Glory Days, the coming-of-age musical which got its start at Signature Theatre, is about to be rocked Japanese-style, when the show opens June 9th in Tokyo. [Read more...]
Glory Days to open in Tokyo
April 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Glory Days, the coming-of-age musical which got its start at Signature Theatre, is about to be rocked Japanese-style, when the show opens June 9th in Tokyo. [Read more...]
Caught in their acts: Bernadette Peters, James Gardiner, James Zemarel and Shannon Wollman
April 30, 2009 By 3 Comments
Bernadette Peters: Still a Broadway Baby!
How does she do it? On Sunday, April 19th at 4 pm, after an overture played by the National Philharmonic (conducted by Marvin Laird, who wrote Ruthless! The Musical) consisting of songs from Gypsy and Mack and Mabel, [Read more...]
TicketPlace adds Sunday hours
April 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For those of you who like to order tickets in person, and are looking for bargain tickets, TicketPlace, DC’s half price box office, is now open Sundays from noon to 4 pm. [Read more...]
Rooms, Blithe Spirit and You Never Know
April 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The New World Stages, in one of its many hidden black box theatres underground on West 50th Street, is offering Paul Scott Goodman’s and Miriam Gordon’s ROOMS a rock romance, [Read more...]
Ragtime
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
“We never know when our feelings will creep up on us and go boom and startle us,” says the character Mother to her friend Tateh in Ragtime. [Read more...]
Heroes
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
Played correctly – as it surely is in MetroStage’s sweet and charming production – Gérald Sibleyras’ Heroes is something Noël Coward might have written, had Coward been free to be earthy [Read more...]
A Swedish Tiger
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
I do not know what this sixty-minute piece is about, but I’m pretty sure I know what it’s not about. It’s not about its ostensible subject, Sweden’s shameful collaboration with the Nazis in World War II. [Read more...]
From U Street to the Cotton Club
April 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source couldn’t be better geographically positioned, just two blocks from the legendary U Street, the Lincoln Theatre, and a number of historical and cultural landmarks of the corridor. [Read more...]
Native Son
April 23, 2009 By 5 Comments
It’s a sad commentary that some of the same basic societal ills depicted in this 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” are as relevant today as they were then, which makes this eagerly awaited production more important than ever. [Read more...]
Ten Musical Scene Stealers
April 22, 2009 By 13 Comments
From a Swiss orphan and her new playmate, to a young Jewish boy on the verge of becoming a man, to a pitter-pattering Lord Chancellor, to a slow-competing, high-tenor singing barber, [Read more...]
