Hot Tickets Fresh Daily

Aug 29 -  Yesterday morning, DCTS launched its new Hot Ticket Deals column with more discounted and free tickets than ever before.  New listings are posted daily by Zoltar, Destroyer of Planets (Retired), the pseudonym of a well known theatre personality.   There are 12 ticket offers posted today.  
Zoltar says there will be special DCTS-only offers coming soon [...]

Mrs. Farnsworth

Mrs. Farnsworth
By A. R. Gurney
Produced by RepStage                                                 
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
Mrs. Farnsworth now playing at Rep Stage in Columbia, is a clever if somewhat light-weight satire of fictionalized early “indiscretions” of the current Commander in Chief. The story unfolds in a creative writing class in New York City and the entire 90 minute spoof [...]

Two Theater Companies Mount Encores

Encores. They don’t happen often but at the start of this year’s season, two companies have been able to fit two recent popular productions into their schedules. 
You have until Sept 16th to catch  Pangs of the Messiah which re-opens tonight at Theater J. Opus, last Spring’s hit for Washington Stage Guild,  opens on September 6th with its original cast: Krytzov Lindquist, Ritchie [...]

Act Two Singing for You

Annie and Jekyll Casts Show Their Stuff
By Joel Markowitz
Listen for yourself to see why two Act Two musicals from this past season made it into my Top 10 for the year
JEKYLL AND HYDE
What an honor to hear three vocally incredible young singers in Act Two’s stunning production of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde which [...]

Mr. Baseball

An interview with director Michael Stock and actor Joshua Markowitz
by Joel Markowitz
I trecked up to NYC to see Mr. Baseball in the NYC Fringe Festival at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village. My nephew Josh, an aspiring actor, was playing Smitty in the show and I was eager to see this Kosher Ham perform. [...]

Private Lives

Private Lives
By Noel Coward
Produced by Washington Shakespeare Company
Reviewed by Janice Cane
Washington Shakespeare Company is serving up a bite of fun almost as delectable as the fare offered just beyond the stage at 1409 Playbill Café. Almost. A day later, I’m still salivating over the meal I enjoyed before seeing Noël Coward’s Private Lives, but the play [...]

Joel Names His Top Musicals and Performers

HITTING ALL THE RIGHT NOTES:
THIS YEAR’S BEST MUSICALS!
By Joel Markowitz
I am a musical theatre crazy, and this year we were blessed with many wonderful productions in our local theatres. Here are my top ten musicals of the year, my top ten musical performances, and the musical performer of the year.
BEST MUSICALS
#1 THE MUSICALS OF [...]

Rob McQuay and Joe Peck Interviews

Joel Markowitz Interviews Songs for a New World actors Rob McQuay and Joe Peck
Three-time Helen Hayes nominee Rob McQuay who had just finished his demanding role in Songs for a New World, talked with me about what its like to be part of a working theatre couple (his wife Channez was most recently seen in [...]

Lazarus Syndrome

Lazarus Syndrome
By Bruce Ward
Produced by Theater Alliance
Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
In 1983, concert pianist Elliott Liteman (Michael Kramer) discovered that he had contracted AIDS.  He watched in horror and helplessness as dozens of his closest friends, and tens of thousands of other people, died.  How did he, among all the sufferers, manage [...]

AUDIENCE CHOICE Awards

Sept 5 -
The results are in.  To celebrate, we recorded the Audience Choice Awards show. Tune in to hear James Konicek as host, DCTS staff announce the nominees, and the winners accept. Listen here.
 Here are the top 5 finalists, and the *winners.
Best Play

*Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (MetroStage)

References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach [...]

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