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Brady Fiol (left) as Oliver and Jessica Preactor (isn't really there...right) in Oliver! 📷 Kevin Clasing

Oliver! at Third Wall Productions

Reviews November 13, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Missed opening weekend? That’s your funeral, that’s your funeral!

Don’t have tickets yet? That’s your funeral, that’s your funeral!

But luckily for you— you can still get tickets to see the 10-year anniversary production of Oliver! at Third Wall Players, running through the 23rd of November in their resident play-space at Chestnut Grove Presbyterian. Directed by Andi Rudai, in her directorial debut (after playing the titular role in the TWP original production of Oliver!

Artfully Full-Circle: An Interview with Andi Rudai on playing Oliver in Oliver! and now Directing It

Interviews November 8, 2025 Amanda N. Gunther

Cor! Look at this! It’s a real full circle moment! Maybe at the end of Oliver! the little orphan boy— in this case, girl— grows up to be— a director! And that’s exactly what happened as Third Wall Productions celebrates ten years of producing theatre— their very own Oliver Twist, from their inaugural production of Oliver! (February of 2016) has come back to the project in a new capacity. Andi Rudai,

The Bridges of Madison County at Red Branch Theatre Company

Reviews September 30, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther 4 Comments

Love is always better. But what if you choose the path of love in hopes of escape? A simple girl, bereft of her fiancé from the war, desperate to escape Italy takes the first American GI that comes along and settles a life in farm-country Iowa. She tends the husband, raises two children, and cooks the dinner. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words; what then must the photographer who takes that picture be worth when he shows up like a breath of fresh air disrupting her routine,

Let’s Not Talk About Anything Else But Fester: An Interview with the first Female Uncle Fester

Interviews May 1, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s creepy and it’s kooky! Mysterious and spooky! All-together ookey, that’s The Addams Family! Now a major hit musical that is playing absolutely everywhere, it’s settling into Dundalk Community Theatre for a brief two weekend spring run. But DCT has something unusual, something unique, something very Addams. The line that describes Uncle Fester in this musical, “what could a fat bald person of no specific sexuality know about love?” And DCT has taken a leap on that line,

WATCH Award Nominations

News January 18, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

It’s that time of year, folks! The Washington Area Theatre Community Honors have come around again to honor all of the truly exceptional theatre being performed in community venues across the Washington DC and surrounding metropolitan area. The 2014 award nominations were presented live this evening at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA.

There were 111 different productions– 34 musicals and 77 plays– adjudicated over in the 2014 theatrical season. 31 community theatre companies participated in WATCH adjudication in 2014.