Saturday, January 11, 2020
A near-capacity crowd hushed as the evening opened with the title song from Nat King Cole’s 1959 album Welcome to the Club. I was immediately impressed that Don Dillingham, the evening’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:03AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Mele Kalikimaka all y’all! This lively original musical collaboration between Director Joey Olson and Producer Jerri Wiseman captured the entire audience from the moment we all got “Leie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Imagine how excited I was. For the first time in my life, the baseball World Series was being played in Washington DC. On top of that, it is Rookie left fielder Juan Soto’s 21st Birthday. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMSaturday, May 11, 2019
A day marked by soaking rains lent a fitting atmosphere to Sherlock’s Veiled Secret, set between Sussex and London, England. K.C. Brown crafted the play around the legendary sleuth Sherloc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PMMonday, February 11, 2019
Everything about the Theatre@CBT production of The Wizard of Oz (book by John Kane based on L. Frank Baum’s classic novel, music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg) was thorou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:40PMSaturday, January 5, 2019
In Montgomery Playhouse’s production of Catch Me If You Can, now playing at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn, Director Ed Starr has once again sprinkled fairy dust on an erstwhile gaggle of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMMonday, December 17, 2018
This time of year, it can be challenging to keep your spirits merry and bright through the commercialized din of holiday exhortations. Well, I may have found an antidote to the seasonal fog.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMMonday, November 26, 2018
SMOKE! That raises the alarm that there’s been another “Clinker” episode from the diabolical furnace in the basement of the Parker home as the Gaithersburg Arts Barn hosts an entirely …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:31PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Below a luxurious burgundy velvet curtain, Rockville Musical Theatre’s Brigadoon Orchestra delivers the Overture under the Musical Direction of Joseph Sorge. The curtain opens as traveling…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMSunday, April 29, 2018
Throughout history, the term ‘Cover-up’ has evoked feelings of frustration, sadness and often horror once the truth is brought to light. Public perception changed drastically about produ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
This sold out production by local playwright John Morogiello and directed by Rabbi Stan Levin touched on so many current and historical hot points that I wonder how it all happened in ninety…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMSunday, January 7, 2018
Barely two months ago, the call went out for auditions to this cast. This is worth mentioning because in that short time, considering all the holiday distractions and scheduling challenges, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMFriday, November 10, 2017
I heard Kris Kringle (played by Harley Venton) tell little Susan Walker (Leah Packer): “…Imagination is a place all by itself. Now, you’ve heard of the French nation? … And the B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:41PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
I had a Great Aunt whose fourth floor walk-up apartment was very much on display when I entered the performance space at Har Shalom. I wondered if set designers Maggie Moddig and Steven Lesh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51AMSaturday, September 16, 2017
Just as you are taking down your Labor Day bunting and searching for last year’s fall decorations, there arrives a bit of spooky mystery and merriment for the whole family to enjoy. The Mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:48PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Pufferfish Pat is hardly your run of the mill Cowboy name. In fact, it’s so unusual that the cowboy it identifies gets “madder than a wet hen!” whenever it is mentioned. His face turns…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Hurry to see Seussical the Musical! This may be one of our area’s most popular theatrical events in no small part because it invites performers of all ages. Yet this particular performance…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Okay, twenty years ago I was more concerned with raising kids than living rough on the street, but that’s what the current tour of Rent celebrates. Where to live, how to love, finding work…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:12PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Humanity can never quite manage to get out of its own way. And that’s a good thing for the entertainment industry. Since “there is nothing new under the sun,” there is constant materia…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Suppose your two best friends were really talented and you invited them over to sing and tell stories and a few of your other friends found out and showed up to listen and it turned out to b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PMSaturday, April 8, 2017
I envy the folks lucky enough to have attended the opening night performance of George Bernard Shaw’s brand new play Pygmalion in 1913. They were afforded an unfiltered observation of cla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMSaturday, March 25, 2017
WOW!!! Actual bouncing off walls, excitement, enthusiasm and synchronized choreography – and that was just maneuvering into a parking space out front! Footloose Director Nicholas Jullian S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40PMMonday, March 6, 2017
Washington Concert Opera (WCO) concluded its 30th anniversary season with a rare performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore on stage at the George Washington University Lisner Auditoriu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:44PMFriday, January 20, 2017
There’s this hot little night club right across from some swanky automobile dealerships in a neighborhood calling itself Pike & Rose. The venue hosts a wide variety of arts and enterta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16PMSaturday, January 14, 2017
It seemed fitting somehow during a full moon, on Friday the thirteenth, to be attending Confucius on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year. Kong Dexin, a 77th-generation direct descendent of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
I love choral music. I love the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. I’ve been looking forward to this performance. Everything musical was wonderful during the evening. Even as the doors opened, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:14AMMonday, December 12, 2016
Once the energized crowd was seated and ready, Conductor and Music Director Julian Wachner had us all stand up for some vocal warm ups. Moans, laughter and hearty Ho, Ho, Ho’s were enoug…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Once again I was faced with the question: “How are they going to pull this off?” I mean a two person cast with easily a dozen significant characters in the original text – somethings g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19AMI came to review the venue as well as the performance so I need to share a bit about both. First of all AMP by Strathmore is a swanky nightclub nestled at the corner of Montrose Road and Roc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMSunday, December 4, 2016
The Comedy of Errors at Colonus: Uauthorized by William Shakespeare and Sophocles, adapted and directed by David Minton on December 3, 2016, at 7 PM, performed by the blue cast. I wonder if…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AMSaturday, November 26, 2016
The most significant difference between entering your neighborhood cinema to catch the latest PG film offering and traversing the Hall of Nations to enter the Grand Foyer at The Kennedy Cent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AM 
