Johnna Leary recently graduated with a B.A. in Musical Theater from Shepherd University. She previously worked as the Arts and Styles Section Editor of the Shepherd University newspaper, The Picket and interned at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. She also writes as a local correspondent for DC Metro Theater Arts. Johnna frequently performs in educational and local theater productions. Her favorite roles include Johanna (u/s) and Young Lucy in Sweeney Todd at Shepherd, Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty in Enchanted Sleeping Beauty at Pumpkin Theatre, Cosette in Les Miserables at Way Off Broadway, Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Maggie in Lend Me A Tenor at the Washington County Playhouse. She can also be seen on several documentaries and mini series on Investigation Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and National Geographic.
Don't have any dinner plans this weekend? Come to the Old Opera House in Charles Town, WV, for an evening of theater featuring an unusual play by a well-known American playwright.
One certainly doesn't need to get high to enjoy all the buzz from the Being Revived production of Reefer Madness, running at Frederick Community College through April 13.
Wedding season is almost here, so it is the perfect time to see a classic comedy about navigating the ups and downs in life as newlyweds! Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park opens April 4 at the Apollo Civic Theater in Martinsburg, WV.
Coming soon to an All-American theater near you! It's the "evil downward spiral filled with sex, violence and evil jazz music", Reefer Madness, a hilarious musical spoof of the 1936 public service film of the same name.
In the Washington County Playhouse production of Arsenic and Old Lace, the elderly Brewster sisters appear to be your typical sweet old ladies, whose hobbies include knitting, church social visits and.
Get out of your "Lonely Room" this weekend and take your "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" over to the Apollo Civic Theater to see Oklahoma!, the first show of the 100th Annual Season.
It's the perfect date night show, just in time for Valentine's Day!
The Love List, by Norm Foster, is set to open at the Old Opera House in Charles Town, WV on February 7.
Some of the life lessons Sesame Street never quite taught us are "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Making Love)".
Get ready to put on your blue suede shoes and poodle skirts, because Lucille's Rock and Roll Revival is coming to the Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown, MD! Opening January 24, Lucille's Rock and Roll Revival is a revue musical featuring popular songs from the 1950's and 1960's, taking the a
The Hagerstown Hub Opera Ensemble concert production of Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana on January 11 and 12 was an enjoyable double bill of one-act operas and a delightful way to break up the winter doldrums.
Directed by Steven Brewer, musically directed by Alison Shafer and choreographed by Ashley Snow, Shrek: The Musical will open this weekend at the Old Opera House in Charles Town, West Virginia.
Everyone has heard the tale of miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge who changes his ways on Christmas Eve in Charles Dicken's classic holiday tale A Christmas Carol.
"No day but today", RENT, the popular 1996 musical, is opening this weekend in a unique location and will be produced and performed by Shepherd University students.