This is a likable show, with likable leads, and a likable score. It has that cute girl-meets-boy, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-back-girl vibe, all told in a brisk 90 minutes. This is a de... Read more
The first thing that strikes one when entering the theatre proper is how perfect the staging is for Spooky Action Theater’s “New Guidelines for Peaceful Times.” With only a... Read more
Leonard Bernstein might be one of the most recognizable American composers of all time. This year, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, many notable musical groups are doing tributes to hi... Read more
“My false o’erweighs your true.” Though Shakespeare wrote those words over 400 years ago, they could not be more relevant to our world today. In the wake of “fake new... Read more
With Halloween encroaching, it is quite fitting that “The Addams Family” hits the Silhouette Stages at the Slayton House Theatre in Columbia, Maryland, right on cue for the seaso... Read more
When picturing Ichabod Crane, I always pictured a lean, rangy, superstitious schoolteacher. That is not the Ichabod Crane of Synetic Theater’s muscular, voluptuous and engrossing retelling o... Read more
When the curtains part at the beginning of the Arlington Players’ new production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” it’s to reveal the titular cathedral, all soaring arches and stained g... Read more
“Labour of Love” now playing on Olney’s Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab stage is an homage to the battle of the sexes that Hepburn and Tracey made so memorable, with a hearty dose of... Read more
“Nevermore” is a hauntingly beautiful work that posits that without the shipwreck (both a physical and emotional metaphor in this production) of his life, Edgar Allan Poe’s work... Read more
“Let the Right One In” is an interesting adaptation of the 2004 novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. It has moments of genuine sadness and a slow-building tension that... Read more
