Comden and Green’s classic musical “Singin’ in the Rain” directed by Marcos Santana is now showering us with wonderful music and dancing on the Main Stage at Olney Theatre Center. Betty Com... Read more
Arena Stage delivers a flawless and brilliant production of “Disney’s Newsies” directed by Molly Smith that features a talented, hard hitting casts of actors with top notch singing and danci... Read more
In early July of 1937 the greatest magician in the world performed a final disappearing act. To hear playwright Jen Diamond tell it, Amelia Earhart chose – sort of – to leave not... Read more
Whispers and murmurs of murder echo through 18th century Vienna as the elderly court composer Antonio Salieri recounts his glory days and the fateful meeting with the prodigy who captured th... Read more
Tragedies come in many forms—and this play is nearly Shakespearian in its depiction of innocent, passionate, daring youth braving the Nazis in Germany to try to foment a re-awakening and tak... Read more
The 20th Anniversary Tour of “Rent” packs almost as big a punch as the first tour to Washington, DC did so many years ago (I saw that one, too) but it’s not just nostalgia speaking when I sa... Read more
None of the infamous characters in Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” can hold a candle to Herman Webster Mudgett (1861-1896), better known as Dr. H.H. Holmes. He may not have... Read more
Factory 449’s current production of “Agnes of God,” directed by Rick Hammerly, rises above the weaknesses in John Pielmeier’s well-known but uneven script with three exceptional performances... Read more
“We, the people, must redeem, The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.” This excerpt from Langston Hughes’ poem “Let America be America Again” is read at the top of Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat... Read more
Anchuli Felicia King’s “White Pearl,” making its U.S. premiere at the Studio Theatre, is a sharp and often hilarious satire of corporate culture, the beauty-industrial complex, and cross-cul... Read more
