HeyJaredMelissa Lin Sturges
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Some Like It Hot Reminds Us of the Magic of Musical Theater (opens the original)
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It’s prohibition-era Chicago. Times are tough but the jazz is sweet. Every gal needs a man and every man needs a job. The Depression’s got us feeling so damn depressed, and the question on everyone’s mind: What are you thirsty for? That pretty much sums up the opening number of Olney Theatre Center’s Some Like It Hot, directed by Olney’s artistic director Jason Loewith. A replacement production for the previously announced La Cage aux Folles, Some Like It Hot is a feel-good musical comedy by Mar
Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking: How Theater Education Goes Beyond the Stage (opens the original)
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Prince George’s County high schooler Fin Davis wanted to try something new when they auditioned for Round House Theatre’s Teen Performance Company. Davis was cast in an all-teenage production of Dani Stoller’s Girlhood in 2023. Thanks to a workshop with Stoller, Davis discovered a love—and a knack—for playwriting, and in 2025, they wrote the theater’s first ever script commissioned by a teen playwright. Now a sophomore at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Davis knows what it means
An Actor Earns His Spotlight in Garbo: The Actor Who Saved the World (opens the original)
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Many actors are familiar with a concept called the “magic if,” developed by Russian practitioner Konstantin Stanisklavski in the early 1900s, which suggests that an actor is always present while also thinking one step ahead. It asks: What would my character do if they were in this (meaning any) situation? In a new play at GALA Hispanic Theatre, counterintelligence agent Juan “Garbo” Pujol García (Kevin Jorges) alludes to this principle in the events leading up to June 6, 1944, otherwise known as
At the Wharf, Woody Guthrie’s American Song Asks “Is My Land Your Land?” (opens the original)
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The air was thick and the sky a deep orange as audiences settled into Theater Alliance’s opening night performance of Woody Guthrie’s American Song, featuring music and lyrics by Woody Guthrie and adapted for the stage by Peter Glazer. Most of the Wharf was unperturbed, absorbed by their meals and conversations, when a throng of hippie clad actor-musicians descended upon Waterfront Park. Moving between lawn chairs and picnic blankets, the performers sang and carried picket signs honoring various
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