“The roads you never take/Go through rocky ground/Don’t they?
The choices that you make/Aren’t all that grim.
The worlds you never see/Still will be around/Won’t they!”
Follies then and again
May 5, 2009 By 9 Comments
Two directors from the 2009 and 1988 TAP productions of Follies
Arena Stage shows receive 16 Tony nominations and Signature wins Best Regional Theatre
May 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
The work of Washington theatres is well represented in this year’s Tony Awards with 16 nominations including Best Play and Best Musical, and one pre-announced win. [Read more...]
Limelight opens with a marketing blitz
May 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There is a major campaign going on in the Rockville area, and if you work for Sandy Spring Bank or have done any of the following – taken the metro, seen a movie, [Read more...]
The Norman Conquests and Desire Under the Elms
May 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I have to give you some background before I get to The Norman Conquests, currently in revival at the Circle in the Square, courtesy of the Old Vic Theatre Company in London. To do that, I ask you to return with me to 1974 when I divorced myself from the field of talent agents, where I’d toiled for some 21 years, [Read more...]
Rock ‘n’ Roll
May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
“What you like about brains,” a Czech emigrant classics student named Lenka tells the Communist Cambridge philosophy don Max in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, “… is that they all work in the same way. What you don’t like about minds is that they don’t.” [Read more...]
Area theatres give recession the brushoff
May 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
Next Season – plan for big times ahead.
Washington area theaters have apparently resolved to present a full slate of shows in 2009/2010, notwithstanding serious and worldwide economic difficulties [Read more...]
Fat Gay Jew
May 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Stand aside, and let a fat straight Gentile review Fat Gay Jew, the amiable, intermittently funny Mario Baldessari comedy about gays, Jews, and fat guys. [Read more...]
