Joel’s Fringe Thoughts

Fringe Comments- By Joel Markowitz Musical Podcaster/Theatre Schmoozer
My hats off to all the volunteers and the administration who pulled the Fringe Festival off. Alot of people worked very hard to make this a success. It will be interesting to see what the final ticket sales were, but most of the shows I attended were near [...]

Lorraine’s Fringe Thoughts

Lorraine Treanor our Director of Marketing had these thoughts about our first Fringe
Hats off to the organizers of Capital Fringe for proving that Washington has a huge hunger for Fringe. As a producer (of Mamas, DOn’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Actors) I attended the first Fringe meeting last summer where we heard [...]

Tim’s Thoughts On Fringe

Senior Reviewer Tim Treanor had these thoughts about our first Fringe
The Fringe itself was an unalloyed success. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen Washington area theater do. What it shows is that there is immense talent waiting to get out and express itself. Most of the Fringe stars were folks I had never [...]

Footloose

 

Footloose — Toby’s Baltimore
Today, eight friends, including myself, attended the matinée of the musical Footloose at the new Toby’s Baltimore. The show has been receiving raves from local critics, so we had to go there to see if the critics were right and, most important, we wanted to experience the new venue. The new Toby’s [...]

Normal C

Fringe Snips:

Normal-C,

written and performed by Courtney McLean

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

The word “normalcy” was invented by the notorious political buffoon Warren G. Harding, who sought to describe how things would be for Americans if he was elected President. Proving that God has a sense of humor, Harding won, ushering in an era of unparalleled corruption. [...]

3 Divas 1 fantastic evening!

By Ronnie Ruff
Interviews: Joel Markowitz
Three Mo Divas –  Arena Stage
di·va ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dv)
n. pl. di·vas or di·ve (-v)
An operatic prima donna.
A very successful singer of non operatic music: a jazz diva

So that’s the meaning straight from the dictionary but what is the real meaning of ‘diva’?  I think Arena may have the answer [...]

Tramps and Vamps

Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Tramps and Vamps (Ruffian on the Stair/Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), Actors Theater of Washington

The great immortal succubus, stage name La Condesa (Nanna Ingvarsson) requires the blood of virgin women to continue living – or rather continue undying. A woman (Rick Hammerly) of indeterminate age (she says fourteen), having experienced the world’s worst [...]

The Duke is butter smooth..

By: Ronnie Ruff 
Interview by Joel Markowitz 
Ellington:The Life and Music of the Duke  –  Metro Stage

It’s a hot summer night in DC the original home of Duke Ellington and Carolyn Griffin, artistic director of Metro Stage is glancing nervously around the Metro Stage lobby at the arriving theatre goers. They are there to see Ellington:The Life [...]

Alice in Underwear

Alice in Underwear by the Natural Theatricals
By: Tim Treanor

In Paula Alprin’s new play, Alison Alice (Alprin), a dyspeptic, Anglophile critic with a bad back, is given ninety minutes of what for by spokespeople for the mysterious producer, Sue Z. Not that you’ll mind too much – after all, Alice is an anti-Irish, anti-French anti-Semite, who [...]

Almost Theatre Heaven – West Virginia

By: Debbie Minter Jackson
Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV July 13, 2006
Why, oh why has it taken me sixteen years to finally get to Shepherdstown, WV for the Contemporary American Theater Festival, which started the same year I moved here from Chicago? I have heard rumblings about it since its inception, so I had [...]

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