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Little Theatre of Alexandria’s 33 Variations is a wonderful piece of theatre that intertwines themes of genius, mortality, and the preciousness of time that resonates both to music lovers and lovers of life. Moises Kaufman’s work, nominated for a Tony yet only a having a short-lived run on Broadway, is an art lover’s delight. It [...]
Port City Playhouse has taken on an ambitious venture–an exploration of our social comfort zones in the comedy-drama Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, first performed on Broadway in 1992. More of a standalone artifact than a conventional drama, it toys with our sensibilities by seeing how far we are willing to go to suspend [...]
The Hub Theatre in Fairfax has a spring offering that, like the season itself, offers up fresh new insights to the world we live in. And it inspires us to think differently about the age-old challenge of the giving and receiving of love. In its area premiere, A Man, His Wife, and His Hat features [...]
Proving that theatre has the ability to shock, amuse, entertain, and provide insight—all in one dazzling evening—1st Stage Theatre’s offering of Never the Sinner delivers on all counts. The tale of the century almost a century ago was the case of Leopold and Loeb, names forever joined together in infamy. These 2 wealthy and privileged [...]
Fancy the British Players to serve up the head-spinning puff pastry, “Don’t Dress For Dinner,” as their spring offering. An absorbing bon mot, it is a fast paced sex romp with clothes on and gloves off–a tale of casual infidelity, switched identities, sight gags, bad puns (is there any other kind), and surprise visitors. In [...]
Surely few shows have ever grabbed its audience so immediately and fully into its grasp. The opening of The Drowsy Chaperone, performed at Catholic University of America’s Rome School of Music, takes place in abrupt darkness, while an anxious but personable voice drifts from stage left to greet us. As we learn, he is an [...]
Have you ever ordered a dish—maybe an eggplant parm, or a nice pasta with vodka cream sauce- and it came back different than expected, but hey, you uh…liked it bettah? This could happen to you when you see 1st Stage Theater’s Italian American Reconciliation, “playing in the industrial hinterland,” by way of Tyson’s Corner, VA. [...]
Just slightly askew, Dark but not blue, Tom’s foolery might be The odd outing you view… Elden Street Players, a bastion of quality theatre in Herndon-Restonburbia, opened its decidedly offbeat Tomfoolery recently. The show is a compendium of misplaced and mordant song lyrics from Tom Lehrer, a colorful thinker and entertainer who gained a following with the [...]
Ever have that person–it could be an acquaintance or a relative—who drops by for an extended time and makes you want to roll your eyes, bite your tongue, or just simply vacate the room? And what if you can’t leave? It is your house, after all… This is the premise of The Show Off by George Kelly at The American Century Theater. American Century Theater focuses on reaching into [...]
Nestled in one of the forested layers of Fairfax suburbia, down a winding road is a theatre group that has taken on projects that belie its size, but not its stature. The Hub Theatre, continuing its tradition of offering a lab type setting for emerging shows, is presenting How I Paid For College. This world premiere is a one-person show based [...]
Scrooge and Tiny Tim will never be viewed the same. And don’t be surprised if at your next A Christmas Carol experience, you suddenly find yourself swapping out the show’s sadness with smirks, replacing ghosts with guffaws. MetroStage has brought back its nutty seasonal chestnut, A Broadway Christmas Carol, a retelling of the classic story as an entirely vaudevillian send up. Classic Broadway standards are cleverly [...]
Well, lets just say you won’t get this show confused with The War Horse… Even though the aforementioned commercial hit is touring at the Kennedy Center roughly 30 miles away, Equus, though also an equine-themed production, strikes completely different emotional cords. This gripping psychological case study, rarely performed in community theatre, was tackled head on, [...]
What if happily-ever-after doesn’t turn out that happy? Into The Woods, the 1987 Sondheim-Lapine musical, performed spritely in a collaboration between George Mason University’s School of Music and its Department of Theater, ponders this question and offers a sobering answer in song and dance. Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, the piece whimsically presents the lives [...]
In keeping with its traditions of staging and supporting original works, Arlington’s Signature Theatre presented Crossing: In Concert, an ambitious and original musical presented in a staged reading/presentation on the weekend of October 20th. Its presentation is part of the ongoing American Musical Voices Project. Brought by the creative team of Eric Schaeffer (Director) and [...]
