Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies
April 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
Top Pick! – Through the end of May, it’s going to seem just like old times at U Street’s landmark Lincoln Theatre, which first opened its doors in 1922 during the peak of the District’s black cultural and entertainment renaissance, and is now hosting Arena Stage’s snazzy revival of Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies. [Read more...]
Son of a Stand Up Comedian
April 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
The estimable Paul Scott Goodman, who gave us the semi-autobiographical musical Rooms: A Rock Romance two years ago, is in town with his much-more-autobiographical Son of a Stand Up Comedian. Careful, Paul! Real life is incomparably messier than the tight narrative arc you crafted for Rooms, [Read more...]
An inside look at the Joe Louis opera, Shadowboxer
April 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Composer Frank Proto and Librettist John Chenault and director Leon Major reveal what it takes to bring the life of boxing icon Joe Louis to the opera stage. [Read more...]
The Old Settler
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Three women. One man. With odds like this, a man better have his wits about him. [Read more...]
The Fool at the Circus
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Before the show, Director Nicholas Allen comes out to remind the audience that one of the things we should do is laugh. But his encouragement is hardly necessary. We can’t help but laugh because this production is brimming with funny moments, [Read more...]
Triumph of Love
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What do you do when the man you adore wants to kill you? You seduce him, disguised as a man impersonating another woman, while fending off the affections of both his uncle and his aunt, of course! [Read more...]
The Dancing Princesses
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Set in the Roaring ‘20’s, the show is a new musical take on the old Grimm’s tale. After the death of his beloved Queen, a grief-stricken King banishes dance from all the land, much to the distress of his people, including his two daughters, Lara and Lena. But the girls find their way to a magical world where jazz music, the Charleston and their mother’s indomitable spirit are alive and well. [Read more...]
The House with Two Doors
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A beautiful runaway and a mysterious foreigner chance to meet by night in the streets of Naples, transforming a cloak-and-dagger intrigue into a Renaissance bedroom farce complete with masks, swordplay, mistaken identity, and laughs for the whole family. [Read more...]
60 Miles to Silver Lake
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
60 Miles to Silver Lake bends time and space as a boy and his father traverse damage of a rough divorce and growing older. Set entirely in the front seat of a used car, the men are glued to the pleather and seatbelted in tightly as they speed down a California freeway toward territory both familiar and strange. [Read more...]
On the Verge, or the Geography of Yearning
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Three Victorian ladies time-travel through the Terra Incognita of man’s recent recognizable universe in Overmyer’s comedic adventure filled with cultural references, wordplay and looming possibilities.
As one traveler says, “I have seen the future and it is slang.
By Eric Overmyer
Directed by Jackson Phippin
