During the corona virus pandemic, when theatres around the world were closed, the Capitol Hill-based theatre troupe, We Happy Few, hit upon a unique idea: to present audio versions of classi…
"The Elixir of Love" is one of the funnier operas you will see among the classic opera repertoires. The presentation of it by students at the Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art at Catholic…
Lady Rosalinda (Christa Beveridge) lounges on an elegant divan in a dress of jacquard satin and cuffs of embroidered organza. Rare viands are at her table, and the parrot above her is like a…
"Long and tenderly he gazed at it, with unspeakable love. At last, he felt that he must go a little nearer to it…" We quote but speak not of the "The Blue Flower," but of another of Henry …
"Miracle on 34th Street," celebrating as it does Christmas and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade which precedes it, is a perennially popular, holiday film. In the early 1960s, Meredith Will…
Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is currently being performed by Bel Cantanti Opera. The one-act opera is in the tradition of many a work based on the fictionalized accoun…
"The Sound of Music" recently delighted audiences at Catholic University of America's Hartke Theatre in a production directed superbly by Tracy Lynn Oliviera. Students from the university's …
 The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention at first presents a panoply of opportunity for the connoisseur of yesteryear"symposiums (histories of Wonder Woman and Captain Midnight); vintage f…
"Guys and Dolls" is a popular musical based on several stories by Damon Runyan, a writer enormously popular in the first half of the twentieth century for his comic tales of gangsters, gambl…
Bel Cantanti Opera was very active producing operas last season and is preparing an ambitious new season as well. Even in the summer, it seems the Montgomery County-based opera company does …
In the Hollywood-musical-turned-Broadway show "42nd Street," Peggy Sawyer, a young girl from Allentown, PA, dreams of being in a New York Broadway show in the theatre district of 42nd Street…
 Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) is famous for producing a full spectrum of comic operas, some of them little performed and less widely known. Such is not the case with the "H.M.S. …
During the 1930s and 1940s, there were the famous Battles of the Bands. In these jazz performances, two swing bands would set up in the same ballroom and play rotating sets. Such a battle of…
 "Elvis: A Musical Revolution" takes its audience on a nostalgic road trip (we like to imagine in a pink Cadillac) back to the 1950s. Staged at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster, P…
The academic year is winding down at area universities, but before the summer break begins, Catholic University of America presented their production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy,…
 Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, VA is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. It is including some very special shows this year, including the current prod…
 Last weekend, Catholic University of America's Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art produced a Baroque opera, Handel's "Serse," in a way which made it highly accessible to a modern audi…
"The King's daughter shall in her fifteenth year prick herself with a spindle and fall down dead." Thus reads a frightening line in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of "Little Briar Rose" or "S…
Fans of "Sister Act" will be delighted to know that Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre has brought the musical version of the film to stage in Lancaster, PA. It is based on the 1992 film of the same…
It is in Louisiana, just prior to the French Revolution, where we meet the nobleman Robert Mission who is himself on a "mission" to start a new life and a new society of a quality, fraternit…
"It is a far greater pleasure to repay injustices suffered by good deeds than to compensate evil by more evil." Thus speaks the voice of Enlightenment reason in Mozart's "The Abduction from …
"New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians" was a long-standing hotel, radio, and television tradition for large swaths of the American public for some fifty years. The smooth…
The story of "Peter and the Wolf ""Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's program music fairy tale introducing instruments of the orchestra for children"is told effectively by the Puppet Co. wi…
"Post Christmas" is how the Mutual Audio Network describes its January offering of a dramatized version of O. Henry's classic Christmas tale, "The Gift of the Magi." This story is a very fam…
This holiday season we were presented with a unique take on "A Visit from St. Nicholas." The classic Christmas poem by Clement C. Moore is the new audio drama by Sole Twin Audios called, not…