Bruce Robey Tribute Oct 4 at H Street Playhouse

September 30, 2009 by lorraine treanor  
Filed under News and Views

This just in from Paul Douglas Michnewicz, Artistic Director of Theater Alliance:
“Bruce Robey died on September 21st of a heart attack.
His wife and daughter, Adele and Julia, have arranged a tribute to Bruce on Sunday, October 4, at 7 p.m. at the H Street Playhouse, the “black box” theatre that Bruce and Adele single-handedly created

Richard Seff co-hosts American Theatre Wing broadcasts

September 30, 2009 by lorraine treanor  
Filed under News and Views

Thirty years ago, Richard Seff, who you now know as the writer of DCTS’ NY Theatre Buzz and Isobel Robins co-hosted a series of over 100 short (3 1/2 munute) radio interviews with Broadway luminaries for The Broadway League.

Factory 449 debuts with new production of 4.48 Psychosis

September 29, 2009 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

By Joel Markowitz
It was the smash hit of this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, and I’m glad it’s back, because I couldn’t get a ticket to 4.48 Psychosis’s critically acclaimed, sold out run. Producer Rick Hammerly and director John Moletress talk about remounting the show

Sweeney Todd

September 28, 2009 by Tim Treanor  
Filed under Our Reviews

Among all the accomplishments of his astonishing career, Stephen Sondheim will be remembered most for this iconoclastic wonder; a musical comedy about a serial killer.

Go, Dog. Go!

September 24, 2009 by Miriam Chernick  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

Adventure Theater’s adaptation of Go, Dog. Go! captures all the best elements of the book: fun, action, and drama.  Director Karen Abromaitis does an excellent job of working with the author’s requirement that only words from the book be used. 

Lucido (Lucid)

September 24, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

The comic-drama Lúcido (Lucid) puts you on razor’s edge and lets you yearn for answers to the verbal chaos on stage. In this U.S. premiere, Rafael Spregelburd, Argentina’s most prolific among the latest arsenal of young playwrights,

First You Dream’s Norm Lewis and Julia Murney

September 22, 2009 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

When I heard that Norm Lewis, Heidi Blickenstaff, James Clow, Julia Murney, and Eleasha Gamble would all be together in the cast of First You Dream: The Music of Kander of Ebb, I was so excited! I’m a huge fan of theirs. 

Measure for Measure

September 21, 2009 by Hunter Styles  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

At the height of his playwriting career, with the dear memory of Hamlet still green and with some untender lines of King Lear starting to stir, Shakespeare debuted a darkly amusing little morality fable called Measure For Measure.

Phedre

September 20, 2009 by Tim Treanor  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

Phèdre is the supreme act of theatrical jujitsu. It takes the hysteria which characterizes the Greek form (though  Phèdre is not a Greek play, having been written by Jean Racine in 1677) and turns it into a narrative device. Phèdre (Helen Mirren) is not just the Queen of Athens; she is a drama queen as [...]

Chess

September 20, 2009 by Ted Ying  
Filed under Our Reviews

There’s something special about seeing the first play done in a newly renovated theater.  The Burke Theater at the US Navy Memorial’s Heritage Center is now a beautiful little black box, sharp and intimate.  Unfortunately, Stroyka Theater’s Chess

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