57 stories by "Rick Westerkamp"
This fall, InterAct Story Theatre revisits a favorite work in their repertoire of interactive plays for kids and families. Following up their successful 2015 production of The Hero of Everyt…
The amount of possibility encapsulated in one minute is a daunting thing to think about, and I pondered such a thing as I waited for the sold out performance of Kitchen Sink Fest to begin on…
RebollarDance, described by Erica Rebollar as "a modern dance collaborative where multi-genre artists can make innovative work," has cooked up a truly unique evening of offerings for their u…
The 33rd Annual Choreographers' Showcase presented by The Clarice and The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) and adjudicated by notable choreographers and te…
This Saturday at 11 am, The Wheaton-based educational theatre company InterAct Story Theatre launches the inaugural performance of the Wheaton Family Theatre Series, at the Wheaton Public Li…
50% Off Special Discount for DCMetroTheaterArts Readers For The Hero of Everything The Hero of EVERYTHING opens September 12th at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre -8641 Colesvill…
InterAct Story Theatre is buzzing with excitement, preparing for a run of their acclaimed children's play The Hero of EVERYTHING preparing to run at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre from …
Dance education, be it for the aspiring professional dancer or the recreational dancer, gives the student a myriad of gifts that apply to the technical field of dance, and various other aren…
Young Playwrights' Theater's 2015 New Play Festival marks the culmination of the hard work of the student playwrights, whose works were selected for the festival, the professional actors per…
Last night, on Thursday, March 19, 2015, at Lisner Auditorium, Maida Rust Withers, artists from Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (MWDCCo), and Composer/Musicians John Driscoll and…
On Sunday, February 22, 2015Â at 4 pm, the audience at Dance Place was treated to an enlightening and entertaining dance-video performance titled Just Be, by ReVision Dance Company, a resi…
Tia Nina's Juiced rocked the Dance Theatre at The Clarice for a solid hour on Saturday, February 7, 2015. This trio of fearless performers, Leah Curran Moon as J Van Stone, Ilana Silverstein…
You know how it feels to reunite with a friend you haven't seen in a while? I'm talking about a good friend, the kind of friend where you can let time go between meetings but you pick up rig…
The 32nd Annual Choreographer’s Showcase at The Clarice offered up an evening of dance ranging from the outwardly exuberant, to the internally nuanced, and emotions in between. The …
This weekend in the CityDance Studio Theatre at Strathmore, CityDance Onstage Ignite presents Robert J. Priore‘s Ascendance. CityDance Onstage Ignite is a program geared toward show…
Join in the Dream featuring ClancyWorks Dance Company and Guest Choreographers, Deborah Riley and Susan Shields, performed this weekend at Dance Place, and provided a contemplative evening o…
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, an incubator for arts of all kinds on the University of Maryland campus, is bustling with the NextNOW Fest, running through this Sunday, September 1…
The NextNOW Festival at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has a wonderful line-up of performances running through this Sunday, September 14th at the gorgeous arts space on the Univers…
In his curtain speech prior to the opening night performance of Andrew Hinderaker's Colossal at Olney Theatre Centre, Artistic Director Jason Loewith mentioned ‘past, present, and futu…
(The Best of the Capital Fringe) James Judd’s Killer Quack is one of those rare moments in the theatre that moves the audience along the spectrum of emotion. For fifty-five minutes, Ju…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) On Wednesday, July 16, 2014,  the magic of live theatre was alive at the opening night performance of You, or Whatever I Can Get at the Baldacchino Ten…
Within in the first five minutes of draMAStic dance works' production of Intrigue, a mystery on marley…, the audience hears a blood-curdling scream and sees a man in a chalk outline on the…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet, a DC-based company founded in 2010, presents #albatross in this summer's Capital Fringe Festival, with a program of three works. The…
(Best of the Fringe!) If Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea strikes you as an interesting choice of subject for a movement theatre piece, you are where I was prior to seeing The Old …
The Washington Ballet: Tour-de-Force: Balanchine is a truly spectacular evening at the ballet, with something for everyone. This program has, in my opinion, a balance of classical and contem…