Walk, run, skateboard or ski to Reston Community Players’ production of Lend Me a Tenor. These guys are so good that I expect they’ll be getting an invite to New York or London...Director Sa... Read more
The Washington Stage Guild production of Amelia – A Story of Abiding Love is a series of vignettes, like entries in a diary, from a woman who searches for her husband during the American Civ... Read more
Virginia Opera’s Hansel and Gretel is not your 19th century Grimm fairytale. There is no gingerbread house anywhere in this modernized production of the beloved German opera. It’s not the Bl... Read more
The 1st Stage production of Don’t Dress for Dinner is the best dressed of them all. Seriously. The costumes by Cheryl Patton are the pop to the snap and crackle of the dialogue – ranging fro... Read more
The Baltimore Playwrights Festival packaged scenes from six plays and presented them in the Kennedy Center’s South Atrium Foyer, a medium-sized room on the second floor. Maryland Theatre Gu... Read more
In Italy around 1750, two gentlemen – not of Verona but of Venice – were fighting it out for the title of best playwright. Carlo Goldoni, a lawyer turned comedy writer, was the... Read more
Vanishing Point is a poetic prose novel by Jeri Kroll, adapted for the stage by Leslie Jacobson. A reading of the play was presented on Monday, September 5, 2011, at the Page-to-Stage Festiv... Read more
African-American Anthony Cohen is not Jewish, and he always wondered why. A rich premise for comedy perhaps, but Patrick & Me sidesteps Woody Allen and instead walks a genealogical path,... Read more
The hardest thing for any solo performer isn’t baring your soul, it’s making your audience care about you baring your soul. Emily Love Morrison’s But Love Is My Middle Name is more than a co... Read more
The Irish are great storytellers, even their American progeny. “En route between vacation and life,” as Michael Walsh begins his solo performance of Between Takeoff and Landing, a momentous... Read more
