Fresh From the Funny Farm presents a collection of twenty-three comedy skits written and performed by current and former DC area high school students who are members of The Comedy Academy, Inc. of Silver Spring, MD,  a DC area after school program that seeks to foster student comedy writers and performers by providing writing workshops and performing opportunities. [Read more...]

“Marriage is a very risky thing; it’s like Chancery, once in it, you can’t get out of it, and the costs are enormous,” bemoans Cheviot Hill at the thought of his potential engagement to three different women at the same time in W.S. Gilbert’s three-act farcical comic play, Engaged.  This witty play, presented by the Victorian Lyric Opera Company at the Mountain at Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church, is engaging and highly enjoyable. [Read more...]

Run Away with Me! is a high energy, fun-filled hour of amazing singing!  Terri Allen, Emily Leatha Everson, Justin Ritchie, and Lonny Smith razzle and dazzle the audience in this engaging and highly enjoyable cabaret show in the Baldacchino Gypsy Bar Tent.  If you love pop, jazz, country and Broadway show tunes, this show is a must see! [Read more...]

[Best Imitation], written by Jeremy F. Richter, is a musical with an odd assortment of plot twists and songs that fail to define any purpose behind the existence of the show.  The musical opens with Jeremy F. Richter, as the character “Me”, walking through an apartment door in the middle of the stage. [Read more...]

McSwiggin’s Pub, a one-man drama/comedy performance starring Second City alum and Hill staffer Sean O’Brien, comes complete with some funny moments, fake beer drinking and a little audience participation. [Read more...]

Love Noir: The Music of Lenny, Kurt & Harold is a two-person cabaret show staring Lonny Smith and Maris Wicker.  The show presents eighteen songs from the songbooks of Leonard Bernstein (best known for writing the music for the classic Broadway shows West Side Story, On the Town and Wonderful Town), Kurt Weill (composer of “Mack the Knife” and “Sing Low”), and Harold Arlen (composer of the score for The Wizard of Oz including the classic American standard “Over the Rainbow”). [Read more...]

Bernadette’s Bravo! is a musical story about five middle-aged girlfriends who decide to enter a writing contest called “Bernadette’s Bravo,” in which each woman must think of a particularly meaningful story from her lifetime of experiences and then create a “bravo” (a phrase of seven words or less) that best explains what this story or what life has taught her. [Read more...]