BWW Review: HANDS ON A HARDBODY is a Cult Classic at Keegan Theatre
While short-lived on Broadway, Keegan Theatre's regional premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, directed by Elena Velasco and Mark A.
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While short-lived on Broadway, Keegan Theatre's regional premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, directed by Elena Velasco and Mark A.
The art of tap dancing is taken to new heights…literally…in the high octane, high energy worldwide sensation known as Tap Dogs.
With all of the media options at their disposal today, creating theater pieces that will keep young people totally engaged is getting to be more and more of a challenge.
The recording artist/composer/free spirit known as Nellie McKay is not your typical performer to be sure.
There are certain performances from Broadway history that can never be replicated, one of which is Robert Preston's star turn as the flimflamming boys band sales man Harold Hill in the 1958 Tony Award winning musical The Music Man.
There are many companies presenting Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) shows in and around the DC area.
For many years now, the famed Cirque du Soleil has been combining the two worlds of circus and theater to create some spectacular productions.
There are certain theatrical presentations you can always depend on for sheer holiday joy at this time of year.
How far would you go to be with the one that you love? Sonya Kelly's autobiographical How to Keep an Alien, now being presented by Solas Nua, explores this question with warmth, humor, and a tour-de-force performance from DC acting goddess Tonya Beckman.
There are some plays in the history of Broadway that you just scratch your head as to why they didn't have a longer run.
Any one of us that has ever seen an animated feature or short produced by the Walt Disney Animation Studios knows that the music is always a big component in making the film a success.
I had two main questions about the world premiere Kennedy Center commission of HOW TO CATCH A STAR: would it match the original children's book's ability to appeal to kids and adults alike, and would it be as visually charming as Oliver Jeffers's illustrations? I'm pleased to report that the answer
Now playing at the Atlas Performing Arts Center is an all-female, 1930s Tinseltown take on Oscar Wilde's WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, directed by Robert McNamara.
Long Way Down delves deeply into the circumstances surrounding urban gun violence, and the impacts which it has on those left in its bloody wake.
600 Highwaymen's THE FEVER, which has made its way to Woolly Mammoth for a limited run after a national and international tour, is a collaborative piece requiring full audience participation.
Over the past few years DC's Constellation Theatre Company (CTC) has branched out from its mostly classical offerings by presenting a few musicals.
Few and far between are the times that we reviewers have a perfect night in the theater.
For many high school students, just the dream of seeing a Broadway show is something pretty awesome.
Theater J's production of The Pianist of Willesden Lane, adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, is a timeless piece of storytelling.
The late great comic genius/activist Dick Gregory was a trailblazer for so many reasons.
Sometimes a show comes along on Broadway that leaves you saying, 'Hmm I wonder what it would be like without the large scale production?' The 2014 Jason Robert Brown/Marsha Norman musical The Bridges of Madison County is one of those shows.
I think it's safe to say that guns in America might be one of the most divisive and important topics today.
You might say that Arena Stage's Artistic Director Molly Smith is responsible for some of the most socially and politically conscious theatre produced in the DC area.
So far, in our four part Vblog series on the making of The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts' upcoming production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, we've seen much happen in a short time.
We all know how hard the life of a performer can be.