Though your immediate plans may not include a visit to Latin America, here’s a timely thought: you can get a right-here-and-now glimpse of our neighbors to the south by visiting the Teatro de la Luna’s annual Hispanic Theater Festival.
Pairing composers with styles as different as R&H and Webber is a little odd — like steak and white wine, a friend commented — but RCP’s singers and orchestra made it a tasty dish.
TCP’s Quartet was a show with all the mania and heart that one could stand in an evening, and the audience left with a sweet feeling that art could be just as true in the twilight years of an artist’s life.
Aldersgate Church Community Theatre has assembled a solid, humorous production to start off the season.
Yearning for love through lesser-known Sondheim songs becomes a wistful musical.
There are some sparkling moments and performances in Port Tobacco Players’ production of Fiddler on the Roof. If only that energy and inventiveness had carried throughout the production.
If you are ready for good-hearted chuckles, knowing glances, bright smiles or escapist merriment in a kind-of “no time to think” amusing caper, then The 39 Steps at Herndon’s new NextStop Theater is for you.
A Chorus Line touches the reality of the audition process, at least before the finale in which all the job seekers, those hired and those not, get to parade in spectacularly glittery gold costumes. If only.
The Picture of Dorian Gray shows the maturing of a company willing to go well beyond the box of tricks that brought it fame and notice. Try it out with eyes wide open.
The production is full of well-realized character roles, and the technical side of the production lives up to the Shakespeare Theatre’s typically high standards.