Like Sarah Lee, nobody doesn’t love White Christmas. And so if David Ives and Paul Blake have constructed a pallid book which is little more than a sagging tree to be hung with Irving Berlin’s ornaments, [Read more...]
White Christmas
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Like Sarah Lee, nobody doesn’t love White Christmas. And so if David Ives and Paul Blake have constructed a pallid book which is little more than a sagging tree to be hung with Irving Berlin’s ornaments, [Read more...]
Five Fall scene stealing solo performances
December 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
Striking 12
December 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
If Striking 12 doesn’t get you in the holiday spirit, nothing will. This combustible powerhouse ensemble blends rock, funk, storytelling and soul, lights a fuse under the concoction and blasts the bits out of everything [Read more...]
Lorraine Treanor – backstage at DCTS
December 7, 2009 By 3 Comments
Dec 7, 2009 – DCTS reached a milestone with today’s publication of its 1,000th review. DCTS Editor/Publisher Lorraine Treanor fills us in on how we got here. [Read more...]
DCTS reaches 1,000th review mark
December 7, 2009 By 6 Comments
Dec 7.2009 — With today’s posting of The Snow Queen, DC Theatre Scene has published its 1,000th review of Washington area productions. The thousand reviews span as far north as Toby’s of Baltimore and as far south as the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia. [Read more...]
The Snow Queen
December 7, 2009 By 4 Comments
Synetic, having conjured Hell in the Rosslyn Spectrum (twice: Faust and Dante) and having created Shakespeare out of wordlessness (numerous times), did not scruple at summoning a surprise snowstorm [Read more...]
Travels in Alabama and Claude Rains
December 7, 2009 By 2 Comments
I mentioned in my last column that I was about to visit Alabama for the first time in my life. I followed through, and now that I am back at my desk. I want to share the experience with you for it was for me an eye opener. [Read more...]
A Christmas Carol
December 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As one of the most popular Christmas stories and arguably the most well known work in Charles Dickens’ canon, A Christmas Carol can prove an exceedingly difficult landscape in which to tread any new ground. [Read more...]
August: Osage County’s Estelle Parsons
December 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
When Joel Markowitz schmoozed with Estelle Parsons at the Kennedy Center on Monday, November 30th, the legendary actress described August: Osage County like this: “I don’t call it a play. I call it a phenomenon.” [Read more...]
The Fantasticks
December 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
Two girls, no more than ten years old, sat in front of us on Sunday night in the Lincoln Theatre’s cozy refurbished seats. At another production, they might have faded from focus, but at The Fantasticks, I couldn’t help but watch with their ears and see with their eyes. [Read more...]
