A near-capacity crowd hushed as the evening opened with the title song from Nat King Cole's 1959 album Welcome to the Club. I was immediately impressed that Don Dillingham, the evening's sol…
Mele Kalikimaka all y'all! This lively original musical collaboration between Director Joey Olson and Producer Jerri Wiseman captured the entire audience from the moment we all got "Leied" d…
Imagine how excited I was. For the first time in my life, the baseball World Series was being played in Washington DC. On top of that, it is Rookie left fielder Juan Soto's 21st Birthday. Bu…
A day marked by soaking rains lent a fitting atmosphere to Sherlock's Veiled Secret, set between Sussex and London, England. K.C. Brown crafted the play around the legendary sleuth Sherlock …
Everything about the Theatre@CBT production of The Wizard of Oz (book by John Kane based on L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg) was thorou…
In Montgomery Playhouse’s production of Catch Me If You Can, now playing at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn, Director Ed Starr has once again sprinkled fairy dust on an erstwhile gaggle of …
This time of year, it can be challenging to keep your spirits merry and bright through the commercialized din of holiday exhortations. Well, I may have found an antidote to the seasonal fog.…
SMOKE! That raises the alarm that there's been another "Clinker" episode from the diabolical furnace in the basement of the Parker home as the Gaithersburg Arts Barn hosts an entirely entert…
Below a luxurious burgundy velvet curtain, Rockville Musical Theatre's Brigadoon Orchestra delivers the Overture under the Musical Direction of Joseph Sorge. The curtain opens as traveling N…
Throughout history, the term 'Cover-up' has evoked feelings of frustration, sadness and often horror once the truth is brought to light. Public perception changed drastically about products …
This sold out production by local playwright John Morogiello and directed by Rabbi Stan Levin touched on so many current and historical hot points that I wonder how it all happened in ninety…
Barely two months ago, the call went out for auditions to this cast. This is worth mentioning because in that short time, considering all the holiday distractions and scheduling challenges, …
I heard Kris Kringle (played by Harley Venton) tell little Susan Walker (Leah Packer): "…Imagination is a place all by itself. Now, you’ve heard of the French nation? … And the Bri…
I had a Great Aunt whose fourth floor walk-up apartment was very much on display when I entered the performance space at Har Shalom. I wondered if set designers Maggie Moddig and Steven Lesh…
Just as you are taking down your Labor Day bunting and searching for last year's fall decorations, there arrives a bit of spooky mystery and merriment for the whole family to enjoy. The Mont…
Pufferfish Pat is hardly your run of the mill Cowboy name. In fact, it's so unusual that the cowboy it identifies gets "madder than a wet hen!" whenever it is mentioned. His face turns red, …
Hurry to see Seussical the Musical! This may be one of our area's most popular theatrical events in no small part because it invites performers of all ages. Yet this particular performance s…
Okay, twenty years ago I was more concerned with raising kids than living rough on the street, but that's what the current tour of Rent celebrates. Where to live, how to love, finding work, …
Humanity can never quite manage to get out of its own way. And that's a good thing for the entertainment industry. Since "there is nothing new under the sun," there is constant material for …
Suppose your two best friends were really talented and you invited them over to sing and tell stories and a few of your other friends found out and showed up to listen and it turned out to b…
I envy the folks lucky enough to have attended the opening night performance of George Bernard Shaw's brand new play Pygmalion in 1913. They were afforded an unfiltered observation of cla…
WOW!!! Actual bouncing off walls, excitement, enthusiasm and synchronized choreography " and that was just maneuvering into a parking space out front! Footloose Director Nicholas Jullian Saa…
Washington Concert Opera (WCO) concluded its 30th anniversary season with a rare performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Leonore on stage at the George Washington University Lisner Auditorium …
There's this hot little night club right across from some swanky automobile dealerships in a neighborhood calling itself Pike & Rose. The venue hosts a wide variety of arts and entertain…
It seemed fitting somehow during a full moon, on Friday the thirteenth, to be attending Confucius on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Kong Dexin, a 77th-generation direct descendent of…