Fifteen months ago, DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company was one of the first to commit to producing playwright Bruce Norris’s script that focuses on the juxtaposition of racial issues in Ame... Read more
As a former Walt Disney World puppeteer, reviewing The Wizard of Oz, as presented by the Puppet Co. in Glen Echo Park, was a welcome task. My daughters and I found this theater and its perfo... Read more
Spoiler Alert: if you thought that Kander and Ebb’s score for Curtains was saccharine and unmemorable based on the original Broadway cast CD, you will be pleased to know that the show is 150... Read more
Few musicals written for the Broadway stage have found as lasting a home in opera houses worldwide as Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 musical thriller. Sondheim’s masterful score, able... Read more
Fiddler Plays a Melody on the Heartstrings Fiddler on the Roof is a theater classic for long time fans and new audience member alike, featuring some of the most popular songs of our time. At... Read more
Sue Pinkman directs the energy-packed musical Hairspray, set in Baltimore, MD in 1962, about defending our inherent rights to freedom and equality, no matter your creed, race, or gender. Wha... Read more
Most student theater deals with lighthearted themes and ham-fisted direction. So I was quite happily surprised when I saw this production dealing with subject matter that affects millions of... Read more
Cynthia Cole, Artistic Director & Founder of the 7 Sopranos, has put together a ‘divalicious’ production featuring herself and six vibrant, soprano songbirds. The production... Read more
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… No, it’s Ellie Shinham and her hedgehogs Felicity and Pinkie Moon. Holy cow, I mean — holy hedgehogs! Greetings – critters of the Quill.To be honest, this is... Read more
A Wild Play fancies itself clever and philosophically learned, and I cannot blame it. In its 60 plodding minutes, the three protagonists shout and emote with great passion and ostentation ab... Read more
