MEMORIES OF A GRAND NIGHT AT MAME

A SUMMERTIME CHRISTMAS PRESENT, A DOWNPOUR OF JOY!
Comment and opinion by: Joel Markowitz
ON THE WAY TO MAME
As I am writing this, I’m on the run - -getting ready to meet 50 members of the Ushers Theatre-going Social Group at The Kennedy Center
to finally see Mame tonight at 7:30 PM. Before the show begins, I have [...]

History Cubed

By: Fiona Zublin
Picasso’s Closet — TheaterJ 
 
The lives of artists, truly great artists, are fascinating to us all. Apparently, so are the lives they never led. Ariel Dorfman’s new play, Picasso’s Closet, examines the 1944 murder of Picasso in Nazi-occupied Paris—despite the fact that Picasso died in Mougins, France, on April 8th, 1973. Dorfman offers a [...]

Bedbound Breaks Barriers

Bed Bound — Solas Nua
By: Ronnie Ruff

Edna Walsh has yet to achieve the popularity in America that Conor McPherson has but he is, none the less, one of the most important new playwrights in contemporary Irish theatre. Solas Nua, one of the most exciting local theatre companies around has mounted Bedbound, Walsh’s 2000 play at the [...]

The 17th Annual Reading of the Black Women Playwrights’ Group

Tonight and Tuesday at Studio Theater (same programs both nights)
“EVERYDAY GUMBO” 17TH ANNUAL STAGED READING
Monday, Tuesday June 19 & June 20
Studio Theatre 7:30pm
1501 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Price $20 in advance, $22 at door
TICKETS: 1-800-494-8497 or go to http://www.boxofficetickets.com 
Our own Debbie Minter Jackson has a play being read! Way to go Debbie!

New World Order

By: Ronnie Ruff
The New World Order and Other Plays — Scena Theatre
Pinter’s The New World Order and Other Plays currently mounted at Warehouse Theatre by Scena Theatre is a cluster of angry one act plays that speak to the oppressive governments that abuse the citizenry of the third world.  Mainly aimed at the west, the three one acts depict [...]

The Lunch Launch

Bouncing Ball Productions got started with a bang Sunday evening at the Black Cat Club on 14th St. NW with scenes from three of writer Shawn Northrip and director Shirley Serotsky’s projects including  Titus The Musical, Cautionary Tales For Adults and Lunch (which is being performed at the CapFringe Festival). The wonderful Tracy Lynn Olivera (why don’t we see [...]

Two Headed a must see at WSC

By: Debbie Minter Jackson
Note: D.M.Jackson has acted at WSC in the past, but has never worked directly with or for any of the artists involved with this production.
Two Headed — WSC

This gem of a two-character play, Two-Headed by Julie Jensen, is an ideal performance piece for Lee Mikeska Gardner and Melissa Flaim. Wrapped in tight layers [...]

Help Launch Lunch

Hear Our Interview with Shawn Northrip and Shirley Serotsky
Meet the theatre company that is trying to break the stigma associated with show tunes.

Writer Shawn Northrip and director Shirley Serotsky, the minds behind Source’s Titus, the musical and McBeth’s McTragic McMusical, and the Madcap Players’ Cautionary Tales for Adults, along with business manager Caehlin Bell, present [...]

LOTS TO SING ABOUT PART 2: SUMMER 2006 MUSICALS

By: Joel Markowitz 
“THAT’LL BE THE DAY” WHEN “3 DIVAS” (times two) “TAKE THE A TRAIN” TO “AMSTERDAM”
It may be humid, but we have some extremely hot musicals during June, July and August at our local theatres.

I hear you kvetchin, “That’ll Be The Day” when I schlep with my kids to Columbia, Maryland to see anybody [...]

School Dayz?

By: Fiona Zublin 
Faculty Room –  Woolly Mammoth 

Teachers doing drugs (and other things) with students, students discussing physical mutilation with teachers, religious riots in the auditorium—did any of this happen at your high school? If you are less than five years out of high school, expect middle-aged patrons of The Faculty Room to look at you [...]

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