The Best of Friends
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What did an eminent museum curator, a Dominican Abbess, and George Bernard Shaw have to say to each other? Plenty! The Best of Friends gives us Shaw himself, largely in his own words, along with two extraordinary figures from the early 20th century. [Read more...]
Burn Your Bookes
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Notorious English alchemist Edward Kelley pursues the elusive Philosopher’s Stone through sex (wife swapping), drugs (gold elixir), and a baroque’n'roll lifestyle of back stabbing, espionage, poetry and proto-science. [Read more...]
The Red Balloon
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In this simple tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own. Wandering through the streets of Paris, the two become inseparable, the beguiling pair draws inquisitive looks from adults and the envy of other school children as they wander the streets of Paris. [Read more...]
Rifar el Corazon / Heartstrings
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Two sisters meet in a poignant farewell. Under the guise of humor and tenderness we also see joy, sorrow, cattiness, dreams, hopes and hopes dashed… and the fond memories Life gives us during moments of happiness. [Read more...]
In the Goldfish Bowl
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As their futures tick away, four women on a Texas Death Unit confront their pasts, their fears, and each other, all the while under the “electronic eye” of Correctional Supervisor Rowena Way who simultaneously maintains tight security over each and every plastic fork. [Read more...]
The House with Two Doors
April 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
If you have never experienced Commedia del Arte, a great opportunity exists with the new work The House with Two Doors playing at Fort Fringe. If you have seen Faction of Fools’ Matthew R. Wilson perform The Great One-Man Commedia Epic, you know how much fun commedia can be when done well. [Read more...]
Harvey Fierstein and Fiddler cast do DC Broadway Cares cabaret
April 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On Monday, April 26th at 8pm, Harvey Fierstein and the cast of the national touring company of Fiddler on the Roof will perform Raising the Roof, a cabaret to benefit the national non-profit, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at Town Danceboutique, a premiere gay dance club and performance venue. [Read more...]
The Dancing Princesses
April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The delicate rhythms of grief are explored in Imagination Stage’s affecting The Dancing Princesses, featuring a winsome score by Christopher Youstra and a compassionate book by Allyson Currin. [Read more...]
The Trip to Bountiful
April 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
TOP PICK. Graceful, elegant, and haunting, The Trip to Bountiful is generally considered Horton Foote’s best work, and at the Bethesda Writer’s Center, Quotidian Theatre Company is lovingly giving it its due. Led by the magnificent Jane Squier Bruns and the rest of director Jack Sbarbori’s perfect-pitch cast, [Read more...]
Sondheim on Sondheim, Anyone Can Whistle
April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stephen Sondheim’s body of work is so vast, so varied, it’s only fitting that the tributes and galas and retrospectives should be sprouting up all over the place now that he’s entered his eighties and taken us along with him. Though there hasn’t been a new work (except for Road Show, née Bounce which hasn’t quite made up its mind what it is yet) since Assassins six years ago, [Read more...]
