Karl Kippola News

Get a first look at Olney Theatre Center Mainstage productions of Kinky Boots which runs now through March 26, 2023.

Olney Theatre Center's Kinky Boots is a stunning production that sparkles from the opening curtain to the final bows.

“The sex is in the heel” and on the Olney Theatre Center Mainstage as Kinky Boots runs February 10 - March 19, 2023.

The American University Theatre and Musical Theatre Program is led by working theatre professionals and educators who actively strive to be a supportive, vibrant, and work in a rigorous learning community of artist-scholar-citizens within a diverse world-class liberal arts environment

If the cultural and historical relevance weren't enough incentive, Theater J's production of 'The Jewish Queen Lear' will make you glad for the current revitalization of Yiddish theater. The play is an emotional journey, with insights into family, power, pride, and love. 'Mirele Efros' is a surprisingly modern play, and 'The Jewish Queen Lear' honors both the past and present in its performance. It's a touching story, a wonderful cast of characters (in both senses of the phrase), and a beautiful production.

Theater J completes its four-show 2018-2019 season Around Town with the English language premiere of the Yiddish theater classic The Jewish Queen Lear, a translation of Jacob Gordin's Mirele Efros. The Jewish Queen Lear runs at Georgetown University's Davis Performing Arts Center in the Gonda Theatre March 13 - April 7. The press is invited to Opening Night of The Jewish Queen Lear on Monday, March 18 at 7:30 PM.

A superb cast, great voices, clever choreography, and magic combine to make a great night at the theater for the whole family.

Hit French farce I'm sure will improve with age.

We have not only laughed our heads off, not only witnessed the fulfillment, however temporary, of transgressive bachelor-in-paradise fantasies, but also been treated to something rarer: a visual reimmersion in the colors and sights of the most carefree part of an era: the coordinated uniforms and flight bags, the electric blue paint on the wall, the miniskirts, the smoking-jacket-and-ascot, not to mention the final payoff: a curtain-call that will remind viewers of the way singing groups used to present on television before rock videos and MTV.

Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), concludes its 20th anniversary season with Marc Camoletti's high-flying bedroom farce, Boeing Beoing. Karl Kippola, who starred as Tom Wingfield in Rep's 2010 production of The Glass Menagerie, directs this comedic romp through 1960s Paris where Bernard, an American bachelor playboy, must juggle the comings and goings of his three air-hostess fiancees, his overworked acerbic French maid, and an old friend who unexpectedly arrives from Wisconsin. Bernard has the arrivals and departures of the trio of international air-hostesses perfectly scheduled by using the airlines own timetables - until the addition of the Boeing Boeing jets. Suddenly, air travel gets faster and turbulence ensues until everyone arrives at Bernard's Parisian love-nest at the same time. Boeing Boeing features James Whalen as Bernard; Paul Edward Hope as Robert, the friend; and Nanna Ingvarsson as Berthe, the French maid; with Allison Leigh Corke, Kelsea Edgerly, and Molly Cahill Govern coming in for a landing as the three international flight attendants.

Producing Artistic Director Michael Stebbins has announced the 2012-13 season lineup for Rep Stage, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC).

Complex play by Lynn Nottage Deserves Your Attention

Rep Stage's production of 'The Glass Menagerie' will close on March 14, 2010.

Rep Stage's production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE finds the tragedy in the Tennessee Williams classic.

Due to the snow-driven cancellations of the opening weeks of 'The Glass Menagerie,' Rep Stage is adding two weeks of performances to run through Sunday, March 14 in the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Howard Community College.

Due to the snow-driven cancellations of the opening weeks of 'The Glass Menagerie,' Rep Stage has announced it will extend the production through March 14, 2010.

The following performances of Rep Stage's production of 'The Glass Menagerie' have been cancelled due to Howard Community College's need to close the campus through Sunday.

Rep Stage is cancelling the following performances of THE GLASS MENAGERIE: Wednesday, February 10 at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Ticket holders will be contacted by Horowitz Center Box Office regarding rescheduling. Please visit the website, www.repstage.org for show schedule. THE GLASS MENAGERIE runs through February 28.