You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
"Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without the ice cream." This is just one of many lines young audience members will be able to relate ...
Danny and Sylvia: from DC to NYC
Danny Kaye once said it only took him 10 years to become an overnight sensation, but it took Danny and Sylvia, the bio-musical about Danny Kaye and his wife Sylvia ...
Lyle the Crocodile
After the beautiful opening scene of Lyle the Crocodile, I'm holding my breath. Could the rest of the production be as good? An hour and a half later, I answer ...
The Producers’ Ben Dibble
June 19, 2009 - With less than an hour before curtain for Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, actor Ben Dibble sat down with Joel Markowitz backstage at Walnut Street Theatre. ...
REVIEWS
Source: Mash-ups Group E
Is there a word in the English language that better holds the promise of joy than mash? Is there anything which better suggests ingredients marinating in a dish, creating by their integration with each other something fresh and savory Read More →
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
“Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without the ice cream.” This is just one of many lines young audience members will be able to relate to in this lively production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Read More →
Source: Project 24/7
Project 24/7 is to the Source Festival 2009 as Iron Chef is to cooking. In Iron Chef, culinary masters are assigned an ingredient (squid!) at random and told to construct an entire meal (Squid Salad! Lemon Drop Squid Soup! Roast Squid with Béarnaise Sauce! Read More →
Lyle the Crocodile
After the beautiful opening scene of Lyle the Crocodile, I’m holding my breath. Could the rest of the production be as good? An hour and a half later, I answer yes. This is children’s theater at its best. Read More →
Source 10 minutes Plays - Group C
One of the things that makes Washington DC such an exciting theatre town is its willingness to nurture and cultivate new talent. The Source Festival is a great place to see new work from promising playwrights. Read More →
Source 10 Minute Plays - Groups A & B
How much play can you fit into ten minutes? More than you think. Source Festival 2009 opens with three groups of shorts, before expanding to one act and full length plays. Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryNEWS
Cast announced for Forum’s Angels in America
Jennifer Mendenhall joins the Angels in America cast Forum Theatre’s season opener, the much anticipated Angels in America, features Alexander Strain as Louis, Jennifer Mendenhall as Hannah, Nanna Ingvarsson as The Angel, Karl Miller as Prior, Read More →
Play reading about Nixon foe benefits National Women’s Law Center
Monologuist Josh Kornbluth describes Washington as a town where “politics can be theatrical and theatre can be political.” That will be particularly true next Tuesday, June 16th at 7 pm Read More →
Actor David Marks dead at 49
Veteran comic actor David Marks, a Helen Hayes laureate for his performance as an uncanny handyman in Arena’s Briar Patch, died in his Washington home last Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 49. Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryNY THEATRE BUZZ
Next Fall, Dirty Blonde, Stunning and Everyday Rapture
Technically, New York’s new season begins on June 1, so mine began with a bang. I had no idea what to expect of Next Fall, a Naked Angels production at the small Peter Jay Sharp Theatre . Read More →
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Philanthropist and Theatre World Awards
August Wilson accomplished miracles when he completed his 10 play cycle covering the African American experience over the 20th century. Read More →
The Singing Forest, 9 to 5 and Table Manners
My week began with high hopes, for Olympia Dukakis is back on the boards and that’s always good news. Her play is The Singing Forest by Craig Lucas. Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryTHEATRE SCHMOOZE
Danny and Sylvia: from DC to NYC
Danny Kaye once said it only took him 10 years to become an overnight sensation, but it took Danny and Sylvia, the bio-musical about Danny Kaye and his wife Sylvia Fine, only 8 years to move from its sensational...
The Tapioca Miracle hits the Big Apple
To help us understand what it takes to get a new musical from the page to the Broadway stage, the creators of the new musical in development The Tapioca Miracle are allowing Joel Markowitz exclusive...
The women of Philadelphia’s Grey Gardens: Lisa Peterson, Joy Franz and Hollis Resnik
I’m off for a theatre weekend in the “City of Brotherly Love” with DCTS’ editor Lorraine Treanor to see three classic musicals: Grey Gardens, Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest...
Read More Posts From This CategoryPODCASTS
The Producers’ Ben Dibble
June 19, 2009 - With less than an hour before curtain for Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers, actor Ben Dibble sat down with Joel Markowitz backstage at Walnut Street Theatre. Standard Podcast [25:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (208) Read More →
Forbidden Broadway’s Jennie Eisenhower
June 19 — My Philadelphia trip began with this hysterical interview with the bubbly and outrageous Jennie Eisenhower, just before the evening curtain for Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits. Standard Podcast [22:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (410) Read More →
New York season highs and lows and Tony hopes
DC Theatre Scene columnists Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz discuss the New York Theatre season and their Tony Awards hopes, performances that were left off out of the Tony nominations, and their predictions for the major categories. Standard Podcast [37:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (267) Read More →
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