Top-seeded actors announced for final Monologue Madness competition
March 16, 2011 By 11 Comments
Actor Edward Daniels, creator of DC’s first ever head to head actor competition Monologue Madness, announced the results from the March 13th Selection Sunday held at the Dupont Circle Hotel. Judges scored 58 actors, all of whom will go on to compete for prizes, including the top $1,000 cash prize, on April 3rd. [Read more...]
Ten young outstanding performers
March 16, 2011 By 23 Comments
Attention all DC area casting directors – here are ten young actors, some of them great athletes, some great dramatic actors, some great singers, and some who are very funny, whose performances in recent local productions made audiences swoon with delight. Need a young actor for your show? Consider auditioning these ten talented future stars. [Read more...]
History will haunt Ford’s 2011-2012 Season
March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The ghosts of American history will join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Be in Ford Theatre’s 2011-2012 season which the Company announced yesterday. [Read more...]
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It seems one can’t get enough of the “If you Give a X a Y” formula these days to assure a good time. Following last year’s successful “Pig” and “Pancake” duo featuring Holly Twyford in the title role is Adventure Theatre’s latest escapade world premiere, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, presented with equal zest and appeal, but with a different flair. [Read more...]
Good People
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A perfect cast in a fine play under the direction of a seasoned professional and usually all will be well. Actually it’s better than “well” at the Samuel J.Friedman Theatre where the Manhattan Theatre Club is offering us an engrossing new family dramedy called Good People. [Read more...]
Midnight Frolic: The Broadway Theater Music of Louis A. Hirsch
March 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
George Gershwin. Richard Rodgers. Jerome Kern. Louis Hirsch. … Louis Who?
We can all be forgiven if we don’t instantly recall the glories of Mr. Hirsch. His last musical to grace Broadway closed 86 years ago. But if you’d like to hear just what the Broadway audiences of the 1910s and 20s found charming, a new disc on New World Records serves as an introduction to an important but forgotten contributor in the evolution of the American Musical Theatre. [Read more...]
Voices Underwater
March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rorschach is back. Voices Underwater, is an eerie experiential journey which shows that, after an eighteen month hiatus, Rorschach hasn’t lost its touch. [Read more...]
Joshua Morgan and Derek Kahn Thompson from The Chosen
March 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Joshua Morgan and Derek Kahn Thompson on playing Danny and Young Reuven in The Chosen
I read Chaim Potok’s The Chosen when it was first published in 1967. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Buffalo, NY where me and most of my 5 brothers played hockey and baseball in the streets of Buffalo, just like Reuven and Danny. [Read more...]
How to Avoid Falling in Love with the Wrong Man
March 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cabaret artist Graciela Rodriguez from Uruguay has a lot to say about the battle of the sexes. Why do women fall in love with men who are jerks, fools, idiots, and dorks and make them suffer? [Read more...]
Patrick Page, Spider-Man’s Green Goblin, talks with DCTS
March 10, 2011 By 2 Comments
When he’s not busy playing the Green Goblin, out to destroy the world, in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Patrick Page is very much in demand as a Shakespearean actor, a playwright, director, and acting teacher. The multi-talented Patrick Page, well known to DC audiences, tells us what it’s like being in a show that has become a national obsession, and talks about his career and his new musical.
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