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WAM2! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

March 10, 2011 By 3 Comments

A Ballet and Opera Double-Thrill

WAM2! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) has found an apt locale for making art; not war. It’s upstairs in the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where downstairs the Intersections New America Arts Festival is now running at full tilt. [Read more...]

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Finn McCool

March 10, 2011 By 1 Comment

Replete with heroes, villains, swords, and magic, the tale of Irish hero Finn Mac Cool possesses more than enough action and excitement to stand on its own. Not content to simply transplant the story to the stage as is, Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue has pushed the myth into overdrive with a healthy injection of rock n’ roll and in your face attitude.  [Read more...]

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Morgue Story

March 9, 2011 By 1 Comment

Few things make theatre audiences more tense than dead bodies. Well, make that dead bodies played by live bodies, since it’s rare to see a fake dead body pass muster on stage. Why bother, when you have willing actors ready to look so believably, humanly dead? A corpse has the power to set us rigid in our seats precisely because we know there’s a beating heart in there. [Read more...]

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McNally-revised Pal Joey heads up Kennedy Center Season

March 9, 2011 By 2 Comments

The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its fifteen-production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McNally, as well as touring productions of current Broadway hits Memphis, Billy Elliot: The Musical, The Addams Family and La Cage aux Folles. Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theatre Company – as well as Ms. Blanchett herself – will be returning for a production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and Mabou Mines, which astonished Washington audiences with its production of Peter and Wendy at Arena Stage in 2007, will give us its own unique take on The Dollhouse. [Read more...]

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

March 9, 2011 By 6 Comments

Billy (Charles Johnson) is just like you. You have a J.D., an M.D. or a PhD in Political Science; Billy has a PhD in Horribleness. You hunger for a position with those powerful K Street lobbyists or that white-shoe law firm; Billy longs to join the Evil League of Evil. You have someone who you admire at the pinnacle of your profession; Billy has Bad Horse (briefly, Clay Comer wearing the head of a horse). Like you, Billy desires to take over the world. Also, you pant after that hot person at the Laundromat (Stefanie Garcia); so does Billy. You have a moronic wingman; Billy has the sweat-spewing Moist (Matt Baughman). You have an arch-nemesis, who gets all the things you want, and so does Billy. His is named Captain Hammer (Comer). Finally, you have a nom de plume (check out the comments section in this website, or any other). So does Billy: Dr. Horrible. [Read more...]

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Three ways to stock your library on musicals

March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Three new releases offer three different ways to fill the slot on your theatre shelf for a reference work on musical theatre -  inexpensive, expensive, very expensive. Which way to go? It depends on your needs. [Read more...]

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Red Herring

March 8, 2011 By 4 Comments

We have the culprit, officer, in Washington Stage Guild’s production of Michael Hollinger’s faux-noir gumshoe dramady, Red Herring. Really, it’s obvious – I figured it out in the first few minutes. It’s the tiny stage, officer. Arrest it, and if it gives you any trouble, shoot to kill. [Read more...]

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Closing concert for go mama go! this Sunday

March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Ganymede Arts Artistic Director Jeffrey Johnson is organizing a special benefit concert titled “Go Mama Gone” on Sunday, March 13 in support of the popular home decorative store go mama go! and the family of its founder, theater benefactor Noi Chudnoff. The store, which closes its doors on March 31st, has been left with some debts which he hopes the benefit can help offset, Johnson told us. [Read more...]

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Elden Street Players sweeps the WATCH Awards

March 7, 2011 By 1 Comment

The winners of the 2010 Washington Area Theater Community Honors (The WATCH Awards) were announced on March 6, 2011 at a ceremony held at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. Although there were 6 ties – there was no doubt from the first opening of the envelopes that Elden Street Players’ intimate and powerful production of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Rent was going to be the judges’ top pick. [Read more...]

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At Home at the Zoo

March 6, 2011 By 1 Comment

This is the story of how Peter (Jeff Allin) learned that he was an animal. It took Edward Albee, now generally considered the world’s greatest living playwright, about a month to write the second Act, which he produced separately under the title The Zoo Story and which launched his sensational career. But Home Life, the first Act, didn’t make its appearance until nearly fifty years later. Taken together, and given a spot-on, virtuoso production, we get a powerful, profound view of the consequences of living without passion from someone whose artistic instincts have been reinforced through a half-century of passionate theater. [Read more...]

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