Over the past few months, ShowBizRadio has been experimenting with linking to interesting articles and relevant reviews published elsewhere. But the ShowBizRadio site wasn’t designed to make it easy to browse for articles about specific groups or from other publications. So we’ve set up a new site that is only a collection of all the [...]
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Elden Street Players
Industrial Strength Theatre, Herndon, VA
$22/$19 Students and Seniors
Through August 23rd
Brad Hathaway of Potomac Stages reviews Elden Street Players’ production of Tick, Tick… BOOM!:
An absorbing, well-told story. An often sparkling, rockish score. A sharp, emotionally engaging performance in the lead role. A solid sound from a four-piece band. All of these strengths, and [...]
tick, tick…Boom
Elden Street Players
Industrial Strength Theatre, Herndon, VA
$22/$19 Students and Seniors
Through August 23rd
Michael Toscano for the Washington Post reviews Elden Street Players’ production of Tick, Tick… BOOM!:
Tick, tick…BOOM! is that rare look at a young person’s angst and anxiety that doesn’t seem stale to those of us who passed that way some time ago. It’s [...]
Mark Blankenship writes for the New York Times about the work that happens backstage to keep a production moving along:
WITH only four actors playing over 20 roles, “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps” is madcap onstage. But life in the wings is just as manic.
For 90 minutes crew members snake past one another with ladders, smoke [...]
Gypsy
Port Tobacco Players
Port Tobacco Players Theater, La Plata, MD
Playing through August 10th
Dickson Mercer for the Southern Maryland News reviews Port Tobacco Players’ production of Gypsy:
Less than two months ago, Lisa Kay Morton made a solid case for being Southern Maryland’s ultimate stage mother when she spearheaded the Stageworks Festival in Indian Head.
In its first year, [...]
Michael Toscano for the Washington Post writes about the impact that the Little Theatre of Alexandria has had over the past 75 years:
Little Theatre of Alexandria, one of the Washington area’s oldest theater companies, is kicking off a special birthday celebration this weekend that will last for much of the summer.
LTA was formed 75 years [...]
Matt Reville for the Sun Gazette reviews Act III Theatre Company’s production of A Year With Frog & Toad:
The name sums it all up: audiences spent some time watching the seasons change with two amphibian buddies who share just about everything but personality types.
Read the complete article at: ‘Frog and Toad’ Delivers Plenty of Charms.
Bennie Scarton, Jr. for InsideNOVA.com writes about Upper Room Theater Ministry’s The Music Man:
The Music Man, this week will be the seventh summer musical production in as many years by the Upper Room Theatre Ministries at All Saints Catholic Church in Manassas.
The performances will be Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday [...]
Anne Midgette for the Washington Post writes about two new operas at the Capital Fringe Festival:
What is the difference between opera and musical theater? Some composers will tell you that it’s an opera house. That’s not the view of Opera Alterna, a small new company with a mission to bring opera to different kinds of [...]
Cristopher Rawson for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette write about the American Theatre Critics Association Conference held in DC last month:
What do theater critics do in conference assembled? They go to plays — up to 10 in the six days of the recent American Theatre Critics Association gathering in greater Washington, getting a full taste of that [...]
