Signature Theatre is tackling “Sweeney Todd” for the third time in the company’s history, and I enjoyed getting a sneak peek at the production for a new Weekend article. Break a leg, all! Or cut off a leg, or something like that…

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Actor Todd Alan Johnson and director-choreographer Stephen Nachamie spoke eloquently about “Camelot” for my new OnStage article in Weekend. The show opens Nov. 18 at Olney. Break a leg, all!

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I enjoyed chatting with Jim Brochu, the creator and star of “Zero Hour,” and Piper Laurie, the show’s director, for an OnStage article in Weekend. “Zero Hour,” about the colorful and complex life of Zero Mostel, opens today at Theater J, and the play is New York-bound in the fall. Break a leg, all!

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What’s the best way to get to “Witch Mountain”? I’ll take the flying Winnebago.

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Well. Would you look at that? If it isn’t July already… You might say that I’ve been closed for renovations. Yes, I know — the site looks the same. But, if we were to run into each other for the first time since December, you might notice that I’m 87 pounds lighter. That little project […]

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After three decades, perhaps this is the step I had to take for closure on the Bionic Beauty Salon issue. Read “You Call That a Gift?!” (from the December 24 edition of The Washington Post).

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(Wagner. Who else?) In the September 9 edition of The Washington Post, I consider NBC’s “Bionic Woman” series in relation to the ’70s original and its gay fan base, many of whom are less than thrilled with the addition of a certain “f”-slur-slinging actor to the new show. Read “The Bionic Woman’s Toughest Mission.”

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In the July 29 edition of The Washington Post, I examine my favorite “mini-dress-wearing, Egyptian-goddess-channeling, golden-amulet-powered superheroine”: Isis. Read “Fly Like an Egyptian (Goddess).”

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“Lovely melodic themes, two goofy performances and an inflatable baby pool as the lagoon in question — how Fringe is that?” Nelson Pressley includes “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical” in his Fringe roundup in today’s Washington Post.

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There have been many faces of Nancy Drew on-screen through the years: Bonita Granville in the ’30s, Pamela Sue Martin and Janet Louise Johnson in the ’70s, Tracy Ryan in the ’90s, Maggie Lawson earlier in this decade, and now Emma Roberts in the new film “Nancy Drew.” In the June 10 edition of The […]

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