176 stories by "Steven McKnight"
Fans of the Glee TV show and the Pitch Perfect films were thrilled by the performances of GOBSMACKED! at the Kennedy Center. The show earns the all caps, the exclamation mark, and the su…
I'll Get You Back Again uses a band’s reunion as the basis for a combined comedy, drama, memory play, and meditation on the meaning of life. While the Round House Theatre world premier…
A year-long international celebration of the life of Leonard Bernstein called "Bernstein at 100" received its official launch at a memorable, one-night-only show Bernstein on Broadway in …
Thanks to the Washington Post's This is Your Brain on Art we understand what you and I have known all along – that nothing quite compares to live performaning. But great theatre can…
Clover is the story of a 19th century socialite, Marion "Clover" Hooper Adams who was a participant and keen observer of the Washington, DC scene in the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s.…
Miche Braden is the biggest force of nature this side of Hurricane Harvey. She personifies the "Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith with a powerful voice, enormous talent, a powerful stag…
How do you begin to assemble a show based upon all of the Broadway musical productions connected to Hal Prince over a legendary career spanning nearly seven decades? How do you choose fr…
Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that "There are no second acts in American lives." F. Scott Fitzgerald never met Barbara Cook, the beloved Broadway star and singer who passed away on August …
Billie Holliday experienced extreme poverty, racism, sexual abuse, a drug addiction, and prison, yet still had a legendary career as one of the great jazz singers of the 20th century. If…
A marketing company might have taken The Coil Project's The Changeling Child and instead titled it A Midsummer Night's Dream " The Next Generation. That title better conveys the substanc…
Kukui Kikuyu Productions' Passing " A Stage Play is a fascinating psychological character study in which secrets revealed inevitably lead to a shockingly tragic end which deserves a long …
How far are we willing to go to seek happiness? That's the intriguing premise of Jona Tarlin's Lost Teeth, a world premiere production from New York City's Blowout Theatre Company which …
Junie B. Jones has to face a lot of moral and social quandaries for a 5-year-old. Who took her furry black mittens, should she be able to keep a multi-ink pen she found, should she compe…
King Charles III, a filmed adaptation of the London production of Mike Bartlett's Tony-nominated play, airs this Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. EDT as a one-off episode of PBS's Masterpiece Theat…
One of the great challenges for a director involves taking a slightly dated play like Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures and making it work. That the latest Peter's Alley Theat…
It took over 400 years for A King and No King to receive a DC area premiere. Yet were authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher still alive, they would certainly be pleased with the Bra…
It's not easy being a famous child actor struggling to stay in show business after passing puberty. It's even more difficult when that actor is a chimpanzee, Nick Jones imagines in hi…
Wicked is one of the most loved musicals in history, regularly selling out Broadway's largest theatre since 2003 and spawning several national tours, the most recent now in an outstanding pr…
Tom Story provides a comedic tour-de-force as the frenetic and frazzled Sam and forty other characters in the hilarious Fully Committed at MetroStage. Pity poor Sam, the out-of-work actor fo…
If you loved the terrific 1997 film Love Jones, you may want to cue up that DVD again. Before the opening night show at The National Theatre, an announcement was made that this produc…
You can almost feel the Fringe/touring roots of Little Thing, Big Thing from the mixture of story-telling with theatre, the acting challenges given the small cast, the clever blending of …
What do Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, and Patti LuPone have in common? They have all played the iconic role of Mama Rose in Gypsy, one of the greatest w…
A Matter of Perspective is a provocative new work that examines racial tensions in the context of jury deliberations. It is a stimulating work with the potential for greater accomplishme…
I love musicals. I prefer my musicals live and in person; however, I will take a good musical wherever I can find it regardless of setting or format. Below is a list in chronological ord…
Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero is a rare work that is, at once, a drama, a comedy, a romance, a mystery, and a modern morality play. It is an outstanding work that makes for equally ou…
