For the 105 minutes she was on stage, Rita McKenzie WAS Ethel Merman. Yes, she broke stride a couple of times to kibitz with the audience, but for the most part we were hearing about the lif... Read more
I attended the first festive performance of ‘The Canadian Tenors' concert with The NSO Pops at The Kennedy Center last night As I strolled into The Concert Hall, holiday wreaths were hanging... Read more
Tonight was going to be a special night because a world premier stage adaptation of one of my favorite movies, was going to be performed on a Fairfax, VA stage. You might ask what makes this... Read more
Now, that I have seen Pinky Swear Production’s Carol’s Christmas’ rollicking 95 minutes of pure enjoyment, I must say the production is the perfect antidote for the holidays. Walking into th... Read more
As you enter The Lab Studio Theatre at Convergence at Port City Playhouse, you are immediately confronted with a curtain that envelopes about a quarter of the stage. Looking further, you obs... Read more
Traveling around the Beltway to my destination, I felt I was going through a ‘Time Tunnel’ to reach Kensington Arts Theatre’s (KAT) opening night production of its 10th Anniversa... Read more
Nick Olcott’s comic opera Love Potion #1, which he both wrote and directed, is based on the opera L’Elisir d’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti. Less than three years ago, Mr. Olcott directed a trad... Read more
When I left my house in Virginia and traveled around the Beltway to see Patti LuPone in Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda, I had to continually pinch myself about whether I missed the College Park exi... Read more
Revenge of the Understudies was a one-night cabaret performed on Saturday, August 6, 2011, which closed the three-week run of Signature’s Sizzlin’ Summer Cabarets. Directed by Walter Ware II... Read more
How do you take an American icon like Irving Berlin who wrote over 1250 songs and condense it into an evening of enjoyment and appreciation – for what this great man was able to accomp... Read more