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Cats

September 30, 2010 By 2 Comments

On the second floor of Baltimore’s Best Western Hotel and Conference Center in a seemingly industrial area off I-95, practical cats, romantical cats, political cats, and allegorical cats are purrfectly dancing and singing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway megahit CATS presented by Toby’s Dinner Theater of Baltimore. [Read more...]

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Solas Nua finds improbable space for season opener

September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

You won’t find Solas Nua’s season opener, Improbable Frequency, at any of the established venues around town. And you can be forgiven for checking the address a few times: 111 K St NE.  The building is “a brand new glass fronted office condo building”, according to Linda Murray, Solas Nua’s Artistic Director. [Read more...]

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Glimpses of the Moon: they saved the show

September 29, 2010 By 5 Comments

A glimpse into the ‘big switch’ at MetroStage:
Lauren ‘Coco’ Cohn and Natascia Diaz on Glimpses of the Moon

It’s a great 42nd Street-type story: the lead gets sick and another cast member assumes her role and saves the show. Then bring in a talented actress/comedienne who comes down from The Big Apple to play the roles that the new lead actress was performing – and give them only have a very short time to learn their new roles before the critics arrive to review the show and their performances. WHEW! [Read more...]

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South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten

September 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

With a topic as fascinating as how Rodgers and Hammerstein (and Logan) converted Michener’s “Tales of the South Pacific” into the musical South Pacific, the Broadway Legacies series is off to a tantalizing but frustrating start. [Read more...]

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Shipwrecked!

September 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A cracking good yarn, entertainingly recounted, makes a smashing start to the fall theater season. Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told by Himself) by playwright Donald Margulies, charmingly revives the old-school art of storytelling in a delightful, low-tech comedy at Everyman Theatre that will captivate both Luddites and whippersnappers weaned on texting and Xbox games. [Read more...]

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Los Treinta revisited

September 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Quique Aviles, poet and brilliant impersonator of true stories, is back. After two sold-out blockbusters at the GALA Tivoli Theatre, Aviles has returned to the 55-seat black box theater in the DCArts Center with the same show about Salvadoreans in Washington D.C. [Read more...]

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Falsettos’ Family Therapist and the Bar-Mitzvah boy

September 27, 2010 By 5 Comments

Noah Chiet and Tony Gudell on playing Jason and Mendel in Ganymede Arts’ Falsettos

I’ve seen Noah Chiet perform in several productions at Musical Theater Center, and I knew that if he was given the chance to play a lead role in a musical, he would have the audience and critics applauding. So, it didn’t surprise me that Tom Avila, a local reviewer for MetroWeekly raved, “… huge applause must go to Chiet. An incredibly mature performer at a very young age, Chiet displays a brilliant comic timing. He often – very rightly – steals the show”. [Read more...]

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The Little Foxes

September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The New York Theatre Workshop, founded in 1979, is “dedicated to exploring and presenting theatrical experiences that reflect, respond to, and invigorate a world in which we live and work.”  The latest example that intends to justify this lofty aim is Ivo Van Hove’s production of Lillian Hellman’s most successful and enduring play, [Read more...]

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Cowardly Christopher Finds His Courage

September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Creators of children’s theatre have two rock-solid obligations: to entertain the kiddies without boring their parents to tears. This obligation is particularly binding on those who make theatre for the under-5 set. [Read more...]

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Tectonic returns to Arena with Laramie Projects

September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Arena Stage’s season expands to include the First Joint National Tour of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

Arena Stage will host the award-winning New York theater troupe Tectonic Theater Project with its national tour of The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later. The productions will feature many members of the original cast and creative team from The Laramie Project, including directors Moisés Kaufman and Leigh Fondakowski. [Read more...]

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