Take two top notch performers that can merge samba, bossa nova and jazz together and the result is a fabulous evening of music at the Music Center at Strathmore. Sergio Mendes has been perfo…
Douglass G. Lutz is currently the musical and vocal director for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. Previous WST credits inclu…
2014 marks my 39th year of attending theatre. As you might imagine some shows stick out in my memory more than others. The word unforgettable can be taken two ways. Some shows are unforgetta…
Nothing pleases me more then when theatre companies choose to stray from the old style of musical and present something that is not from the 50s or before. Mind you, I love Rodgers and Hamme…
Some musicals withstand the test of time better than others. You would think a musical set in the 1960s workplace would be dated but when the musical is the 1961 Frank Loesser and Abe Burrow…
The newly formed Quackensteele Theatre Company introduced itself last night to the DC area with a very impressive debut production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick…
Ed Dixon is currently very busy over at Signature Theatre. He is part of the cast for a new musical called Cloak and Dagger. As we all know performing is not an easy job but Ed also wrote th…
Frank Britton, one of the area’s busiest actors was brutally attacked in Silver Spring MD by four lowlifes on May 26th 2014 as he was hailing a cab to go home. Britton is currently per…
Mike Bartlett's play C**k now playing at Studio Theatre examines the questions of do we really know what lifestyle we want to choose for ourselves and will we be happy with that choice. …
Randy Johnson’s work is being represented for the second time this season at Arena Stage where he is currently the director of Smokey Joe's Café — The Songs of Lieber and Sto…
Every once in a while I get to work an event that gives me total satisfaction. This past Friday night at Theater J was one of those times. As you might know from past features, I will always…
There are some musicals that never get their just due in NY. Stephen Schwartz's biblical masterpiece Children of Eden is one of those shows. It had a rough go of it with its London premiere …
John Leslie Wolfe is currently portraying the corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in Signature Theatre’s production of The Threepenny Opera. Â John has been seen onstage in NY in an ecl…
Emily Young is currently onstage at Folger Theatre as part of Fiasco Theatre’s production of  The Two Gentleman of Verona in the roles of Lucetta and Sylvia . She was seen on …
Washington National Opera's current production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, now playing at Kennedy Center's Opera House, is well sung and has, as far as operas go, a lighthearted story featu…
Today’s column is one of a very personal nature and the subject is a person I care very deeply about. Virginia Gregory for many years played Luisa in The Fantasticks at Sullivan Str…
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera has to be one of the more difficult musicals from the last century for a theatre company to produce, but Arlington VA's Signature Theatre…
Many plays, musicals and movies use Hollywood as a backdrop. Sunset Boulevard, City of Angels and Mack and Mabel are a few examples of how Hollywood has crossed into other mediums of enterta…
This past Monday evening, the 30th annual Helen Hayes Awards were handed out at the National Building Museum in DC and for the first time I was privileged to be in attendance. As you might k…
Glen Berger's play, Underneath the Lintel, shows us the effects of taking your job way too seriously. The solo piece, now playing at Metro Stage, features veteran actor Paul Morella as a Dut…
Ines Nassara is currently playing Ronny in the smash hit production of Hair at Keegan Theatre. Ines recently made a big impression on me and everyone else as the Civil Rights Marcher in Cros…
Kate Skinner is currently playing the role of Mistress Quickly in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s epic rep of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Kate’s many appearances at STC include T…
Many plays and movies deal with one of the most horrific events in modern history " Â the Holocaust and anyone that's seen the movie Schindler's List or C.P. Taylor's play Good knows how t…
Itzhak Perlman is one of the world's greatest violinists. His performances have garnered fifteen Grammy Awards and four Emmys. If you don't know Perlman's work from the classical world then …
Peter Flynn is currently the director of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Ford’s Theatre. Peter’s main production debut at Ford’s Theatre was a  big one as …