Homokay’s Medea

pomonkayWho knew that the tragic series of unfortunate events that overtake Euripides’ Medea could be spun around and flipped topsy turvy, undergo a cuisinart Hollywood treatment, and come out a funny, zany comedy [Read more...]

Closer Than Ever

closerIf you have a love for lyrics and verbal jousts and a passionate appreciation for the way they can, in the hands of a master, [Read more...]

Woman and Scarecrow

womanandscarecrowA woman on her deathbed faces the regrets of a half-lived life and her imminent departure from a philandering husband and eight children.  [Read more...]

Sophistry, Andrea Burns, Mary Stuart and Offices

sophistryseffSouth Ark Stage’s Artistic Director Rhoda Herrick has seen fit to revive Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Sophistry at the Beckett Theatre in 42nd Street’s Theatre Row.  [Read more...]

Win a free Next to Normal CD

Next to Normal gets ready to release its Original Broadway Cast Recording May 12th,  and, to celebrate, DC Theatre Scene will be giving away 3 copies of the richly produced double-CD. [Read more...]

Ragtime’s Christiane Noll and Bobby Steggert

Ragtime is my all-time favorite musical. I fell in love with Stephen Flaherty’s score and Lynn Ahrens’ lyrics the first time I heard them in 1996 when I received the CD as an early Chanukah gift. [Read more...]

Synetic’s next ‘Silent Shakespeare’ in the house built for the Bard

paatahhaThe next Shakespeare play to get the famous Synetic silent treatment will be Antony and Cleopatra, under the direction of Paata Tsikurishvili (shown left) featuring Irina Tsikurishvili as Cleopatra and Ben Cunis as Antony. [Read more...]

Annie Hall’s Josh Lefkowitz and Shirley Serotsky

anniehallpodJoel Markowitz interviews actor Josh Lefkowitz and director Shirley Serotsky about their collaboration on The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, now playing at Theater J. [Read more...]

Candida

candidaBay Theatre Company produces a solid production of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida, although the play and Shaw’s turn-of-the-20th-century dialogue may seem like a long letter in a Twitter world.  [Read more...]

Catalyst on hiatus, cancels final show

cataylstcloseAs announced in today’s Backstage,  the Helen Hayes Award winning  Catalyst Theater has cancelled its season premiere of  Bruise Easy, [Read more...]