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Here is the scenario. A cricket in Connecticut gets a whiff of some food in a picnic basket and ends up in a busy Times Square subway station where he becomes a sensation for his musical talents. How do you translate this to the stage? Well…. you commission a second generation world class musician to [...]
“Wow,” said Lilly. That was about all she could say. “Wow.” That’s also what my daughter (also Lilly) said when we first saw the stage of Pumpkin Theatre’s production of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. The stage design (by Ryan Michael Haase) embodies the joy and enthusiasm found in the pages of Kevin Henkes’s delightful children’s [...]
Yak Yak everyone, the popular children’s book series and comic strip Big Nate has arrived at Adventure Theatre MTC in a sparkling world premiere musical featuring some of DC’s best and brightest performers and penned by Olney Theatre Center’s new Artistic Director Jason Loewith and longtime conductor and new Associate Producer of Olney Theatre Center, [...]
There are few places in the DC area where puppetry is performed today, but in the surroundings of Glen Echo Park it is alive and well with the Puppet Co. Artistic Director Christopher Piper is preserving a slowly dying art form, and for the last 8 years his company has been bringing his wonderful presentations [...]
The Magic Finger is the second of two Roald Dahl’s children’s stories reimagined for the stage and now in repertory at Imagination Stage. The Magic Finger is one of Roald Dahl’s lesser-known stories, but his message is still very relevant. The story is narrated by Lucy (Megan Graves), an 8-year-old girl who is especially sensitive [...]
James and the Giant Peach at Imagination Stage brings Roald Dahl’s children’s story to a brightly colored, groovy life. This musical adaptation has the eccentric and eclectic characters jumping off Dahl’s pages dressed in 1960s attire and grooving to their own live musical beat. Dahl’s children stories tend to have a child as the title [...]
One of the toughest things in theatre is to take an adult topic and make it palpable for young audiences. Jason Invisible currently running in The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater takes on such a topic-mental illness and does so in a way that is thoroughly engaging throughout. ‘Jason Invisible’ is an important piece of theatre… With [...]
What play mesmerizes, tantalizes, and revitalizes you as it whisks you away on a warm and sweet ocean breeze? Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Three Little Birds does! Playwright Michael Bobbitt and Director Nick Olcott have brought to life this superb Jamaican adventure based on the story by Cedella Marley and inspired by the music [...]
The Puppet Co. Playhouse does it again with a sweet adaptation of a classic fairytale. This time the fairytale is Jack and the Beanstalk with rod puppets and an exciting surprise carnival puppet as the giant. Jack and his mother are poor, living on a broken-down farm with little to call their own, and Jack [...]
I never thought that there was something greater and more powerful than the Wizard of Oz is in his Land of Oz, but today I discovered that Pumpkin Theatre’s production of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz is all that and much more! The basics of the traditional story of the Wizard of Oz are [...]
Winner of the Best of 2012 Reader’s Choice Award from MD Theatre Guide for “Best Arts and Education Institution for Children/Young Adults,” the Children’s Playhouse of MD continues their excellence in the performing arts for children with their current production of Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. Inside the Royal Palace gates in the faraway city of Agrabah, Princess [...]
The news headline reads, “The Fairytale Trial of the Century!” and in the Fairytale world, the trial of the infamous Big Bad Wolf certainly is. Encore Stage & Studio’s comedic production of Big Bad at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre delights children and adults alike as the Big Bad Wolf must prove his innocence despite all [...]
The classic television cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is known throughout the land as classic comedy with a twist of fright. Since 1969, children of all ages have followed the tried and true plot line that always begins with the “Scooby Gang” — Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers and their semi-talking [...]
Anime Momotaro at Imagination Stage is explosive fun that brings Japanese style animation, anime, to vivid life with colorful characters, talented actors and a touching folk tale about Momotaro, a peach boy. Anime Momotaro merges two Japanese cultural icons: an ancient story of a boy born from a peach and anime. Anime started in Japan [...]
