The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks
By Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Lucinda Merry-Browne
Produced by Bay Theatre
Reviewed by Ted Ying
“Deep in December, our hearts should remember.  And follow.” It’s December and definitely a perfect time to “Try to remember” this classic show.  The original off-Broadway production ran for over 41 years and 17,162 performances.  It is also one [...]

Shrek, Cripple of Inishmaan

Shrek, The Cripple of Inishmaan, and a visit to the Players Club

by Richard Seff

Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears

Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears
Written and Performed by Theodore Bikel
Directed by Derek Goldman
Musical Direction by Tamara Brooks
Produced by Theater J
Reviewed by Joel Markowitz
Light your Chanukah candles, eat your latkes and spin your dreidels! Let’s all dance Di Mezinke! Chanukah is here, and Theater J has given us reason for rejoicing. Theo’s back in Sholom Aleichem: [...]

Grey Gardens director and star talk about the show

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. An excerpt from their phone interview is below. Read the entire conversation here.
Joel: How difficult is it to try to put [...]

Alice Ripley in Next to Normal

Interviewed by Joel Markowitz

Four shows that are gifts from Santa

A Child’s Christmas in Wales, A Christmas Carol, Seasonal Disorder and An iMusical Christmas!
A Holiday Labor of Love!

It was a difficult week for me and some of my close friends. Many of us were called into to our human resources offices and heard those dreaded words, “I’m so sorry, but we had to make [...]

Legally Blonde

Legally Blonde
Adapted for the stage by Heather Hach from the MGM film, based on the novel by Amanda Brown
Music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin
Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell
Presented by The Kennedy Center
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
Legally Blonde is a big splashy musical with heart.  Sure it’s got enough pink and fluff [...]

Three Who Shone in Beauty and the Beast

A Beauty of a Beauty and the Beast
Interviews with actors Josh Simon and Mike Mainwaring and lighting designer Scott Selman
I had heard that Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD had a terrific drama department, and a huge Broadway size stage, so when Scott Selman – whose work I knew from Act Two – [...]

DC Theatre Scene Hosts New Radio Show

by Lorraine Treanor
The snow is falling on DCTS to celebrate the first in a series of radio plays by The Audible Group, founded by actors Susan Lynskey and James Konicek, sound designer Matthew M. Nielson and myself.  We all worked together on this year’s Audience Choice Awards show, and discovered our common love for creating [...]

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Written, Directed, Produced and Performed by the Neo-Futurists: Sharon Greene, Jacquelyn Landgraf, John Pierson, Caitlin Stainken and Jay Torrence
Created by Greg Allen
Produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Reviewed by Leslie Weisman
If you have a taste for the tawdry, the kinky, the sweet and the sublime… this show’s for you.  [...]

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