When Lope de Vega launched Fuente Ovejuna (The Sheep Well) in 1614, he meant his play, based on an actual event, to sound a warning. When does political power go over-the-top and become outrageous? Lope looked back to a turbulent period in 1476 to find the answer. [Read more...]
Fuente Ovejuna
April 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When Lope de Vega launched Fuente Ovejuna (The Sheep Well) in 1614, he meant his play, based on an actual event, to sound a warning. When does political power go over-the-top and become outrageous? Lope looked back to a turbulent period in 1476 to find the answer. [Read more...]
Chicago
April 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
Perhaps you remember the wonderful scene in the 1979 Bob Fosse film All That Jazz in which Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi-playing the Fosse stand-in Joe Gideon’s girlfriend and teenage daughter, respectively-perform a little living-room jazz-dance number for Roy Scheider, who plays Gideon. The performance is a lovely, homey respite from Gideon’s hectic speed-and-booze-fueled preparation for a Lenny-like biopic and a Chicago-like Broadway show. [Read more...]
The Faithkiller
April 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
With The Faithkiller, Taffety Punk Theatre Company gives us the world premiere of a work by the gifted Washington-area playwright Gwydion Suilebhan. All hail Taffety Punk! Moreover, the play is an ambitious one, thematically challenging and technically complex. All hail Taffety Punk again, as well as playwright Suilebhan! [Read more...]
Curtain Call – Meet the 2009 Helen Hayes Nominees
April 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
This is my favorite feature of the year – where we present notes from the Helen Hayes nominees. In this curtain call, if you will, I love it that a costumer ‘stands’ next to a lighting designer, followed by a performer with a choreographer and producer a few steps away. [Read more...]
A Long and Winding Road
April 1, 2009 By 6 Comments
Even if you have seen Maureen McGovern in past concerts, her new show A Long and Winding Road at Arena Stage is a special experience. Drawn from her experience as a folk singer, the result is a deeply personal and inspirational performance by one of the nation’s best vocal stylists. [Read more...]
Cruising with Chita, Early to Bed and Happiness
April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Two days after debarking from Celebrity Cruise’s SS Solstice in Ft. Lauderdale and flying back to NYC, I came down with the worst cold of my life and here I am, nine days later, still coughing and wheezing to beat the band. [Read more...]
Philadelphia’s At Home at the Zoo
April 1, 2009 By 3 Comments
Jerry (Andrew Polk), a disheveled man with a two-day growth of beard, is walking through Central Park when he discovers Peter (T. Scott Cunningham) reading on a bench. He stares at Peter for a while like a man looking at a takeout menu, [Read more...]
Congress Delays Wednesday until Thursday
April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
24-hour postponement adopted at the request of DC Theatre Scene, others
Congress last night passed emergency legislation delaying the beginning of Wednesday, April 1, 2009 for twenty-four hours. Subsequent days will also be postponed for a twenty-four hour period, under the legislation. [Read more...]
