Henry Blume (Josh Lefkowitz) worships at the altar of Woody Allen, eats anti-anxiety drugs (without effect), writes about paranoia and anti-Semitism to an audience of zero, and lives off the largesse of his furniture-selling parents. He is about to blunder into the funniest play I have seen in DC this year, [Read more...]
The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall
April 22, 2009 By 3 Comments
Henry Blume (Josh Lefkowitz) worships at the altar of Woody Allen, eats anti-anxiety drugs (without effect), writes about paranoia and anti-Semitism to an audience of zero, and lives off the largesse of his furniture-selling parents. He is about to blunder into the funniest play I have seen in DC this year, [Read more...]
Blue Door
April 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What starts out as an ugly case of insomnia caused by Lewis’s personal and marital stress, professional challenges, and cross-road decisions gets even tougher when spirits of four generations of his ancestry come a’calling for reckoning and reflection. And you thought you had a rough night. [Read more...]
Heidi
April 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For kids who are unlikely to sit through 280 pages of the 19th century book by Johanna Spyri, Imagination Stage’s new musical adaptation of Heidi is an excellent alternative. [Read more...]
The Bread of Winter
April 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Under a sunless frozen sky, a middle-aged schizophrenic calls her dyspeptic mother from a pay phone a block from the mother’s home. In a bedroom in a comfortable home, father is dead, mother is absent and a blackhearted young man is planning to do unspeakable things to his little brother. [Read more...]
Small Craft Warnings
April 20, 2009 By 1 Comment
Draw up a chair at Monk’s Place and have yourself a cold glass of Tennessee Williams. Believe me when I tell you that this is not a bar where you will want everyone to know your name. Small Craft Warnings is a story about lonely losers at a seedy seaside bar; a character study of characters whose strength of character has slipped away. [Read more...]
FarFar Oasis
April 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FarFar Oasis is more a series of far-out nightclub acts than a play. But the mimetic artistry of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, the creative team behind Happenstance Theater, make it worth the trek to Mecca. Jaster, the master of poetic gestures, is a jester who can take us anywhere. [Read more...]
Menopause The Musical
April 19, 2009 By 11 Comments
“The show is about WOMEN … not about theater,” writer/producer Jeanie Linders says in a press-kit Q&A about Menopause: The Musical.
OK, then how to evaluate it?
Women? Two thumbs up! Five stars! Must see!
But this show? Dismal. [Read more...]
Monday Evening 1942
April 19, 2009 By 1 Comment
Bad news should be given straight up, and immediately, and so I shall. Steve LaRocque, a fine actor, competent director and very decent guy, has here written a Sominex™ tablet of a play, so dull and tedious that he has managed to turn Monday evening, for the audience, into a week of Mondays. [Read more...]
Walmartopia
April 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As tech rehearsals began, Joel Markowitz sat down with husband and wife team, Director Melissa Baughman and actor and Landless Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman to talk about their outrageous production of the Off-Broadway musical hit Walmartopia. [Read more...]
See What I Wanna See
April 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Well. Let us lay See What I Wanna See etherized upon the table, but before we begin our dissection and analysis, let us meditate upon the things that make Signature great. [Read more...]
