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Monday, January 6, 2020

Dark Horse Theatre Company presents regional premiere of ‘The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later’ by Leandra Lynn

Located just 47 miles away from Washington, DC in The Plains, Virginia, Dark Horse Theatre Company creates some of the best theater in the DC area. Director Natasha Parnian continues a strea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PM
Friday, December 13, 2019

Christmastime is here (in Manassas) with Prince William Little Theatre’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ by Leandra Lynn

Prince William Little Theatre’s A Charlie Brown Christmas feels as comfortable and warm as snuggling up on the couch and watching classic Christmas movies with a mug of cocoa. Supported by…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Slapstick is served with ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ by Vienna Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

One Man, Two Guvnors, written by Richard Bean and directed at Vienna Theatre Company by Eric Storck, is aggressively funny stuff. Played as big as possible, each character pays homage to Com…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Review: ‘Isn’t It Romantic’ by Theatre@CBT by Leandra Lynn

Isn’t It Romantic, written by Wendy Wasserstein and directed by Arielle Katz, follows Janie Blumberg (Elizabeth A. Weiss) and Harriet Cornwall (Betsy Ryan), both in their late 20s and both…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PM
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Review: ‘No Exit’ by Dark Horse Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

Dark Horse Theatre Company knocks it out of the park again with this atmospheric trip to the afterlife. No Exit, written by Jean-Paul Sartre and directed by Natasha Parnian, is weird and dar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PM
Monday, July 22, 2019

Review: ‘Annie’ by Prince William Little Theatre by Leandra Lynn

From toe-tapping numbers, to adorable orphans, there are few things as purely wonderful for the soul as a production of Annie, and Prince William Little Theatre delivers a production like no…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:47PM
Monday, July 15, 2019

2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Arcade’ by Leandra Lynn

Arcade is unlike anything you will experience at Fringe. Equal parts art installation, gaming experience, and nostalgia, Arcade perfectly encapsulates the feeling of walking into a 1980s ar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Review: ‘P.S. Your Cat is Dead!’ by Dominion Stage by Leandra Lynn

P.S. Your Cat is Dead!, written by James Kirkwood, Jr. and directed by Michael Page, is a great look at different manifestations of schadenfreude (pleasure derived by someone from another pe…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PM
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Review: ‘The Value of Moscow’ by Dark Horse Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

I really enjoy going to Dark Horse Theatre Company productions because troupe founder Natasha Parnian takes every opportunity to bring the audience into the story. The Value of Moscow, writt…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PM
Monday, April 8, 2019

Review: ‘Godspell (2012 Revised Version)’ by Rooftop Productions by Leandra Lynn

Rooftop Productions has wowed me yet again, this time with its current production, Godspell. I have a hard time describing Godspell because there isn’t exactly a plot; there are several in…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26PM
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Review: ‘Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic’ by Landless Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

Ask just about anyone Gen-X and younger and they can (and will, gladly) tell you which House they would be sorted into, if we had the chance to attend a certain school of magic. For those of…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PM
Monday, February 25, 2019

Review: ‘The Head That Wears the Crown’ by Ally Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

Some people remember their high school fondly as formative years where lifelong friendships formed. However, just under that superficial gloss, there sometimes lies a painful, broken world o…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AM
Sunday, January 6, 2019

Review: ‘Craving for Travel’ at Dark Horse Theatre Company by Leandra Lynn

Craving for Travel, written by Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg, and directed by Natasha Parnian immediately piqued my interest from the first time I read the tagline used in promotional mater…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18PM
Friday, December 14, 2018

Review: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ at Prince William Little Theatre by Leandra Lynn

Prince William Little Theatre’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, directed by Caroline Scarborough, presents the well-known story of George Bailey (Michael Clendeni…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018

Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Leandra Lynn

I never feel like I’m fully in the Christmas spirit until I’ve donned an ugly sweater, had a gingerbread cookie and watched a production of A Christmas Carol. Little Theatre of Alexandri…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PM
Friday, November 9, 2018

Review: ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ by Sterling Playmakers by Leandra Lynn

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, by Sterling Playmakers and produced by Shanna Christian, is an intense musical experience with just enough blood, murder, mischief, and mayhem…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PM
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Review: ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ at Creative Cauldron by Leandra Lynn

Children’s theatre is almost always adorable but not necessarily a place where you will see fantastic performances. Peter Pan and Wendy at Creative Cauldron succeeds in telling the classic…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:13PM
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Review: ‘9 to 5: The Musical’ at Prince William Little Theatre by Leandra Lynn

It can be hard sometimes for a musical adapted from a well-loved movie to meet expectations. Prince William Little Theater’s production of 9 to 5: The Musical was a fantastic and energy-fi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PM
Monday, October 8, 2018

Review: ‘A Tuna Christmas’ by McLean Community Players by Leandra Lynn

Some people believe that the Christmas season should begin the Friday after Thanksgiving. Other people start celebrating Christmas earlier, in some cases, much earlier. If the turning of the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35AM
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Review: ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater by Leandra Lynn

When a story is so well-known and well-loved by many people, audience members tend to have high expectations and Aldersgate Church Community Theater’s production of The Count of Monte Cris…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Review: ‘Tape’ at Dominion Stage by Leandra Lynn

Tape is not a play with perfect characters or comfortable resolution. What makes Tape uncomfortable to watch is that the characters all feel like people we know. We all went to school with V…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:27PM

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