All stories by William Powell on BroadwayStars

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Review: ‘How the Other Half Loves’ at Montgomery Playhouse by William Powell

Farces are hard to do well or differently, but they nearly always impart an important lesson: always tell the truth. How the Other Half Loves is an innovative farce, replete with secret affa…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:18AM
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Review: ‘10x10x10’ A Ten-Minute Play Festival at Fells Point Corner Theatre by William Powell

Fells Point Corner Theatre’s 10x10x10, a collection of 10-minute plays by Baltimore-DC area playwrights in its seventh year, always succeeds in creating energy born of audience anticipatio…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PM
Monday, May 13, 2019

Review: ‘Pride & Joy: The Marvin Gaye Musical’ at The National Theatre by William Powell

Spectacular. Amazing. Unforgettable. Pride & Joy is a musical that tells the little known love story of Anna Gordy Gaye (January 28, 1922 – January 31, 2014) and the legendary and icon…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AM
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Review: ‘How to Catch Creation’ at Baltimore Center Stage by William Powell

Part soap opera, part sitcom, part reflection on Black feminist writers, Baltimore Center Stage’s How to Catch Creation is an expertly staged dramedy, with memorable performances. Playwrig…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM
Monday, May 6, 2019

Review: ‘The Honey Trap’ at Greenbelt Arts Center by William Powell

The Honey Trap, a World Premiere at Greenbelt Arts Center, clearly has the best set I’ve seen in years: a mixture of ’50s kitsch, photos of ’50s-era entertainers, a record player conso…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23PM
Saturday, May 4, 2019

‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead’ by Wolf Pack Theatre Company by William Powell

What happened to the characters in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang when they entered adulthood? We find out in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, written by Bert V. Royal and …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Review: ‘STOMP’ at the National Theatre by William Powell

Started by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1991, STOMP is a cacophony of sounds produced by common objects in lieu of musical instruments. An amalgam of music,…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:32PM
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Review: ‘A New Brain’ at the Colonial Players of Annapolis by William Powell

Harmonious voices! Hilarious hoofing! A dancing frog! With over 30 songs packed into its 90 minutes, the Colonial Players’ A New Brain is a magnificent autobiographical musical comedy that…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:47PM
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Review: ‘Leave It to Psmith’ at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Music and Drama Club (MAD Productions) by William Powell

He’s charming, he’s debonair, he’s sophisticated, and when you’ve got a problem, you better call Psmith – that’s Ronald Eustace Psmith (“the P is silent, like pterodactyl”). …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Review: ‘The Color Purple’ at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts by William Powell

Magic. Magnificent. Marvelous. There are only so many superlatives I can muster in such a small space, but The Color Purple, now running at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, is pheno…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PM
Monday, March 18, 2019

Review: ‘Henry IV, Part II’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by William Powell

After a smashing opening of Henry IV, Part I, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) has brought forth its terrific sequel, Henry IV, Part II. This play is wordier and less bloody than its pre…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PM
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Review: ‘Carmen’ by Annapolis Opera by William Powell

There was a moment in the first act of Annapolis Opera’s Carmen in which Director Fenlon Lamb assembled her cast in a colorful tableau that enthralled me and impressed itself on my mind. T…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18PM
Monday, February 18, 2019

Review: ‘Henry IV, Part I’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by William Powell

Intrigue! Battles! History! Excitement! In a stunningly entertaining display of stagecraft, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Henry IV, Part I features three of the best performances you�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PM
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Review: ‘Three Sistahs’ at MetroStage by William Powell

MetroStage’s Three Sistahs is a marvelous musical, an evening of vocal and dramatic excellence. Written and directed by Thomas W. Jones II – with a story by Janet Pryce – and…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AM
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Review: ‘American Moor’ at Anacostia Playhouse by William Powell

American Moor, in a return engagement at Anacostia Playhouse, lambasts the audience with a series of provocative questions: can an actor play a role without tapping into the darkest parts of…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:32PM
Sunday, January 6, 2019

Review: ‘[title of show]’ at NextStop Theatre Company by William Powell

Like TV’s “Seinfeld,” [title of show] is a show, to a degree, about the mundane. [title of show] is a musical about four friends creating a musical—the one the audie…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47PM
Sunday, December 16, 2018

Review: ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ at Anacostia Playhouse by William Powell

Driving Miss Daisy, at Anacostia Playhouse, tackles many subjects: growing older, race relations, and all sorts of personal drama encountered by its Southern protagonists over a 25-year peri…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PM
Monday, December 10, 2018

Review: ‘A Christmas Carol 2018’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company by William Powell

This isn’t your mother and father’s A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this present day version, Ebenezer Scrooge’s father Andrew runs the charitable Scrooge Family Foundation. T…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PM
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Review: ‘Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale’ at Silver Spring Stage by William Powell

The simplest tales can oftentimes bring the most enjoyment. Steph DeFerie’s Season of Light: A Winter Fairytale tells the mythical tale of a young girl, Magda, and a band of actors searchi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:20PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Review: ‘Woman of No Importance’ at Scena Theatre by William Powell

The first thing you notice about Scena Theatre’s Woman of No Importance is Alisa Mandel’s lush costume design. Like an unnamed character, her costumes define the characters nearly as muc…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:34PM
Monday, November 19, 2018

Review: ‘A Christmas Story, The Musical’ by Charm City Players by William Powell

A more dazzling display of heart-warming family entertainment and memories may not be found this Christmas Season than Charm City Players’ A Christmas Story, The Musical. With deft directi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PM
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Review: ‘The Benjamins’ at the Music and Drama Ministry of Shiloh Baptist Church of Landover by William Powell

“People that love money, they never have enough,” said a character from Director and Playwright Fay Brake’s engaging stage play, The Benjamins. With themes of overreaching ambition, gr…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PM
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Review: ‘East of Eden’ at NextStop Theatre Company by William Powell

Can one escape the sins of their ancestors? Can one choose their own course and overcome an evil background? These questions are explored in NextStop Theatre Company’s glorious new adapta…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:46PM
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Review: ‘The Crucible’ at Silver Spring Stage by William Powell

Silver Spring Stage’s spectacular and engrossing show, The Crucible, under Director Craig Allen Mummey’s expert guidance, tackles many contentious subjects, including sexism, racism, rel…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:21PM
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Review: ‘Dinner’ at 4615 Theatre Company by William Powell

Dinner is darkly hilarious, absurdist and at times psychologically frightening. The play, similar to Disgraced, is about a dinner party gone terribly wrong. Serving under the contemporary ha…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PM
Friday, August 3, 2018

Review: ‘The Color Purple’ at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater by William Powell

“I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don’t notice it,” said the character Shug Avery in novelist Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PM
Monday, July 23, 2018

Review: ‘No Time’ by Timeless Entertainment at Bowie Center for the Performing Arts by William Powell

It’s been said that family is a foundation—the one area in which failure can cause permanent heartache. Director and writer Gill Nelson’s amazing stage play No Time, the tagline of…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PM
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Review: ‘Heard It Through the Grapevine – A Tribute to Motown’ at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn by William Powell

“Motown is the soundtrack of people’s lives,” intoned Mack Leamon in his portrayal of legendary Motown record label founder Berry Gordy in Director/Writer/Choreographer Kashi-Tara’s …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PM
Friday, July 13, 2018

Review: ‘Steel Magnolias’ by Wolf Pack Theatre Company by William Powell

Steel Magnolias, by playwright Robert Harling, tells the southern-style story of a group of women who grow close while hanging together in a small-town, northwest Louisiana beauty shop. Truv…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26PM
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by William Powell

Who can resist entertaining theater on a warm, summer night? An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is especially apropos for such nights, and Chesapeake Shake…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PM
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Review: ‘The Promised Land’ by Dunvegan Productions by William Powell

The Promised Land is entertaining, thought-provoking, unsettling, and at times disturbing. Director and Playwright Lane McLeod Jackson has written and directed a dystopian tale in which the …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic