The Gingerbread Lady is darker and more serious than other Neil Simon plays. It will make you laugh, but also think of the long road back from addiction.
A classic of what is sometimes called the “Golden Age of the Broadway Musical,” Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, is given an uneven performance by Rockville Musical Theatre.
Two worthy productions of Othello opened last weekend, one a mounting of the Shakespeare play, in all its verbal glory, by the Folger Theatre, and the other as part of Synetic Theater’s “Silent Shakespeare Festival.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest featured a great cast with solid performances to make this a delightfully sad show.
Rounding Third was a well-built two-man performance.
A solid performance of a show for all who love musical theatre.
FCT’s Godspell featured high energy, with contagious enthusiasm, real emotions and the ensemble’s personalities were a delight to witness.
Twelve Angry Men, in a strong production by Aldersgate Church Community Theater (ACCT), illustrates, with considerable dramatic exaggeration, the evolution of a jury’s narrative in a murder trial.
Powerful voices combined with raw emotion made for an electric evening.
No mistake about it, The Arlington Players’ production of Nine is award bait. Every aspect of the show succeeds at a very high level.