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Roundheads and PeakheadsOh, what an unpleasant task it is to review a play one didn’t enjoy! And how much worse it is when the production is done by an excellent and admirable company, and with such obvious care and effort! But it is time to face the music. [Read more...]
Feb 18 — Producers for Next to Normal, the Tom Kitt/Brian Yorkey musical which closed two months ago at Arena Stage, just announced that the show will move to Broadway’s Longacre Theatre with its DC cast intact. Previews begin March 27th with the official opening April 15th. [Read more...]
The Dog in the MangerCall it Lopemania. The Shakespeare Theatre Company has opened its doors to the rich treasures of Lope de Vega, the “Spanish Shakespeare,” and his tragic-comedies. This gorgeous Washington premiere of The Dog in the Manger, written about 1615, follows the GALA Theatre’s magnificent The Best Judge, The King, [Read more...]
by Joel Markowitz
A conversation with Synetic Theater Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili, director of Dante and Ben Cunis, co-adaptor, who appears in the title role.
Three hours before their call at Rosslyn Spectrum, Paata Tsikurishvili and Ben Cunis sat down with Joel Markowitz to talk about the daunting task of creating a play out of one of the most extraordinary works in world literature - Dante Alighieri’s classic poem The Divine Comedy. [Read more...]
Mary Louise Parker is one of those luminous ladies who will have allure on a stage as long as she agrees to set foot on one. Movie cameras are not so friendly, and the radiant Ms. Parker has thus far graced many more small screens than large ones. Embroiled for the past few seasons in the crazy plot maneuverings of Weeds on Showtime, she must have reached out to Ibsen’s Hedda for an opportunity to explore a very different kind of woman. But has she given us Ibsen’s frustrated, misplaced, sexually repressed Hedda Tesman, [Read more...]
Pig FarmWhen Pig Farm showed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival last year, you couldn’t tell that it was a comedy until people started getting killed. Not so for 1st Stage’s riotous staging of the latest from the creator of Urinetown. 1st Stage hits the laugh lines early and hard, and by the time the blood is shed – or, rather, spurted – we’re all in on the joke. [Read more...]
pluck – The Titanic ShowI have always thought that the mixture of classical performers and comedy is a brilliant notion since seeing the Bugs Bunny cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc” as a child (come on, you remember “kill the wabbit”, don’t you?). Yet ‘pluck’, a London-based string trio starring Adrian Garratt (violin), Jon Regan (viola), and Siân Kadifachi (cello), exceeded my fondest hopes with its delightful comedic talents. [Read more...]
Is He Dead?Would Is He Dead? have received a Broadway debut in 2007 if it had not been a long lost work written a century earlier by Mark Twain? It’s a creaky and formulaic farce at best. Yet fostered by the capable talents at Olney Theatre Center, Is He Dead? gradually gains enough irresistible comedic momentum to leave the audience smiling. [Read more...]
I AM THEATRE (TCG) American Theatre Wing Interviews