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For the seventh consecutive year, the Kennedy Center has hosted a Labor Day Weekend cornucopia of new and developing plays by writers such as Joseph A. Briggs and Carlos Murillo.  Some plays, like Synetic’s Host and Guest, are in rehearsal for immediate production, and some of them won’t be ready for years. (more…)

African Continuum Theatre today announced that it has named JoAnn Williams as the company’s new Executive Director. Williams, a veteran Washington-area theatrical innovator, had been serving as Interim Executive Director of the Dance Institute of Washington. (more…)

Meet the stars of Rooms: A Rock Musical
An interview with Natascia Diaz and Doug Kreeger
by Joel Markowitz

Minutes after accepting their standing ovations, their Scottish accents still on the tips of their tongues, the stars of the new bound-for-NYC musical Rooms: A Rock Musical (more…)

 

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We hope you can join us for this first look at what you are likely to see in the next season or two. It’s free. And it’s a great chance to meet directors, actors and playwrights.

DCTS will have continuous coverage throughout the weekend.

                        Your Guide to Page-to-Stage

The following schedule is subject to change.

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Story Theatre
By Paul Sills
Co-Directed by Suzanne Richard & Ian Armstrong
Produced by Open Circle Theatre
Reviewed by Steven McKnight

Watching Open Circle Theatre’s performance of Story Theatre reminded me of the importance of play selection.  This adaptation of several of Grimm’s fairy tales and Aesop’s fables accentuates the strengths of the company and delivers a satisfying evening of family entertainment. (more…)

A conversation with Synetic Theater’s Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili
By Joel Markowitz
Recorded Saturday, August 23, 2008

As Russian troops occupied the Republic of Georgia, DC’s Synetic Theater, headed by Georgian artists, was rehearsing their season opener The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili received a call, then turned on Georgian news to learn about the tragedy that was unfolding in his native country, affecting his family and the family of other company members. “Russian tanks and soldiers are running around in my small beautiful country…they are burning everything even forests, ranches, houses.” (more…)

 

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Maria/Stuart
By Jason Grote
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
Produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Here is what happened, all those hundreds of years ago, as re-imagined in Friedrich Schiller’s play Maria Stuart: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, is framed by a forged letter and executed for a treason she never committed, even though her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, knew that she was not guilty. Here’s what happens in the absolutely astonishing world premiere now playing at Woolly Mammoth: Stuart (Eli James) has had his romantic dreams sustained for his entire adult life by a letter which he hides in a bust of Friedrich Schiller - a letter which may have been forged. (more…)

Buffalo Gal and a look at Broadway producers
By Richard Seff

It’s always a pleasure to watch a master craftsman at work. A.R. Gurney is such an artist and for over 50 years he has been offering us well crafted plays at the rate of one every year or two. His latest, Buffalo Gal, is a reworking of one he wrote in 2001 for the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He saw it staged again in 2002 in Buffalo which is the play’s setting at the Studio Arena. Now, reshaped for 2008, it finally arrived in New York on August 5^th, via Primary Stages. Why did it take eight years and three versions? (more…)

THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED

The winners will be announced this weekend

at our big Awards Show

Thanks for voting.

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Welcome to DCTS’ second annual

Audience Choice Awards

All season long we’ve raved, ranted, fulminated, and broken out into song over the shows and performances we’ve loved the most, and also over those which violated our delicate, artistic sensibilities.

Now it’s your turn. (more…)

FAVORITE MUSICAL  (11 nominations)

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