159 stories by "Kelly McCorkendale"
The elusive O-1 visa for individuals with extraordinary skills is a rare bird in the immigrant community, often going to big-name, A-list entertainers. Think Celine Dionne (Canadian) or John…
Becoming"a modern dance in nine segments about how the interactions of the human heart shape us"is filled with bare feet and beauty. It is a stunning concoction of ballet, acrobatics, and yo…
Nathan Duncan (Andrew Flurer) wants to tear down the system and build a better one (you know, "Damn the man" style). Instead, he's an-almost-lawyer-turned-dog-walker with a marijuana operati…
The Golden Smile is controlled, constructed chaos, a perfect orchestration of madness. It is terrifying and marvelous all at once.  Theatre of the absurd in a mental hospital. Seve…
How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman is a musical for the modern lady (or gent) that features great voices and really good acting. Jazelle (Kristina Brooks) is a sweet, good girl forever sentence…
Sure, soft animal. hideous heart it is a bit strange. A hodgepodge of dance, guitar, and storytelling, but it is completely engaging. And moving. Robin Neveu Brown and Kevin Alan Brown"new p…
I hate to say this, but I hated AS IT WERE and/or WHAT (ever) DOESN’T MATTER. The long, convoluted title should have tipped me off a week ago when scouring shows, but the description w…
Joseph Price has got a lot of guts"just standing on a stage and being himself while making you a part of his story. Color Theory: An interactive Game/Play is a thoroughly fun and enjoyable h…
Chalk opens amid chaos one Easter Sunday during a revolt that culminates in hangings and fires. In the middle of it all, palace guard Peter Sedovski (Jon Reynolds) places a cross around the …
Mountain Dew. Hulk Hogan. Stuffed crust pizza. These. These things make America great. At least according to The Second City. It's a sad list, but luckily the open secret here is that The Se…
Venus Theatre has a knack for finding new scripts that make you ache and ruminate all at once"appealing at once to emotion and intellect, deeply, endlessly. Garbage Kids, a tale of homele…
Sometimes less is more"like when only two actresses take the stage and expertly convey a complicated, yet relatable, relationship filled with both mutual admiration and envy"so I'll keep …
We all know that The Wizard of Oz is the story of a girl and her dog. And home. Right? So, does the 2011 musical, featuring new compositions and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, su…
The worst traffic in history, created by road construction and events, plagued a five-block radius within downtown Baltimore this past Saturday, causing even the cast of the Chesapeake…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre's original Oedipus Rox!"based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex"is filled with cosmic design and some rockin' operatic heights, but it's a tragicomedy that has difficulty f…
In 2004, Green Day was an amiable, if declining, punk rock band who's most recent hit had been a sentimental ballad called "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)". Their breakthrough album was a…
Listening to Benjamin Scheuer strum his acoustic guitar and recount his incredibly stirring life during his one-man show, The Lion, I could think of one word and one word only. Beautiful. Th…
The Flying V"always balls-to-the-wall and full of fun (pun intended, you'll read why in a few minutes)"has brought back its 2014 Capital Fringe award winning musical, You, or Whatever You Ca…
In a match that's Man versus Monster, how do you think humanity would fare? In Collaborators, the 2011 award winning play by John Hodge (a dramatist and screenwriter known for the films Trai…
The inspirations that ignited Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's mind are alive and perfectly shady in this world premiere musical. Where to begin when so much of this show begs for praise? Its m…
The problem with Women From Mars'Â Silent Reflections: A Clown-Noir Cabaret is that its two night run deprived many Washingtonians the joy of unleashing the veiled, inner feminist who long…
Adventure Theatre's holiday offering, A Lump of Coal for Christmas, is as sweet as it is warm and will leave you feeling merry and bright. Rufus (Kevin Grieco) is marooned at home with only …
The mystical village of Brigadoon is a blessed place, appearing out of the Scottish Highlands' mists once every hundred years with its 18th Century innocence and delightfullness intact. Luck…
Raw milk is liquid gold. Or so Eliza (Allison Turkel), the human matriarch of Red Robin Farm, believes. It's nutritious and pure, and she thinks it will save her derelict, multi-generational…
Luce and Addie. Addie and Luce. Fierce friends from high school who have traveled somewhat separate, but interweaving, paths to find themselves at a final crossroads in their tiny, small-min…
