The talents of Creative Cauldron’s founder Laura Connors Hull and legendary crew members Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith present bold showmanship and originality in their newest Cauldron production, “The Adventures of Pinocchio” and as it’s said in Spanish, “Las Aventuras de Pinocho.” With original music and lyrics by Conner […]

Last weekend, George C. Marshall High School’s Statesmen Theatre opened their 2023-24 season with The Laramie Project, which follows the community of Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student. The production marks the 25-year anniversary of the hate crime that claimed Shepard’s […]

All photos by Dorothea Lange; all gifts of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, National Gallery of Art, Washington Dorothea Lange’s pictures show people drastically affected by economic conditions including homeless persons, migrants, prisoners, laborers, indigenous people from the American West and more, those “in need.” Lange’s works sparked documentary photography, […]

“Little Orphan Annie” began in 1924 as a comic strip and, a decade later, emerged as a radio serial. The comic strip and particularly the radio series presented young Annie having exotic adventures—trekking to a hidden jungle temple or visiting an island lagoon threatened by pirates. Accompanied by her faithful […]

Among one of the best-known disasters in the past one-hundred fifty years is that of the RMS Titanic, the colossal luxury ocean liner that sank on its maiden voyage. The year 1912 itself is often remembered as being “the year the Titanic sank.”  This story has become something of a […]

This past weekend, the drama department and the students of Meridian High School presented a rarely-staged musical: “Ruthless!” (book and lyrics by Joel Paley, with music by Marvin Laird).  This musical draws from the teen-centric dark comedies of the 1980s and 1990s, although, with its domineering stage mother, there are […]

The Little Theatre of Alexandria presents a spooky but at the same time light-hearted production of the Frankenstein legend in “Young Frankenstein,” a musical version of the iconic Mel Brooks film of the same name and directed superbly here by Frank D. Shutts II. Those who are familiar with the […]

For music lovers and those who welcome original plots and harmonies, this is a show for you. A cast of 12 sing almost 50 short pieces to describe the plight of the undocumented immigrant in the U.S. Mayu Molina Lehmann co-wrote the book and lyrics for the story about Latinas […]

Meridian High School’s fall musical may strike some audience members as “ruthless,” but the production and cast is anything but. A spoof on Broadway musicals such as “Gypsy” and “Mame,” as well as movies such as “The Bad Seed” and “All About Eve,” “Ruthless! The Musical” will be performed by […]