The newly formed Quackensteele Theatre Company introduced itself last night to the DC area with a very impressive debut production of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical tick, tick…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:38AM[SHARE]Ed Dixon is currently very busy over at Signature Theatre. He is part of the cast for a new musical called Cloak and Dagger. As we all know performing is not an easy job but Ed also wrote th…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:53PM[SHARE]Frank Britton, one of the area’s busiest actors was brutally attacked in Silver Spring MD by four lowlifes on May 26th 2014 as he was hailing a cab to go home. Britton is currently per…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:45PM[SHARE]Mike Bartlett's play C**k now playing at Studio Theatre examines the questions of do we really know what lifestyle we want to choose for ourselves and will we be happy with that choice. …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:45AM[SHARE]Randy Johnson’s work is being represented for the second time this season at Arena Stage where he is currently the director of Smokey Joe's Café — The Songs of Lieber and Sto…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:35PM[SHARE]Every once in a while I get to work an event that gives me total satisfaction. This past Friday night at Theater J was one of those times. As you might know from past features, I will always…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:15AM[SHARE]There are some musicals that never get their just due in NY. Stephen Schwartz's biblical masterpiece Children of Eden is one of those shows. It had a rough go of it with its London premiere …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:52AM[SHARE]John Leslie Wolfe is currently portraying the corrupt police chief Tiger Brown in Signature Theatre’s production of The Threepenny Opera. Â John has been seen onstage in NY in an ecl…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 10:41PM[SHARE]Emily Young is currently onstage at Folger Theatre as part of Fiasco Theatre’s production of  The Two Gentleman of Verona in the roles of Lucetta and Sylvia . She was seen on …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 03:52PM[SHARE]Washington National Opera's current production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, now playing at Kennedy Center's Opera House, is well sung and has, as far as operas go, a lighthearted story featu…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:25PM[SHARE]Today’s column is one of a very personal nature and the subject is a person I care very deeply about. Virginia Gregory for many years played Luisa in The Fantasticks at Sullivan Str…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:54AM[SHARE]Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera has to be one of the more difficult musicals from the last century for a theatre company to produce, but Arlington VA's Signature Theatre…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:10PM[SHARE]Many plays, musicals and movies use Hollywood as a backdrop. Sunset Boulevard, City of Angels and Mack and Mabel are a few examples of how Hollywood has crossed into other mediums of enterta…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 06:16PM[SHARE]This past Monday evening, the 30th annual Helen Hayes Awards were handed out at the National Building Museum in DC and for the first time I was privileged to be in attendance. As you might k…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:48PM[SHARE]Glen Berger's play, Underneath the Lintel, shows us the effects of taking your job way too seriously. The solo piece, now playing at Metro Stage, features veteran actor Paul Morella as a Dut…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:04PM[SHARE]Ines Nassara is currently playing Ronny in the smash hit production of Hair at Keegan Theatre. Ines recently made a big impression on me and everyone else as the Civil Rights Marcher in Cros…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:53PM[SHARE]Kate Skinner is currently playing the role of Mistress Quickly in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s epic rep of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Kate’s many appearances at STC include T…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 12:49PM[SHARE]Many plays and movies deal with one of the most horrific events in modern history " Â the Holocaust and anyone that's seen the movie Schindler's List or C.P. Taylor's play Good knows how t…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:58PM[SHARE]Itzhak Perlman is one of the world's greatest violinists. His performances have garnered fifteen Grammy Awards and four Emmys. If you don't know Perlman's work from the classical world then …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:40PM[SHARE]Peter Flynn is currently the director of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Ford’s Theatre. Peter’s main production debut at Ford’s Theatre was a  big one as …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:21PM[SHARE]Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey is currently portraying Haikumom (Odessa) in Water by the Spoonful at Studio Theatre after appearing there last season in The Motherf***er with the Hat. Ms. Fern…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:29PM[SHARE]Scratch one off the bucket list for this reviewer. I have been fortunate to see and work on a number of solo shows in my career and have now seen live onstage the one piece that is the pre-c…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:45PM[SHARE]Julie Dixon is currently playing the title role in Violet at the Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts. Julie’s story is an another example of why Theatre Lab is my favorite arts …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:56PM[SHARE]The current tour of the high energy production Bring It On The Musical roared into the Music Center at Strathmore this past weekend and turned, what is usually a hall known for concerts, …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 01:19AM[SHARE]Hallie Foote is currently making her Arena Stage debut as Rosalynn Carter in the world premiere of Camp David . On Broadway she earned a Tony nomination for her performance as MaryJ…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 04:38PM[SHARE]Eleven deaf and blind actors are in a kitchen making, kneading, and baking dough. ”Welcome to our darkness and silence,” one says. “We invite you to share our ever…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 02:37AM[SHARE]I see all kinds of theatre and for college level productions, American University ranks as one of the highest. Sam Edgerly went through the theatre program at American University and is now …
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 07:20PM[SHARE]Lots of theatre programs give young people a chance to be in a production in an educational setting. A recent example of this would be Les Misérables at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramat…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:45AM[SHARE]Sonia Manzano should be a familiar face to all of you, particularly if you or your child have been watching Sesame Street anytime since 1971. Sonia has been portraying the character…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 05:09PM[SHARE]Performers create solo shows for any number of reasons. The ones that resonate the most with me are when they are based on the performer's life and are presented honestly. In the case of Ann…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 11:48AM[SHARE]Click on the links in the introduction to hear samples of Don Harper’s music. Don Harper is a Los Angeles based film and TV composer, orchestrator, and conductor whose work is curre…
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