A Podcast Interview with Journeymen’s Deborah Kirby

 
It is a brilliant sunny day in DC, a Saturday at that. Most folks would be outside enjoying the fine weather. But not Deborah Kirby, not for that matter yours truly. Deborah had a meeting to attend at the Warehouse Theatre bar/Coffee shop on Seventh St. behind the DC Convention Center and I have an [...]

A Podcast Interview with Rorschach’s Lindsay Allen

 
DC Theatre Beat recently visited Rorschach Theatre to see their production of A Bright Room Called Day. After being mesmerized by tremendous acting and a near perfect marriage of live theatre and video effects we had the chance to sit down with Helen Hayes nominated actress Lindsay Allen and discuss her character in the show, her [...]

A Primitive Pleasure?

By Fiona Zublin
The Play’s The Thing
 
Farces are renowned as complicated, temperamental creatures, often long and filled with chase scenes and slapstick. They generally follow a formula: setting up an unsolvable problem, inventing a viable solution, and watching the solution fail but the happy ending miraculously happen anyway. The Play’s the Thing, a P.G. Wodehouse adaptation [...]

The Game of Love and Chance

By Juliet Moser
The Game of Love and Chance  –  Folger Shakespeare Theatre 

Peppered with verbal bon-bons, Steven Wadsworth’s new translations of Pierre de Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance at the Folger Theatre leaves audiences with a slight stomachache from ingesting too may linguistic sweets. Game begins with the same culprits as every other love farce [...]

A Long But Worthwhile Day

By Fiona Zublin
A Bright Room Called Day  –  Rorschach Theatre
 
Many plays are too long. It’s a common trait; actors like to act slowly, playwrights like to cram as much as possible into the script, since they’ve already got you in your seat. A lot of the plays that are too long can be forgiven, because [...]

A Clockwork Richard

By Ronnie Ruff
Richard II  –  Washington Shakespeare Company
 
This is not your father’s Richard II or your mom’s — this is a Richard II for those that think many of those that rule are thugs and hooligans albeit with an education and a pedigree. Let it never be said that Washington Shakespeare Company does not take chances [...]

An Interview with Charles Marowitz - Director and Playwright of Silent Partners

 
Silent Partners is a play which examines the relationship between radical playwright Bertolt Brecht and his English-language translator, Eric Bentley. In a profound and compelling way, it measures the moral price people are willing to pay for greatness, or for closeness to it. DCtheatrereviews.com, in its first podcast ever, interviews Charles Marowitz, the playwright and [...]

Art Is A Hammer - Silent Partners hits hard

By Ronnie Ruff
Silent Partners  –  Scena Theatre

Barry Dennen (center) and James Raby in Silent Partners.
Photo: Ray Gniewek
Verfremdungseffekt translated from the German is estrangement effect and it is one of the defining principles of Epic Theatre, the stage theory Bertolt Brecht wanted audiences to realize. He wanted them to distance themselves from the production. Brecht used [...]

Snaps From The Prom

All Snaps By: Lorraine Treanor

Ray Ficca (Anything Goes)

DCTR Favorite Tracy Lynn Olivera (Shenandoah)
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Continued Helen Hayes Coverage

Meg Gillentine, Brad Oscar and Diego Prieto (Damn Yankees)
Watch this evening for our coverage of the party with full photo coverage by our own Lorraine Treanor.
Helen Haze report from Rorschach!
Tboy’s gossip from the HH’s party is posted here 
Mr. Marks’ thoughts on HH are here
Notes from Playbill.Com are here
DC Theatre Reviews is your complete Helen Hayes [...]

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