Joel Markowitz joins panel of Broadway Critics for Tony Talk

joelbioIn this week’s runup to the Tony Awards, the popular NY theatre site BroadwayStars.com challenged a panel of Broadway critics to predict the winners  of Sunday nights Awards show. [Read more...]

New York season highs and lows and Tony hopes

DC Theatre Scene columnists Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz  discuss the New York Theatre season and their Tony Awards hopes, performances that were left off out of the Tony nominations, and their predictions for the major categories. [Read more...]

Mother Courage and Her Children

courageIn Scena Theatre’s riveting production of the 1941 Brechtian classic, an almost palpable air of death and defeat hovers over the dun-colored, dirt-covered cement-floor set, making the occasional flashes of brilliant color [Read more...]

Valerie Harper on Looped

valerieharpercandidShe may be best known for playing her Emmy Award winning role of Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”,  but the stage is Valerie Harper’s first love [Read more...]

STC’s summer Free For All moves to Harman Hall

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s summer giveaway – traditionally held at the outdoor Carter Barron Amphitheatre – will move to Sidney Harman Hall for 2009.   [Read more...]

1001

1001Why do we tell stories? Scheherazade (played by Yasmin Tuazon in Jason Grote’s exquisitely reimagined, recontextualized retelling of the story of 1001 Nights) [Read more...]

Jennifer Mendenhall joins Legacy of Light cast

mendenhallJune 1 — Beginning with this Tuesday’s 7:30 performance, Jennifer Mendenhall will be taking over the role of Olivia in Arena Stage’s production of Karen Zacarias’ Legacy of Light. [Read more...]