600 stories by "David Siegel"
Up for something with amusement, silliness, and banter propelled by a lively score and excellent voices? Then head off to Cloak and Dagger at Signature Theatre.
It was as good as it gets. A glorious DC area midsummer, low-humidity evening. There was a full house at the Filene Center; with demographically and generationally diverse picnickers filling…
Northern Virginia's non-equity, professional theater company, Zemfira Stage, continues to strive to provide ambitious, motivated entertainment with its current production of the much beloved…
So where does a new theater company head after a successful introduction at the recent Capital Fringe Festival with its production of War and Peas? Â In the case of Pocket Change Theatre, …
Ghost light. Very soon the 20-year run of the The American Century Theater (TACT) will fade into a ghost light -a light that we theater folk know is left lit onstage to protect us from mi…
"A musical buffet for the audience" is the way Matt Conner, Creative Cauldron Associate Artist and curator of the Cauldron's 2015 Summer Cabaret Series described what to expect. Laura Hul…
The days may have been dark on the home-front during WWII America for Tom Brokow's The Greatest Generation, but baseball endured. Baseball was the National Pastime; playing ball, along with …
The Hub Theatre is opening its world premiere of a work by a woman playwright, directed by a woman and with an all-female cast. It is the Hub's Leto Legend which opens on July 10, 2015. Hub …
"Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough." In its DC area premiere, Peter Pan in the ThreeSixty Theatre has plenty of stimulating ingredients providing an exciting, dreams-come-true…
Camp it up with the comic free-for-all that is the Olney Theatre Center’s take on Mel Brooks' Tony Award-winning musical The Producers. Become your very own disrupter of your very own …
Density, urbanization and perhaps, someday in the future, "cool" is coming to the new downtown "Tysons" in Fairfax County, Virginia. Over the decades there has been much talk about refreshin…
"Characters at the edge of life" is how Playwright, Director, and Producer Isa Seyran described his Capital Fringe offering, Brothel. The new play is to be more that a provocative Buzzfeed w…
Northern Virginia's Company Danzante will perform at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts on June 26, 2015. Company Danzante will perform repertory by Co-Directo…
Be transported to the far-away of the mind. What better place to explore provocative magical realism as a performing art than at this year's Fringe Festival. Letting one's mind drift into a …
A "seemingly guilty mass-murdering white supremacist terrorist" is the phrase dramaturg Alan Katz uses to describe the character at the heart of "The Word and the Wasteland, a full-length pl…
Under the lively, animated touch of director Christopher Henley, a merry little band of eager Avant Bard players bring The Madwoman of Chaillot, by French playwright Jean Giraudoux (1882-194…
Looking at the upcoming Workhouse (Lorton, VA) Performing Arts Center calendar and the Capital Fringe Festival performance schedule, I spotted a show from Tasty Monster Productions that is c…
Don't hurry out of town for the summer just yet or you will miss the new summer season of DC's own Chamber Dance Project in residence at the Lansburgh Theatre at Shakespeare Theatre Compa…
Much has been written about Spooky Action Theater's premiere production Jarry Inside Out by Richard Henrich. I take this opportunity to connect it to popular culture, in a different manner t…
Ah, the enduring popularity of sophisticated, stylish cabaret entertainment. Now add-in musical artists who easily mix the known American Songbook standards with the less often heard to brin…
Walking into the Folger Theatre, I did a double-take. This clearly was going to be a different visual experience for Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as directed by Aaron…
If only Alex Mills was available to tell stories to my now 31 year old daughter when she was a baby. While I read to her aplenty, she would have marveled and communicating happily through gu…
Signature Theatre's Cabaret is a formidable musical theater that abundantly succeeds in taking the audience by its collective throat and jolting it into alertness to the rise of evil and ter…
It’s never too early to begin thinking about summer entertainment plans, both venues and entertainment. Early this summer, the Hylton Center for the Performing Arts, entering its sixth…
Created and handsomely rendered with boundless love, heart and soul, the short-run Metro Stage/Race and Reconciliation in America (RARIA) production of Anne and Emmett was a production of gr…
