Results tagged “musicals”

Now here's some Christian rock we can get behind.

Those evil-natured robots, they’re programmed to destory us. But some of them want to evolve beyond their initial programming, like, say, a puny human raised in a dysfunctional family.

is so earnest and so consciously stylized that at some key moments, there's a temptation to stop taking it seriously and instead succumb to laughter.

Many people I know have been urged to see a campfest is to sell her short - this is a show with real soul.

Let's get one thing out of the way early - Signature Theatre's is worth the four (yes, four) hour investment.

It's hard not to want to love , the Michael John LaChiusa musical being intimately staged in Signature's Ark theater. You've got an ambitious composer trying to do more than produce commercialized Broadway drivel. You've got jazzy musical moments of sheer pleasure. And you've got Bobby Smith.

When you've got multiple Helen Hayes Awards nominees listed in your cast — as understudies — you know a production isn't exactly going to be lacking in fantastic performers.

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Damn their warnings, damn their lies. Signature Theater has proven that it doesn't take a turntable stage and a National Tour to produce a dazzling and, more importantly, individualized production of one of the theater's most beloved musicals, .

Drama lovers, a word: Here in the lavishly appointed ahr-eee Theater cubicle of DCist’s state-of-the-art underground headquarters, we have what you call an ethos. For us, casting arbitrary, semi-informed judgment on the bustling stage traffic of Our Nation’s Capitol is about a lot more than just getting free tickets to the latest hot offering from reliable companies like Catalyst or Solas Nua or Rorschach. No, here at DCist, we’re all about standing up for the little guy; the scrappy innovator, the lonely torch-bearer of the avant garde, the little-shows-that-could -- and just might! -- if only they can find a sympathetic critic to champion them.