Lumina Studio Theatre is an acting and performance school designed to give kids ages 6-18 enthusiasm for, and experience with, classic drama, especially Shakespeare. Clearly, its primary goa…
All theater-going society is acquainted with "The Importance of Being Earnest" by British wit and aesthete Oscar Wilde, perhaps the finest and funniest comedy of manners ever written. But fe…
"Shrek the Musical"Â is a rip-roaring, crowd-pleasing blast. The show, with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Tony winner for "Kimbery Akimbo") and music by Jeanne Tesori (Tony win…
"The Bravado: A More Humane Mikado in Concert," Victorian Lyric Opera Company's (VLOC) clever reimagining of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic comic operetta, thoroughly delights. Although it…
"Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" has reason to be proud. Every "jukebox musical" (one scored with well-known popular hits by established musicians, rather than origin…
"Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" is based on the life of groundbreaking artist, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and her relationship with the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette. The DC area premi…
The Lamentable Comedie ofJANE ANGER,that Cunning Woman,and also of Willy Shakespeareand his Peasant Companion,Francis,Yes and Also ofAnne Hathaway (also a Woman)Who Tried Very Hard This is a…
The Paul Taylor Dance Company came to the Kennedy Center to celebrate 70 years of presenting innovative, modern dance. The program featured two of Taylor's own 147 dance compositions, "Arden…
We must never forget. But what if forgetting is the only way to survive? That is the question that looms over Diane Samuels's 1993 play, "Kindertransport," about the suffering wrought on two…
The uniformly excellent voices ring out powerfully in the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. By JENNIFER GEORGIA
It's not a fully staged show, with all the intimate, raw emotions of the original, but Jonathan Larson's masterpiece endures and lifts the heart.
Few shows are genuinely not to be missed. 'The Lion King' is one of them.
The dialogue is sharp, witty, and rich, and the actors did their best, with varied results.
A psychological whodunnit for fans of the Agatha Christie style of writing.
It's a rich and nostalgic production, but Bartlett Sher's revival brings us squarely into the present.
In between the comedy and conflict, a sense of communal love and compassion weaves through the show.
The Rude Mechanicals reset this classic Restoration comedy as a sitcom in the 1970s, the decade that taste forgot " and it works.
It takes smart, talented actors to make Tom Stoppard's comedy about chaos theory intelligible, and the cast here is up to the challenge.
If the cast and crew can pick up the pace, the show will be a sweet little diversion to welcome kids to the world of puppetry and live performance.
"You don't say!" "I do. I just did." This is the retort that ricochets through John Morogiello's In the Gutter like bullets from a Colt 45 " No, never mind. I'm not even going to try to imit…
The classic Moliere farce unfolds with the quick grace of a flower blooming in fast motion.
Portraits of church ladies and their hats brought to vivid life, with Gospel music, sass, and heart.
Two hours of loopy delight for the audience and a heaping helping of fun for the cast.
Even more than its spectacular staging and themes of good and evil that give it depth, what's best is the moving story it tells of female friendship.
The production warms with tradition and traces the origins of American holiday music to its Appalachian origins.