It certainly is not “Plaza Suite.” Unlike Neil Simon’s comedy, which is set in a glamorous New York City hotel, the location of “Crystal Creek Motel” is a modest establishment off the beaten path, up …
‘Pinocchio’ returns with a Piper’s touch to Puppet Co.
What should have been a joyous occasion, the opening of another production at the Puppet Co., was tinged with sorrow. Len Piper, creator of the current production of “Pinocchio” and its first Gepetto,…
Taste of Bethesda returns to the community bigger than ever
BETHESDA – The Bethesda community came together once again on Oct. 5 for the 30th annual Taste of Bethesda, a food and music festival organized by the Bethesda Urban Partnership. The festival welcomed…
County native returns in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Everybody’
What can be more challenging for an actor than playing God? But at least he is coming home, so to speak, to do it. That actor is Yonatan Gebeyehu, currently living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but was …
Bel Cantanti performs original tragic opera ‘Rigoletto’
Opera companies today often present a mix of different genres and themes. After presenting a program about women composers with a small scale of four singers, a trio of players and a handful of dancer…
Akhmedova Ballet Academy celebrates downtown Silver Spring move with special performances
Dance student Alexandra (Sasha) Gutman has been working on “Le Corsaire,” a ballet about swashbuckling pirates, a freed slave girl and a shipwreck, for about three years. Sometimes it takes that…
Imagination Stage welcomes touring ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show’
How do you take the dazzling colors and simple, yet profound, messages of Eric Carle’s books and transfer them to the stage? Imagination Stage took a tried-and-true approach: a production approved by …
“School Girls” shows a different ‘Mean Girls’ experience at Round House Theatre
Not all cliques are alike, but they are likely to have at least some similarities. In other words, cattiness and cruelty are not limited to the suburban United States, as portrayed in the movie “Mean …
Metro to receive millions of withheld Md. dollars soon, MDOT secretary says
WASHINGTON – Maryland Secretary of Transportation Pete Rahn said after a Sept. 12 Metro Board Committee meeting that the state’s transportation department will likely soon release the $53 million it w…
RLT returns with comedic ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’
When the sanest person in a family is a theater critic who thinks he is crazy, what do you have? Joseph Kesselring’s 1941 “Arsenic and Old Lace” was one of the most popular comedies in the American ca…
