McLean Community Players Releases 2014-2015 Season
By Michael & Laura Clark • Jan 30th, 2014 • Category: News, VirginiaThe McLean Community Players have announced their planned 2014-2015 season.
Archive for January, 2014
Helen Hayes Awards Nominations for 2013
By Michael & Laura Clark • Jan 30th, 2014 • Category: News, VirginiaOn Monday evening, January 27th, the names of the nominees for the 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards were announced at the National Theatre. theatreWashington [sic] board member Glen Howard hosted the event and live webcast. 155 artists, ensembles, and productions in 27 categories from 62 productions from 27 theatres were nominated. During the 2013 season […]
Shakespeare Theatre Company The Importance of Being Earnest
By Barbara Trainin Blank • Jan 29th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCThe Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Earnest meets many of the hurdles, though it takes a bit of time to warm up to them.
MetroStage Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song
By David Siegel • Jan 29th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaWe are fortunate to have Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song cast a light on a long winter night’s darkness.
Little Theatre of Alexandria Ragtime
By Bob Ashby • Jan 28th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaExecution at a high level of the acting, musical, movement, and technical aspects of a production is expected from an A-level theater company like LTA, and this production does not disappoint.
Port City Playhouse The Ballad of the Red Knight
By David Siegel • Jan 27th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaOverall, The Ballad of the Red Knight is one for those who don’t take things too seriously in their appreciation of fantasy adventures and enjoy youthful insouciance.
Vienna Theatre Company This
By Joe Adcock • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaClearly This does not have anything like universal appeal. But it can give a certain generational cohort the encouraging feeling that their preoccupations matter.
Reston Community Players Les Miserables
By Bob Ashby • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaReston Community Players justifies its reputation as a top-notch company with this production, succeeding brilliantly in meeting the musical, dramatic, and technical demands of Les Miserables.
Swift Creek Mill Theatre The Miracle Worker
By Bruce Levy • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThe individual performances were strong, but in a story where the family dynamics are quite complicated; the performers didn’t seem to quite gel together.
CAT Theatre The Joshua Plant
By Bruce Levy • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaBerlin and Bucci have created an emotionally poignant and disarming presentation of what life must be like inside the mind of a child with autism and why they might do the things they do.