It is the rare musical that isn't transmogrified from some other plane of existence. It is not simply a matter of finding inspiration or stories to tell. Given how mind-bogglingly expensive …
When the would-be magician does tricks, weird and wonderful things happen.
The comedy about a cross-country journey is written, directed, designed, acted, and crewed almost entirely by women.
It's like a trip back in time and the young audience loves it.
Arts on the Green and Montgomery Playhouse stage a head-scratchingly absurd musical entertainment, but the cast has a good time with it.
On a perfect summer evening, Tony winners and local favorites star in Signature Theater and Wolf Trap's third annual concert collaboration.
A confection of acceptance and a rocking good time.
A lively revamp with social awareness, feminism, humor, and beautiful voices.
News got you nervous? Quaking over coronavirus? Morose about the stock market? Fed up with the Fed? Sick of the swamp? And yet, do you fear if you take your mind off it all for a second, thi…
Filled to bursting with Warrior Girls, Lost Boys, dastardly Pirates from tiny to extra-large, and flying children, Theatre@CBT's Peter Pan is a treat from start to finish. Director Kevin …
Given that so many plays and films these days are based on, drawn from or inspired by each other, it is worth examining the differences between these media and the treatments they require. T…
Ah, yes, it's that most wonderful time of the year: The tingle of frozen breath on the air, the sparkle of lights on the trees, the warmth of spiced cider, and the sublime silliness of Panto…
Plaza Suite, this is not. In fact, it is about as different as a play can be that shares the same premise: short vignettes about the different people who occupy the same room in, as one char…
Ah, an evening of cabaret in an intimate venue in the swanky Pike and Rose complex. Elegant artists dressed to the nines singing and playing sophisticated classics from the Great American So…
When the audience enters the performance space at Joe's Movement Emporium, they are confronted by three women in period clothing (costumes designed by Julie Cray Leong, assisted by Kyla Carn…
Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2013, is a comedy about neurotic, middle-aged, well-off white people whining about thei…
To transmogrify Seuss, What a difficult task! Just how do they do it? And well might you ask! This master of mayhem Who leaps from the page, How could he possibly be Put on the stage? In dra…
It's June, a time for anniversaries, celebrations and commemorations. Where can you simultaneously look back with fond nostalgia at British pluck and cheek, and party for Pride month? How ab…
The question when reviving a classic musical is always how much to preserve and how much to adapt. Audiences can often have fond memories of famous original productions, but times change, an…
As much as modern culture claims to worship novelty, innovation and even disruption, there is a lot to be said for the tried and true. From an imaginative rendition of a beloved Shakespeare …
Silver Spring Stage is known for producing professional-level community theater, garnering more WATCH nominations and awards than any other company in Maryland. The Obie-award winner Appropr…
Farce is a classic form of comedy, based on ludicrous characters, silly situations, mistaken identities, sex, slapstick, and many slamming doors. After centuries of development (refinement w…
Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Pride and Prejudice is an impeccable dance, an elegant minuet from start to finish. Every element works gracefully with every other, producing a pleasing, …
Noises Off is the Mount Everest of farce. Numerous critics have called Michael Frayn's 1982 masterwork the greatest farce ever written, and its second act may well be the most difficult to p…
Heathers: the Musical is an intense roller-coaster of a show, careening from biting satire and dark comedy to touching and intense emotion to hope. In the 2013 Off-Broadway debut, based on t…