“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.” These words, spoken by Truvy Jones in the second act of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, could not do a better job summing up the performance Osbourn High’s lovable cast delivered. Equipped with a script full of one-line zingers and tear-jerking moments, the cast shined on stage, easing […]
Read the review of the Cappies International Theater production of Anasazi: The Pahaana of the Prophecy.
Read the review of Cappies International Theater’s production of Starz! A Midsummer Night’s Frolic.
On Sunday evening, June 8, 2008, Mike attended the Cappies Award Ceremony at the Kennedy Center. Laura was ill, and unable to attend. Mike presented the “Props and Effects” award, after his one word introductory speech, which was the word you say when you don’t know what to say. “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” The complete list of nominees […]
Toga Parties in the auditorium, a hippy principal, and dancing in the hallways: is this not like every high school? This past Saturday night Centreville performed their rendition of Senioritis. This musical was designed by a creative team led by the late William Strauss, one of the founders of the Cappies Critic Program, in October […]
With the cops on your tail, where’s a man to run the oldest established, permanent floating, crap game in New York? Set among the gangsters and gamblers of the 1940s, West Potomac High School’s recent energetic production of the musical Guys and Dolls certainly rocked the boat. Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls has been a […]
“Isn’t it fun to be in the movies?” Definitely, especially when an actor can portray a dancing salad, a singing Statue of Liberty, and a chain gang escapee, all in one show – A History of American Film. The New School Theatre’s recent courageous undertaking of this demanding piece demonstrated the company’s understanding of the […]
Thousands of Union soldiers mistreated in horrific conditions led to one man and the resonating question, “Why did you obey?” This was the high drama of Chantilly High School’s production of The Andersonville Trial. This play is based on the 1865 trial of Captain Henry Wirz (Eddie Monk) who is being held responsible for the […]
Some things in life are given. For everything else, there’s Satan. Hayfield Secondary School proved this fact with their boisterous production of Damn Yankees, recounting the story of an elderly baseball fan with visions of grandeur. With a determination to defeat the Yankees once and for all, Joe Boyd (Chris Frakes) strikes a deal with […]
In the small Russian village of Anatevka, the impoverished villagers lives are like “a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck.” From the beginning of the play, where a fiddler stands atop a barn playing a simple tune, James Madison High School’s spring production of Fiddler […]