Scene Stealers

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.

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

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.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Return Visit with Broadway Pundit Richard Seff
By Joel Markowitz

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