‘Transferal’ by Jack Novak was the last in Spook Action’s New Works in Action that was presented for the last month or so on-line on their YouTube channel. Fittingly, it was about letting go... Read more
An unusual operetta was to have been performed this month by the Rockville-based Victorian Lyric Opera Company – “El Capitan” by John Philip Sousa, an exotic romance by America’s... Read more
Our local acting troupes are getting quite creative. Rude Mechanicals had five playwrights put together a group of one-act plays on Zoom. They chose the directors and performers and with onl... Read more
“Small Island” a 2019 drama based on the epic and award-winning novel by Andrea Levy, adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Rufus Norris. It is now streaming on YouTube, thanks to the N... Read more
The death of George Floyd and the protests that followed affected almost everyone in one way or another. The Pandemic Theatre decided to postpone showing Act IV of “Much Ado About Noth... Read more
‘Circular’ is a two-hander, ably acted via Zoom by Lisa Hodsoll and Jonathan Holmes. It clocks in at a brisk one hour and 35 minutes, which is no small feat with a story that begins with Ody... Read more
Brittle, sophisticated, witty, and tuneful are just a handful of words that could be used to describe Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 masterpiece of concept over plot, the musical c... Read more
A rainy night in Fairfax was just the right night for Clue, a game played on a board with dice, pieces, and facsimiles of murder instruments – a murder in a drawing room mystery. The Fairf... Read more
“Pandemics are Foul, Theater is Fair” Wyrd Sisters Shakespeare Society is an online performance group formed by several Shakespeare-loving friends in April of 2020 as an artistic... Read more
The television serial “Dark Shadows” originally aired between 1966 and 1971. The show was essentially a soap opera, but one with an unusual twist. Rather than following the tangled lives of... Read more
