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Everyone probably knows at least one song by The Temptations — whether it’s “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” or any of their other top-charting songs, this Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group continues to ...
They say it isn’t over until the fat lady sings — but in Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Soprano, the real chaos begins before a single aria is heard. This sharp, gender-swapped reimagining of Ludwig’s farce ...
Toby’s Dinner Theatre pulls it off — by putting on a show that is more energetic, better sung, better danced, and simply shinier than any in recent memory. The Music Man is usually thought to need ...
It is astonishing to think that Jonathan Larson, the visionary composer, the voice of a new generation, the tunesmith who brought rock to musical theater in his iconic show RENT, would be 65 this year ...
WARNING: This court report is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental or stolen from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818). We could all use a good ...
i. basic The first time I encountered what I call a “theater bro,” it was in my first semester of college. It was September 2017. I was attending Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts school in ...
A.J. Shively (Newland Archer) and Shereen Ahmed (Countess Ellen Olenska) in ‘The Age of Innocence.’ Photo by Daniel Rader. Arena’s four-sided Fichandler theater offers stunning possibilities for a ...
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater revealed the highly-anticipated title, partial cast, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity attached to Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney ’s new play ...
Blake Henri as Kent and Angela Iannone as King Lear in ‘King Lear.’ Photo by Alaina Shefelton. King Lear is very much a tragedy for our times: the tale of a monarch who chooses flattery over true ...
Emerson Holt Lacayo (Abby), Elin Joy Seiler (Amy), Aria Kane (Sarah), and Alina Santos (Ally) in Sarah Silverman’s ‘The Bedwetter – A New Musical.’ Photo by T Charles Erickson Photography. Originally ...
The Arlington Players’ current production of The Play That Goes Wrong is everything you didn’t know you needed to inject some levity and good-old slapstick silliness into an otherwise stressful and ...
Gregg Henry. Photo courtesy of Theatre Washington. The Victor Shargai Leadership Award (VSLA) recognizes individuals, groups, or institutions whose outstanding service and creative leadership have ...