65 stories by "Em Skow"
A quaint house at first glance is anything but when it is discovered that Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha are serving their guests something a little stronger than tea in Arsenic and Old Lace by J…
Kicked out of the band and facing eviction from "his" apartment, Dewey Finn questionably intercepts a substitute teacher assignment at a prestigious local academy to pay the rent. With no te…
With a heart as cold as the blustery winds blowing people in and out the door, An Irish Carol by Matthew J. Keenan finds David, a pub's miserly owner, confronted by guests of his past and gl…
A wedding singer spurned by love becomes unlikely friends with the waitress at the local banquet hall and, from dumping to dumpsters, finds that love might be worth another try. Celebrating …
Based on the novel by Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County finds Francesca, a World War Two war bride from Italy, living on a farm in Winterset, Iowa in 1965 with a husband …
Lightning has struck in the form of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) this past Saturday night. Taking on the epic, and challenging, rock opera, Director Jim H…
God is Dead and April is Getting Married: A show title that promises a lot and absolutely delivers. Written by A. A. Brenner, this Capital Fringe jewel opens with El (Anna Shafer) and Elliot…
We've all heard of the sage advice, "be careful what you wish for." But it should be doubly heeded when there's magic involved. In writer and director Craig Houk's Cold Rain, a spell to summ…
Who run the world? Painted ladies. And this year's Fringe production of the same name by Too Much Damn (TMD) Theater rode that point home, in more ways than one. Set in a nameless one-horse …
Cue the dramatic backdrops because the lights of Broadway were sparkling this past Sunday at the Kennedy Center in DC. Crackling with infectious energy, the newly launched LM/DC Tour with Le…
Let's be clear, Pericles is pretty much a first draft play that Shakespeare never quite finished. Now to be fair, the work is not wholly attributed to him, but with more than a few murderous…
In the second production of their 2017-2018 season, UrbanArias brings the world premiere of Florida to the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Based partly on true events, Florida follows the 16-y…
Celebrating 10 years since taking Broadway by storm with its exploration of New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, In the Heights, directed by Stephanie Klemons, takes the stage at…
Things are getting a little wacky with the McLean Community Players these days, and this time it's in the form of Harvey by Mary Chase. This challenging and earnest production"directed by El…
Ever wonder what would happen if you took theater, literature, linguistics, and film, put them into a blender, and then wrote a collection of witty comedic scenes with the reference puree th…
The Romantic Violin for Two by the National Chamber Ensemble was a tour of the different types of love, the sorrows and joys love brings, and most importantly the power it possesses to move …
With one two-act-long scene, eight loudly slamming doors, and countless head-over-heels tumbles, Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade Smith makes its hilarious D.C. premiere at the Keegan Theatre…
The twelve little girls in two straight lines of Ludwig Bemelmans' beloved children's series have taken the stage this holiday season in Creative Cauldron's Madeline's Christmas. With book a…
Living in the modern world, we are constantly the bystander to, or observer of, the life events of others. Be they consequential and indelible, or fleeting and forgettable, these seemingly d…
Can an artist be true to his art as well as to his promises? Is destruction the price of creation? These are the questions at the heart of Shining Brow"music by Daron Hagen; liberetto by Pau…
It's rare that a play allows for a more distanced view than that of its cinematic counterpart, but in the case of the Little Theatre of Alexandria's production of Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred …
A high school teacher of mine used to say that there are two universal languages in the world. One is math; the other is music. Simply stated at the time, its message has echoed through my l…
In an ambitious undertaking by Red Knight Productions, Medieval Story Man takes you on a quest with elf-boy Todd and his rag-tag group of companions to save Medieval Story Land from the Dark…
If you've never been to a storytelling show before, hold on to your hats. Perfect Liars Club"directed loosely and hilariously by Cara Foran & Pierce McManus for the 2016 Capital Fringe F…
Easily one of most under-rated musicals to come out of Broadway in the last 20 years, Ragtime: The Musical"with book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahr…
