Dear Sara Jane
February 28, 2010 by Tim Treanor
Filed under Features, Our Reviews
It is a measure of the Obama Administration’s successful wind-down of the war in Iraq that Dear Sara Jane, Victor Lodato’s complex meditation on the uses of violence now being given a careful and intelligent production by the Hub Theatre,
QuestFest’s wordless theater festival returns to DC area
February 28, 2010 by Tim Treanor
Filed under News and Views
Quest: Arts for Everyone, a Maryland-based organization “committed to using the arts to…enable individuals who have been marginalized to realize their full potential” will collaborate with The Theater Project and Creative Alliance of Baltimore and Washington’s Gallaudet University to stage QuestFest 2010, a two-week festival of primarily non-verbal theater, in the two cities. The [...]
The Great One-Man Commedia Epic
February 27, 2010 by Rosalind Lacy
Filed under Our Reviews
Matthew R. Wilson’s Great One-Man Commedia Epic is much more than a slap-stick, pratfall comedy, although it is all of that. He is an hilarious Harlequin of many faces.
QuestFest 2010
February 27, 2010 by lorraine treanor
Filed under Uncategorized
QuestFest 2010, an international visual theatre festival produced by Quest in partnership with Gallaudet University in Washington and the Theatre Project and Creative Alliance in Baltimore, returns to the Baltimore/Washington area March 1-14, 2010, with a two-week long festival of performances and workshops featuring an international roster of deaf and hearing artists.
Hairspray
February 27, 2010 by Alex Murphy
Filed under In MD, Onstage Now
Hairspray delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960’s Baltimore where the 50’s are out and change is in the air. Lovable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show. Over night she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen [...]
Oliver
February 27, 2010 by Alex Murphy
Filed under In MD, Onstage Now
The Charles Dickens classic tale of a waif in 19th century England comes alive brilliantly in this wondrous musical. Fleeing a life of workhouse servitude, Oliver arrives in London to seek his fortune, discovers the Crime School for Boys and a gallery of unforgettable low-lifes.
Show-n-Tell A New Musical
February 27, 2010 by lorraine treanor
Filed under In DC, Kids Stages, Onstage Now
Broadway veteran and Dr. Oz dance fitness guru, Stepp Stewart presents the World Premiere of Show-n-Tell, his brand-new high-energy soul-stirring musical for kids … and for the kids that still live in the hearts of their parents.
High Fidelity interviews: Andrew Baughman, Stephen Gregory Smith and Julie Herber
February 25, 2010 by Joel Markowitz
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze
With High Fidelity, Landless has done it again – another amazing production of a musical that just didn’t do well in NYC, and turned it into a winner.
That Face
February 25, 2010 by Jayne Blanchard
Filed under Features, Our Reviews
Studio Theatre’s production of That Face isn’t pretty, but is instead a startling look into rich, ruined children forced to raise their monstrous parents from young playwright phenom Polly Stenham.
Bus Stop
February 25, 2010 by Ted Ying
Filed under Features, Our Reviews
This classic romantic comedy seems to have withstood the test of time. Many remember Marilyn Monroe, as Cherie, in the 1956 film. The story still warms the audience like stepping inside from the cold of the Midwestern blizzard that provides the background for the play.









