Saturday, January 14, 2017
Friday marked the opening at Silver Spring Stage of a very timely drama, Silent Sky, by Laura Gunderson. Produced by Seth Ghitelman and directed by Bill Hurlbut, Silent Sky is the fasc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2016
Proof by David Auburn, directed by Nyalls Hartmanis playing through Sunday at the Black Box Theatre in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building at University of Maryland Baltimore County …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Bill Gillett and presented by Howard Community College Theatre Program, opened last night. The thundering Niagara Falls serves as a p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
Thursday, September, 22, 2016, marked the beginning of the 22nd Season for Howard Community College's Arts Collective. Thursday night’s performance of the Underground Rooftop Coffee Ho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2016
Friday night was a very special night at Silver Spring Stage as they opened their 49th Season with Thomas Hischak's play, The Emperor of North America. This production was presented as pa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2016
This weekend two theater companies, Silver Spring Stage and The Montgomery County Playhouse, collaborated to present the 2016 One-Act Festival. This weekend, The Montgomery Playhouse perform…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 23, 2016
A first-rate production of  Monty Python’s Spamalot Spamalot opened last night in the intimate Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children's Theatre located in Frederick, M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:28PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
This short political farce by Louis James Brenner is reminiscent of the comedy of SNL with the irreverence of South Park. Better A Witty Fool is a timely comedy reflecting the present …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
‘Saudade; the one where I miss you‘ is a heartwarming play that deals with not only personal loss, but complex family relationships. It underscores the need for family ties and t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson has created a wonderful idea for cultural immersion. They incorporated food and a musical theme night as part of their …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts Summer, Silk Road Stories begins to blossom this upcoming Friday, June 10th with a reprise of Stoop Storytelling at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center &…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
A powerful production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Next to Normal, opened Friday night at Silhouette Stages. With music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Ne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 14, 2016
Christopher Durang's outrageous Miss Witherspoon opened last night at Silver Spring Stage. The show is directed by Kevin O'Connell and produced by Devon Seybert. Durang's black comedy …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
There are always community gems we rarely hear about, but Encore Chorale, which was founded in 2001, has become a treasure chest of talent. They began as a study to see what the impact of pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director Todd Olson, presented a Mark Edwards, Classical Spanish Guitar at the historical Oliver's Carriage House on Sunday, April 17, 20…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson, presented an evening of Latin American music, Dos Por Uno on Saturday, April 16, 2016, featuring the bands Las Cafeter…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2016
The Silhouette Players – more known for their wonderful musicals – will be presenting a evening of entertainment and fun at Cabaret Night on April 23, 2016 at 8PM at Slayton Hous…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
On Friday, April 8, 2016, the fourth and final performance this season of W.I.G., ("What Improv Group?!") – the improvisational group that is part of Howard Community College’s A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
If Frederick Knott had only written the classic thriller, Dial M for Murder, it would have been enough. Knott actually went on to write only two great mystery dramas  – Write Me …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts has changed its format from an early summer (or very late spring) one month format to a quarterly themed one. This year’s Spring Festival –Â V…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
William Shakespeare's great comedy, Much Ado about Nothing, is playing at Silver Spring Stage. The show is directed by Andrew Greenleaf and produced by Greenleaf and Katherine Offut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
Maybe you could not dance all night, but on Thursday, March 31, 2016, when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed Broadway Divas at the Music Center at Strathmore, I could not stop tappi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 12, 2016
House., an original comedy written and directed by Daniel Johnston, opened last night at Howard Community College's Arts Collective at the Horowitz Center in the Studio Theatre. This is John…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
Silhouette Stages’Â play-within-a-play Noises Off by Noises Off, produced by Jeremy Goldman and directed by Conni Ross is playing at Slayton House in Columbia, MD. If you have never …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts stretched its more traditional boundaries to bring Black Lives Black Words on Saturday, February 20, 2016. This was a dramatic reading of Black playwr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2016
Animals Out of Paper by Rajiv Joseph, produced by Star Johnson and directed by Brandon Rashad Butts, is now playing at Silver Spring Stage, the perfect venue for this intimate drama wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The Columbia Festival of the Arts under Executive Director, Todd Olson, continues to bring the Howard County Area some of the greatest performers of our time. Since the Festival started 30 y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 6, 2016
The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project, and produced by Craig Pettinati and directed by John Nunemaker, opened at the Kensington Arts Theatre on F…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 30, 2016
When Todd Olson began his present position as Executive Director of the Columbia Festival of the Arts in 2013, he decided to change the format of the program to include a program for every s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
This Rude Mechanicals' production of one of Shakespeare's ‘problem’ plays – All’s Well That Ends Well –Â is an example of the fact that if you have great writ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 9, 2016
Humble Boy, written by Charlotte Jones, is obviously based on the plot of Shakespeare's famous Dane, Hamlet. The parallels are purposefully obvious. A young man comes home to his mother. …
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