Now playing at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is the delightfully witty "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again]." The play was is written by Adam Long, Daniel…
"Crowns," presented by 2nd Star Productions, is the story of a teenage girl who is sent to live with her grandmother in South Carolina after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. The ligh…
"The Learned Ladies," a comedy written in verse by Molière in 1672, is now playing at Classic Theatre of Maryland in Annapolis. That description can be a little intimidating, if not off-put…
Last year, I saw Nick Payne's "Constellations." The play twists and turns through time. There are loops; there are rewinds; and there are moments that seemingly emerge out of nowhere. Watchi…
This world premiere of "Ghost/Writer," written by Dane Figueroa Edidi and directed by Danielle A. Drakes, is the penultimate production by Rep Stage at Howard Community College. The first ac…
The Royal Court Theatre Production presented in association with The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival Set both in real life and the virtual world of social media, the provocatively …
Fresh on the heels of a four million dollar grant award, Baltimore's Arena Players is in high spirits. Renovations are still two years away, though, and the company is currently focused on p…
Rhizome DC is one of those venues that, even if you've been there before, feels like a secret. From the outside it looks like a Shel Silverstein illustration, an old house sketched in by the…
The doubleheader presented by 4615 Theatre Company at The Writer's Center in Bethesda is as much a series of compelling conversations as it is a theatrical production. The plays, "paper back…
We expect a lot from touring Broadway shows to go along with their ticket prices, and "Les Misérables," now playing at the Hippodrome, does not disappoint. Producer Cameron Mackintosh's …
"Men in Boats," by Jaclyn Backhaus, is currently playing at Silver Spring Stage. It follows the 1869 expedition of John Wesley Powell (Stephanie Dorius) who led nine men to map out the terra…
Week of January 29, 2023 1. "Peter and the Starcatcher" at Children's Theatre of Annapolis "This tight, well-timed production is constantly surprising, from the unexpected opening numbers…
"It is a far greater pleasure to repay injustices suffered by good deeds than to compensate evil by more evil." Thus speaks the voice of Enlightenment reason in Mozart's "The Abduction from …
The Kennedy Center's Broadway Center Stage series has produced another pearl with their current production of "Sunset Boulevard." Based on the 1950 film starring Gloria Swanson and William H…
Bekah Bruntstetter's play "The Cake" combines a number of timely topics with a confectionary smorgasbord for the eyes, and a highly-charged look at more than one relationship teetering on th…
"Something Rotten!" is a Tony Award-winning musical comedy with book by John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick and music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Directed and choreographed b…
Week of January 22, 2023 1. "High School Coven" at Strand Theater Company "…energized by the acting, the witty character interplay, and the effects…highly engaging direction…" " Anne V…
United Ukranian Ballet's "Giselle" captures the crowd. We don't need any reminder why the Ukrainian National Ballet is operating under difficult circumstances. The company, temporarily house…
The Tony Award-winning play "Peter and the Starcatcher" by Rick Elice has landed on the Children's Theatre of Annapolis stage like a huge blender set on 11 speed. Met at first with the calmn…
Thrilling lineup to feature one pre-Broadway premiere, one national tour launch and five Baltimore debuts BALTIMORE, MD " Ron Legler, president of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, …
"New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians" was a long-standing hotel, radio, and television tradition for large swaths of the American public for some fifty years. The smooth…
 The two-day workshop/staged reading event of "Vanishing Girl," with music and lyrics by William Yanesh and book by Hope Villanueva, certainly lived up to the hype. From the endearing st…
From Theatre Washington: "On Monday, January 30, 2023, at a celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and specia…
"Someone to make me aware, of being alive" The current tour of the renowned performer, Mandy Patinkin, takes its title from Stephen Sondheim's "Being Alive" from the musical "Company" (a per…
"The wrong facts get in the way of the story," claims writer John D'Agata (Colin Smith) in the midst of a heated discussion with fact checker Jim Fingal (Iván Carlo) in "The Lifespan of a…