The Receptionist opens with a soggy biscuit of a monologue and ends with an inexplicable hiccup, but in between it is as crisp as a Necco Wafer and as chilling as death. Forget what you may have heard about this play: it is not Dilbert. It is not The Office. It is not even a comedy. It is a seventy-five minute meditation on the banality of evil, with plenty of banality, and even more evil. [Read more...]
The Receptionist
March 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
The Receptionist opens with a soggy biscuit of a monologue and ends with an inexplicable hiccup, but in between it is as crisp as a Necco Wafer and as chilling as death. Forget what you may have heard about this play: it is not Dilbert. It is not The Office. It is not even a comedy. It is a seventy-five minute meditation on the banality of evil, with plenty of banality, and even more evil. [Read more...]
DCTS gets a new look
March 5, 2009 By 24 Comments
Welcome to our newly designed Web site. We hope you find it inviting, and exciting, and that you can easily find your favorite sections, and maybe discover some new ones. While we have wanted – and badly needed – a new design for some time, it didn’t become a possibility until we received advertising support this winter from Constellation Theatre, Arena Stage, Synetic Theater, 1st Stage, MetroStage, Washington Savoyards and The Rude Mechanicals.
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Don Pippin on Jerry Herman
March 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
He’s just past seventy-seven now: an icon, a Broadway fixture since his debut at the Imperial in 1962 in Oliver. He’s known for his music, of course (Mame, 110 in the Shade, A Chorus Line, La Cage aux Folles, among others), but his career is full of delightful odds and ends – two plays, The Contrast and Fashion, and even a brief turn playing Beethoven in a TV commercial for Scotch Recording Tape. When the Kennedy Center honors the accomplishments of Jerry Herman this week (March 12 – 14) in Jerry Herman’s Broadway, he will naturally be there. [Read more...]
Deal of the Day
March 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
PWYC or $10 reserved previews Thurs and Fri, Oct 14 and 15 at 8pm
Constellation Theatre Company presents Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton, adapted by Jesse Berger, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman. In a captivating world of wealth, three couples engage in a dangerous game of strategy as they vie for power and pursue their lust. This delicious revenge tragedy by Middleton, one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, is a provocative mix of dark comedy, adultery, murder, ambition and twisted love. Plays thru Nov 14th. Order reserved tickets online. Box office opens for PWYC tix at 7:30pm. At Source, 1835 14th St NW, Washington, DC.
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Pumpgirl
March 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It is easy to imagine that Pumpgirl is a play that Sam Shepard might have written had he been born a Northern Irish woman. It is a bleak tale of three desperately unhappy lower class people in a story punctuated with both threatened and actual violence. Yet both the writing and the performances in this Solas Nua production have a powerful poetry that rivets the audience more than the actual events might warrant.
Madeleine Carr plays the eponymous pumpgirl, a tomboy who works at the local gas station. [Read more...]
WATCH Award Winners Announced
March 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In addition to having a large professional theatre community, the DC area also has a robust community theatre scene. The 30-member Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH), the overseeing association for the region, announced the winners of its 9th Annual WATCH awards on Sunday, March 1st at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. [Read more...]
