39 stories by "Kaley Beins"
The music started and actors walked onstage to harmonize with the lead as they twirled her around in a cabin set-piece. As the opening number continued I thought, "Oh this must be a play wit…
"Looks like our silence continues to speak, shout, and roar!" Director Paata Tsikurishvili finished his introduction"the last words spoken onstage for the rest of the evening. Red and gold d…
Cobblestones. Train tracks. Sewer grates. Each of the exits of Arena's round stage featured a different piece of street life in London. The catwalks below the lighting formed an X and were d…
Searching for a modern American political play, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of New York's Public Theater, asked Richard Nelson to write him a grandiose drama. Instead, Nelson created a s…
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to T and 14th? Until November 22nd, Source Theatre in NW D.C. will be hosting Constellation Theatre Company's Avenue Q, a coming-of-age story featuring…
Whiskey. Digestive biscuits. Cadbury chocolate. Everything's better with an Irish accent. Even distasteful jokes and murder. In The Dealer of Ballynafeigh momma's boy paramilitary Billy (Pet…
We walked down rickety paint splattered stairs into a tiny blackbox theatre. Six lengths of white fabric hung across the middle of the stage with Warhol-esque silhouettes blinking across the…
"Lord, the fire is now in the hands of a woman!" What if one of the most well known biblical tales only told half the story? "You don't remember me"the girl you left for dead." What if one o…
If Sweeney Todd took place in a greenhouse in Brooklyn it would be Little Shop of Horrors. As The Arlington Players cast of Little Shop sang songs like "Feed Me" and "Suppertime," I found my…
"Our fractured portrait [of Queen Elizabeth I] is like that caught for a moment by a kaleidoscope, not a camera; more in common with Picasso's portraits than of any kind of naturalism…" wr…
Since 2001, performers 18 and younger could hone their skills with the Children's Playhouse of Maryland (CPM), performing in well-known shows like Les Mis, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cats, an…
A sultry voice comes over the loudspeaker, interrupting the jazz and swing that had been playing for the last ten minutes. The disembodied announcer asks the audience to silence their new-fa…
The band walked out in period clothing: 1940s suspenders, high-waisted pants, and scoop-neck collars. They settled on stage right in plain view of the audience at NextStop Theatre Company's …
"Don't we go to plays for passions we don't get in life?" "I thought we were supposed to go to life for passions we don't get in life." So continues the dialogue in Silver Spring Stage's Ven…
