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Holiday Gift Guide

November 30, 2010 By 2 Comments

It’s the time of year when those who care about theatre lovers have to scramble to find gifts that will please the recipient. Here are this year’s suggestions for items that they should enjoy adding to their theatre shelf. [Read more...]

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Cirque Dreams Holidaze spectacle comes to the Kennedy Center

November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Neil Goldberg, founder and artistic director of Cirque Productions, takes pride in the fact that reviews of his many Cirque Dreams shows usually mention the word “spectacle.”  He promises the same grandeur when Cirque Dream Holidaze debuts in the DC area with an eight-show run at the Kennedy Center next week. [Read more...]

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Playwright and director Joe Calarco

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Joe Calarco on his new play Walter Cronkite is Dead

This year has been a very busy one for playwright/director Joe Calarco: he’s directed three plays - In Transit for Primary Stages, Burnt Part Boys for Playwrights Horizon,  both in New York, and The Memory Play for Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts and picked up a Barrymore Award for his direction of last year’s The Light in the Piazza at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Here he reflects on writing and directing the Signature Theatre production of Walter Cronkite is Dead. [Read more...]

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Golden Boy

November 27, 2010 By 6 Comments

We know it’s best to stay true to who we are. But we also know that it’s worth fighting a passionate fight to steer the course of who we become. On the thin line between these two truths stands Joe Bonaparte, a promising musician with sensitive hands who finds, in the boxing ring, that he has a knack for the knockout. In one hand, a violin; in the other, a pair of broken-in punching gloves. [Read more...]

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A Broadway Christmas Carol

November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is one of the old chestnuts of the holiday season without a doubt,  as evidenced by the scads of adaptations whether radio play, film, movie musical or animated feature. MetroStage has opted to make merry with Kathy Feininger’s show tune-driven riff on the classic tale. [Read more...]

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A Christmas Carol

November 23, 2010 By 1 Comment

The snow is gently falling and carolers are merrily singing in Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore’s delightful musical production of A Christmas Carol.  Based on the Christmas classic by Charles Dickens, this fast paced musical originally ran for more than a decade at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where it became a must see holiday attraction for many Broadway fans.  [Read more...]

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Live Theater: There’s no app for it

November 23, 2010 By 7 Comments

The next time someone asks “Why should I go to the theatre?” send them this.

[Editor's intro:  A lot can happen over coffee in Adams Morgan. It was to be just a meet-up to see whether DC writer Gary Tischler might have time to do some pieces for us. But notes were set aside. My coffee got cold, then forgotten altogether as Gary talked about the experience of live performance and why, in an age of comfy at-home entertainment, so many of us choose to sit in a darkened theater. He's re-created it here in this straight-from-the-heart piece.  I can think of no better way for you to get to know our newest writer.] [Read more...]

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Annie

November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Leapin’ lizards! Annie’s back in town!  Charles Strouse’s and Martin Charnin’s Tony Award-winning 1977 hit Broadway musical, currently playing at the Olney Theatre Center in suburban Maryland, is a hands-down holiday treat for the entire family. [Read more...]

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The Scottsboro Boys – CD

November 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The new Kander and Ebb musical is quite simply the most astonishingly successful new musical on Broadway this year if you judge by artistic merit and the success of the creative team at accomplishing what they set out to do, rather than simply the box office gross. And, it has given us the most impressive new original cast recording of the year. [Read more...]

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Drops of Water

November 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The children’s totally-into-it involvement is what makes this play so magical. By the end, Drops of Water is a splash hit without wasting a drop of water. [Read more...]

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