Richard Seff Joins DCTS

SUPPORTING PLAYER BECOMES LEAD PLAYER FOR DC THEATRE SCENE

Dec 28 — Broadway quadruple-threat - actor, agent, author and librettist - Richard Seff will join the staff of DC Theatre Scene effective January 1, DCTS Editor Lorraine Treanor announced today. Seff, the author of the well-received Broadway autobiography, SUPPORTING PLAYER: My Life Upon the Wicked Stage, [...]

Brooks Returns to Tamburlaine

Fri, Dec 28 - Avery Brooks, whose recent injury halted production of the Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Tamburlaine, has recovered sufficiently to rejoin the cast and the play will resume production on Saturday, December 29.Brooks plays the title character in the Christopher Marlowe play, which inaugurated the company’s new Harman Hall space.Brooks’ injury, the nature [...]

2008 Wish List

My End of Year Schmooze
by Joel Markowitz 
So none of my readers can accuse me of being listless, here are my two end of the year lists:
1 - WOULDN’T THE 2008 THEATRE SEASON BE SHEER BLISS IF…

Shlemiel the First

Shlemiel the First

Based on the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Conceived & adapted by Robert Brustein

Music by Hankus Netsky & Zalman Mlotek

Lyrics by Arnold Weinstein

Directed by Nick Olcott & Michael Russotto

Produced by Theater J

Reviewed by Gary McMillan

Shlemiel the First is a triple threat: a “ho hum” score, a ham-handed book treatment, and a single set apparently [...]

A Visit with Amy McWilliams

Schmoozing with Theater J’s Mrs. Shlemiel
Joel Markowitz sat down with local actress/singer Amy McWIlliams to talk about her role as Tryna Rytza, the ever suffering and forgiving Mrs. Shlemiel, in Theater J’s Klezmer musical Shlemiel The First, now freylaching  (dancing) on the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater stage.  

A Very Merry Unauthorized …..

A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant

By Kyle Jarrow

Directed by Andrew Baughman

Produced by Landless Theatre Company

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

David Sedaris had a routine in which he played a theatre critic who passed judgment on grade-school Christmas pageants. “A cloying, preening stage presence,” he sniffed, dismissing a six-year old playing the Virgin Mary, “her performance seemed [...]

Serge Seiden on Grey Gardens

Serge Seiden, director of Grey Gardens
By Joel Markowitz
Serge Seiden, Associate Producing Director of Studio Theatre, responded to Joel’s questions by written interview.
Joel: This production is among the first seen outside New York. You have created a Grey Gardens that is quite different from the Broadway production. Tell us how you approached directing this unusual [...]

Barbara Walsh

Barbara Walsh, star of Grey Gardens
Interview by Joel Markowitz
She’s a hometown girl, and she’s back performing on the Metheny Stage at Studio Theatre as Edie and Edith in Studio Theatre’s production of Grey Gardens. In this transcript of their phone interview, Barbara Walsh talks with Joel about preparing to play the characters, and her NYC [...]

A Talk with Actor Bruce Nelson

A Disgruntled Elf Lightens Up

By Joel Markowitz
He’s a two-time Helen Hayes Award Winner and one of  Joel’s favorite actors, so what better way to deck the halls than to schmooze with the ever moving, energy-filled Santa’s helper extraordinaire  Bruce Nelson, who finishes his reprise starring role in The Santaland Diaries Sunday, Dec 23rd.

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Breath, Boom

Breath, Boom

By Kia Corthron

Directed by Rahaleh Nassri

Produced by Studio Theatre

Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

The children’s slide sitting upstage would recall sweet memories of innocent children’s games except that it is dwarfed by a towering 7ft caged fencing traversing the stage. The dark lighting foretells of lurking present dangers yet unseen.  At rise, hip hop music [...]

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