Families are never easy. Add in generations of “heritage,” familial roles, declining wealth, and seething rage, and a family business meeting becomes incendiary. . . . there was enough tensi... Read more
“Zero” is enigmatic, devious, heartbreaking, and breathtaking. Set in a private reform school/residential treatment center called St. Vedastus Academy for Misguided Teens, it doe... Read more
In 2018, Angela Wilson’s play about the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968 first debuted as part of the Angelwing Project in Anne Arundel County, MD. Angela Wilson is a founder and pr... Read more
Bandleader Joe Enroughty is known for leading two swing bands in the Virginia region. As suggested by the band’s name, his fourteen-piece Royal Virginians perform and promote the sweet-swing... Read more
Sunday, August 9, 2020, Theater of War Productions performed “Antigone in Ferguson” via Zoom. The production was translated, directed, and conducted by Bryan Doerries and co-facilitated by D... Read more
There are flutes “with trumpets blaring in . . . What a clashing, what a clanging,/ What a drumming, what a piping.” Thus reads one of Heinrich Heine’s poems, set to music with 15 other shor... Read more
“Spirit Seekers” is a quick romp with a couple of chills and some really funny moments brought to life on Zoom through the efforts of the Dark Horse Theatre Company. It was an en... Read more
“Wannabe” is an intriguingly deep dive into the lives of five Black kids that follows them from the early 1980s to young adulthood in Front Royal, VA. There are also three white... Read more
“Peanuts,” the classic comic strip featuring “good ol’ Charlie Brown,” spawned a 1967 musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” with book, music, and lyrics by Clark Gesner. Thi... Read more
Theatre aficionados are accustomed to the phrase “Dinner and a Show” to mean an enjoyable evening at a dinner theatre. For our purposes now, “Dinner and a Show” is the title of Big Finish... Read more
