Page To Stage — The Interviews

Well theatre fans, this weekend is the annual Kennedy Center Page To Stage Festival for new works in the realm of theatre. Who but DC Theatre Reviews is going to bring you the behind the scenes coverage you want to read. We were batting around how to let everyone know about some of the really [...]

Five Favorite Musical Performances of 2005-2006 That Made Me Stand Up And Cheer-Bravo! Bravo!

CATCH THESE 4 RISING STARS:
As the new fall musical season approaches, let’s look back at five performances that left me breathless from musicals that graced our local stages the past year.
(1) AND (2) FELICIA CURRY IN AIDA AT TOBY’S-THE DINNER THEATRE OF COLUMBIA, AND TWO QUEENS, ONE CASTLE AT METROSTAGE.

A hot and spicy curry [...]

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE GREAT

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
Produced by Longacre Lea at Catholic University.
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
“Give us this day our daily cue,” prays Guildenstern (Jonathan Church), cueless and clueless, late in the second act of Longacre Lea’s remarkably satisfying production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Alas, Guildenstern’s problem is not too little instruction but [...]

3/4 Mass for St. Vivian

3/4 A Mass For St. Vivian – Theatre Alliance 
By Ronnie Ruff

It wasn’t night time when I attended 3/4 A Mass For St. Vivian. It was a wonderful Saturday afternoon, really warm outside, a bit of a breeze blowing. Inside the H Street Playhouse it was that purple haze of dusk, the moon clear and bright, a [...]

Out Pops a Grade AAA Jumbo

Review and Podcast By: Ronnie Ruff
The Disappearance of Janey Jones — The Hatchery Festival
Janey Jones never disappears during this wonderful new play mounted at the 2nd annual Hatchery Festival at DCAC, in fact she is all over the stage because Janey is her grandmother and her mother before her. A victim of bi polar disorder, [...]

Phoenician Women

Phoenician Women
– Natural Theatricals
By Ronnie Ruff
Natural Theatrical’s mounting of a new translation of Phoenician Women is a must see for anyone wanting to see how to make use of every bit of space a venue has to offer. The auditorium at the Masonic Temple in Alexandria is a grand ornate structure that seems vast for such [...]

My Fair-Mein Herr Schmooze Something Old Is New Again

by Joel Markowitz
FIRST TEENY SWEENEY, NOW SIGNATURE’S TEENY LADY TICKLES THE IVORY (2 OF THEM), AND A LOCAL STAR EMCEES, WHILE LOLA CAUSES A FUHRER AT ARENA.
TOBY DOES IT TEENY WITH HEART

Helen Hayes Award Winning local Director Toby Orenstein has been doing it for years-it’s in your face theatre, taking musicals that were “epics” on [...]

Long Distance Artistic Director?

We missed speaking with Linda Murray the Artistic Director of Solas Nua before she was wisked away to Ireland after the Capital Fringe Festival. We descide to get together for a virtual interview for our readers.
Ronnie Tell our readers how you came to be across the Atlantic for the next year. I know its not [...]

Picasso at Lapin Agile

Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin 
Produced by Keegan Theatre at the Gunston Arts Center
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

I saw the world premiere of this play fourteen years ago - a somewhat lackluster performance at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. At the time, I remember wondering how good Picasso would be if it was staged [...]