Monday, February 24, 2020
Don’t let those off-putting promos for Kill Move Paradise at Rep Stage Co. stop you from turning out for its solid regional premiere at Howard Community College. This 2016 piece of theater…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMThursday, January 23, 2020
Sizzle sells, or as Kinky Boots proved on Broadway in 2013, “The Sex Is In the Heel.” Why was the musical named Kinky Boots? Maybe Fetish Footwear didn’t have quite the same kick. �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Jesus wears his hair in a man-bun and Mary Magdalene appears a bit like a millennial caught outside her “safe space”—but there’s still plenty of power and glory on display in the new…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:23PMFriday, November 15, 2019
On stage, Aladdin starts out as the perfect musical for nine-year-olds. But by the time its two swooning lovers have hopped aboard a flying carpet for a trip to the moon, all moms and dads i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PMSunday, November 3, 2019
At Rep Stage in Howard County, Bob Bartlett’s new play E2 certainly proves it can make a head-turning entrance. This bold and sensuous take on the oft-told tale of King Edward II unfolds a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07PMSaturday, October 12, 2019
Baltimore’s fussy old Hippodrome Theatre is the ideal setting for any show dealing with fin de siècle madmen acting out obsessive love fantasies. So consider it a reward to have a thrilli…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Suspense-thrillers used to make up a sizable portion of every dinner theater menu, but the days of Death Trap and Agatha Christie yarns have given way to a nearly non-stop diet of musical en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:05PMThursday, June 27, 2019
The notion that “history has its eyes on you” animates and obsesses the title character in Hamilton. A similar shadow of destiny heralded the Maryland debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s uns…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:23PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
For Rep Stage Co.’s The 39 Steps, disaster is never more than one step away. With only four actors re-enacting an entire vintage spy movie right before our eyes and assuming some 140 diffe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Ideally, Come From Away should be seen in the round, with the audience gathered so close by that it can share the claustrophobia, fear and love of all those grounded passengers. It’s a pit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Tucked inside the new live musical retelling of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Toby’s Dinner Theatre is an altogether wonderful concert staging that should not be missed. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:48PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Ticket holders for The Book of Mormon national tour had better be prepared to exercise a muscle that doesn’t get much of a workout these days — the one that controls the “personally of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33AMSaturday, March 2, 2019
Thanks to some first-rate shape-shifting at Rep Stage, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is almost as much a work of animation as it is a documentary. Oh, and let’s not forget magic act. Daniell…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:46PMSaturday, February 2, 2019
We can hold our breath but we’re never likely to get another musical as perfect as Gypsy. Sixty Broadway seasons ago it caught the unique charms and pathology of show business in a magic b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:45PMThursday, January 24, 2019
With a winning young actor in the lead role, any ticket to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is good as gold. Eleven-year-old Rueby Wood made the perfect Charlie Bucket the night we attended…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
There’s nothing wrong with Anastasia: The New Broadway Musical that a little modern relevance wouldn’t cure. It certainly looks sensational inside the grand proscenium framing of Baltimo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:11PMFriday, November 30, 2018
The Little Mermaid is bringing big waves of happy little faces to Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Whether they come adorned in magical gowns with sparkling tiaras or sneakers that light up with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
The spirits of displacement and change hang heavily over Fiddler on the Roof these days. What keeps it all from becoming, well, dispiriting is the heartfelt humanity evident in every timeles…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:20PMSunday, November 4, 2018
The mental province that stretches from magical thinking to ordinary self-delusion is given a new survey in Callie Kimball’s Things That Are Round, now having its world premiere via the Eq…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
The Hippodrome Theatre has bookended its 2018 season with a pair of heavy-lifting musicals about democracy and revolution. For openers, it has that 30th-anniversary touring production of Les…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:10PMSunday, July 8, 2018
Just months after finishing its final pro tour, Mamma Mia! has hit us closer to home at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. In the hands of Director-Choreographer Mark Minnick, the pro caliber of this …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMThursday, June 7, 2018
Politics may have played a key role in driving the future Gloria Estefan from her home in Cuba and positioning her for eventual world acclaim in Miami. But politics hardly merit an “air gu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Think of the latest “new” Gershwin touring show up at the Hippodrome Theatre — An American in Paris — as a G.I. “jukebox musical” with legs. About a hundred of them, it seems. An…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:26PMSunday, April 29, 2018
America lost its most distinctive theater voice of the 1980s with the passing of Sam Shepard. But that voice still resonates through works like True West, getting a welcome return by Rep Sta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:43PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
The fun of seeing Motown the Musical starts a few hours before leaving for the theater. Just the promise of that glorious oldies playlist is like inner ear foreplay. There isn’t much that …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PMSunday, March 25, 2018
There’s nothing fake about the news out of Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Its homegrown production of Newsies gathers such a concentration of explosive male talent under one roof that Columbia m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
An evening of wordplay on the meanings and messages of Modern art awaits audiences at All She Must Possess. This is another worthy world premiere from the venturesome Rep Stage Company at Ho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
You will want to leave a more-than-generous tip for the national tour of Waitress, especially if you appreciate top-notch service. It is currently bringing all the spicy baked sweetness of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:16PMFriday, January 26, 2018
It did not turn out well for Dr. Frankenstein or his monster, but receiving an abnormal brain was a blessing for Mel Brooks. After eight decades in show business, he is still using that gift…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMSunday, December 10, 2017
Chalk up one more cartoon feature making a dash for freedom under the footlights. Madagascar—A Musical Adventure is now filling the intimate Red Branch Theatre with a veritable Noah’s Ar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMThursday, November 30, 2017
It doesn’t exactly live up to its billing as a miracle, but Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre has its heart in the right place. It is a lovely way to gather th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33PM 
