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The King and I

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Wit

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Up close with the magic of Elephant Room

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Chris Sieber - he's played Georges on Broadway and now is Zaza on La Cage tour

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Ray Ficca returns to DC for Keegan's Neil Simon hit Laughter on the 23rd Floor

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The Gallerist

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The Snowy Day

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

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Director Robert McNamara on SCENA's Hedda Gabler

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

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  • Click to navigate! 02 Wit
  • Click to navigate! 03 Up close with the magic of Elephant Room
  • Click to navigate! 04 Chris Sieber - he's played Georges on Broadway and now is Zaza on La Cage tour
  • Click to navigate! 05 Ray Ficca returns to DC for Keegan's Neil Simon hit Laughter on the 23rd Floor
  • Click to navigate! 06 The Gallerist
  • Click to navigate! 07 The Snowy Day
  • Click to navigate! 08 Laughter on the 23rd Floor
  • Click to navigate! 09 Director Robert McNamara on SCENA's Hedda Gabler
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REVIEWS

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The King and I

Now on stage at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, the company’s production of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s classic 1951 musical The King and I is a remarkably effective revival of this exotic, … [Read More]

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The Gallerist

“When Jane Goodall Goes Bad!” could be the banner headline for The Gallerist, a delectably lurid tale about demonic possession and soul survival by playwright Fengar Gael that is staged with … [Read More]

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The Snowy Day

Adventure Theater takes the classic story by Ezra Jack Keats to a new fun-filled level in this world premiere musical The Snowy Day.  From the opening moments when the mistress of Snow … [Read More]

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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

You want funny? Keegan Theatre has funny. Laughter on the 23rd Floor. They killed it, nailed it, knocked it out of the park. … [Read More]

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s hormone-drunk Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story of mad children at play in the house of their own hearts, adrift and rudderless in a storm of their passions, … [Read More]

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Peter and the Wolf

Combine the majestic music of Seigei Prokofiev with a master puppeteer and a timeless story for a winning combination of Peter and the Wolf currently playing at The Puppet Company.  … [Read More]

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Le Roi et le Fermier

Opera Lafayette will be playing the Palace.  Having had one performance at the Kennedy Center, Opera Lafayette next moves its production of this 18th century opera to NYC and then to the palace of … [Read More]

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NEWS

DC theatre community mourns the passing of Lance Hayden Kump, artist and Studio Theatre staff member

The theatre community has lost another member. We are sad to report that Lance Hayden Kump, Marketing Manager for Studio Theatre and a gifted visual artist, died suddenly January 20, 2012. As … [Read More...]

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Marcia Gardner, Signature superwoman (1945 – 2012)

Marcia Murdock Gardner, an actor, educator, dramaturg, casting director and literary manager most frequently associated with Signature Theatre, died January 20 at her Alexandria home after a battle … [Read More...]

Amelia gets a 2 week extension

Amelia, A Story of Abiding Love,  the two actor Civil War drama by Alex Webb enjoying a critically acclaimed run at Washington Stage Guild, has added 8 performances, and will now close February 12, … [Read More...]

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DC BACKSTAGE

Adventure Theatre auditioning child actors this Sunday for Big, the Musical

Adventure Theatre is casting child actors for the world premiere Theatre for Young Audience version of Big, the Musical. The company is seeking young musical theatre singing and dancing performers who look 9-17 years old. Actors should prepare two contrasting songs. Accompanist will be provided. And come prepared to dance.

Playwright seeks 50+ male actor to round out the cast of new play

Looking for an actor, 50 or older who could convincingly play a retired person, for a new, darkly comic stage drama – The Waiter.  Character description: MR. PERPETUALLY UNDECIDED: A retired rancher and frequent patron at a diner. Seems perpetually undecided but really has early onset dementia. This is a paid, non-union role. Rehearsals begin [...]

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Registration for Monologue Madness auditions opens at 10am today

The DC area’s best theatre & film actors battle for over $1000 in cash & prizes Basketball has it March Madness Tournament, and, thanks to DC actor/producer/athlete Edward Daniels, performers have Monologue Madness, a showdown to the finish where actors, using audition monologues, battle head-to-head for prizes and a grand prize of $1,000.

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BALTIMORE BACKSTAGE

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Come for the gumbo. Stay for the plays

On Thursday night, January 12th, Preston Street in Baltimore was packed with cars. That was thanks to Itzhak Perlman, an out-of-town violin player who had decided to drop by the Baltimore Symphony and … [Read More...]

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New year, big deal for Baltimore

I started writing this article as a retrospective of Baltimore theatre in 2011. But I couldn’t help thinking a little bit about what Baltimore is looking at in 2012. In Baltimore, thanks to the … [Read More...]

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Baltimore and Bulgarian theatremakers meet

Nathan Cooper, the artistic director and actor for Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre, recently returned from the Festival for Independent Performing Arts in Sofia, where he spent four days with Lola … [Read More...]

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NY THEATRE BUZZ

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Wit

Margaret Edson is that rare bird, a playwright whose first play, Wit, earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  That alone makes her unique, but she becomes more so when we realize that she has never had … [Read More...]

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Porgy and Bess

The battle has begun. I've been reading followup columns from the critics of the New York Times and other prominent commentators admitting that some of their nitpicking reviews of the current … [Read More...]

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The Road to Mecca

Athol Fugard, South African playwright, had been writing plays for 20 years when The Road to Mecca was first mounted in 1988. Clearly a personal diatribe against the platitudes inherent in so much of … [Read More...]

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THEATRE SHELF

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The Burnt Part Boys – Original Off-Broadway cast recording

Few scores establish their "voice" quite as rapidly as does the score for this poorly titled but highly intriguing one-act musical that had its Off-Broadway premiere in 2010. … [Read More...]

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Death Takes a Holiday

Do you look for ravishing romantic beauty in your musicals? If so, Maury Yeston is probably on your list of favorite composers. Think of "Only With You" (Nine), "We'll Meet Tomorrow" (Titanic) or … [Read More...]

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Broadway Musical MVPs

Filichia has done it again What is a reviewer to do when a book shows up for review that has a pull quote from him praising the author to high heaven? Is it a conflict of interest to praise the new … [Read More...]

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UP CLOSE WITH THE MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE WE KNOW

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Up close with the magic of Elephant Room

We talk with Louie Magic, Dennis Diamond, and Daryl Hannah, if that be their real names. The Elephant Room isn’t really a play and it isn’t really a magic show. In fact, it’s a little hard to … [Read More...]

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Chris Sieber – he’s played Georges on Broadway and now is Zaza on La Cage tour

The fabulous Zaza, as portrayed by singer/actor Christopher Sieber, is the heart and soul of La Cage aux Folles, the current revival of the smash Broadway musical now playing to packed houses at the … [Read More...]

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Ray Ficca returns to DC for Keegan’s Neil Simon hit Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Actor Ray Ficca has been well-known and well-loved in DC for many years. After an extended hiatus from our stages, he’s back in the limelight as hotheaded TV personality Max Prince in Keegan … [Read More...]

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FEATURES

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Romeo and Juliet through the eyes of the Fools

A man walks on to the stage, accompanied by friends. It is night, and he is a decade older than he was that morning. He has buried his young daughter today – dead, suddenly and inexplicably, less … [Read More...]

Listen in on Mike Daisey’s New Years Eve monologue

"Let's face it", he says, "we are all living in a play that isn't working."  - Mike Daisey Monologist Mike Daisey, considered one of the finest storytellers in America,  has a ready home on Woolly … [Read More...]

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Joe Brack is the last elf standing

Performers in holiday shows have lots to be merry about this season as box office sales have earned extensions for their shows. Synetic's Romeo and Juliet added a week, closing today, STC's Much Ado … [Read More...]

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STAGE TO SCREEN – We go to the movies

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War Horse

The London stage version won 2 Olivier Awards; it picked up 6 Tony Awards in New York. But will you like the movie? “War Horse” finds director Steven Spielberg melding together the two genres … [Read More...]

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Carnage

 Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage takes to the screen There’s a scene late in “Carnage” in which Penelope – the type-A, upper-middle class mother played by Jodie Foster – asks “why is … [Read More...]

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A Dangerous Method

It’s one of history’s greatest ironies: The pioneering psychologists, those men and women who first stepped foot onto the vast expanses of our subconscious minds, were themselves not exactly the … [Read More...]

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