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Review submitted by Amanda Gamage of Albert Einstein High School. With lively Scott Joplin-esque music filling the air, mysterious illusionists breaking out of impossible traps, and Latvian immigrants, you will think you have stepped through a time machine and entered early 20th century America. But you havent – you’ve only stepped into Thomas S. Wootton High [...]
Review submitted by Allison Fantz of Robert E. Lee High School. Were either men, or were monkeys, and if we know that were men, we should never let someone treat us like monkeys. The shocking drama “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” tells a story of determination and intimidation, of courage and fear, as a [...]
Review submitted by Jordan Goodson of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Teenagers dance jubilantly across the stage, chattering and laughing amongst themselves. However, instead of skinny jeans and hoodies, they are bedecked in poodle skirts and leather jackets. The music floating around is not Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus, but Elvis Presley and Johnny [...]
Review submitted by Daryl Bright of Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Home is where the heart is. Well when home consists of a narcissistic father, an evil stepmother, and a dimwitted half-brother, then I, like Pippin, would have searched for fulfillment elsewhere too! With a disco ball, a dancing granny, and a dying ducky, The [...]
Review submitted by Max Johnson of McLean High School. Call them what you will– losers, punks, delinquents, outcasts– stuck within society’s fringe, Ponyboy Curtis and his fellow greasers can’t seem to escape from these stifling labels. However, when an understanding hand is extended from the exclusive circle of the “Socs,” the opportunity to be seen as [...]
Review submitted by Elgin Martin of Thomas S. Wootton High School. When you think of musical comedy, you think of Anything Goes. This Cole Porter classic debuted on Broadway in 1934 and since then has been revived twice on Broadway, produced three times on the West End, inspired two movies, and recently, embarked on a [...]
Do or Die Productions begins a new run of its raucously hilarious dinner-theater interactive murder mysteries in a new venue this weekend. Flanagan’s Harp & Fiddle, an Irish pub and restaurant in Bethesda, will host the comic improvisation troupe twice each weekend beginning Sept. 14 for at least the next six weeks. Promising that “you’ll [...]
