An article in this month’s Washingtonian magazine reminds us that the WAPAVA (The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archives) continues to preserve performances through video tape and present them for viewing. [Read more...]
Helen Hayes nominated shows captured on WAPAVA videos
April 8, 2009 By 1 Comment
An article in this month’s Washingtonian magazine reminds us that the WAPAVA (The Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archives) continues to preserve performances through video tape and present them for viewing. [Read more...]
Berliner Kabarett
April 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
Place: Berlin, Germany; a small cabaret theatre. Time: between the two World Wars. The democratic Weimar Republic has been established in the wake of Germany’s humiliating defeat. But the Allies’ punitive reparations have left the economy in shambles, the people depressed, resentful, quick with a bitter quip, in desperate need of escape. [Read more...]
High Bench Knocks Down Malvolio Award
April 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito lead Illyrian Court in Groundbreaking Decision
The Supreme Court of Illyria last night, by a 6-1 vote, struck down a $10 million damage award which a lower court had given to Malvolio, Twelfth Night’s officious Chief of Protocol, against his employer, Lady Olivia, for false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and Constitutional violations. [Read more...]
Antebellum
April 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
Playwright Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection: Holding History was one of the most intriguing and provocative shows we saw last year. Can Woolly Mammoth’s production of his new work, Antebellum, hold a candle to it? A candle? My God! It can hold the whole burning city of Atlanta to it! [Read more...]
The Civil War
April 7, 2009 By 4 Comments
The idea of using the Civil War as a backdrop for a musical is not as far-fetched as it originally seems. After a visceral gut response of “Huh?” comes a more open-minded, “Why not?” which may have been the creative stages of writers Frank Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy to create, design and orchestrate this Tony-nominated medley of songs. [Read more...]
The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico
April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico is a spoof of a spoof – an edgy satire of two starry-eyed directors who set out to film a satire about Coca-Cola, the Holy Grail of American exports, and document the impact on Mexican culture of the world’s top selling, non-alcoholic soft drink. [Read more...]
Lynn Redgrave will perform her solo show
April 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Despite the terrible recent loss of her niece Natasha Richardson, Lynn Redgrave will be on the Folger Theatre stage performing her solo show Rachel and Juliet: An Evening with Lynn Redgrave for 5 performances April 10th thru 12th. “Natasha would have been appalled if I didn’t do this.” she explained to Washington Post’s Peter Marks. [Read more...]
Walmartopia
April 5, 2009 By 4 Comments
The big news about Landless Theatre Company is that it’s all grown up! I feel as though I have watched a theatrical bar mitzvah. At the end I wanted to stand up and say “Today, you are a theater company.” [Read more...]
Red Herring
April 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
This is a play about secrets. Big secrets. O.K., I can say this much – playwright Michael Hollinger (Opus)? He’s the real deal. And director Jessica Lefkow (Honey Brown Eyes)? She’s the real deal, too. And this company, 1st Stage? They are the real deal, for real. For shizzle, baby. [Read more...]
Chicago’s Charlotte d’Amboise
April 4, 2009 By 5 Comments
He’s seen her twist and slither across the stage as Roxie Hart five times in NYC, and now Joel Markowitz interviews his favorite Roxie – Charlotte d’Amboise, who is playing the publicity-seeking murderess in Chicago, now on The National Theatre stage. [Read more...]
