Page-to-Stage: Monday coverage

Report from Monday, September 7th – the concluding day of Page-to-Stage: [Read more...]

Laughing Daughter’s creators talk about its first production

How do musicals get written and produced?   In past columns, I have been following The Tapioca Miracle, now preparing for its fifth workshop presentation.  Here, we see a musical which went directly from the page to a full production in a small theatre in southern Maryland. [Read more...]

Page-to-Stage: Sunday coverage

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Hunter Styles saw Washington Shakespeare Company’s One Thousand and One Days and files this report: [Read more...]

Page-to-Stage: Saturday coverage

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With many of our reviewers resting on the DCTS yacht, anchored off the coast of Majorca, still exhausted from the enormous Fringe Festival, we are this year providing partial coverage of the Page-to-Stage Festival. This year’s selections include the following: [Read more...]

Page-to-Stage Daily Guide

The official Kennedy Center Program organizes events by venue. For your convenience, we present a printable easy-to-follow guide to Page-to-Stage, organized by date and time. [Read more...]

Page-to-Stage Festival this weekend

Theatres Give  Sneak Peeks at Upcoming Projects

Theater patrons looking for a glimpse into what is ahead for DC theater are in luck this Labor Day weekend as the Kennedy Center hosts the 8th Annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival.  [Read more...]

Camille: A Tearjerker

camilleAnyone can yearn for a life of spontaneous disco raves and cooked partridge for dinner, but it takes a certain class of bon vivant to make it happen. Marguerite Gauthier – the famed courtesan with a big heart and a tragic destiny – practically invented the class by herself. [Read more...]

Laughing Daughter

laughingdaughterRick Jones is trying to do a hard thing: write a musical around songs which his band, Meal Ticket, wrote and played back in the last century. He’s not there yet, but he’s working on it. [Read more...]

Wittenberg

wittenbergYou needn’t be a history buff to be swept up by the fun and antics of Wittenberg.  Sure, the main characters’ names and issues will sound familiar from cramming for history class, but they’re “fictional” spoofs inspired by the actual [Read more...]

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

momtmMusical theatre lovers will be thrilled to know that The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is back and better than ever.  MetroStage has chosen to revive their hit 2007 production to kick off its 25th season, [Read more...]