There was a lot of excitement when Arena Stage announced its production of Stick Fly. Tim and Lorraine had seen it at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival two years ago. [Read more...]
Lydia R. Diamond on Stick Fly
January 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
There was a lot of excitement when Arena Stage announced its production of Stick Fly. Tim and Lorraine had seen it at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival two years ago. [Read more...]
In the Red and Brown Water
January 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Partially inspired by Yerma, Federico Garcia Lorca’s masterwork about a woman yearning in vain for fertility, Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s In the Red and Brown Water explores similar themes, only steeped in mythology and legends with West African influence. [Read more...]
The Fugitives
January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
6,000 years…
One terrible choice…
One second to make it. [Read more...]
Mark Russell . One Man . One Piano . One Nation . Indivisible
January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Piano-playing political satirist Mark Russell returns to Ford’s Theatre with material ripped from today’s headlines. [Read more...]
Talk Radio
January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Talk Radio takes you not only into Barry Champlain’s radio show studio, but into his mind as he and the audience grapple with defining the line between reality and spectacle.
by Eric Bogosian
directed by Jennifer L. Gusso
starring WATCH Award nominated Roman Gusso as radio host Barry Champlain
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The long-running Off-Broadway hit comes to Toby’s.
This celebration of the “relationship” explores the journey from dating, love and marriage to the agonies and triumphs of in-laws and newborns, family trips and the pick-up techniques of the geriatric set. This is a hilarious tribute to those who have loved and lost and those who have dared to ask, “Say, what are you doing Saturday night?”
book and lyrics by Joe DiPierto, lyrics by Jimmy Roberts
The Last Cargo Cult
January 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
No man is an island, but Mike Daisey’s pretty close. Booming furiously from behind a large table, visible only from the waist up, he seems less a man and more some sort of severe tectonic event [Read more...]
MTC’s Stephen Schwartz Project and Rent interview
January 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Director Michael J. Bobbitt and Producer Laurie Levy Issembert on The Musical Theater Center’s The Stephen Schwartz Project, and Michael Robinson and Parker Drown on playing Collins and Angel in Keegan Theatre’s RENT. [Read more...]
Stick Fly
January 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
Lydia Diamond’s Stick Fly is a rambunctious rumble covering social and cultural territory usually not acknowledged, explored or appreciated. Lauded for its in-your-face arguments, honest observations, and “tell-it-like-it-is” style, it tackles stereotypes by exploding them from the inside out. [Read more...]
Zoo Story postponed
January 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Theatre Du Jour announced that its upcoming production of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story at DC Arts Center has had to be postponed due to the illness of one of the two performers. Because of the busy schedule for the Arts Center, a new date for Zoo Story has not been confirmed. [Read more...]
