1,260 stories by "Joel Markowitz"
Rockville Musical Theatre is performing the musical Baby in the intimate The Gaithersburg Arts Barn. The show has a score by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and a book by Sy…
The Designers: Colin K. Bills, David Ghatan, and Matt Rowe Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first react…
Schmoozing with Helen Hayes Awards nominees Ben Cook and Chris Dinolfo Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award and what was your first …
I am so happy to begin a series of short interviews with this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees with five of my favorite local actors – Catherine Flye, Mitchell Hébert, Je…
Last night a reception was held at Rivers at the Watergate in Washington, DC to honor this year’s Helen Hayes Awards nominees. It was a wonderful event filled with lots of schmoozing, …
Kathryn Kelley is portraying the poet Emily Dickinson in Bay Theatre Company’s production of The Belle of Amherst, and is receiving raves from local critics and audiences. I asked Kath…
Parallel Exit Physical Comedy Theatre has made an international name for itself while bringing its unique brand of physical comedy to festivals around the world. Following in the footsteps o…
I was talking to my friend Kenny a few weeks ago and he told me about a co-worker named Grace whose son Kyle Carter was in the tour of In the Heights. Since In the Heights is one of my al…
Erik Liberman has had a very busy year on and off the stage. When I heard he was going to play The Baker in Centerstage’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, I jumpe…
We’ll be sharing columnist Peter Filichia’s weekly Friday column on Kritzerland with our DCMTA readers every Friday beginning today. Peter is my mentor and convinced me to write …
It was a night to remember when Eitan Mazia made his entrance in The Phantom of the Opera at a packed auditorium at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD, in Young Artists of America&…
Why would Molotov Theatre Group pick a Shakespearean classic to produce? I asked Molotov member Kevin Finkelstein to fill us in. “The decision to do Shakespeare is a selfish one: in ad…
I have been a weekly regular guest with Judy Stadt for years talking about theatre in DC, Philly and NYC and other things…like what was happening in my life. I call it free therapy eve…
Lumina Studio Theatre is presenting Chekhov’s Three Sisters this weekend at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, in Silver Spring, MD. Three Sisters follows the dre…
I fell in love with Sherman Yellen’s musical The Rothschilds when I was a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY. I was thrilled when I heard that his musical Josephine Tonight was about to…
There are two more performance tonight – at  6:30 & 8:30 pm of Tasty Monster Productions’ new musical Personals -A Love Story for the Rest of Us at Adventure Theatre…
Tonight and Tomorrow night -March 16 and 17 at 7:30 PM - Young Artists of America is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at The Auditorium at Winston …
Beginning tonight at 8 PM, Inclusive Theatre Companies of ArtStream, Inc, are presenting two original one-act musicals: Star Corps IV: The Search for Mind Zap and Oh My, An…
Last night the Washington Area Theater Community Honors ‘WATCH AWARDS’ for excellence in Community Theatre were announced at Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. The big winner was The L…
Joe Markowitz previews what's opening on DC area stages in July and chooses 8 top picks for the month.
Joel Markowitz names his Top PIcks for shows opening in June on DC area stages.
All I could ask myself after watching the glorious performances of Edward Gero and Sasha Olinick as the tortured Salieri and the fart-filled Amadeus was, "What took so long for someone to ca…
How do you describe Jenny Jules' performance as Mama Nadi in Arena Stage's emotionally powerful production of Lynn Nottage's Ruined? These words immediately come to mind: fierce, compassiona…
A look at 7 Broadway spring musicals, and a Stephen Schwartz opera Before the Tony Awards are upon us, I wanted to talk about some of the musicals I saw in NYC this spring. There was a tsuna…
They’ve come to Signature Theatre to sing side by side with two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Sherri L. Edelen in the just opened Side by Side by Sondheim. They are  two of my…
