62 stories by "Terry Ponick"
Admittedly not one of Webber's best, but Terry Ponick found Eric Schaeffer's production at Signature Theatre "slick, compelling, and surprisingly moving."
Review of the debut of the national touring company. "What's peace and love for if not for sharing?"
Titled the Mead Center for American Theater, the dazzling new $135 million waterfront complex is an instant national theater landmark.
The Kennedy Center's new production of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár's vintage 1910 dramedy The Guardsman, starring Finn Wittrock and Sarah Wayne Callies, promises to be a surprise h…
Signature Theatre’s production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years starts out almost like a cliché, but then sneaks up on you and gets you deeply involved before you k…
A sprightly new production of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler On The Roof  is now on tap at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia. While lacking the expanse of a Broadway stage, To…
An Irish Carol , now in its second of hopefully many annual appearances at Keegan Theatre, is not your father's Christmas Carol. Unless you father is a drunken, aging Irishman hanging about …
Irving Berlin's White Christmas, now at the Kennedy Center Opera House through January 6, is an irresistibly toe-tapping song-and-dance confection which rolls a selection of Irving Berlin hi…
Well on its way now to becoming an annual Falls Church Christmas tradition, the Creative Cauldron's production of Christmas Cabin of Carnaween opened last weekend at ArtSpace Falls Church wh…
The Quotidian Theatre Company's new production of James Joyce's The Dead, which opened this past weekend could be the best holiday theater surprise of the season. Quotidian's production of t…
Tom Dudzick's Over the Tavern has seen a lot of productions since its first stage outing back in the mid-1990s. Olney Theatre Center's new production looks good and feels authentic. But unfo…
The Keegan Theatre's A Couple of Blaguards is an oasis of madcap, guilt-free fun in the midst of a DC fall season that usually emphasizes high-seriousness or more substantial fare. The Keega…
The American Century Theater's new production of Archibald MacLeish's nearly forgotten verse play J.B. is well worth encountering, particularly if you're looking for an intellectual challeng…
As area performing arts companies crank into high gear for a frantic September of opening nights, Alexandria's MetroStage seems to have gotten the jump on nearly everyone. Their fantastic, e…
Arena Stage's recently opened production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is the area's first production of the controversial play since 1995. It was in that year that Arlington's Washingt…
Cuchullain is inspired by Irish legend and “Cuckoo’s Nest”, its author explains Rosemary Jenkinson's brand new one-man, one-act play Cuchullain, currently in rep with Ke…
The traveling road show edition of Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Broadway's Best Musical, arrived at the Kennedy Center's Opera House this weekend past. DC is the first stop, la…
Suzanne Andrade's The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is, as Monty Python once explained, something completely different. It's not really a play, although it tells a story.
The always hyperkinetic Synetic Theater company is in action again at its home base in Crystal City. This time, instead of funneling classic theater works through their uniquely visual, …
If you're among the many, many Washingtonians who love good vocal and choral music, you can't do better than to head on down to the Atlas Performing Arts Center to catch the Washington Savoy…
a photofeature which takes you inside and behind the scenes of the newly restored Howard It'll be a hot time in DC's Shaw neighborhood this week as the venerable, historic Howard Theatre sta…
This year's Source Festival will feature 24 new works, several by area playwrights under the direction of such well-known directors as Jennifer Nelson, Factor 449 Artistic Director Rick Hamm…
Sunday evening, Arlington's Signature Theatre revealed the world premiere of Brother Russia, a new rock musical by the creative team of John Dempsey and Dana Rowe. Chock full of interesting …
From time to time, most performing arts organizations schedule a special evening of entertainment geared toward raising audience awareness as well as attracting much needed donations from we…
Now on stage at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, the company's production of Rodger's and Hammerstein's classic 1951 musical The King and I is a remarkably effective revival of this exotic…
