreamed a dream in time gone by that one of Broadway’s most moving stories came to the Kensington Arts Theatre. Life has made the dream I dreamed a reality as Les Misérables opens the end of the...

‘On the Wheels of a Dream’: Shayla Lowe and Jamar Brown on Playing Sarah and Coalhouse in ‘Ragtime’ at Arts Collective@HCC

They call it Ragtime, yes they do! Continuing on in the ‘On the Wheels of a Dream’ interview series, I’ve sat down with Shayla Lowe and Jamar Brown, playing Sarah and Coalhouse in the HCC Arts...

Molière’s ‘The Miser’ Continues Today at 2 PM and Through May 11th at Rockville Little Theatre at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre and Interview With Director Guillaume Tourniaire

Rockville Little Theatre’s 2013-14 season closes with Molière’s classic comedy The Miser, at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre through May 11th. There is a 2 PM matinee today. Produced by Nancy Blum and...

‘Amadeus’ at Fells Point Corner Theatre

I don’t believe it. Salieri. What does he cry? Salieri. We won’t believe it! Salieri! I know who started the tale. What a story! What a scandal! And the only way to discover the truth is to attend the...

‘4 Girls 4’ at The Music Center at Strathmore

For one night only, North Bethesda, MD., was Diva City. Four luminous songbirds swept in to The Music Center at Strathmore on Friday night to lead a largely snowbird audience on a mind-jog down memory...

‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ at Port City Playhouse

Blues for an Alabama Sky at Port City Playhouse: A Kiss to Build a Dream On: After the Harlem Renaissance The gifted and much admired Pearl Cleage is a poetic playwright. Her dialogue shines with wit,...

‘Living Out’ (‘Cama Afuera’) at GALA Hispanic Theatre

On a superficial level, the two women at the heart of Lisa Loomer’s elegantly crafted Living Out couldn’t be more different. Ana (Belén Oyola-Rebaza) is an undocumented nanny working to bring her...

Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Megan Hilty at The Kennedy Center

Stage, film, and television star, Megan Hilty wowed the audience at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater last night with an eclectic concert that proved that Hilty is the sort of striking talent that...

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

Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This week: April’s...

‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ at West Potomac High School

West Potomac High School’s production of the “lovingly ripped off from” the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the musical Monty Python’s Spamalot brings lotd of humor to the stage in a rousing...

‘Wayne McGregor Random Dance’ at The Kennedy Center

The curtain rises on a dark stage, lit only by torches held by four dancers at the four corners of the stage, surrounding two dancers prancing and weaving about in coordinated, syncopated step. One by...

Meet Ulla, Roger, and Franz of ‘The Producers’ at South County High School: Cara Bachman, Kyle McKnight, and Jack Gereski

South County High School opens its production of Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s Tony Award-winning musical The Producers tonight. The Producers concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich...

‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Dundalk Community Theatre

It’s a bonanza, it’s a mad extravaganza and it’s arrived at Dundalk Community Theatre to close out their season. With Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman and the Book by Harvey Fierstein, La Cage aux...

Alliance for New Music-Theatre Presents ‘The Václav Havel Project’ May 7-8,11,14-15 &18th

Alliance for New Music-Theatre Presents: The Václav Havel Project “Artful. Brilliant. Irreverent. Simple, yet genius. Everything – from the writing to the stage direction and the acting itself – is a...