KAT Second Stage’s production of “Shrek the Musical JR.” will bring the “big bright beautiful world” of the 2001 DreamWorks Animation movie and the 2008 Broadway musical to the Arts Barn stage May 10 through 19. The 10 performances of…
The brand-new Kentlands Community Players (KCP) are poised to put on their first show April 26 and 27 on the Arts Barn stage. The subject of Rick Abbott’s “Play On!”—a play-within-a-play about community theater—seemed a natural choice for the fledgling…
Rob McGowan wants to be Man of the Year. And his quest is far nobler than anything to do with excellence on or off an athletic field. Instead, it is all about philanthropy. The Lakelands resident and Kentlands Main Street…
Yancy Bodenstein knows more than a modicum about mead. The Gaithersburg-based home brewer has been making the alcoholic beverage for about 13 years and has won a few awards for his products. “I would argue that mead is the oldest…
A few reasons inspired me to pick up Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2016 novel “Eligible.” Most important, I felt something light to read might alleviate the stress of my news-cycle obsession. Also, I had loved the St. Louis-based author’s four other novels,…
Kentlands resident Alex Stavitsky-Zeineddin and her Safe Grow Montgomery (SGM) colleagues are featured in a 2018 documentary titled “Ground War: When Playing Fields Become Battlefields.” When it premiered as part of the Environmental Film Festival on March 19 at D.C.’s…
Twenty-two years ago, Joseph Goss and his wife, Lynne, moved from New England into a single-family home in the Kentlands. “We found it was the only neighborhood that looked and felt familiar to us,” he recalled. After downsizing to a…
With the approval of the developer’s site plan for a mixed-use development—109 rental units plus retail space at 315 Diamond Ave., the property adjacent to Olde Towne’s Gaithersburg Community Museum, the City of Gaithersburg is considering the fate of two…
This month’s choices came from the sphere of “Everyone’s talking about them, and I want to know why.” What Tayari Jones’ “An American Marriage” and A.J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window” have in common is being published to great…
Typical Arts Barn events are visual arts exhibits, lectures and meetings with community relevance, theatrical presentations, concerts and films. It is hardly the place anyone associates with horses. But the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Academy Award-winning…