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Photo Credit: Alex Souvorov

When mounting a grand opera, there are many details to work through, from recruiting singers and musicians and a conductor to creating sets, costumes and lighting. Bel Cantanti’s production of "Sadko" presented an additional, even greater, hurdle for the company to overcome. The opera, which premiered in 1898 in Moscow, is rarely done, even in Russia. View more

Photo Credit: Arielle Bayer

Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk) and the Witch will take the stage of Arts Barn for two weekends in late October. Kensington Arts Theatre’s Second Stage (aka KAT Second Stage) will present “Into the Woods JR,” which is, essentially, the not-so-grim first act of the Tony Award-winning musical that interweaves the plots View more

Photo Courtesy of VF Dance Theater

Since early childhood, performing has been Veronika Farkas’ way of life. In her native Budapest, Hungary, the preschooler attended strict European-style voice, dance and acting classes. “I was roped into musical theater, but always gravitated toward dance,” recalled the founder and director of the Germantown-based VF Dance Theater that will perform View more

Photo Credit: Margot Schulman

After putting together a trilogy of musicals marking the past, present and future of hip-hop culture, local writer and director Psalmayene 24 was looking for a new challenge. He turned to the familiar childhood story of Snow White.

Photo Credit: Sarah Straub

Song, dance and a bit of poetry bring to life a fairytale world of magic spells, good and evil, and love and betrayal in the world premiere musical, “Ella Enchanted,” on stage at Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Park.

Photo Credit: Margot Schulman

Before it was a Disney blockbuster film, “Beauty and the Beast” was a classic French fairytale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, chock full of all the storybook ingredients young readers can wrap their imagination around: a forest, an enchantress, a young prince, an inventor, a castle, and a magic mirror. Did we mention the pack of wolves?

An evil sorceress has taken a princess, and three brave men face danger along the way to finding her. That’s the fairytale Bel Cantanti Opera’s “Ruslan and Ludmila” will tell in its first U.S.-produced performance on the evenings of Saturdays, May 7 and 14, at the Randolph Road Theater in Silver Spring.

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