Scene Stealers
November 29, 2007 by Joel Markowitz
Filed under News and Views, Theatre Schmooze
Seven who stole the show this Fall
By Joel Markowitz
It’s highway robbery when all of a sudden in the middle of a play or musical, a performer comes on the stage and grabs the show away from the leads. You say, “Wow! Who was that person?” So, here are seven scene stealers from shows I saw [...]
Christmas Comes to Broadway. The Strike Is Over.
November 29, 2007 by lorraine treanor
Filed under News and Views
Nov 29 — The Local One stagehand’s strike, begun the morning of November 10th, ended last night with a tentative agreement that could have some shows opening as early as today. The strike shuttered 27 of Broadway’s biggest shows, costing heartache to tourists and performers and lost revenues to the tune of $2 million per [...]
A Christmas Carol, Take 1
November 27, 2007 by Hunter Kieserman
Filed under Kids Stages Reviews, Our Reviews
Ed’s note: Will Synetic’s Christmas Carol thrill children and adults? DCTS reviewer Gary McMillan speaks for the adults, (See Take 2) and our young reviewer gives his perspective here.
————————————-
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili and Dan Istrate
Produced by Synetic Theater at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
Reviewed by Hunter Kieserman
I was not prepared for the visual excitement [...]
A Christmas Carol, Take 2
November 27, 2007 by Gary McMillan
Filed under Our Reviews
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens, adapted by Nathan Weinberger
Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili and Dan Istrate
Choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili
Produced by Synetic Theater
Reviewed by Gary McMillan
Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh with the hounds of hell nipping at your heels. Synetic Theater has taken on the Dicken’s holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, and [...]
Christmas Carol 1941
November 27, 2007 by Debbie Jackson
Filed under Our Reviews
Christmas Carol 1941
By James Magruder
Directed by Molly Smith
Produced by Arena Stage
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
Who knew that the age-old Christmas Carol story could be adapted to wartime Washington, D.C and filled with such local and national history? Talented playwright James Magruder has internalized the familiar messages of memory, retribution, and second chances, and offers a [...]
Happy Days
November 26, 2007 by Rosalind Lacy
Filed under Our Reviews
Happy Days
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Deborah Warner
Produced by The National Theatre of Great Britain
Presented at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center
Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy
When Samuel Beckett’s wife asked him to write a cheerful play, he wrote Happy Days in which a mid-life woman is buried in an earth mound up to her waist in [...]
Shining City
November 20, 2007 by Rosalind Lacy
Filed under Our Reviews
Shining City
by Conor McPherson
Directed by Joy Zinoman
Produced by Studio Theatre
Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy
That there’s an element of mythical unworldliness in Conor McPherson’s mesmerizing play Shining City is implied in the title, that echoes scripture, “A city on a hill cannot be hid.” Or “Let your light shine before men.” The image was borrowed from the [...]
Alone It Stands
November 20, 2007 by Tim Treanor
Filed under Our Reviews
Alone It Stands
By John Breen
Directed by Eric Lucas and Kerry Waters Lucas
Produced by Keegan Theatre’s New Island Project
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
To understand the impact of Munster’s 1978 triumph over the New Zealand All Black team, you must imagine that the New England Patriots, fresh from its 63-0 triumph in the 2008 Super Bowl, is performing [...]
The Secret Garden
November 20, 2007 by Johnny Perl
Filed under Kids Stages Reviews, Our Reviews
The Secret Garden
Based upon the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Directed by Michael J. Bobbit
Produced by Adventure Theatre
Reviewed by Jonny Perl
Like a ballet that tells a story, The Secret Garden opens with a series of magnificent tale-telling dances. A snake in India is cleverly charmed. Mary’s parents suffer a horrid death from cholera and Mary is [...]
Inside Broadway
November 19, 2007 by Richard Seff
Filed under Our Podcasts
A Return Visit with Broadway Pundit Richard Seff
By Joel Markowitz






