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Review: ‘Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose’ at The Loft at the Davenport Theatre

Richard Seff 2017-02-09

There is a delightful surprise in store for any of you who can manage to get to the Davenport’s 75-seat Loft Theatre to watch Ed Dixon’s one-man play in which he brings to vivid life the late great...

Review: ‘The Bikinis’ at Westchester Broadway Theatre

Lori Speiser 2017-02-07

Currently playing on the Westchester Broadway Theatre stage is The Bikinis: A New Musical Beach Party. Produced by The Bikinis Tour Company, The Bikinis was created by Ray Roderick and James Hindman,...

Preview: Bach’s St. John Passion with Ted Sperling and MasterVoices at Carnegie Hall

David Rohde 2017-02-06

From Tevye the Milkman’s Anatevka of 1905 to the St. Nicholas Lutheran Church in Leipzig in 1724, Broadway conductor Ted Sperling is making quite a transition in settings this week. But it’s all...

Review: ‘Any Given Monday’ at the Stagecrafters Theater

Neal Newman 2017-02-05

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they’ll kill you. That quote, usually attributed to George Bernard Shaw, aptly describes Any Given Monday, a play by Philadelphia’s...

Local Actress Leta Hall Has Passed Away. Here Are Reflections From Her Friends and Colleagues

Joel Markowitz 2017-02-05

A memorial service for Leta Hall will take place on Saturday, February 4, 2017, at 11 AM at Grace Episcopal Church – 1607 Grace Church Road, in Silver Spring, MD 20910. The phone number is (301)...

Review: ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at The Media Theatre

Ellen Wilson Dilks 2017-02-01

“Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean….” Delaware County’s Media Theatre...

Review: ‘Boeing Boeing’ at The Highwood Theatre

William Powell 2017-01-29

When is too much of a good thing, too much of a good thing? Is romantic love the most reliable form of love? These questions and more arose in The Highwood Theatre’s production of the classic French...

Review: ‘Love for Sale’ at the Huron Club at SoHo Playhouse

Deb Miller 2017-01-29

Now in its American premiere after performing in London and Edinburgh, Love for Sale takes us to Paris, 1934, for a “cabaret-play” woven around the music of Kurt Weill and contemporary songwriters...

Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ at Zemfira Stage

Guest Author 2017-01-27

By Leonard Hughes The plucky Falls Church-based Zemfira Stage has taken on the Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening, a far cry from the company’s joyous summer performance of The Wizard of Oz....

Review: Bedlam: ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Saint Joan’ at McCarter Theatre Center

Tim Dunleavy 2017-01-27

There’s nothing extravagant about the two shows playing at the McCarter Theatre. Both are presented on a stage stripped to its bare essentials: we can see all the way back to the building’s rear wall....

Review: ‘The Great Society’ at Asolo Rep Theatre

Richard Seff 2017-01-27

All The Way by Robert Schenkkan dealt with Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to influence the 88th U.S. congress to vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It first appeared in 2012 at the Oregon Shakespeare...

Review: ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’ at The Hippodrome Theatre

John Harding 2017-01-25

Little Carol Klein of Brooklyn, New York, did herself proud when she blossomed into songwriter Carole King. In 2013 her hit-parade of a life came to Broadway as Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. A...

Review: ‘Yours Unfaithfully’ at the Mint Theater Company

Richard Seff 2017-01-25

I regret to say that until I saw Mint Theater Company’s production of Miles Malleson’s comedy Yours Unfaithfully, I wasn’t aware of the author, hadn’t heard of him. A great lack on my part, because as...

Review: ‘Broadway Up Close: Vanessa Williams’ at the Kimmel Center

Megan Diehl 2017-01-24

Continuing the exciting season of Broadway Up Close concerts on Saturday at the Kimmel Center, Seth Rudetsky hosted Broadway and recording star Vanessa Williams for an evening of her career highlights...

Review: ‘Jitney’ at Manhattan Theatre Club at The Samuel J Friedman Theatre

Richard Seff 2017-01-23

A remarkable new production of August Wilson’s play Jitney is now available to us all, thanks to the Manhattan Theatre Club, which has staged it on Broadway as the last of the Wilson 10 play cycle to...

Review: ‘The Full Monty’ at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport

Kristen Weyer 2017-01-23

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport rarely disappoints, and true to form their newest production, The Full Monty, is remarkably well done. This ten-time Tony nominee has a book written by...

Review: ‘Show Boat’ at Toby’s The Dinner Theatre of Columbia

John Harding 2017-01-21

Can’t help lovin’ that Show Boat at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Modern audiences are still likely to find the miscegenation drama that sets the story in motion more dramatically engaging than much of what...

Review: ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre and Children’s Theatre

Caitlin Adolph 2017-01-21

“It is a glorious thing, to be a Pirate King” …but it is a far more glorious thing to spend a night at the Way off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick, Maryland, seeing the first show of their 2017...

Review: ‘Legally Blonde The Musical JR’ at Bravo Productions

Coral Colón-Muñiz 2017-01-14

Legally Blonde The Musical JR, based on the 2001 hit film starring Reese Witherspoon about a sorority girl who goes to Harvard Law in order to get her boyfriend back, and the 2007 Broadway production...

Review #1: ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade: 75 Years of Streisand’ at The American Pops

David Siegel 2017-01-14

Streisand came to DC for a quick pre-inauguration visit. Well almost, but not quite. Well, maybe my first sentence is a little bit of a “fake news” headline. I am writing about a blissful, musically...

Review: ‘Recent Tragic Events’ at St. Mark’s Players

John Stoltenberg 2017-01-14

The American theater has generated some great plays prompted by the tragic events of 9/11. I remember vividly Neil LaBute’s powerful 2002 drama The Mercy Seat, in a production LaBute directed...

Review: ‘Saloon’ at the Merriam Theater

Deb Miller 2017-01-14

Montreal’s Cirque Éloize explodes on stage at the Merriam Theater with a two-day run of its touring production of Saloon, presented collaboratively by the Kimmel Center and the Shubert Organization...

Review: ‘Mamma Mia!’ at Hippodrome Theatre

Gina Jun 2017-01-14

Countering the brisk winter temperatures outside, Tony-nominated Broadway jukebox musical sensation Mamma Mia! unleashed flash bolts of pulsating heat with bold bright lights, zesty dance numbers and...

Review: ‘The Present’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Richard Seff 2017-01-09

In the beginning there was a play by Anton Chekov that was simply called “a long play without a title”. He’d written a first draft of it in 1878, later called it Fatherlessness. He gave it to his...

Review: ‘The Complete History of America (abridged)’ at Vagabond Players

William Powell 2017-01-09

History can best be summed up at times with satire. Do we really want to know every detail about events past, no matter how trivial? Humor can go a long way to helping us, as Americans, laugh at...

Review: ‘Holden’ at New Ohio Theatre

Deb Miller 2017-01-07

The current remount of George & Co.’s critically-acclaimed Holden, first developed in New Ohio Theatre’s 2015 Ice Factory Festival, is as relevant and unnerving now as it was then, in a country long...

Review: ‘Off the Top’ at The Huron Club at SoHo Playhouse

Deb Miller 2017-01-05

Who would have thought that a fact-filled illustrated lecture on neuroscience could form the basis of a popular and critically-acclaimed Fringe show? Or that rap music could hold appeal for...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #11: Best Performances and Ensembles in Plays and Musicals in Philadelphia, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey

DC Theater Arts Staff 2017-01-05

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #11: Best Performances and Ensembles in Plays and Musicals in Philadelphia, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey Are: Caroline Aaron as Ruth Zweigman in All the Days at...

Review: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ at The Hippodrome Theatre

John Harding 2016-12-28

From time to time in the mock-Edwardian musical farce A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder you may be reminded of the inspired antics of an old “Carol Burnett Show.” When actor John Rapson cavorts on...

Review: ‘Mamma Mia!’ The Farewell Tour at the Merriam Theatre

Rachel Beecher 2016-12-28

With shows like Green Day’s American Idiot and Carole King’s Beautiful, musicals based off of pop hits have become more popular in recent years. However, there is one show that is the mother of...

Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone’ at The Lucille Lortel Theatre

Richard Seff 2016-12-24

In 1964 Bob Dylan wrote that ‘the times they are a-changin’, and he might just as well have been referring to the musical theatre in America as he was to the war in Vietnam. Ever since Galt McDermott...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #4: Best Plays in Professional Theaters in DC/MD/VA

DC Theater Arts Staff 2016-12-23

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff’s honorees for Best Plays in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees! A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas at Olney Theatre Center. A...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #3: Best Musicals in Professional Theaters in Philadelphia, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey

DC Theater Arts Staff 2016-12-22

BEST MUSICALS IN PROFESSIONAL THEATRES IN PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, AND DELAWARE: A Bronx Tale at The Longacre Theatre. A Christmas Story: The Musical at The Media Theatre. A Taste of Things...

‘Wilde Tales’: An Interview with Director Jeremy Bloom, on the Quintessence Production

Henrik Eger 2016-12-22

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), famous and controversial Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, also authored thought provoking fairy stories for children that appeared in various magazines. Married...

Review: ‘Broadway Up Close: Matthew Morrison’ at the Kimmel Center

Megan Diehl 2016-12-19

Beginning a new season of Broadway Up Close concerts on Saturday at the The Kimmel Center, Seth Rudetsky hosted Broadway leading man and television’s favorite choir teacher, Matthew Morrison, for an...

Review: The Twelve Dancing Princesses’ at Camden Repertory Theatre

Tim Dunleavy 2016-12-17

The Twelve Dancing Princesses, an original musical being presented by Camden Rep, teaches its young audience lessons about love, strength, forgiveness, and family ties. It also has a peppy score and a...

Review: ‘In Transit’ at Circle in the Square Theatre

Richard Seff 2016-12-16

I first ran into this musical which deals with the lives of several New York subway commuters in 2010 when it first bounced into town onstage at the 59 East 59th Street Theatre off/Broadway. It was a...

‘Take A Bow!’ Part 3: The Staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ Favorite DC/MD/VA Fall 2016 Performances/Directors/Designers by DCMetroTheaterArts Staff: DC/MD/VA/PHILLY/NYC AREAS

DC Theater Arts Staff 2016-12-16

Here is the staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ 3rd series of ‘Take A Bow!’ Fall 2016 honorees: Caroline Clay as Florynce Kennedy in (Re)Acts: Where Do We Go From Here? at Forum Theatre. It was a...

Review: ‘Murder for Two: Holiday Edition’ at Bucks County Playhouse

Tim Dunleavy 2016-12-13

When I found out that the creators of the musical comedy Murder for Two were premiering a special Christmas-themed version at Bucks County Playhouse, I was intrigued. After all, the show has been a...

Review: ‘Dot’ at Everyman Theatre

Patricia Mitchell 2016-12-12

There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays. When Everyman Theatre (“Everyman”) Founding Artistic Director Vincent M. Lancisi left the Humana Festival of New Plays in Louisville, Kentucky last year,...

Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at City Theater Company

Deb Miller 2016-12-12

Wilmington’s City Theater Company ushers in its 23rd season with lots of glitter for the holidays. But it’s not the usual tinsel on the tree, it’s the fabulous drag fest that is La Cage aux Folles!...

Review: ‘A Bronx Tale’ at The Longacre Theatre in NYC

Richard Seff 2016-12-09

Chazz Palminteri’s career as actor and writer was given a big boost when his one-man play A Bronx Tale began its life off Broadway with the author as its star. The material was honed from his early...

An Interview With Jay Kuo, Composer and Lyricist of ‘Allegiance.’ A film of the Broadway Musical Will Show in Theaters Across the Country on Tuesday, December 13th

Nicole Hertvik 2016-12-07

Allegiance, the 2015 Broadway musical based on the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II, will be shown in movie theaters around the country for one...