Opening new ROOMS in Philly
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s starting to make the regional theatre rounds, new productions are popping up, and there are no happier people than composer Paul Scott Goodman and his wife Miriam Gordon, who composed and co-wrote the book of the musical ROOMS a rock romance. DC audiences and critics loved the MetroStage production of the show, [Read more...]
Hamlet
April 29, 2010 By 3 Comments
Folger’s Hamlet may be modern dress, but it is old school at heart – shorn of irony, eschewing post-modern, post-Stoppardarian self-reflection, without inside jokes or other evidence of meta-theater. [Read more...]
Will on the Hill
April 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Will on the Hill: not ready for prime time, but it doesn’t matter
Mon, April 26, 2010 — So the deal with Will on the Hill, in which Congressmen and journalists perform something which resembles Shakespeare in order to raise money to introduce kids to the Bard, is – most of these guys should keep their day jobs. [Read more...]
Inside Synetic’s Metamorphosis
April 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
Editor’s note – DCTS writer Hunter Styles landed the assistant director gig for Synetic Theater’s Metamorphosis, working with director Derek Goldman, who, at the same time, had a second production in rehearsal, In Darfur at Theater J. While Hunter knew he was about to be a very busy guy, [Read more...]
Enron
April 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It required some 37 producers to bring us the Headlong Theatre production of the Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre Productions of this play by Lucy Prebble. All I can say is when the producers outnumber a cast of nineteen or more, something is afoot. [Read more...]
Their Reviews
April 28, 2010 By
October 15, 2010
JUST ADDED
King Arthur . Charles Shubow . BroadwayWorld
Lips Together Teeth Apart . Mary Johnson . Baltimore Sun
Sabrina Fair . Lucia Anderson . FreeLanceStar
Two by J.M. Barrie . John Harding . Howard County Times
Yours, Isabel
April 27, 2010 By 4 Comments
Top Pick! – It would be a shame for anyone who’s loved and lost to miss Yours,Isabel, presented as part of the new Wattage performance series over at Capital Fringe. The show is stuffed with language – words of longing scribbled across pages and pages. Perhaps written words can’t fully capture the look in a lover’s eye, [Read more...]
Fiddler’s matchmaker Mary Stout
April 27, 2010 By 4 Comments
Mary Stout and Yenta: A Perfect Match!
She made Kennedy Center audiences howl as the scowling matriarch of Peckerwood (Mame), and now she almost butchers Tzeitel and Motel’s chance for happiness at The National Theatre through May 2nd as Yenta, the matchmaker. But, it was her graceful and loving Mrs. Fairfax in Jane Eyre The Musical, [Read more...]
Fences
April 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
August Wilson was a master playwright and Fences was his biggest success. It ran for 525 performances during its initial Broadway run, and was a feather in James Earl Jones’ and Mary Alice’s caps, for it was they who then played Troy and Rose Maxson, its central characters. [Read more...]
Promises, Promises
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
After a disappointing season of new musicals, capped by the recent arrival of The Addams Family, we turn now to another revival of the hits of the past, this time with Promises, Promises out of Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon in 1968. It’s not exactly a classic, but it’s a fine adaptation of the Billy Wilder film “The Apartment”, [Read more...]
