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From Crowns – E. Faye Butler and Zurin Villanueva

March 22, 2009 By 1 Comment

crownsThey’ve Got Hatitude!

They’ve come from different times and places – E. Faye Butler, the Chicago born musicals star whose favorite roles include Caroline, or Change, The Gospel According to Fishman, Saving Amy, and Polk County, and Zurin Villanueva, Brooklynite, Howard University student, and winner of Arena Stage’s Finding Yolanda talent search.  In Crowns, E. Faye’s character Mother Shaw and Zurin’s Yolanda develop a deep bond which has spilled over into their personal lives, as you will hear here. [Read more...]

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Free Shakespeare Festival starts Monday

March 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

willpowerIt’s called Willpower!  Montgomery College is hosting the free week long Shakespeare festival March 23 thru 27th composed of lectures, workshops and performances.

Among the highlights: KenYata Rogers and Sasha Olinick teaching a workshop on ‘Sound and Fury’, Ambassador Connie Morella speaking on ‘Did Shakespeare Hate Women? Love Them? …  and Why Do We Care?’ and a rare appearance of the American Shakespeare Center’s company from Staunton, VA, performing Comedy of Errors, (Mar 25 at 7:30) and Hamlet (Mar 26 at 7:30).  Click here to read our trip to southern Virginia to see this magnificent company.

Most of the Willpower! program is at the Rockville campus, Theatre Arts Arena, 51 Manakee Street in Rockville. A few workshops are offered at the Germantown and Takoma Park campuses. More details are here.

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Benedictus

March 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

benedictusBenedictus - the name comes from a canticle which celebrates the birth of John the Baptist by praying for peace and deliverance from fear – is a political black-box thriller which presents an insoluble problem. Its considerable pleasures derive less from watching the efforts to solve it than from watching those efforts undone by greed, remembered humiliation and fulminating mistrust. More autopsy than surgery, Benedictus is nonetheless an extraordinary character study which makes the blood race and the heart break. [Read more...]

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SWAN Day Comes to Georgetown March 28

March 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

swanlogoOn Saturday, March 28th, Georgetown will be the center for a day-long SWAN (Support Women Artists Now!) festival organized by The Georgetown Theatre Co., Women in Film & Video and Doorway Arts Ensemble Theatre Co. [Read more...]

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Jesus Christ Superstar

March 19, 2009 By 2 Comments

jesuschristFew actors are as identified with a single role as Ted Neeley, who has been performing the lead in Jesus Christ Superstar for nearly four decades.  The good news is that Ted Neeley still gives a star-worthy performance in this iconic role.  The better news is that Ted Neeley is surrounded by a talented cast in a first-rate touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar now making a brief visit at the Warner Theatre. [Read more...]

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Ion

March 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

Is it so hard to believe now, this twenty-five hundred year old story about gods and humans, their loves and their lies? Do we have no other response than to scoff at the thought that men might be gods, or might be animals? In Ion, Euripides reaches to us, heart to heart, across a hundred generations or more, with the intelligence that we are in control of our own destinies. Euripides’ Athenians, who had so much less experience at being human than we do, nonetheless fill us with an oddly comforting wisdom. [Read more...]

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A Chorus Line

March 18, 2009 By 3 Comments

choruslinecassie1National Theatre’s A Chorus Line sizzles and sparks with dance and song and touches the heart with stories of dancers’ lives. This production boasts an extraordinary cast and production values that shatter all expectations and satisfy as much as did the Broadway revival production on which it’s based. A Chorus Line set the standard for integration of book and music (the original Broadway production winning 9 Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and this cast raises the barre for outstanding performance. [Read more...]

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Malvolio’s Revenge Before Shakespeare’s Supreme Court

March 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

malvolioMalvolio v. Olivia et al – Twelfth Night Buffoon Gets His Day in (The Supreme) Court: Monday, April 6th  at Harmon Hall

When we last left Malvolio (Ted Van Griethuysen), priggish majordomo to Lady Olivia, he was being led, barefoot and disheveled, out of his tiny prison after having been tricked by Twelfth Night’s merry pranksters into believing that the Lady Olivia loved him, and would love him even more if he acted like a complete nimrod. “I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you,” he bellowed as he left.

Now – with apologies to the late Paul Harvey – it’s time for the rest of the story. [Read more...]

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Marisol

March 17, 2009 By 1 Comment

marisolMarisol is reminiscent of old school, vintage dark comics, only without the Super hero.  Its darkness permeates everything, from the tattered wall hangings to the graffiti filled floor and lacerated and junk yard furnishings piled up for the set design. [Read more...]

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New DCTS Find A Show feature announced

March 15, 2009 By 1 Comment

If there’s one thing our readers have been ‘suggesting’ over the years, it’s that we give  more details about upcoming performances.

We think we’ve done just that. We’re just replaced Onstage Now with our new Find A Show guide. It features a page for every area production which is onstage now or coming soon, and we’ve packed the page with everything we think you need to know: descriptions, ticket prices, location, dates and times, company reviews, maps, etc.

Where is this great new feature, you ask? Go to the gold bar at the top of the page, hover your mouse over ‘Find A Show’ and you will see 6 drop down boxes. Hover over Onstage, move your mouse slightly to the right for the list of all shows. Click on any one, and you will get to the show page.

You can do the same for shows in DC, MD, VA and for Kids Stages shows.

Questions? We’ve thought up some for you, and answered them in the Help section, (red banner in the header.)

Enjoy!

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