Matthew Schleigh and Ray Hatch in Buddy Holly
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Until September 12th at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore, Matthew Schleigh is re-rocking the house in his Helen Hayes Award-winning performance as the late-great Buddy Holly and Ray Hatch is not only recreating the bundle of energy MC at the Apollo in Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story, but he is also co-directing with Toby Orenstein and providing the choreography. [Read more...]
In the Next Room or the vibrator play
August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment
Too bad you can’t smoke in theaters anymore. After a few hours witnessing the climactic goings-on in Woolly Mammoth’s superb production of Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room or the vibrator play, a post-coital cigarette is definitely in order. [Read more...]
Making the Scene
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States
This handsome volume is both an impressive coffee table book with an almost endless progression of illustrations, and an often fascinating text book covering theater design from ancient Greece to modern day. [Read more...]
Sink the Belgrano!
August 31, 2010 By 2 Comments
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A leader in need of a political win authorizes a massive military campaign, dreamt up by scheming advisors, in a far flung territory under the pretense of national defense. SCENA Theatre’s production of Sink the Belgrano! stakes its claim to this fertile theatrical landscape with biting satire and a slew of excellent performances, [Read more...]
Travels with My Aunt
August 30, 2010 By 2 Comments
Rep Stage’s Travels with My Aunt, adapted from the Graham Greene novel by Giles Havergal, is a shaggy-dog story with dozens of shaggy dogs, all of them played by Michael Russotto, Nigel Reed, Lawrence Redmond, or Bill Largess, who also plays a real dog (more on that later). [Read more...]
Surprises mark Audience Choice winners
August 27, 2010 By 12 Comments
Angels, Hairspray among top local productions; Flint wins Favorite Actor
The 2009-2010 DC Theatre Scene Audience Choice Awards yielded some surprising results which tended to confirm the warm place which small theaters hold in the hearts of DC Theatre Scene readers. [Read more...]
Big prizes for winners of Signature’s scavenger hunt this weekend
August 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
Spies wanted for Checkmate!, a Cold War Themed Scavenger Hunt in Celebration of Signature’s Musical Chess [Read more...]
Voting ends tonight for Audience Choice Awards
August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Audience members who have received their invitation to vote for DC Theatre Scene’s Audience Choice Awards have until 8pm tonight to cast their votes for favorite productions and performances. [Read more...]
Life Begins at 8:40 – Concert Cast Recording
August 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
Consumer safety alert! This disk contains more songs with catchy rhythms that stick in your head than most heads can hold. Listen only when you have time to push repeat repeatedly. [Read more...]
Wife to James Whelan
August 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
The Mint Theatre is housed in a black box in an office building on West 43rd Street in New York. It’s not a particularly inviting space, yet it continues to enrich our seasons by uncovering little known plays, by investigating their histories, and often bringing back plays that failed commercially, connecting them to research that often explains why that happened. [Read more...]
