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In Club de Caballeros (Rotos de amor), or The Gentleman’s Club (Love Torn), we are able to see the truly desperate lengths that men will go to in order to achieve love. This hysterical comedy by Argentinean Playwright Rafael Bruza demonstrates this through four men who attempt to heal their broken hearts by rather ridiculous [...]
Synetic Theater, that theatre best known for its “wordless” Shakespeares, or wordless Jekyll & Hydes—or wordless “anything”—has decided to speak in its new production of Alexander Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. Then again, what Synetic is also known for is risk-taking (as if a theatre that offers an original production [adaptation] with each new show weren’t taking a huge [...]
Yes. This is another story about people taking off their clothes in front of strangers. Only there are no busty Hollywood starlets nor do the characters bear any semblance of the hunks who star in Magic Mike. But there’s a reason The Full Monty is still one of the most popular musicals in the country. [...]
This review is brought to you by the letter “G” for GO! Go see Tidewater Players production of Avenue Q! It might not help you find your purpose in life, but it will bring you plenty of laughs! Best described as a Saturday Night Live spoof of Sesame Street, Avenue Q addresses the trials and tribulations of entering the ‘real’ adult [...]
Return with me now to a day gone by. When musicals had big orchestras, solid storylines, great music, and not a chandelier or helicopter in sight. MTG readers, now through May 26th you can see something that has all that. All you have to do is go and get a ticket to Washington National Opera’s [...]
On Sunday, May 5th, women in their fancy gowns and men in their dapper tuxedos turned out to help support the 21st annual Kennedy Center Spring Gala which provides critical funding to support the Center’s performances, education, and outreach initiatives. The centerpiece of the gala was a performance of a concert version of the musical My [...]
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, [...]
Sure we’ve got a long way to go, but America has made great strides over the past one-hundred years. And I’m guessing the characters in the popular period musical Ragtime would agree. This season, Kensington Arts Theatre breathes new life into Terrence McNally’s resonant, Tony award winning play about race, class, and culture in the early twentieth [...]
“If music be the food of love, play on.” And if music be not the food? Play on anyway because Folger Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night is nothing short of a feast of delightful visuals and characters, moments of kindness and devilish high jinx, sounds of the bawdy and faces from just this side of madness. In other words, [...]
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 [...]
Dreaming the impossible dream, Castaways Repertory Theatre debuted their production of Man of La Mancha on April 26th. Based on the classic novel Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes, this reimagining has Cervantes himself as a character, setting his story as a play within a play. Through his narration we see his erstwhile knight, Don [...]
Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award winning play Other Desert Cities is one of those plays that upon first viewing in NYC I said “Wow!!” I found it to be extremely well acted and really well written. The story is very dramatic, as it explores what happens when a child, who has had a breakdown, comes [...]
Howard Community College’s Arts Collective’s production of Prelude to a Kiss treats an absurd premise with sensitivity, shedding light on the themes of love and loss. The story concerns two young neurotics, Rita and Peter. On the day of their wedding, a strange old man asks to kiss the bride— causing his and Rita’s souls [...]
The Memorial Players are currently presenting Meet Me in St. Louis which promises to be as sweet and as fluffy as cotton candy on a stick. Based on the classic 1944 MGM motion picture starring Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis didn’t appear on Broadway until 45 years later. Even after the musical was recognized by [...]
