Toby’s Dinner Theatre The Color Purple
By Jennifer Gusso • Sep 22nd, 2012 • Category: Maryland, ReviewsThe Color Purple is a first-class production. Everything about it is done with professionalism and style.
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Port City Playhouse Medea
By Bob Ashby • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsMedea, with her overwhelming passions and command of magic, is a force of nature — a force beyond nature, perhaps — but this is a story without a hero.
GALA Hispanic Theatre El desdén con el desdén (In Spite of Love)
By Joe Adcock • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCDirector Hugo Medrano’s production is mostly conservative/traditional. His take on 17th Century Spanish aristocrats is Renaissance flashy.
1st Stage Suite Surrender
By Michael & Laura Clark • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsSuite Surrender was a hilarious show, with a lot of believability to the normally unbelievable situations that occur in a farce. Come to 1st Stage to be absolutely entertained and amused.
Little Theatre of Alexandria Funny Money
By Bob Ashby • Sep 15th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaDirector Shawn Byers keeps the pace of the multiplying complications spinning along smartly. The eight-person cast displays excellent comic timing, making the best of Cooney’s frequent laugh lines.
Hard Bargain Players And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson
By Michael & Laura Clark • Sep 13th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsAnd They Dance Real Slow in Jackson was a somber show with occasional laughter, and perhaps some tears will be jerked when emotions run high, but overall was well performed.
Phoenix Festival Theater Grease
By Roman Gusso • Sep 12th, 2012 • Category: Maryland, ReviewsPhoenix Festival Theater’s Grease was fun and worth seeing.
Folger Theatre/Globe Theatre Hamlet
By Bob Ashby • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCThis production is a good reminder that, notwithstanding the local vogue for “silent” Shakespeare, the power and glory of Shakespeare resides principally in his words and actors’ interpretations of them.
Constellation Theatre Company Taking Steps
By Eric Jones • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCTaking Steps is a delightful evening of light theatre guaranteed to satisfy.
Artists’ Initiative Boom
By Genie Baskir • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: ReviewsThere is a lot to digest in this little show and the ultimate themes expressed are compelling to the both the hard scientist and the daydreamer.