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Archive for February, 2013

Taking Flight Theatre Company The Fox On the Fairway

By • Feb 18th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Taking Flight Theatre’s The Fox On the Fairway had potential and at times some humor, but overall did not live up to the past high standard that they have been known to bring to Loudoun County.




Cadence Theatre Company Sons of The Prophet

By • Feb 17th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

There are just not going to be enough superlatives to describe the performances. Each actor adds to the three dimensionality of the family dynamics.




Arena Stage Metamorphoses

By • Feb 17th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

In some moments, Arena Stage’s large, shallow, rectangular pool — reportedly the largest used in any production of the show — is used to striking effect.




Richmond Triangle Players Confessions of a Mormon Boy

By • Feb 14th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Make no mistake; it would be a mistake to miss this Confession.




Shakespeare Theater Company Hughie

By • Feb 13th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Schiff’s performance is a clinic in how an actor can give a character profound emotional and dramatic force without ever resorting to histrionics.




Virginia Rep Cotton Patch Gospel

By • Feb 13th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

The story is novel, and Chapin’s music is catchy. Cotton Patch Gospel is a hand-clapping, foot-tapping good ol’ time.




Francis Howell High School Elephant’s Graveyard

By • Feb 12th, 2013 • Category: Cappies, Missouri

Francis Howell’s production of Elephant’s Graveyard was an emotional, impactful, and memorable performance.




Hazelwood East High School Back To The 80s: The Totally Awesome Musical

By • Feb 12th, 2013 • Category: Cappies, Missouri

Filled with freshman and first-timers, the cast and crew of Back To The 80s: The Totally Awesome Musical put on a bright, fun production.




Woodbridge Senior High School Cyrano de Bergerac

By • Feb 12th, 2013 • Category: Cappies, Virginia

Weaving together comedy and tragedy, Woodbridge’s production of Cyrano ultimately depicted the woes of unrequited love, triumph of true affection, and the simple fact, as Cyrano and Roger learn, that “there are some things the heart cannot disguise.”




Arena Stage Good People

By • Feb 9th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

The great virtue of Good People is its ability to put a vivid, emotional, human face on what sometimes can seem an abstract policy discussion or merely the subject of a 30-second political spot.