All posts tagged "musicals"
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Final Weekend: The Lion King at the KenCen
Based on the hit animated film, The Lion King is one of the most beloved and successful musicals of all time, and is still going...
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Say You Love Satan gets a concert reading
The new Rainbow Theatre Project offers its third of five “concert readings” of classic LGBT-plays and musicals, this time Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s dark comedy Say You...
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Stage: Live Theater and Musicals in D.C.
It never ceases to amaze how remarkably rich, involving and varied the theater scene in Washington is. But it's always been that way -- only...
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Broadway's Musical Wizard
Stephen Schwartz will make what he calls a ''guest appearance'' with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend. ''I sing a song with the orchestra towards...
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The Patriotic Path continues at Ford’s
Springing to full-blooded life onstage at Ford’s under the assured direction of Peter Flynn, the Founding Fathers of 1776 can be a horny, harried lot,...
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Keegan takes to Dupont Circle
Actors from the Keegan Theatre will step outside of its Church Street home to perform in Dupont Circle this Saturday, May 5. The purpose of...
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Review: Come Fly Away
Singing to recorded music signals that you can’t afford live musicians. What Twyla Tharp has done in Come Fly Away, putting a big band onstage...
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Les Girls at the AFI Silver
As part of a two-month Gene Kelly retrospective, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents Gene Kelly’s final appearance in a full-blown musical — which...
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Must See of the Weekend: GMCW’s All-Male Rocky Horror Show
If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the result might be similar to what the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington offers this...
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Ford’s turns back the clocks to 1776
A buoyant musical that fits Ford’s Theatre to a T, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates that forged America’s democracy. Sherman Edwards wrote the music and...
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Jersey Boys at The National
As crowd-pleasing as Broadway comes, Jersey Boys, which just may be the most successful jukebox musical in history, proves that the Four Seasons was no...
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Ellen Greene will be at JR.’s Monday for a round of show tunes
The one and only original Audrey of both the Broadway and screen versions of Little Shop of Horrors as well as a star of Pushing...
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Rags at The Theatre Lab
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts offers a production of the little-known 1986 musical Rags, by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked), Charles Strouse (Annie)...
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And the Curtain Rises
And the Curtain Rises is the third part of Signature’s American Musical Voices Project, aimed at nurturing new shows. This valentine to musical comedy, a...
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Babes in Arms
Virginia’s American Century Theater offers a concert presentation of the Rodgers and Hart’s musical Babes in Arms. Forget the plot — all you need to...
