Charles Dickens’ classic yarn seems less of a carol, as we call it, and more of a campfire tale, yet it has come to represent all that is wonderful about the holidays: redemption, joy, forgiveness. To say that Ebenezer Scrooge has been overdone—top hats, coat tails, canes, and soiled nightshirts—would be blasphemy [we show 6 […]

The Holidays just aren’t for everyone.  The shopping, the travel, the crowds, the expectations…it can be a little overwhelming.  Catching a glimpse of your fiancé locking lips with a stranger at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade certainly doesn’t exactly rouse the Christmas spirit, either. This unfortunate event is exactly what happened to heroine and narrator Mary […]

Unlike productions aimed at adults, where a myriad of biases and opinions tend to create arguments over what worked and what didn’t in a new play, I have always found the easiest way to judge a children’s theater performance is by the excitement and smiles I see on the faces of the children. If a […]

The deal about The 39 Steps is not that it’s a theatrical reproduction of the great Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name. It’s that it’s what such a reproduction would look like on a budget equal to a one way Metro ticket. It would be, of course, hilarious.