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The number 61 has a wide range of meanings…. but most focus on Compassion & Nurture, Harmony & Balance. The productions this season follow these guide words and topics. Circle Mirr…
A Tony award-winner, a 1980's rock musical, an Agatha Christie mystery, and more await you in our 108th season! Chess Book by Richard Nelson, lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and B…
About halfway through the joyful opening night performance of "Nate the Great" at Imagination Stage, I noticed three young children seated a few rows ahead of me engrossed in Tyler Dobies' p…
The Misako Ballet Company is well-known for its talented and skilled performers, and Sunday's afternoon program at the Jim Rouse Theatre promises to be no exception. One of the highlight…
Anna Ziegler's 2015 play, "The Last Match," on its surface is the depiction of an intense tennis match between two rivals, the old guard and the new, and two very different approaches to the…
Shake off that midsummer blues and hustle down to Vienna Baptist Church to see NOVA Nightsky's "Holy Toledo!" written by Paul Langford and directed by Ward Kay. This rollicking historical ad…
 When walking into the theater I did not know anything about Victoria and Nicomendes Santa Cruz, the siblings that shifted Afro-Peruvian culture by embracing all parts of their identity.…
Alison Leiby's 70-minute stand-up show, "Oh God: A Show About Abortion" is not just about abortion. While the story she tells does ultimately wind its way to her self-professed "anticlimacti…
ROCKVILLE, MD " Rockville Little Theatre (RLT) traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to compete in the American Association of Community Theatre Festival, a week-long event that stretched from Ju…
by Hayley Asai from Quince Orchard High School, a Nominated Bill Strauss Graduating Critic  This year, NCA Cappies was back in full swing. On Monday, June 12, students united to celeb…
"Oh, the things you can think when you think about Seuss," implores the opening number. Well, here's the things I think when I think about "Seuss(ical the Musical):" This boisterous producti…
Directed by Signature Theatre's Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, with the Wolf Trap Orchestra conducted by Jon Kalbfleisch, Signature's resident music director, "Broadway in the Park" was…
Although Shakespeare lived almost entirely under the reasonably stable reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the machinations and murders of previous princes, from Richard III to Henry VIII and all th…
Full disclosure: this is one of my favorite plays and I jumped at the chance to review it. John Lyly does not write with Shakespeare's beauty or cleverness but that's never bothered me becau…
Week of June 4, 2023 1. Kander and Ebb's "The World Goes 'Round" at Everyman Theatre (A co-production of ArtsCentric, Everyman Theatre, and Olney Theatre) "…one of the most satisfying and …
Week of May 28, 2023 1. "The Rocky Horror show" at Iron Crow Theatre "Under the direction of Sean Elias, it is strongly acted, beautifully choreographed, and balances favorite traditions wit…
 Victorian Lyric Opera Company (VLOC) is famous for producing a full spectrum of comic operas, some of them little performed and less widely known. Such is not the case with the "H.M.S. …
Falls Church, VA " The 2023-24 Season will mark Creative Cauldron's final season at its current home in Pearson Square, before moving to a new black box theater in the Broad and Washington p…
On Monday, June 12, 2023, The Cappies of the National Capitol Area held its twenty-third Gala recognizing excellence in High School theatre. The Tony's-like sold-out event was held in the Co…
For most of us, it is easy to remember our childhood home and how it felt like walking through the front door. Maybe you can imagine the way your bedroom looked filled with toys or the smell…
In "real life," the course of a relationship rarely runs smoothly. In Theater J's production of "One Jewish Boy" written by British playwright Stephen Laughton, the relationship at the cente…
During the 1930s and 1940s, there were the famous Battles of the Bands. In these jazz performances, two swing bands would set up in the same ballroom and play rotating sets. Such a battle of…
Many of us face tough choices in our lives, but those choices become much more difficult when placed in circumstances unimaginable to most of us. This is explored in the classic British musi…
"The Laramie Project," the most iconic and widely produced play developed by the Tectonic Theater Project under founder Moisés Kaufman, chronicles a very well-known and heinous anti-LGBTQ+ …
What does it take to create the perfect farce? For starters, a top-notch cast. Secondly, a dynamic set. Above all, the show must be fast-paced. The frenetic energy necessary to keep a farce …
