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Twelfth Night

August 22, 2010 By 5 Comments

The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free-For-All Twelfth Night is Shakespeare as seen through rose-petal colored glasses, as evanescent as a summer evening, goofy, cartoonish, foolish and sweet – in short, a comedy, designed to make us giggle and snort, and thereafter go home larkishly happy. It works, too. [Read more...]

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Spooky Action builds its own theatre space

August 19, 2010 By 1 Comment

Washington, DC is about to get another new venue, the Spooky Action Theater located in the lower level auditorium of the Universalist National Memorial Church at the corner of S and 16th Streets NW in downtown Washington, DC.

The Spooky Action Theater company which had been on production hiatus for two years except for two shows in Capital Fringe, announced that it will be mounting three productions in the 2010-2011 season from the new space, beginning in October, 2010. [Read more...]

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Last minute questions on how to vote for the Audience Choice Awards

August 18, 2010 By 4 Comments

Aug 18, 2010 — As the chance to register to vote in this year’s Audience Choice Awards draws to a close – deadline is tonight at midnight – we are getting a lot of questions from readers confused by our new voting procedure. Since we don’t want anyone to be disappointed,  we’ll do our best to answer all questions here. [Read more...]

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See South Pacific live from Broadway tonight

August 18, 2010 By 2 Comments

Aug 19, 2010 — What an enchanted evening tonight will be when PBS’s “Live from Lincoln Center” presents the 7-time Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific. You can watch it locally on two PTS stations: WETA, Channel 26 at 8pm, re-broadcast on Aug 19 at 1am, 6am and 2pm, and again on Aug 20 at 2am, and  Maryland Public Television at 8pm and re-broadcast Thursday, Aug 19 at 3am and again on Sat, Aug 21 at 7pm. [Read more...]

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Looking back on the Hispanic Theatre season

August 17, 2010 By 2 Comments

Looking back at the excellence in the 2009-2010 Hispanic Theatre season is really looking forward to more to come. This summer, after working in a coffee community, a voluntary collective of “fincas” (small farms), and living with a family in El Salvador, I emerge ever more wide-eyed and aware of the great need for more Hispanic theater. [Read more...]

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Blumenfeld’s Dictionary of Musical Theater

August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Last May I told you about an “Encyclopedia of Theater” that was interesting but not very useful as a reference work. Well, I’ve found a useful volume to fill the need. In fact, two volumes filled with easy to find entries for the words/titles/names a theatre lover needs to check from time to time. [Read more...]

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Audience Choice Award Nominations announced

August 17, 2010 By 28 Comments

This year, DC Theatre Scene writers and staff have given 212 nominations to the work of 42 area theatre companies and 118 performers and an additional 25 nominations for touring, (non-resident produced shows) for professional productions which opened in the DC area from August 15, 2009-August 1, 2010  You will find the list of companies and their total nominations at the end of this article. [Read more...]

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Separated at Birth

August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When the lights come up and the bodies start to crowd, do you come off as a scowler or a smiler? The rush hour platform’s peppered with both populations. On the one hand: Metro commuters who want nothing more than uninterrupted solitude on their ride from point A to point B. On the other hand: [Read more...]

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Best Musicals and Best Musical Performances of 2009-2010

August 16, 2010 By 32 Comments

Musicals are my life and I saw a lot of them on DC-area stages in the past year – in professional theatres, community theatres, family theatres, children’s theatres, high schools, and programs that train young actors. [Read more...]

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Casting Challenge: Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads

August 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Question #3 in our series, getting ready for voting for the 2010 Audience Choice Awards.  (In case you haven’t been following along, #1 is here, and #2 is here.)

This fun exercise was dreamed up by Steven McKnight:

Casting Challenge:  Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads.

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