“Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind…” While this quote from A Midsummer Night’s Dream may apply to the play’s characters, the Arts Collective at Howard Community College’s produc... Read more
As a child, my grandmother introduced me to the extraordinary Judy Garland. Through the years, we watched Garland’s movies over and over again, and our favorite was Meet Me in St. Louis. Bec... Read more
In many cases, composers, lyricists and librettists take weeks, months or even years to write a musical. In their show iToonsical, the cast of Washington Improv Theater’s iMusical creates an... Read more
When telling stories of our youth, we tend to embellish, exaggerate, and sometimes straight-out lie. In Stephen Spotswood’s Sisters of Ellery Hollow, the made-up stories of one’s childhood h... Read more
What makes someone human? This is the question asked in The Little Differences, or The Monster, written and directed by Soren Paul Budge. While shopping for cereal, a man with a fake beard (... Read more
According to the song “Seasons of Love,” a year is made up of 525,600 minutes. Jonathan Larson’s Tony-award winning musical Rent tells the story of how eight friends spend those 525,600 minu... Read more
We all must admit that we have watched a soap opera before, but have any of these soaps been actual operas? This is the premise behind Douglas Moore and librettist Arnold Sungaard’s un... Read more
People feel a sense of calm as they watch fish swim serenely in aquariums…who would have thought that so much drama is going on in that tank?! Danny Pushkin’s charmingly unique p... Read more
When I was in my 8th grade Creative Writing class, all I ever wanted to do was finish my classwork quickly so that I would have time to play my favorite computer game Oregon Trail. Today, af... Read more
As I child, I would sit at my grandparents’ kitchen table and watch my grandfather’s expression change whenever Frank Sinatra came on the radio. A smile would stretch across my beloved grand... Read more
